Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Desert of the Glorified

Desert of the Glorified enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Endless Sands

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Endless Sands: Return each creature card exiled with Endless Sands to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

A monument to long-forgotten gods, it stands as a tribute to the fleeting nature of human ways.

Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Untap target land.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Spawning Pool

Spawning Pool enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}: Spawning Pool becomes a 1/1 black Skeleton creature with "{B}: Regenerate this creature" until end of turn. It's still a land. (If it regenerates, the next time it would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Once a center for knowledge, Sea Gate now serves as a reminder of what was lost.

Sea Gate Wreckage

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
{2}{C}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Swamp

In Sheoldred's domain, the Steel Thanes wage a never-ending war in her long shadow.

The Dross Pits

The Dross Pits enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice The Dross Pits: Draw a card.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Memorial to Folly

Memorial to Folly enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Memorial to Folly: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

A-Hall of Tagsin

Powerstone

Hall of Tagsin

The Thran's machines were not dead after all, merely dormant . . . and waiting.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}: Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

What little light filters down through frost and fathoms is refracted into a million rainbow shards.

Crystal Grotto

When Crystal Grotto enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sent by their noble parents to toughen up and learn something of the world's past, Urza and Mishra instead uncovered Terisiare's future.

Tocasia's Dig Site

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Orc Army

Barad-dûr

"Those who pass the gates of Barad-dûr do not return."
—Gandalf

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Zombie

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever Grave Titan enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

"Your blood, your marrow, your spirit—all are mine."
—Mayvar, minion of Geth

Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

"The forest surrounding the Vess estate became the Caligo Morass, a vast bog stalked by horrors too terrible to name."
—"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Dread Shade

{B}: Dread Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Army of the Damned

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.

Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Grim Servant

Menace
When Grim Servant enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Harpy

Abhorrent Overlord

Flying
When Abhorrent Overlord enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

"Proft has been poking his nose where it doesn't belong. I want him out of the way."
—Judith, to Massacre Girl

Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Altar of the Pantheon

Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Dreams are just one more form of torment.

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

The more you struggle against death, the tighter its grip becomes.

Drag to the Underworld

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Destroy target creature.

The spineworms' venom contains a powerful anesthetic, allowing victims to watch in peace as their bodies are stripped to the bone.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sanguimancy

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

The only shortcut in a bog is to the bottom.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

"Live or die, you serve the Steel Thanes now."

Whisper of the Dross

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Each player who can't discards a card.

The void is without substance but cuts like steel.

Doom Blade

Vampire Scrivener

A-Vampire Scrivener

Flying
Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.
Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.

A few aetherborn have discovered a way to sustain their own existences at the cost of an insatiable hunger for the life essence of other beings.

Gifted Aetherborn

Poison Counter

Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Blightbelly Rat dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

"The pain of searing iron and razor edges pales beside the pleasure of performance."
—Judith

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

Fleshbag Marauder

When Fleshbag Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a creature.

Etched Familiar

When Etched Familiar dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"The courier's death was regrettable, but then again, she was warned not to touch it."
—Lord Xander

Infernal Idol

{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Infernal Idol: You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Funerary masks help the newly dead resist the erosion of memory and identity in the Underworld.

Funeral Rites

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.

Valgavoth's devotees write his scriptures upon their flesh so they never forget the secrets he whispers to them.

Blood Pact

Phenax, god of deception, offered the soldiers protection from every poison on Theros. He saw no need to mention that Pharika's poisons were drawn from Nyx.

Extinguish All Hope

A favorite of Erebos, for it has sent many to the Underworld.

Marshmist Titan

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

"Most wise, most thoughtful, most powerful qadir," said the Gixian, "we offer whatever help we may give in your illustrious name."

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

"The vampires never had gods. We followed our bloodchiefs. Now they are gone. What is left? Destruction and death, my friends. That is enough."

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Wherever it walks, famine follows behind.

Blight-Breath Catoblepas

When Blight-Breath Catoblepas enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Failed Conversion

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -4/-4.
When enchanted creature dies, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

The gospel of lies sounds sweetest when whispered by many mouths.

Cruel Grimnarch

Deathtouch
When Cruel Grimnarch enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you gain 4 life.

Even in the relative safety of the city, there are places best left undisturbed.

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Necrogen Communion

Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has toxic 2. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get two poison counters.)
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Occasionally the living wander to the Rivers, but the wardens of Athreos ensure that only the dead pass.

Grim Guardian

Constellation — Whenever Grim Guardian or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

By gaze, sting, and claw, Vraska will see the will of Phyrexia done.

Annihilating Glare

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay {4} or sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Hopeless Nightmare

When Hopeless Nightmare enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
When Hopeless Nightmare is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2.
{2}{B}: Sacrifice Hopeless Nightmare.

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