The boggart was playfully prodding a critter when the skies darkened, then he gobbled it down with glee.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

A graveyard for conquerors and conquered alike.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The continent of Guul Draz is a geothermal swampland reeking of heat and decay.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Everything is flammable in the Burning Isles, even the mana itself.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

In opulent chambers behind closed doors, dynasties are made and broken with but a few murmured words.

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"These caves hide beasts above and below their waters. For safe passage, the Sultai agree a small cargo trade is fair for risking our necks."
—Samor, Mardu border guard

Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Even miles away, if you put your ear to the sewer vents, you can hear the screams and the tempestuous laughter.

Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{B}{R}, {T}: Each player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Each cryptolith twists the plane's mana, bending its flow to a singular purpose.

Warped Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Gnolls make offerings to sinister forces in the shadow-drenched chasms.

Shadowblood Ridge

Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

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.

Smoldering Crater

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Swamp

Mountain

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Sower of Discord

Flying
As this creature enters, choose two players.
Whenever damage is dealt to one of the chosen players, the other chosen player also loses that much life.

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Molten earth has no anger of its own. Only by infusing it with your own rage can the magma seethe and take shape."
—Koth of the Hammer

Anger

Haste
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Zombie Army

Angrath, Captain of Chaos

Creatures you control have menace.
−2: Amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

He remembers enough of his life to weep for what he has lost.

Balthor the Defiled

Minion creatures get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Exile Balthor: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Olivia, Mobilized for War

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may discard a card. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, it gains haste until end of turn, and it becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Falkenrath Gorger

Each Vampire creature card you own that isn't on the battlefield has madness. The madness cost is equal to its mana cost. (If you discard a card with madness, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

"This trinket will gain you admittance to some painfully exclusive gatherings."
—Exava, blood witch

Rakdos Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon.

Rakdos Signet

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Ingot

"It reflects the purity of Mirrodin-that-was."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

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

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.

Rakdos Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B}{R}: This artifact becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

Solemn Simulacrum

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

The importance of using updated Pinnacle codebooks is a lesson learned only once.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.

Dreadbore

Whenever Valgavoth sheds his old form, a Harrowing courses through the House like a malevolent wave, spawning new horrors and inciting its inhabitants to frenzy.

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Kolaghan's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target player discards a card.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"
—Liliana Vess

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

"We can't control enemies who have no regard for their own survival."
—Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Havoc Festival

Players can't gain life.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

"Maybe they wanted to be on the winning side for once."
—Matoc, lavamancer

Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

"Stray not into sin, lest you face the doorman of an insatiable tomb."
—Prayer of Asha

Defiler of Souls

Flying
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a monocolored creature of their choice.

"He is judge, jury, and executioner because he killed them all."
—Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

The promise of anguish is payment enough for services rendered.

Indulgent Tormentor

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Olivia Voldaren

Flying
{1}{R}: Olivia Voldaren deals 1 damage to another target creature. That creature becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on Olivia Voldaren.
{3}{B}{B}: Gain control of target Vampire for as long as you control Olivia Voldaren.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Rakdos, the Showstopper

Flying, trample
When Rakdos enters, flip a coin for each creature that isn't a Demon, Devil, or Imp. Destroy each creature whose coin comes up tails.

Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up.
Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents they control of their choice, rounded up.

Desecration Demon

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Herald of Torment

Bestow {3}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

"Behind every devil's mayhem lurks a demon's scheme."
—Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Hellrider

Haste
Whenever a creature you control attacks, this creature deals 1 damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.

Cryptborn Horror

Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

A circus acrobat in life, she kills with such fluid grace that even her victims are awed by her performance.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Dread Slaver

Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, return it to the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

"If you're not surrounded by decadence, my question to you is—why not?"

Indulgent Aristocrat

Lifelink
{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

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Heir of Falkenrath // Heir to the Night

Among vampires, there has long been the belief that the urge to feed must be balanced by the poise of nobility.

Heir of Falkenrath

Discard a card: Transform this creature. Activate only once each turn.

The Falkenrath have relinquished all pretense at nobility, losing themselves completely to their all-consuming thirst.

Heir to the Night

Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

Vampire

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, create a black Vampire creature token. Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness.

Lightning Skelemental

Trample, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Scourge of the Throne

Flying
Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever this creature attacks for the first time each turn, if it's attacking the player with the most life or tied for most life, untap all attacking creatures. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

"Madness can't touch a mind ignited by genius."

Thermo-Alchemist

Defender
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.

His victims don't have time to feel despair.

Nekrataal

First strike
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Zombie

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Chandra, Awakened Inferno

Chandra, Awakened Inferno Emblem

This spell can't be countered.
+2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you."
−3: Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature.
−X: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

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