Shamans of Kar-Sengir claim that their sun sets because it can no longer bear the gaze of those pain-carved cliffs.

Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}.
{B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

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

Luxury Suite

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

Blood Crypt

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

When the Planeswalker Angrath called dinosaurs "dragons," the name stuck in certain pirate circles.

Dragonskull Summit

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

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

Smoldering Marsh

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

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

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

A graveyard for conquerors and conquered alike.

Bloodstained Mire

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

Badlands

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters tapped.
Whenever a Mountain you control enters, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deal 3 damage to any target.
{T}: Add {R}.

Everglades

Everglades enters tapped.
When Everglades enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{B}.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Swamp

Mountain

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

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.

"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.

Tainted Peak

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

Foreboding Ruins

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

For a bittersweet moment, Jace believed he could still save his love. A moment was all Vraska needed. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she whispered.

Phyrexian Arena

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

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

Demon

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

The mystic bond between spellcasters and the land is just as vulnerable to attack as the casters themselves.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
—Rakka Mar

Vicious Shadows

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

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.

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
—Geth, Lord of the Vault

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Helm of Obedience

{X}, {T}: Target opponent mills a card, then repeats this process until a creature card or X cards have been put into their graveyard this way, whichever comes first. If one or more creature cards were put into that graveyard this way, sacrifice Helm of Obedience and put one of them onto the battlefield under your control. X can't be 0.

A step in one direction is two steps away from another.

Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
—Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Demonic Consultation

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Red Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.

Tibalt's Trickery

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Blightning

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

"Stay indoors, away from what seeps over the thresholds. This is the Demon's work, and only ill can come of it."
—Belko, owner of Titan's Keg tavern

Rain of Gore

If a spell or ability would cause its controller to gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

"A crafter must imbue her weapon with part of her soul—something the Phyrexians are incapable of doing."
—Melira

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}

Sword of Fire and Ice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card.
Equip {2}

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.

Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.
Equip {4}

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Mox Diamond

If Mox Diamond would enter, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

Every facet aglow like iron in Moradin's mighty forge.

Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

It is the imposing heft of a ruler's scepter, the stench of death after a victory in battle, and the mournful wail of an enemy kneeling in supplication. It is power.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

It is a helping hand reaching out to the downtrodden, the acrid-sweet tang of burning incense during prayer, and the harmony of voices uplifted in unison. It is faith.

Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

"It is said Chimil never sees the same lands twice. So too must we expand our horizons."

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Burn from Within

Burn from Within deals X damage to any target. If a creature is dealt damage this way, it loses indestructible until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

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.

Ever since the disaster, the city's survivors viewed the star-strewn sky with dread.

Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

We live on the serpent's back.
—Viashino saying

Fault Line

Fault Line deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

"Grand city? No. This is nothing but another squalid cage."

Angrath's Rampage

Choose one —
• Target player sacrifices an artifact.
• Target player sacrifices a creature.
• Target player sacrifices a planeswalker.

"You serve Phyrexia. Your pieces would better serve Phyrexia elsewhere."
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

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.

Word of Seizing

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Untap target permanent and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn.

"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.

Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

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