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.

Dragonskull Summit

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

"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}.

Akoum Refuge

Canyon Slough

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

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}.

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.

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.

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}.

Rakdos Carnarium

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

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

Shadowblood Ridge

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

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.

"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}.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

"There is much to learn here, but few can endure the ringing of the spires."
—Nulakam the Archivist

City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Five rivers encircle Theros, flowing with waters more ancient than the world itself.

Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

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}.

Swamp

Mountain

Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Shivan Gorge

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Tainted Peak

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

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}.

Where ambition meets industry, passion is poisoned by greed.

Blackcleave Cliffs

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Dark Ritual

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

"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.

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

Talisman of Indulgence

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

It is the warm glow of the setting sun at journey's end, the scent of the evening meal crackling over a fire, and the cacophony of a raucous song shared over tankards of mead. It is freedom.

Ruby Medallion

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

Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

"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.

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.

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

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

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Skull of Ramos

{T}: Add {B}.
Sacrifice this artifact: Add {B}.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

Rakdos Charm

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

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.

In the early days of Valley, desperate animalfolk harnessed the power of Calamity Beasts in ways that destroyed more than defended.

Blasphemous Act

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

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"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.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

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.

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.

"You can sign, or you can spend your life imagining what might have been yours."

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"Listen to the roar! Feel the thunder! The Immersturm shouts its approval with every bolt of lightning!"

Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Dragon

The Monarch

Skyline Despot

Flying
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

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.

Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Overseer of the Damned

Zombie

Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.

Tergrid, God of Fright

Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

When Tergrid was a child, her shadow tried to kill her. Only her lantern keeps it at bay.

Tergrid's Lantern

{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern

"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.

"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
—Sitrik, birth priest

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

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 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.)

"They were all laughing at you after you left, you know. How will you make them pay?"

Night's Whisper

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

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

Greed

"There's some new darkness in the air tonight. If I were you, I'd stay home and lock the doors."
—Ferrick, village warden

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Bad Moon

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.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"Show me what Norn's sycophants are hiding under all that pretty porcelain."
—Sheoldred

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Poison Counter

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{B}: Skithiryx gains haste until end of turn.
{B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Vial Smasher the Fierce

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

"Some say that time is cyclical and that history inevitably repeats. My will is my own. I won't bow to fate."
—Volrath

Null Profusion

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a card, draw a card.
Your maximum hand size is two.

The myr are like necrogen: a transformative force unconcerned with the changes they wreak.

Leaden Myr

Hoarding Dragon

Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand.

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