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.

Dragonskull Summit

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

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}.

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.

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.

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}.

Akoum Refuge

"I'm not cruel, but I have no patience for your mistakes."
—Tyrux, expedition warrior

Akoum Warrior

"Rock. Lava. Gravity. They're not cruel, but they're not forgiving either."
—Tyrux, expedition warrior

Akoum Teeth

Akoum Warrior // Akoum Teeth

Bojuka Bog

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

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}.

Swamp

Mountain

Dark Ritual

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

True power is achieved through blood and sweat. But mostly blood.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Gix pierced his disciples' minds and savored their experiences as he took in their knowledge.

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

"Always give your foes a choice when they have none."
—Ob Nixilis

Diabolic Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

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.

Lightning Bolt

Toralf's Disciple

Thayan Evokers

Indris, the Hydrostatic Surge

The sparkmage shrieked, calling on the rage of the storms of his youth. To his surprise, the sky responded with a fierce energy he'd never thought to see again.

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Some Akroans make the dangerous pilgrimage to the volcanic temples of Purphoros, where oracles known as flamespeakers glean omens from lava.

Magma Jet

Magma Jet deals 2 damage to any target. Scry 2.

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

Dreadbore

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.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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

Night's Whisper

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.

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.)

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.

"There are always fools who attempt to traverse Kruin Pass before sundown and every time they wind up in a race for their lives."
—Old Rutstein

Harrowing Journey

Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Few among the living understand just how much of their world is shaped by the ruins of the dead.

Grim Discovery

Choose one or both —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Desecrated Tomb

The grave robbers were startled, for the door to the mausoleum was already open.

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

His verdict is always guilty. His sentence is always death.

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Denied the peace of the Blessed Sleep, geists lash out at the living, and the cycle of anger and unrest continues unbroken.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

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.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature of their choice.

Her grand wedding had one goal: to unite the vampire bloodlines under her rule.

Olivia, Crimson Bride

Flying, haste
Whenever Olivia attacks, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains "When you don't control a legendary Vampire, exile this creature."

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Flying, haste
Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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.

Lightning Reaver

Haste; fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a charge counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, this creature deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to each opponent.

A demon cannot be trusted, and a dragon will not be ruled.

Malfegor

Flying
When Malfegor enters, discard your hand. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each card discarded this way.

Shadowborn Apostle

A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.
{B}, Sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a Demon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Thrull

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

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.

"The rules are clear. If you want to leave, you need only convince another to take your place."

Hell's Caretaker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.

"We all hide a little madness behind our sophistication, do we not?"

Anje Falkenrath

Haste
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
Whenever you discard a card, if it has madness, untap Anje Falkenrath.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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.)

"Blood from the vein is the finest vintage to accompany a feast of the mind."
—Runo Stromkirk

Stromkirk Condemned

Discard a card: Vampires you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

"The ravings of the mad are laced with eldritch knowledge."

Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Madness {1}{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.)

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

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

At the end of the show, she stands alone on a stage brilliant with blood.

Judith, the Scourge Diva

Other creatures you control get +1/+0.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Judith deals 1 damage to any target.

"All creation in a single point, the point of all creation in all."
—Sunstar loop-mantra

Sol Ring

Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer united three nezumi gangs when he slew their leaders in a single night. Now they call him their first lord.

All Rats have fear.
{T}, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

Sword of the Paruns

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.
As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
{3}: You may tap or untap equipped creature.
Equip {3}

Beware a scarecrow bearing gifts—especially sloshing vessels of acid.

Grim Poppet

This creature enters with three -1/-1 counters on it.
Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh

First strike, menace, trample
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

With one motion, a pest is removed and a scourge inflicted.

Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Matter Reshaper

({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with mana value 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

It seemed as if no one wanted them to reach the Henge of Ramos—not even the dead.

Haunted Crossroads

{B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Tree of Perdition

Defender
{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Once a mortal ogre, Hidetsugu devoured his demonic patron and transcended mortality in a fit of rage.

Hidetsugu's Second Rite

If target player has exactly 10 life, Hidetsugu's Second Rite deals 10 damage to that player.

He hopes each greedy gulp will be the one that makes him feel warm again.

Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Gleeful Arsonist

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage equal to its power to that player.
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

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.

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