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Velocerak the Lich
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Commander

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Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon. Whenever Acererak attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Acererak the Archlich (sld) 1784

Commander

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Land

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Barren Moor

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

Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
Dungeon Descent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Land
Dungeon Descent (afr) 255
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (pm20) 247p
Mortuary Mire

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

Land
Mortuary Mire (c20) 289
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (drc) 166
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 398

Land

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Recursion

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Cursecloth Wrappings

Zombies you control get +1/+1. {T}: Target creature card in your graveyard gains embalm until end of turn. The embalm cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile that card and pay its embalm cost: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie in addition to its other types and has no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Cursecloth Wrappings (dft) 81
Dungeon Crawler

This creature enters tapped. Whenever you complete a dungeon, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Dungeon Crawler (afr) 99
Fates' Reversal

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Sorcery
Fates' Reversal (afr) 102
Gravecrawler

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (drc) 43
Gravespawn Sovereign

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Gravespawn Sovereign (scd) 79
Lost Monarch of Ifnir

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) Other Zombies you control have afflict 3. At the beginning of your second main phase, if a player was dealt combat damage by a Zombie this turn, mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lost Monarch of Ifnir (drc) 27
Reanimate

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

Sorcery
Reanimate (otp) 18
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.) {T}: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord (pfdn) 77s

Recursion

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Anthem

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Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Cemetery Reaper (drc) 87
Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Death Baron (hop) 25
Death-Priest of Myrkul

Skeletons, Vampires, and Zombies you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.

Creature
Death-Priest of Myrkul (afr) 95
Graf Harvest

Zombies you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {3}{B}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
Graf Harvest (j22) 421
Liliana's Mastery

Zombies you control get +1/+1. When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Enchantment
Liliana's Mastery (scd) 86
Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Accursed (drc) 95
Vizier of the Scorpion

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter 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.) Zombie tokens you control have deathtouch.

Creature
Vizier of the Scorpion (war) 111

Anthem

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Protection

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Enchantment
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123

Protection

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Removal

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Cavalier of Night

Lifelink When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls. When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Cavalier of Night (m20) 94
Cemetery Desecrator

Menace When this creature enters or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one — • Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. • Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Creature
Cemetery Desecrator (vow) 100
Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Final Vengeance

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Exile target creature.

Sorcery
Final Vengeance (dsk) 99
Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Hero's Downfall (fdn) 175
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Necrotic Hex

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Necrotic Hex (scd) 95
Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Instant
Power Word Kill (afr) 114
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (who) 222
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Creature

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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.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 99
Lotleth Giant

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent for each creature card in your graveyard.

Creature
Lotleth Giant (grn) 74
Rotting Regisaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

Creature
Rotting Regisaur (plst) M20-111
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 119
Wight of Precinct Six

This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (ima) 114
Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade (afr) 128
Zombie Ogre

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Zombie Ogre (afr) 129

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Pump

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Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Hand of Vecna (afr) 246

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Tokens

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Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of the Perished (sld) 837
Curse of Shallow Graves

Enchant player Whenever a player attacks enchanted player with one or more creatures, that attacking player may create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
Curse of Shallow Graves (plst) C13-71
Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (isd) 99
Grave Titan

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

Creature
Grave Titan (drc) 42
Open the Graves

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
Open the Graves (mic) 126
Rise of the Dread Marn

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn. Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Rise of the Dread Marn (khm) 107
Risen Necroregent

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Max speed — At the beginning of your end step, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Risen Necroregent (dft) 102
The Book of Vile Darkness

At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {T}, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

Artifact
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

Tokens

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Draw

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Arcane Encyclopedia

{3}, {T}: Draw a card.

Artifact
Arcane Encyclopedia (clb) 297
Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Endless Atlas (plst) C18-55
Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 393
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Grim Servant

Menace When this creature 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.)

Creature
Grim Servant (mh3) 97
Hour of Victory

Start your engines! When this enchantment enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Max speed — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Hour of Victory (dft) 91
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (j25) 464
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 728
Tome of Legends

This artifact enters with a page counter on it. Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact. {1}, {T}, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Tome of Legends (mkc) 246
Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (drc) 100

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Ramp

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Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Deathtouch Whenever Ashnod attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, create a tapped Powerstone token. {5}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token.

Creature
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist (bro) 84
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 442
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on this artifact. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on this artifact. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (drc) 88
Defiler of Flesh

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Creature
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Dungeon Map

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Artifact
Dungeon Map (afr) 242
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (inr) 383
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.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 365
Shambling Ghast

When this creature dies, choose one — • Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Shambling Ghast (plst) AFR-119
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Army of the Damned

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.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (c18) 113
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.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
Cryptcaller Chariot

Menace Whenever you discard one or more cards, create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Crew 2

Artifact
Cryptcaller Chariot (dft) 80
Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Demon's Horn (dst) 116
Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Diregraf Colossus (sld) 840
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (m10) 93
Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter 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.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (drc) 91
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

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.

Creature
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (cmm) 155
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
Headless Rider

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Headless Rider (pvow) 118★
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (mkc) 229
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.

Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (c14) 26
Orc Sureshot

Whenever another creature you control enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Orc Sureshot (plst) FRF-78
Passageway Seer

Lifelink When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Passageway Seer (clb) 141
Plague Belcher

Menace When this creature enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Plague Belcher (drc) 97
Prism Ring

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Prism Ring (ori) 235
Ravenloft Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143
Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Staff of the Death Magus (m14) 219
Tomb Tyrant

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return a Zombie creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn and only if there are at least three Zombie creature cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Tomb Tyrant (mic) 23
Trailblazer's Torch

When this Equipment enters, you take the initiative. Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked, it deals 2 damage to each creature blocking it. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Trailblazer's Torch (clb) 340
Unbreathing Horde

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard. If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Creature
Unbreathing Horde (scd) 113
Vicious Battlerager

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Spiked Retribution — Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Creature
Vicious Battlerager (clb) 155
Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Vile Entomber (mh2) 403
Wight

This creature enters tapped. Life Drain — Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token and exile that card.

Creature
Wight (afr) 316
Zombie Apocalypse

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

Sorcery
Zombie Apocalypse (mic) 131

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