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Expedition in Search for Blex... [Mono-black Reanimator]
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Commander

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Blex, Vexing Pest

Creature
Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex back (stx) 322Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex back (stx) 322

Commander

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Extra Hands (Tokens)

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Abhorrent Overlord

Flying When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Abhorrent Overlord (ths) 75
Dreadfeast Demon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a non-Demon creature. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Dreadfeast Demon (vow) 108
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (tdc) 193
Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant
Saw in Half (blc) 113

Extra Hands (Tokens)

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New Clues on the Trail (Draw)

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Arbiter of Woe

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life. You draw a card and gain 2 life.

Creature
Arbiter of Woe (fdn) 55
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
Diresight

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

Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Discerning Taste

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creature cards put into your graveyard this way.

Sorcery
Discerning Taste (mh2) 82
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (tdc) 178
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.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (j25) 453
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111
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.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (pm20) 122p

New Clues on the Trail (Draw)

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Supply Salvagers (Recursion)

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Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (plst) STH-74

Supply Salvagers (Recursion)

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Clearing The Path (Removal)

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Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
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
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Demon of Dark Schemes

Flying When this creature enters, all other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever another creature dies, you get {E} (an energy counter). {2}{B}, Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped.

Creature
Demon of Dark Schemes (kld) 73
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (tdc) 180
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 95
Lethal Scheme

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Instant
Lethal Scheme (tdc) 184
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.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (dsc) 147
Nuclear Fallout

Each creature gets twice -X/-X until end of turn. Each player gets X rad counters.

Sorcery
Nuclear Fallout (pip) 47
Overseer of the Damned

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.

Creature
Overseer of the Damned (mkc) 132
Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Vile Mutilator

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Flying, trample When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken enchantment of their choice, then sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Vile Mutilator (dsk) 122
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Clearing The Path (Removal)

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Field Medicine (Lifegain)

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Ardyn, the Usurper

Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste. Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.

Creature
Ardyn, the Usurper (fin) 89
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 (dsc) 142
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (ima) 95
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (mbs) 53

Field Medicine (Lifegain)

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Protection

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Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

Protection

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Expedition Sponsors (Ramp)

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Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
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}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on this artifact. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on this artifact. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Artifact
Séance Board (dsc) 40
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60a
Troll of Khazad-dûm

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Troll of Khazad-dûm (ltr) 111

Expedition Sponsors (Ramp)

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Graverobbers (Theft)

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Abyssal Harvester

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Creature
Abyssal Harvester (fdn) 54
Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sepulchral Primordial (scd) 106

Graverobbers (Theft)

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Expert Trackers (Tutor)

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Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92

Expert Trackers (Tutor)

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (tdc) 341
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (tdc) 354
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Lazotep Quarry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color. {X}{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Lazotep Quarry (m3c) 131
Midgar, City of Mako

Land
Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid (fin) 286
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 (pip) 272
Phyrexian Tower

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

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (bfz) 264
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Tomb Fortress

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Tomb Fortress (40k) 168
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Shovel Squad (Reanimate Tools)

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Apprentice Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Creature
Apprentice Necromancer (uma) 84
Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Chthonian Nightmare (mh3) 83
Diabolic Servitude

When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. When the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment dies, exile it and return this enchantment to its owner's hand. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment.

Enchantment
Diabolic Servitude (cma) 53
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (tdc) 183
Life

Sorcery
Life // Death (dmr) 216
Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death's Majesty (drc) 94
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (tdc) 185
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.

Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96
Reanimate

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

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
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.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (jmp) 278
Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Stitch Together (c18) 119
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (tdc) 198
Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Wake the Dead (cmm) 197

Shovel Squad (Reanimate Tools)

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Sideboard

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Blade of Selves

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Equip {4}

Artifact
Blade of Selves (tdc) 313
Bog Witch

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Bog Witch (arc) 11
Brainstealer Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Brainstealer Dragon (otc) 127
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 leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Creature
Chainer, Dementia Master (cmm) 144
Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (j25) 426
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Malboro

Bad Breath — When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card, loses 2 life, and exiles the top three cards of their library. Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Malboro (fin) 106
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.)

Creature
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (cmm) 173
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (gvl) 55
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (tdc) 191
Qarsi Revenant

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Renew — {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Qarsi Revenant (tdm) 86
Scion of Darkness

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Scion of Darkness (j25) 486
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Thieving Amalgam

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Thieving Amalgam (otc) 150
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151

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'Sp(r)ic(e)y' Upgrades

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
Incarnation Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Incarnation Technique (c21) 41
It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
It That Betrays (cmm) 805
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.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Overlord of the Balemurk

Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Balemurk (dsk) 113
Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
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 (fic) 285
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

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Maybeboard

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Archenemy's Charm

Choose one — • Exile target creature or planeswalker. • Return one or two target creature and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

Instant
Archenemy's Charm (eoe) 88
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Baleful Force

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

Creature
Baleful Force (c13) 70
Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Black Sun's Twilight (one) 84
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.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Buried Alive

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

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Burning-Rune Demon

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Burning-Rune Demon (khm) 81
Butcher of Malakir

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

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (lcc) 187
Crabomination

Emerge from artifact {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing an artifact and paying the emerge cost reduced by that artifact's mana value.) When this creature enters, target opponent exiles the top card of their library, a card at random from their graveyard, and a card at random from their hand. You may cast a spell from among cards exiled this way without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Crabomination (mh3) 85
Danse Macabre

Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice. Roll a d20 and add the toughness of the creature you sacrificed this way. 1—14 | Return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. 15+ | Return up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way to the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Danse Macabre (afc) 22
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Dreadhound

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Dreadhound (j25) 427
Dusk Mangler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life. When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

Creature
Dusk Mangler (clb) 751
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Gorging Vulture

Flying When this creature enters, mill four cards. You gain 1 life for each creature card milled this way. (To mill four cards, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Gorging Vulture (j25) 449
Grave Endeavor

Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.

Instant
Grave Endeavor (afc) 24
High-Society Hunter

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever another nontoken creature dies, draw a card.

Creature
High-Society Hunter (fdn) 61
Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder

Flying Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder (j22) 431
Lord of the Void

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Lord of the Void (rvr) 81
Metamorphosis Fanatic

Lifelink When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it. Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Creature
Metamorphosis Fanatic (dsc) 21
Mindslicer

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Mindslicer (dmr) 91
Netherborn Phalanx

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Netherborn Phalanx (rav) 99
Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Nighthawk Scavenger (otc) 144
Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134
Phyrexian Obliterator

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

Creature
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 105
Rejoin the Fight

Mill three cards. Then starting with the next opponent in turn order, each opponent chooses a creature card in your graveyard that hasn't been chosen. Return each card chosen this way to the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rejoin the Fight (fic) 118
Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Rune-Scarred Demon (fdn) 184
Shadowgrange Archfiend

When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way. Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Shadowgrange Archfiend (voc) 22
Shinra Reinforcements

When this creature enters, mill three cards and you gain 3 life. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Shinra Reinforcements (fin) 118
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.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (tdc) 325
Spirit of the Night

Flying, trample, haste, protection from black Spirit of the Night has first strike as long as it's attacking.

Creature
Spirit of the Night (mir) 146
The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life. {4}{B}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96
Tree of Perdition

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

Creature
Tree of Perdition (inr) 135
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 77
Unholy Annex

Enchantment
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (dsk) 118
Wail of War

Choose one — • Creatures target opponent controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Wail of War (tdm) 98
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.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159
Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152
World Map

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
World Map (fin) 270
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.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (2xm) 308
Wurmcoil Larva

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 1/2 black Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 2/1 black Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Larva (mh3) 112
Zero Point Ballad

Destroy all creatures with toughness X or less. You lose X life. If X is 6 or more, return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Zero Point Ballad (eoe) 128

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