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The Scorpion God
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Est deck cost: $373.25
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Commander

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The Scorpion God

Whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, draw a card. {1}{B}{R}: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature. When The Scorpion God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scorpion God (mp2) 54

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Cauldron of Souls

{T}: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist 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.)

Artifact
Cauldron of Souls (plst) CM2-180
Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Artifact
Contagion Clasp (som) 144
Contagion Engine

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls. {4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Artifact
Contagion Engine (sld) 1095
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (ddp) 65
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dis) 165
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (dsc) 254
The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237

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Creature

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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.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (pakh) 78
Banewhip Punisher

When this creature enters, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {B}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target creature that has a -1/-1 counter on it.

Creature
Banewhip Punisher (hou) 59
Carnifex Demon

Flying This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it. {B}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.

Creature
Carnifex Demon (som) 57
Core Prowler

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature Artifact
Core Prowler (mbs) 103
Corrosive Mentor

Black creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Creature
Corrosive Mentor (shm) 61
Festering Mummy

When this creature dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Festering Mummy (akh) 91
Fume Spitter

Sacrifice this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Fume Spitter (som) 63
Kulrath Knight

Flying Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Creatures your opponents control with counters on them can't attack or block.

Creature
Kulrath Knight (shm) 190
Lockjaw Snapper

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) When this creature dies, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Lockjaw Snapper (shm) 255
Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample Ward—Discard a card. Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Creature
Maha, Its Feathers Night (blb) 289
Mahadi, Emporium Master

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Mahadi, Emporium Master (clb) 429
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Creature
Massacre Girl, Known Killer (mkm) 94
Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Creature
Midnight Banshee (shm) 72
Necropede

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature Artifact
Necropede (som) 185
Necroskitter

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Necroskitter (mm2) 88
Plague Myr

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {T}: Add {C}.

Creature Artifact
Plague Myr (mbs) 125
Skinrender

When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.

Creature
Skinrender (som) 78
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 (fdn) 257
Soul Snuffers

When Soul Snuffers enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.

Creature
Soul Snuffers (eve) 45
Stigma Lasher

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player can't gain life for the rest of the game.

Creature
Stigma Lasher (plst) EVE-62
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (mh1) 116

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Enchantment

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
Blowfly Infestation

Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Enchantment
Blowfly Infestation (shm) 58
Everlasting Torment

Players can't gain life. Damage can't be prevented. All damage is dealt as though its source had wither. (A source with wither deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Enchantment
Everlasting Torment (shm) 186
Fists of the Demigod

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) As long as enchanted creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Enchantment
Fists of the Demigod (shm) 187
Glistening Oil

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Glistening Oil (nph) 62
Nest of Scarabs

Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.

Enchantment
Nest of Scarabs (akh) 101

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Instant

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
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.

Instant
Chaos Warp (c18) 122
Grim Affliction

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Grim Affliction (nph) 63
Puncture Blast

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Puncture Blast deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Puncture Blast (eve) 60
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.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (c14) 164
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (acr) 251
Torment of Venom

Put three -1/-1 counters on target creature. Its controller loses 3 life unless they sacrifice another nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.

Instant
Torment of Venom (hou) 79

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Land

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Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (one) 248
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rna) 245
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (lcc) 320
Canyon Slough

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

Land
Canyon Slough (akh) 239
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
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}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (ncc) 403
Grasping Dunes

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Grasping Dunes (akh) 244
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (inr) 280
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 253
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 264
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 266
Rakdos Carnarium

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

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (c19) 266
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (ncc) 426
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (bfz) 247
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 381
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 252
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 261
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 262
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 263
Tainted Peak

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

Land
Tainted Peak (tor) 142
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}.

Land
Temple of Malice (thb) 247

Land

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Planeswalker

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Liliana, Death Wielder

+2: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it. −10: Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death Wielder (akh) 275

Planeswalker

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Sorcery

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Black Sun's Zenith

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

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (c14) 136
Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (ori) 137
Incremental Blight

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.

Sorcery
Incremental Blight (shm) 70
Lethal Sting

As an additional cost to cast this spell, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Lethal Sting (hou) 67
Liliana's Influence

Put a -1/-1 counter on each creature you don't control. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Liliana, Death Wielder, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Sorcery
Liliana's Influence (akh) 277
Retribution

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same opponent. That player chooses and sacrifices one of those creatures. Put a -1/-1 counter on the other.

Sorcery
Retribution (hml) 79

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Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (neo) 264
Cartouche of Ambition

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Enchantment
Cartouche of Ambition (akh) 83
Contagious Nim

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Creature
Contagious Nim (som) 58
Fallen Ferromancer

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {1}{R}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Fallen Ferromancer (nph) 82
Flesh-Eater Imp

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Sacrifice a creature: Flesh-Eater Imp gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Flesh-Eater Imp (mbs) 42
Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature enters, each player gets a poison counter.

Creature
Ichor Rats (som) 67
Iron Myr

{T}: Add {R}.

Creature Artifact
Iron Myr (som) 168
Leaden Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature Artifact
Leaden Myr (som) 170
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 264
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 266
Phyrexian Digester

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Digester (mbs) 120
Phyrexian Juggernaut

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Phyrexian Juggernaut attacks each combat if able.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Juggernaut (mbs) 121
Septic Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Whenever this creature attacks, if defending player is poisoned, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Septic Rats (mbs) 55
Sickle Ripper

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Creature
Sickle Ripper (shm) 77
Smoldering Butcher

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Creature
Smoldering Butcher (eve) 42
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 262
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (ddi) 63

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All Will Be One

Whenever you put one or more counters on a permanent or player, this enchantment deals that much damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Enchantment
All Will Be One (one) 118
Blasphemous Act

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

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Crumbling Ashes

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Enchantment
Crumbling Ashes (eve) 35
Dusk Urchins

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, put a -1/-1 counter on it. When this creature dies, draw a card for each -1/-1 counter on it.

Creature
Dusk Urchins (shm) 65
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 (dsc) 78
Glistening Sphere

This artifact enters tapped. When this artifact enters, proliferate. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Corrupted — {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Artifact
Glistening Sphere (onc) 58
Harbinger of Night

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.

Creature
Harbinger of Night (mir) 128
Hateflayer

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) {2}{R}, {Q}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Creature
Hateflayer (eve) 55
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
Persist

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

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96
Persistent Constrictor

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control. Persist (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.)

Creature
Persistent Constrictor (dsc) 22
Rakdos Charm

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

Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Spitting Dilophosaurus

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. Creatures your opponents control with -1/-1 counters on them can't block.

Creature
Spitting Dilophosaurus (rex) 3
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (otc) 183
Whisper of the Dross

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Whisper of the Dross (one) 117

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The Scorpion God

Whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, draw a card. {1}{B}{R}: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature. When The Scorpion God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scorpion God (hou) 146

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Maybeboard

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Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (dsc) 280
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Skinrender

When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.

Creature
Skinrender (dci) 63

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