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Mono Black Control
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Commander

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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

Commander

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Anthem

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Bad Moon

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Bad Moon (4ed) 120

Anthem

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Counters

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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
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.

Creature
Drana, Liberator of Malakir (lcc) 193

Counters

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Creature

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
Chupacabra Echo

Fathomless descent — When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Chupacabra Echo (lci) 97
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
Vein Ripper

Flying Ward—Sacrifice a creature. Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110

Creature

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Discard

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Pelakka Predation

Sorcery
Pelakka Predation // Pelakka Caverns (znr) 120Pelakka Predation // Pelakka Caverns (znr) 120

Discard

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Drain

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Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (lcc) 182
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 (scd) 80

Drain

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Draw

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Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Creature
Clackbridge Troll (eld) 84
Evolved Sleeper

{B}: This creature becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2. {1}{B}: If this creature is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3. {1}{B}{B}: If this creature is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Evolved Sleeper (dmu) 93
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (5ed) 182
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
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 (dmr) 110

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Enchantment

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Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115

Enchantment

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 638
Torment of Hailfire

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

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

Finisher

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Instant

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Join the Dead

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

Instant
Join the Dead (lci) 110
Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Slice from the Shadows (mkm) 301

Instant

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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 (mkc) 250
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Faceless Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {S}{S}{S}: This land becomes a 4/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Land
Faceless Haven (khm) 255
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (moc) 400
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 323
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (mkc) 276
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
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (mh1) 252
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
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (mkc) 305
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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Lifegain

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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

Lifegain

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Proliferate

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Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Compleated ({B/P} can be paid with {B} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) 0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. Proliferate. −2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities. −9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.

Planeswalker
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting (one) 115

Proliferate

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Protection

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No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 95

Protection

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Ramp

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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
Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (plst) CM2-178
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
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (cmm) 395
Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m14) 102
Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245

Ramp

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Recursion

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Bloodghast

This creature can't block. This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Bloodghast (lcc) 184
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

Recursion

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Removal

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Bloodline Culling

Choose one — • Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. • Creature tokens get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Instant
Bloodline Culling (mid) 89
Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes. Counter target spell.

Instant
Dash Hopes (plst) PLC-68
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
Drown in Ichor

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Drown in Ichor (one) 91
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 (lcc) 198
Festering Mummy

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

Creature
Festering Mummy (akh) 91
Golden Demise

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, instead only creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Golden Demise (rix) 73
Kaervek, the Spiteful

Other creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Kaervek, the Spiteful (m21) 358
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
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 (mkc) 130
Mutilate

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

Sorcery
Mutilate (gvl) 55
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
Skinrender

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

Creature
Skinrender (2x2) 91
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 (tsr) 144
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (cmm) 192
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 (m20) 122
Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Withering Boon (mir) 152

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Tokens

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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
Slaughter Specialist

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Human creature token. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Slaughter Specialist (mid) 122

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150

Tutor

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Wrath

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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 (mkc) 126
Blood on the Snow

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Sorcery
Blood on the Snow (khm) 79
Crypt Rats

{X}: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature
Crypt Rats (j22) 392
Dead of Winter

All nonsnow creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of snow permanents you control.

Sorcery
Dead of Winter (mh1) 85
Massacre Girl

Menace When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Massacre Girl (rvr) 83
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (plst) MID-112
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 (mkc) 142

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Maybeboard

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
Ascendant Evincar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Other black creatures get +1/+1. Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Ascendant Evincar (hop) 17
Attempted Murder

Choose target creature. Roll X six-sided dice. For each even result, put two -1/-1 counters on that creature. For each odd result, create a 1/2 blue Bird creature token with flying named Storm Crow.

Sorcery
Attempted Murder (unf) 66
Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) When this creature dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Blightbelly Rat (one) 289
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (mir) 296
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 (onc) 129
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 (plst) SOM-145
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
Crumbling Ashes

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

Enchantment
Crumbling Ashes (eve) 35
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (mkc) 228
Fume Spitter

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

Creature
Fume Spitter (uma) 95
Genesis Chamber

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if this artifact is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Artifact
Genesis Chamber (bbd) 235
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 (plst) MM2-84
Gulping Scraptrap

When this creature enters or dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Gulping Scraptrap (one) 96
Guul Draz Assassin

Level up {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 2-3 2/2 {B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. LEVEL 4+ 4/4 {B}, {T}: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Creature
Guul Draz Assassin (plst) ROE-112
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 (plst) C19-18
Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Languish (jmp) 246
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 (mm2) 86
Plague Engineer

Deathtouch As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

Creature
Plague Engineer (mh1) 100
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

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

Creature
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon (plst) SOM-79
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance. Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip {2}

Artifact
Tarrian's Soulcleaver (lci) 264
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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