Cornered by Black Mages

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."

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.)

Swamp

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Bojuka Bog

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

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.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Plasmancer

Flying
Dynastic Advisor — When this creature enters, search your library for a basic Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Gate to Phyrexia

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Evolving Wilds

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

Keeper of the Dead

{B}, {T}: Choose target opponent who has at least two fewer creature cards in their graveyard than you do as you activate this ability. Destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Gravestorm

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent may exile a card from their graveyard. If that player doesn't, you may draw a card.

Nightmare Unmaking

Choose one —
• Exile each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand.
• Exile each creature with power less than the number of cards in your hand.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Cuombajj Witches

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to any target of an opponent's choice.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

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.

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Thrull Parasite

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.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Slaughter

Buyback—Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Blood Scrivener

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

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}.'"

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Soot Imp

Flying
Whenever a player casts a nonblack spell, that player loses 1 life.

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.

Dusk Legion Zealot

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Liliana's Shade

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Triarch Stalker

Targeting Relay — At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent.
Creatures attacking the last chosen player have menace.

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.)

Kiku, Night's Flower

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Pretender's Claim

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, tap all lands defending player controls.

Withered Wretch

Pharika's Libation

Choose one —
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Night's Whisper

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.

Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Debt to the Kami

Choose one —
• Target opponent exiles a creature they control.
• Target opponent exiles an enchantment they control.

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice this creature: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Clattering Augur

This creature can't block.
When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
{2}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Transpose

Draw a card, then discard a card. You lose 1 life. If this spell was cast from your hand, create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorceress Queen

{T}: Target creature other than this creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

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.

Planar Void

Whenever another card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile that card.

Wave of Rats

Trample
When this creature dies, if it dealt combat damage to a player this turn, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Blitz {4}{B} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Feed the Swarm

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

Necrodominance

Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Bontu's Last Reckoning

Destroy all creatures. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

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.

Magus of the Coffers

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

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.

Nirkana Revenant

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

Mutilate

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

Terramorphic Expanse

Bubbling Muck

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

Purraj of Urborg

Purraj has first strike as long as it's attacking.
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {B}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Purraj.

Underworld Sentinel

Whenever this creature attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard.
When this creature dies, put all cards exiled with it onto the battlefield.

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Life's Finale

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Cabal Coffers

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}.

Gaze of Pain

Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

Circle of Power

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Wizards you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

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.