Gifted Aetherborn

Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Planar Bridge

{8}, {T}: Search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Yahenni's Expertise

All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.
You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Uncle Istvan

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

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.

Necrosynthesis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.

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.)

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.

Phage the Untouchable

When Phage the Untouchable enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Dark Ritual

Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Scavenger Drake

Flying
Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenger Drake.

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.

Death Pits of Rath

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

Crypt Rats

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

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.

Stunning Reversal

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1.
Exile Stunning Reversal.

Black Market

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

Paradise Plume

As Paradise Plume enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis, Unshackled.

Mandate of Abaddon

Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.

Pact Weapon

As long as Pact Weapon is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.

Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant

Menace
Whenever another creature dies during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant.
When Vogar dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters, you take the initiative.
{T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead.
{3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Thrashing Wumpus

{B}: Thrashing Wumpus deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Withering Wisps

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Withering Wisps.
{B}: Withering Wisps deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate no more times each turn than the number of snow Swamps you control.

Ritual of Soot

Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.

Bontu's Last Reckoning

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

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Murderous Betrayal

{B}{B}, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Darksteel Myr

Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Last Laugh

Whenever a permanent other than Last Laugh is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Last Laugh deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
When no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Last Laugh.

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

The Grim Captain

Menace, trample, lifelink, hexproof
Whenever The Grim Captain attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice. Then you may put an exiled creature card used to craft The Grim Captain onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking.

Throne of the Grim Captain

{T}: Mill two cards.
Craft with a Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire {4} ({4}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain

Barbed Servitor

Indestructible
When Barbed Servitor enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
Whenever Barbed Servitor deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Whenever Barbed Servitor is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

Wight of Precinct Six

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Angel of Suffering

Flying
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on Bandit's Haul. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from Bandit's Haul: Draw a card.

Lich's Mastery

Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Grindclock

{T}: Put a charge counter on Grindclock.
{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on Grindclock.

The Golden Throne

Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1.
A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

Grave Strength

Choose target creature. Mill three cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Each player loses a third of their life, then discards a third of the cards in their hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures they control of their choice, then sacrifices a third of the lands they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Lotus Blossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on Lotus Blossom.
{T}, Sacrifice Lotus Blossom: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on Lotus Blossom.

Infernal Darkness

Cumulative upkeep—Pay {B} and 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type.

Gravecrawler

Gravecrawler can't block.
You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Erebos's Titan

As long as your opponents control no creatures, Erebos's Titan has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Whenever a creature card leaves an opponent's graveyard, you may discard a card. If you do, return Erebos's Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Sadistic Glee

Enchant creature
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Bonehoard

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
Equip {2}

Languish

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

Wretched Bonemass

Wretched Bonemass's power and toughness are each equal to the total power of the exiled cards used to craft it.
Wretched Bonemass has flying as long as an exiled card used to craft it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Altar of the Wretched

When Altar of the Wretched enters, you may sacrifice a nontoken creature. If you do, draw X cards, then mill X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Craft with one or more creatures {2}{B}{B}
{2}{B}: Return Altar of the Wretched from your graveyard to your hand.

Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass

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.)

The Initiative

Whenever one or more creatures a player controls deal combat damage to you, that player takes the initiative.
Whenever you take the initiative and at the beginning of your upkeep, venture into Undercity. (If you're in a dungeon, advance to the next room. If you're not, enter Undercity. You can take the initiative even if you already have it.)

Undercity

You can't enter this dungeon unless you "venture into Undercity."
Secret Entrance — Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Leads to: Forge, Lost Well)
Forge — Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. (Leads to: Trap!, Arena)
Lost Well — Scry 2. (Leads to: Arena, Stash)
Trap! — Target player loses 5 life. (Leads to: Archives)
Arena — Goad target creature. (Leads to: Archives, Catacombs)
Stash — Create a Treasure token. (Leads to: Catacombs)
Archives — Draw a card. (Leads to: Throne of the Dead Three)
Catacombs — Create a 4/1 black Skeleton creature token with menace. (Leads to: Throne of the Dead Three)
Throne of the Dead Three — Reveal the top ten cards of your library. Put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. It gains hexproof until your next turn. Then shuffle.

Undercity // The Initiative

Tainted Aether

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Phylactery Lich

Indestructible
As Phylactery Lich enters, put a phylactery counter on an artifact you control.
When you control no permanents with phylactery counters on them, sacrifice Phylactery Lich.

Leech Gauntlet

Lifelink
Equipped creature has lifelink.
Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Venomcrawler

Lifelink
Devourer of Souls — Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Venomcrawler.

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.

Cordial Vampire

Whenever Cordial Vampire or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel 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.)

Plague Drone

Flying
Rot Fly — If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Mutilate

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

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.

Demon of Fate's Design

Flying, trample
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an enchantment spell by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another enchantment: Demon of Fate's Design gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed enchantment's mana value.

Korlash, Heir to Blackblade

Korlash, Heir to Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Korlash.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Korlash, Heir to Blackblade: Search your library for up to two Swamp cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Liliana's Contract

When Liliana's Contract enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

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.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

The Millennium Calendar

Whenever you untap one or more permanents during your untap step, put that many time counters on The Millennium Calendar.
{2}, {T}: Double the number of time counters on The Millennium Calendar.
When there are 1,000 or more time counters on The Millennium Calendar, sacrifice it and each opponent loses 1,000 life.

Sengir, the Dark Baron

Flying
Whenever another creature dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Sengir, the Dark Baron.
Whenever another player loses the game, you gain life equal to that player's life total as the turn began.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Swamp

Lashknife Barrier

When Lashknife Barrier enters, draw a card.
If a source would deal damage to a creature you control, it deals that much damage minus 1 to that creature instead.

Platinum Angel

Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Nightmare

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Sower of Discord

Flying
As Sower of Discord enters, choose two players.
Whenever damage is dealt to one of the chosen players, the other chosen player also loses that much life.

Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Contamination unless you sacrifice a creature.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

Phyrexian Etchings

Cumulative upkeep {B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card for each age counter on Phyrexian Etchings.
When Phyrexian Etchings is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.

Great Unclean One

Reverberating Summons — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 2 life. Then for each opponent who has less life than you, create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.

Slaughter Specialist

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

Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Sonic Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact.
{2}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Mortal Combat

At the beginning of your upkeep, if twenty or more creature cards are in your graveyard, you win the game.

Plague Spitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
When Plague Spitter dies, it deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Squelching Leeches

Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Darksteel Reactor

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Darksteel Reactor.
When Darksteel Reactor has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game.

Vashta Nerada

Indestructible
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vashta Nerada.

Cemetery Gate

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Protection from black

Nefarious Lich

If damage would be dealt to you, exile that many cards from your graveyard instead. If you can't, you lose the game.
If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.
When Nefarious Lich leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Nighthowler and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.