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Kaervek Control
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Est deck cost: $52.40
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Commander

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Kaervek, the Punisher

Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

Creature
Kaervek, the Punisher (otj) 92

Commander

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Draw

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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.

Instant
Aphotic Wisps (shm) 55
Atrocious Experiment

Target player mills two cards, draws two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Sorcery
Atrocious Experiment (clb) 115
Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
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
Cling to Dust

Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card. Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Instant
Cling to Dust (thb) 87
Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Cremate (rtr) 59
Fell Stinger

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Creature
Fell Stinger (vow) 112
Foreboding Fruit

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
Foreboding Fruit (eld) 88
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (j25) 464
Read the Bones

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

Sorcery
Read the Bones (moc) 267
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (plst) P10-3
Underworld Connections

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Enchantment
Underworld Connections (voc) 138

Draw

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (m3c) 283
Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on this artifact. 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 this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Bandit's Haul (otj) 240
Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Artifact
Bounty Board (otc) 37
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (cmr) 303
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 (mh3) 274
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Flash Menace When Lobelia enters, exile target creature card from an opponent's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, then create X Treasure tokens, where X is the exiled card's power.

Creature
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (ltr) 93
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (who) 244
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 (m3c) 315

Ramp

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Counters

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Blood Hustler

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {3}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Hustler (otj) 80
Vadmir, New Blood

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadmir. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) As long as Vadmir has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has menace and lifelink.

Creature
Vadmir, New Blood (otj) 113

Counters

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Land

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Barren Moor

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

Land
Barren Moor (blc) 292
Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (m3c) 333
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 (dsc) 289
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 315

Land

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Recursion

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Forsaken Miner

This creature can't block. Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88

Recursion

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Creature

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Merrow Bonegnawer

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. Whenever you cast a black spell, you may untap this creature.

Creature
Merrow Bonegnawer (eve) 37

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Lifegain

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Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Demon's Horn (m12) 205
Rattleback Apothecary

Deathtouch Whenever you commit a crime, target creature you control gains your choice of menace or lifelink until end of turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Rattleback Apothecary (otj) 100
Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (mb2) 50

Lifegain

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Removal

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Bake into a Pie

Destroy target creature. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Instant
Bake into a Pie (jmp) 201
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Cast Down

Destroy target nonlegendary creature.

Instant
Cast Down (clb) 119
Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X. Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Sorcery
Consume Spirit (dvd) 56
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 (mh1) 86
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (gn3) 47
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 (otc) 134
Gumdrop Poisoner

Creature
Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats (woe) 93
Heartless Act

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Instant
Heartless Act (cmm) 166
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Sorcery
Invoke Despair (neo) 101
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 Lethal Scheme 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 (lcc) 201
Long Goodbye

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Instant
Long Goodbye (mkm) 92
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 (moc) 260
Pile On

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. 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.)

Instant
Pile On (mkc) 134
Poison the Cup

Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2. Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Poison the Cup (khm) 103
Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Instant
Power Word Kill (afr) 114
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. 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.)

Instant
Price of Fame (mkc) 135
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (plst) RIX-82
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (acr) 213
Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up. + {2} — Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up. + {2} — Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Rush of Dread (otj) 104
Shoot the Sheriff

Destroy target non-outlaw creature. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws. Everyone else is fair game.)

Instant
Shoot the Sheriff (otj) 106
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (mkc) 139
Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (tsr) 145
Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch {B}, Reveal this card from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn. When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Creature
Tetzimoc, Primal Death (rix) 86
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 (j25) 496
Vraska's Contempt

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.

Instant
Vraska's Contempt (xln) 129

Removal

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Discard

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Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (dmr) 81
Raven's Crime

Target player discards a card. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Raven's Crime (eve) 41

Discard

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Mill

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Mire Triton

Deathtouch When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Mire Triton (cmm) 174

Mill

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Theft

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Cruelclaw's Heist

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. If the gift was promised, you may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Sorcery
Cruelclaw's Heist (blb) 88

Theft

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Drain

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Raven of Fell Omens

Flying Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Raven of Fell Omens (otj) 101

Drain

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Protection

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Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121
Rush of Vitality

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")

Instant
Rush of Vitality (kld) 99

Protection

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Tokens

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Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

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