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Desperation
Deck Size: 103
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Commander

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Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (c18) 50

Commander

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Protection

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Enchantment
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
Demonic Vigor

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When enchanted creature dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Demonic Vigor (plst) DOM-85
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 216
Strands of Undeath

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, target player discards two cards. {B}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Strands of Undeath (2x2) 92

Protection

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Discard

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Abyssal Specter

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Abyssal Specter (mm3) 59
Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card. {B}: Level 2 At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life. {3}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Enchantment
Bandit's Talent (blb) 83
Bite of the Black Rose

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Bite of the Black Rose (cns) 26
Blazing Specter

Flying, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Blazing Specter (ddh) 52
Delirium Skeins

Each player discards three cards.

Sorcery
Delirium Skeins (mm3) 65
Fell Specter

Flying When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card. Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Fell Specter (plst) M19-96
Hypnotic Specter

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Creature
Hypnotic Specter (plst) M10-100
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
Lightning Skelemental

Trample, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Lightning Skelemental (mh1) 208
Liliana's Specter

Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Liliana's Specter (pca) 34
Miasmic Mummy

When this creature enters, each player discards a card.

Creature
Miasmic Mummy (plst) AKH-100
Mindslicer

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Mindslicer (dmr) 91
Necrogoyf

Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card. Madness {1}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Necrogoyf (mh2) 93
Neheb, the Worthy

First strike Other Minotaurs you control have first strike. As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, Minotaurs you control get +2/+0. Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Creature
Neheb, the Worthy (akh) 203
Order of Yawgmoth

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Order of Yawgmoth (plst) DDE-11
Pain Magnification

Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Pain Magnification (plst) DIS-121
Refurbished Familiar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Refurbished Familiar (mh3) 105
Rotting Rats

When this creature enters, each player discards a card. Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Rotting Rats (con) 51
Scythe Specter

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each opponent discards a card. Each player who discarded a card with the highest mana value among cards discarded this way loses life equal to that mana value.

Creature
Scythe Specter (scd) 105
Sire of Insanity

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Sire of Insanity (dgm) 104
Skull Rend

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

Sorcery
Skull Rend (rtr) 195
Stronghold Rats

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Creature
Stronghold Rats (tsr) 142
Tasigur's Cruelty

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Tasigur's Cruelty (frf) 88
The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block." {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
The Raven Man (dmu) 103
Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (akr) 127
Tourach, Dread Cantor

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.) Protection from white Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach. When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Creature
Tourach, Dread Cantor (mh2) 102
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (c16) 117

Discard

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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 (blc) 127
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Curse of Opulence

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a Gold token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same. (A Gold token is an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Curse of Opulence (mkc) 150
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
Fire Diamond

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

Artifact
Fire Diamond (clb) 313
Heartstone

Activated abilities of creatures cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Artifact
Heartstone (plst) STH-134
Lavabrink Floodgates

{T}: Add {R}{R}. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a doom counter on this artifact or remove a doom counter from it. Then if it has three or more doom counters on it, sacrifice this artifact. When you do, it deals 6 damage to each creature.

Artifact
Lavabrink Floodgates (c20) 53
Mana Flare

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Enchantment
Mana Flare (5ed) 249
Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Creature
Neheb, the Eternal (mkc) 158
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (otc) 265
Shiny Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Shiny Impetus (otc) 180
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
Treasure Nabber

Whenever an opponent taps an artifact for mana, gain control of that artifact until the end of your next turn.

Creature
Treasure Nabber (cmm) 265

Ramp

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Draw

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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.

Creature
Blood Scrivener (dgm) 22
Conspiracy Theorist

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {1} and discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards, you may exile one of them from your graveyard. If you do, you may cast it this turn.

Creature
Conspiracy Theorist (stx) 94
Fireglass Mentor

At the beginning of your second main phase, if an opponent lost life this turn, exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Creature
Fireglass Mentor (blb) 213
Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (plst) DST-123
Hollow Marauder

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Flying When this creature enters, any number of target opponents each discard a card. For each of those opponents who didn't discard a card with mana value 4 or greater, draw a card.

Creature
Hollow Marauder (otj) 90
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Trample Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, draw that many cards and add that much {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Creature
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion (dmc) 125
Ox of Agonas

When this creature enters, discard your hand, then draw three cards. Escape—{R}{R}, Exile eight other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Ox of Agonas (nec) 108
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

Draw

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Recursion

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Call to the Netherworld

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Call to the Netherworld (c19) 108
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289
Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (afc) 98
Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Artifact
Grimoire of the Dead (scd) 265
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96

Recursion

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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
Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (otc) 272
Canyon Slough

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

Land
Canyon Slough (otc) 275
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (otc) 289
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (blc) 131
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
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 (lcc) 330
Forgotten Cave

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

Land
Forgotten Cave (blc) 305
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Geothermal Bog (dmu) 247
Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Memorial to Folly (c20) 288
Memorial to War

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land
Memorial to War (cmr) 486
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (40k) 316
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 (clu) 243
Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}{R}, {T}: Each player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace (plst) C19-269
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (otc) 317
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (otc) 321
Sulfurous Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Sulfurous Mire (khm) 270
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (otc) 323
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 282
Tainted Peak

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

Land
Tainted Peak (otc) 327
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 (otc) 331
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (blc) 345

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Removal

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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 (akh) 78
Big Game Hunter

When this creature enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Big Game Hunter (tsr) 102
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (ima) 87
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Murderous Cut

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murderous Cut (plst) KTK-81
Terminal Agony

Destroy target creature. Madness {B}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Terminal Agony (mh2) 215
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (acr) 98

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Awaken the Erstwhile

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then creates that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Awaken the Erstwhile (rna) 61
Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15
Cunning Lethemancer

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

Creature
Cunning Lethemancer (ala) 69
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (2xm) 320
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Heartless Pillage

Target opponent discards two cards. Raid — If you attacked this turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Heartless Pillage (2xm) 96
Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random.

Sorcery
Hymn to Tourach (plst) EMA-92
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays {3}.

Creature
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs (mkc) 157
Kolaghan's Command

Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Instant
Kolaghan's Command (2x2) 239
Malfegor

Flying When Malfegor enters, discard your hand. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each card discarded this way.

Creature
Malfegor (ima) 205
Mind Rake

Target player discards two cards. Overload {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mind Rake (plst) MH1-96
Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent. {5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Mount Doom (ltr) 258
Rafter Demon

Spectacle {3}{B}{R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) When this creature enters, if its spectacle cost was paid, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Rafter Demon (rna) 196
Rakdos Charm

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

Instant
Rakdos Charm (lcc) 284
Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Sorcery
Rakdos's Return (rtr) 188
Scandalmonger

{2}: Target player discards a card. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

Creature
Scandalmonger (mmq) 158
Shadowgrange Archfiend

When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way. Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Shadowgrange Archfiend (voc) 22
The Haunt of Hightower

Flying, lifelink Whenever The Haunt of Hightower attacks, defending player discards a card. Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on The Haunt of Hightower.

Creature
The Haunt of Hightower (plst) RNA-273
Unnerve

Each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Unnerve (cm2) 81
Urgoros, the Empty One

Flying Whenever Urgoros deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random. If the player can't, you draw a card.

Creature
Urgoros, the Empty One (dom) 109

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