Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sheoldred's Headcleaver

Menace
Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters.)

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Arcane Signet

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

Infectious Inquiry

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Nighteyes the Desecrator

{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Nezumi Graverobber

{1}{B}: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If no cards are in that graveyard, flip Nezumi Graverobber.

Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator

King Macar, the Gold-Cursed

Inspired — Whenever King Macar, the Gold-Cursed becomes untapped, you may exile target creature. If you do, create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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}.

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Extract the Truth

Choose one —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying 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.)

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, the Blight Dragon gains haste until end of turn.
{B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap Staff of Domination.
{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life.
{3}, {T}: Untap target creature.
{4}, {T}: Tap target creature.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Gnawing Vermin

When Gnawing Vermin enters, target player mills two cards.
When Gnawing Vermin dies, target creature you don't control gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Contagion Engine

When Contagion Engine 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.)

Phyresis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Caress of Phyrexia

Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters.

Blightbelly Rat

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

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Plague Myr

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{T}: Add {C}.

Deadly Rollick

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

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Chittering Skitterling

Corrupted — Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters and only once each turn.

Septic Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever Septic Rats attacks, if defending player is poisoned, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

Bilious Skulldweller

Deathtouch
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Glistening Sphere

Glistening Sphere enters tapped.
When Glistening Sphere enters, proliferate.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Corrupted — {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Gold

Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Rancid Rats

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Chittering Witch

When Chittering Witch enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life and exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and has toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

Offer Immortality

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Duress

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

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.)

Glistening Oil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When Glistening Oil is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Glistening Oil to its owner's hand.

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.)

Phyresis Outbreak

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Then each creature your opponents control gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each poison counter its controller has.

Ruin Rat

Deathtouch
When Ruin Rat dies, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard.

Virulent Wound

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. When that creature dies this turn, its controller gets a poison counter.

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Koskun Falls

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Koskun Falls unless you tap an untapped creature you control.
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

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.

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

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.)

Defile

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

Reaper of Sheoldred

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever a source deals damage to Reaper of Sheoldred, that source's controller gets a poison counter.

Bubbling Muck

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

Lord Skitter's Butcher

When Lord Skitter's Butcher enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."
• You may sacrifice another creature. If you do, scry 2, then draw a card.
• Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn.

Pestilent Syphoner

Flying
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch
Whenever Unstoppable Slasher deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When Unstoppable Slasher dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Necrogen Communion

Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has toxic 2. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get two poison counters.)
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Anoint with Affliction

Exile target creature if it has mana value 3 or less.
Corrupted — Exile that creature instead if its controller has three or more poison counters.

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Pestilent Spirit

Menace, deathtouch
Instant and sorcery spells you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Piper of the Swarm

Rats you control have menace.
{1}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

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.)

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.

Swamp

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.)

Dark Ritual

Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

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.)

Demonic Tutor

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

Blood Pet

Whispering Specter

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever Whispering Specter deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, that player discards a card for each poison counter they have.

Jet Medallion

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

Morbid Opportunist

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

Vraska's Fall

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice and gets a poison counter.

Rottenmouth Viper

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way.
Whenever Rottenmouth Viper enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When Ichor Rats enters, each player gets a poison counter.

Sol Ring

Baleful Beholder

When Baleful Beholder enters, choose one —
• Antimagic Cone — Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.
• Fear Ray — Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Necropede

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When Necropede dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Demon's Horn

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

Mortivore

Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
{B}: Regenerate Mortivore. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Rat Out

Up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. You create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."

Raise the Draugr

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.