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Chainer 3.0
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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 leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Creature
Chainer, Dementia Master (dmr) 424

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

Protection

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Removal

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Bone Shards

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

Sorcery
Bone Shards (mh2) 395
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (sld) 1674
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (sth) 60
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 (brc) 110
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
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.

Instant
Snuff Out (mmq) 162

Removal

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Board Wipes

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Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (dsc) 147
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Board Wipes

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Ramp Rituals and Mana Accelerators

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Bog Witch

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Bog Witch (mmq) 118
Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (brr) 72
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244
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}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Leaden Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature Artifact
Leaden Myr (som) 170
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Nirkana Revenant

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

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (tsr) 400

Ramp Rituals and Mana Accelerators

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Sacrifice Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (brr) 3
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (brr) 4
Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dimir House Guard (rvr) 324
Spawning Pit

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit. {1}, Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.

Artifact
Spawning Pit (dst) 141
Viscera Seer

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

Creature
Viscera Seer (m11) 120

Sacrifice Outlet

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Card Draw

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Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (j25) 114
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.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (p30a) 29
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
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.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
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 (j25) 479
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m10) 112
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (brc) 159
Syphon Mind

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

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111
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.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 110

Card Draw

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Reanimation Spells

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (5ed) 140
Body Snatcher

When this creature enters, exile it unless you discard a creature card. When this creature dies, exile it and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Body Snatcher (dmr) 298
Doomed Necromancer

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

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (ons) 140
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Myr Retriever

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Artifact
Myr Retriever (plst) CM2-203
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (vis) 64
Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature
Phyrexian Delver (inv) 115
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (tmp) 151
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (usg) 166

Reanimation Spells

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Tutors

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (sld) 1673
Corpse Connoisseur

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle. Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{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
Corpse Connoisseur (plst) ALA-68
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Vile Entomber (mh2) 403

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (zen) 212
Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
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 (ltc) 534
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mrd) 295
Tomb Fortress

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Tomb Fortress (40k) 168
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mb2) 114

Land

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Reanimation Targets

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Abhorrent Overlord

Flying When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Abhorrent Overlord (ths) 75
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature 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.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (tsr) 323
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (mma) 89
Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sepulchral Primordial (gtc) 75
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.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (mul) 16
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70

Reanimation Targets

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Maybeboard

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (brr) 2
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
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 (pip) 272
Perpetual Timepiece

{T}: Mill two cards. {2}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Artifact
Perpetual Timepiece (otc) 263
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Stitcher's Supplier (j22) 472
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (brc) 169
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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