Mer-Ek Nightblade

Outlast {B} ({B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has deathtouch.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Victimize

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

Underworld Connections

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

Alesha's Legacy

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

Whispersteel Dagger

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast a creature spell from that player's graveyard this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Equip {3}

Murder

Executioner's Capsule

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Dread

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Vicious Battlerager

When this creature enters, you take the initiative.
Spiked Retribution — Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Cruel Sadist

{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from this creature: It deals X damage to target creature.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Royal Assassin

Assassin Initiate

{1}: This creature gains your choice of flying, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.

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.)

Go for the Throat

Spectral Snatcher

Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.)
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Final-Sting Faerie

Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Risky Shortcut

Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Baleful Beholder

When this creature 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.)

Poison-Blade Mentor

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever this creature attacks, another target Assassin you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Merciless Harlequin

Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Garza's Assassin

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Ravenloft Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Stab

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Guildsworn Prowler

Deathtouch
When this creature dies, if it wasn't blocking, draw a card.

Virtus the Veiled

Partner with Gorm the Great (When this creature enters, target player may put Gorm into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Deathtouch
Whenever Virtus deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Greed

King's Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Pharika's Libation

Choose one —
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Briarblade Adept

Whenever this creature attacks, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Encore {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Marchesa's Decree

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Dark Impostor

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
This creature has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

Costly Plunder

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

Xathrid Slyblade

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{3}{B}: Until end of turn, this creature loses hexproof and gains first strike and deathtouch. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Gloomfang Mauler

Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Backup 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Menace

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Iridescent Vinelasher

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

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.

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.)

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.)

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.")

Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Jacob Frye

Partner with Evie Frye (When this creature enters, target player may put Evie into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever one or more Assassins you control deal combat damage to a player, exile up to one target Assassin card or card with freerunning from your graveyard. If you do, copy it. You may cast the copy.

Blood Operative

Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.
Whenever you surveil, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return this card to your hand.

Onyx Mage

{1}{B}: Target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Downwind Ambusher

Flash
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Ghastly Death Tyrant

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Disintegration Ray — Destroy target enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to its mana value.
• Death Ray — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Thrill-Kill Assassin

Deathtouch
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Nekrataal

First strike
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

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.

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Grim Bounty

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Desperate Measures

Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.

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.)

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Gonti's Machinations

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get {E}. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay {E}{E}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.")

Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Scarblade Elite

{T}, Exile an Assassin card from your graveyard: Destroy target creature.

Necrogen Spellbomb

{B}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player discards a card.
{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Feast of Succession

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn. You become the monarch.

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.

Agent of the Fates

Deathtouch
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Rooftop Assassin

Flash
Flying, lifelink
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Unscrupulous Contractor

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature. When you do, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Plot {2}{B} (You may pay {2}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Corrupted Conviction

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

Hooded Assassin

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

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 this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Guul Draz Assassin

Level up {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
2/2
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
LEVEL 4+
4/4
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Succumb to Temptation

Oblivion's Hunger

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. Draw a card if that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)

Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Thieves' Tools

When this Equipment enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Equipped creature can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Grievous Wound

Enchant player
Enchanted player can't gain life.
Whenever enchanted player is dealt damage, they lose half their life, rounded up.

Black Market

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

Malefic Scythe

This Equipment enters with a soul counter on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each soul counter on this Equipment.
Whenever equipped creature dies, put a soul counter on this Equipment.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Stingblade Assassin

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Swamp

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Undying Malice

Kiku, Night's Flower

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Coiling Rebirth

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.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.

Massacre

If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Contract Killing

Destroy target creature. Create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature 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.

Hired Poisoner

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.

Nightshade Assassin

First strike
When this creature enters, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Madness {1}{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.)

Orzhov Euthanist

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)
When this creature enters or the creature it haunts dies, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Gixian Skullflayer

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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 this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it.
Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Vein Ripper

Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Ancient Craving

Curtains' Call

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Destroy two target creatures.