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

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

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.

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 has every creature type.)

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

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.

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.)

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

{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.

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

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.")

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.

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

Destroy target nonblack creature.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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.)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

Destroy target creature.

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

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

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.)

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.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.)

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.)

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

(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.

{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.) Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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.)

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.

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

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

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.