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.)

Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Jet Medallion

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

Arcane Signet

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

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Dismember

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

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.

Toxic Deluge

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

Sol Ring

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}.

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.

Massacre Wurm

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

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

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.)

Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Dark Ritual

Defile

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

Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste
When Clackbridge Troll enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap Clackbridge Troll, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

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.

Hunted Bonebrute

Menace
When Hunted Bonebrute enters, target opponent creates two 1/1 white Dog creature tokens.
When Hunted Bonebrute dies, each opponent loses 3 life.
Disguise {1}{B}

Genesis Chamber

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if Genesis Chamber is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap Forbidden Orchard for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Swamp

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip {2}

Solemn Simulacrum

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

Dowsing Dagger

When Dowsing Dagger enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform Dowsing Dagger.
Equip {2}

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Feed the Swarm

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

Cabal Pit

{T}: Add {B}. Cabal Pit deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice Cabal Pit: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Thought Vessel

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun 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.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Night's Whisper

Dread Presence

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

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Gaze of Pain

Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Spymaster's Vault

Spymaster's Vault enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Kaervek, the Punisher

Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

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.

Yahenni's Expertise

All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.
You may cast a spell with mana value 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Slaughter Specialist

When Slaughter Specialist enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Slaughter Specialist.

Bubbling Muck

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

Pristine Talisman

Imp's Mischief

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

Invasion of Innistrad

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
Flash
When Invasion of Innistrad enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -13/-13 until end of turn.

Deluge of the Dead

When Deluge of the Dead enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
{2}{B}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Invasion of Innistrad // Deluge of the Dead

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

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."

Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Morbid Opportunist

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

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.
Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one —
• Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
Equip {2}

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Akroan Horse

Defender
When Akroan Horse enters, an opponent gains control of it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Blast Zone

Blast Zone enters with a charge counter on it.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain 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.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Steel Hellkite

Flying
{2}: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Spitting Dilophosaurus

Whenever Spitting Dilophosaurus enters or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature.
Creatures your opponents control with -1/-1 counters on them can't block.

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.

Ratchet Bomb

{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb.
{T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Gruesome Realization

Choose one —
• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
• Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Nevinyrral's Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

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.

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 has every creature type.)

Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+ {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Animate Dead

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

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