Horror

Nightmare

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library.

Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake

Vigilance, menace
Descend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Aberrant Researcher

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If an instant or sorcery card was milled this way, transform Aberrant Researcher.

Perfected Form

Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form

Abyssal Nocturnus

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Abyssal Nocturnus gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox, the Mind Flail isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token.
{1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Aboleth Spawn

Flash
Ward {2}
Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Altar of the Wretched

When Altar of the Wretched enters, you may sacrifice a nontoken creature. If you do, draw X cards, then mill X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Craft with one or more creatures {2}{B}{B}
{2}{B}: Return Altar of the Wretched from your graveyard to your hand.

Wretched Bonemass

Wretched Bonemass's power and toughness are each equal to the total power of the exiled cards used to craft it.
Wretched Bonemass has flying as long as an exiled card used to craft it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass

Abyssal Gatekeeper

When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Abyssal Gorestalker

When Abyssal Gorestalker enters, each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Chittering Host

Haste
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When Chittering Host enters, other creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain menace until end of turn.

Curse of Leeches

Enchant player
As this permanent transforms into Curse of Leeches, attach it to a player.
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)

Leeching Lurker

Lifelink
Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)

Curse of Leeches // Leeching Lurker

Carrion Locust

Flying
When Carrion Locust enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, that player loses 1 life.

Chupacabra Echo

Fathomless descent — When Chupacabra Echo enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Dread Slaver

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Dread Slaver this turn dies, return it to the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Dross Harvester

Protection from white
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Dinrova Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

First-Sphere Gargantua

When First-Sphere Gargantua enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{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.)

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Despoiler of Souls

Despoiler of Souls can't block.
{B}{B}, Exile two other creature cards from your graveyard: Return Despoiler of Souls from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Grell Philosopher

Aberrant Tinkering — When Grell Philosopher enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, each Horror you control gains all activated abilities of target artifact an opponent controls until end of turn. You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Gurgling Anointer

Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Gurgling Anointer.
When Gurgling Anointer dies, return another target creature card with mana value less than or equal to Gurgling Anointer's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Dusk Mangler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life.
When Dusk Mangler enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

Forgotten Creation

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Grim Strider

Grim Strider gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.

Horror of the Dim

{U}: Horror of the Dim gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Horrid Shadowspinner

Lifelink
Whenever Horrid Shadowspinner attacks, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard that many cards.

Elder Brain

Menace
Whenever Elder Brain attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Geralf's Masterpiece

Flying
Geralf's Masterpiece gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.
{3}{U}, Discard three cards: Return Geralf's Masterpiece from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Gloom Sower

Whenever Gloom Sower becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Overcharged Amalgam

Flash
Flying
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Hostile Hostel

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a soul counter on Hostile Hostel. Then if there are three or more soul counters on it, remove those counters, transform it, then untap it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creeping Inn

Whenever Creeping Inn attacks, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of creature cards exiled with Creeping Inn.
{4}: Creeping Inn phases out.

Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn

Illithid Harvester

Ceremorphosis — When Illithid Harvester enters, turn any number of target tapped nontoken creatures face down. They're 2/2 Horror creatures.

Plant Tadpoles

Tap X target creatures. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles

Mage Hunter

Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.

Nemesis of Reason

Whenever Nemesis of Reason attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them.
Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token.
{U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Mindleech Mass

Trample
Whenever Mindleech Mass deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Stonespeaker Crystal

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Stonespeaker Crystal: Exile any number of target players' graveyards. Draw a card.

Nihilith

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Suspend 7—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with seven time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Nihilith is suspended, you may remove a time counter from Nihilith.

Nothic

Weird Insight — When Nothic dies, roll a d20.
1—9 | You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
10—19 | You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
20 | You draw seven cards and you lose 7 life.

Psychic Symbiont

Flying
When Psychic Symbiont enters, target opponent discards a card and you draw a card.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Sludge Monster

Whenever Sludge Monster enters or attacks, put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.
Non-Horror creatures with slime counters on them lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 2/2.

Stinging Cave Crawler

Deathtouch
Descend 4 — Whenever Stinging Cave Crawler attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Sewer Nemesis

As Sewer Nemesis enters, choose a player.
Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard.
Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Uchuulon

Uchuulon's power is equal to the number of Crabs, Oozes, and/or Horrors you control.
Horrific Symbiosis — At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of Uchuulon.

Wharf Infiltrator

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever Wharf Infiltrator deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.

Command Tower

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

Stone of Erech

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Yarok's Fenlurker

When Yarok's Fenlurker enters, each opponent exiles a card from their hand.
{2}{B}: Yarok's Fenlurker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Cruel Somnophage

Cruel Somnophage's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Can't Wake Up

Target player mills four cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up

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.

Relic of Progenitus

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
{1}, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card.

Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Arcane Signet

Sol Ring

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

Pit of Offerings

Pit of Offerings enters tapped.
When Pit of Offerings enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Nephalia Drownyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Bojuka Bog

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

Reliquary Tower

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

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Oblivion Sower

When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top four cards of their library, then you may put any number of land cards that player owns from exile onto the battlefield under your control.

Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.)
Equip {1}

Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Deadly Rollick

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

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or more.

Counterspell

Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Undying Malice

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."

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Pull from Tomorrow

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Fractured Sanity, each opponent mills four cards.

Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U}
Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both —
• Counter target creature spell.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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