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Commander

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K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
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.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
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Anthem

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Bad Moon
Black creatures get +1/+1.
Enchantment
Bad Moon (plst) GVL-48
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Anthem

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Creature

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Crypt Ripper
Haste
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Crypt Ripper (zen) 85
Color tag templates(None)
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Darkling Stalker
: Regenerate this creature.
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Spirit Shade
Darkling Stalker (tmp) 119
Color tag templates(None)
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Deepwood Legate
If an opponent controls a Forest and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Deepwood Legate (plst) MMQ-132
Color tag templates(None)
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Dread Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Dread Shade (dom) 88
Color tag templates(None)
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Drifting Shade
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Drifting Shade (m12) 96
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.05
Dungeon Shade
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Spirit Shade
Dungeon Shade (plst) STH-58
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Fetid Horror
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Horror Shade
Fetid Horror (mir) 123
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.14
Frozen Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Frozen Shade (5ed) 163
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Hoar Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Hoar Shade (ice) 131
Color tag templates(None)
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Looming Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Looming Shade (m10) 103
Color tag templates(None)
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Nakaya Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays
.
Creature - Shade
Nakaya Shade (pcy) 69
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17
Nantuko Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade Insect
Nantuko Shade (dmr) 92
Color tag templates(None)
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Undercity Shade
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Undercity Shade (rav) 110
Color tag templates(None)
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Whispering Shade
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Whispering Shade (ody) 167
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.13

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Drain

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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
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
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Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j25) 71
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Drain

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Draw

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
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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 - Human Wizard
Disciple of Bolas (tdc) 178
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$1.29 $0.35
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (tdc) 181
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.64
Necrodominance
Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Legendary Enchantment
Necrodominance (mh3) 102
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$3.49 $3.74
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
Color tag templates(None)
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Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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$5.99 $4.30
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.36
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $2.79
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Flying
, 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.)
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70
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Finisher

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Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
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$0.99 $0.45

Finisher

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Land

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Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Color tag templates(None)
$27.99 $18.62
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tdm) 281
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.23
Urborg
: Add
.
: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.
Legendary Land
Urborg (leg) 310
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$20.99 $17.84

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Lifegain

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Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
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$0.59 $0.73
Polluted Bonds
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Polluted Bonds (shm) 74
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $8.12
Pontiff of Blight
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)
Creature - Cleric Zombie
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.32
Shard of the Nightbringer
Flying
Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Creature - C'tan
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
Color tag templates(None)
$9.99 $6.62
Staff of the Death Magus
Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Staff of the Death Magus (m15) 232
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.38
Thirsting Shade
Lifelink
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Thirsting Shade (rna) 87
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.11
Yawgmoth's Edict
Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Yawgmoth's Edict (7ed) 171
Color tag templates(None)
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Lifegain

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Protection

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Malakir Rebirth
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Color tag templates(None)
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No Mercy
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 95
Color tag templates(None)
$32.99 $25.56
Not Dead After All
Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
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$3.99 $1.70
Shade's Form
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment - Aura
Shade's Form (plst) TOR-81
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.17
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."
Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.59

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.51
Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.96
Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.69
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.33
Crypt Ghast
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional
.
Creature - Spirit
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $20.53
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $1.06
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Color tag templates(None)
$14.99 $10.59
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.29
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.51
The Darkness Crystal
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
,
: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 335
Color tag templates(None)
$12.99 $10.54
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Color tag templates(None)
$4.49 $2.61

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Recursion

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Chainer, Dementia Master
All Nightmares get +1/+1.
, 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.
Legendary Creature - Human Minion
Chainer, Dementia Master (cmm) 144
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Evernight Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Creature - Shade
Evernight Shade (c14) 144
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.17
Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink.
,
: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159
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$11.99 $6.76

Recursion

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Removal

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Consuming Corruption
Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.36
Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Color tag templates(None)
$22.99 $21.15
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $1.47
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
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Font of Agonies
Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.
Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
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$0.79 $0.63
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.40
Parasitic Impetus
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Enchantment - Aura
Parasitic Impetus (clu) 118
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$0.59 $0.17
Saw in Half
Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.
Instant
Saw in Half (blc) 113
Color tag templates(None)
$6.49 $5.04
Tendrils of Corruption
Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (tsr) 145
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.30
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
Color tag templates(None)
$9.49 $5.71

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