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Commander

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Kokusho, the Evening Star
Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Kokusho, the Evening Star (ima) 95

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Drain

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Enduring Tenacity
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
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 (slc) 7
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (wot) 35
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 (m21) 127

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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 (mul) 13
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.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
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.
Legendary Creature - Nightmare
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 288
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Deadly Dispute (sld) 1980
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 (c20) 132
Nasty End
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.
Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 550
Reckoner's Bargain
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.
Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
,
, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric Elf
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 146
Vampiric Rites
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (wot) 37
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (sta) 35

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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 (som) 61

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (c17) 238
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (c15) 289
Lazotep Quarry
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Lazotep Quarry (m3c) 79
Midgar, City of Mako
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid (fin) 286
Mortuary Mire
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
: Add
.
Land
Mortuary Mire (mic) 176
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (fin) 300
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (lcc) 359

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Lifegain

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Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195

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Ramp

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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 (dsc) 368
Culling the Weak
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add
.
Instant
Culling the Weak (mb2) 40
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mmq) 129
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
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
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Sacrifice
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of
equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Instant
Sacrifice (spg) 69
Séance Board
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on this artifact.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on this artifact. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.
Artifact
Séance Board (dsc) 40
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 252

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Recursion

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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (5ed) 140
Apprentice Necromancer
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Apprentice Necromancer (c17) 97
Blood for Bones
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Blood for Bones (m20) 89
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."
Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Footsteps of the Goryo
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Sorcery - Arcane
Footsteps of the Goryo (plst) SOK-68
Grim Return
Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.
Instant
Grim Return (m14) 100
Kaya's Ghostform
Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment - Aura
Kaya's Ghostform (war) 94
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
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
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (arc) 21
Return to Action
Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, Whispering One (pnph) 73★
Sothera, the Supervoid
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent chooses a creature they control and exiles it.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player controls no creatures, sacrifice Sothera, then put a creature card exiled with it onto the battlefield under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Enchantment
Sothera, the Supervoid (eoe) 115
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."
Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmm) 188
Undying Evil
Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)
Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 77
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
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (cmm) 195
Zombify
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Zombify (a25) 116

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Creature - Warrior Zombie
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Deadly Tempest
Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c20) 131
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Final Vengeance
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment.
Exile target creature.
Sorcery
Final Vengeance (dsk) 99
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 639
Mutilate
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Sorcery
Mutilate (40k) 203
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 (unf) 88
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 (2xm) 110

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Sac Effect

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Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (chr) 92
Carrion Feeder
This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Carrion Feeder (scg) 59
Illuminor Szeras
Secrets of the Soul —
, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of
equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Necron
Illuminor Szeras (40k) 37
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
Whenever Sephiroth enters or attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Avatar
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (fin) 115Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (fin) 115
Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
Deathtouch
Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Shadow, Mysterious Assassin (fic) 50
Soldevi Adnate
, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of
equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60a
Viscera Seer
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Viscera Seer (cmr) 158
Warren Soultrader
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Wizard Goblin Zombie
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 414

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Tokens

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Bitterblossom
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.
Enchantment Kindred - Faerie
Bitterblossom (wot) 72
Blade of Selves
Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Blade of Selves (c15) 51
Ophiomancer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Creature - Human Shaman
Ophiomancer (cc2) 3
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
+2: Create two 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens.
+1: You may sacrifice another creature or planeswalker. If you do, draw two cards, then draw another card if the sacrificed permanent was a commander.
−10: Gain control of all commanders. Put all commanders from the command zone onto the battlefield under your control.
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools can be your commander.
Partner
Legendary Planeswalker - Szat
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools (plst) CMR-153

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Sideboard

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Archenemy's Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target creature or planeswalker.
• Return one or two target creature and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. It gains lifelink until end of turn.
Instant
Archenemy's Charm (eoe) 88
Cauldron of Souls
: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it 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.)
Artifact
Cauldron of Souls (cm2) 180
Doomed Necromancer
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Human Cleric Mercenary
Doomed Necromancer (c19) 111
Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (2xm) 89
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus (one) 90
Erebos, God of the Dead
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Exhume
Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Exhume (usg) 134
Fake Your Own Death
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 and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Fake Your Own Death (fdn) 174
Hell's Caretaker
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.
Creature - Horror
Hell's Caretaker (chr) 35
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (dsc) 143
Junji, the Midnight Sky
Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Junji, the Midnight Sky (slc) 10
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)
Legendary Creature - Cleric Zombie
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (cmm) 675
Morbid Curiosity
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw cards equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.
Sorcery
Morbid Curiosity (kld) 94
Netherborn Altar
, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Netherborn Altar (plst) C20-45
Nim Deathmantle
Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay
. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Nim Deathmantle (2x2) 309
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 728

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (fic) 332
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 442
Demonic Gifts
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."
Instant
Demonic Gifts (khm) 84
Disciple of Griselbrand
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
Creature - Human Cleric
Disciple of Griselbrand (c13) 74
Dragon's Hoard
Whenever a Dragon you control enters, put a gold counter on this artifact.
, Remove a gold counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Dragon's Hoard (clb) 858
Fungal Fortitude
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
Enchantment - Aura
Fungal Fortitude (lci) 106
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (5dn) 55
Plaguecrafter
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Creature - Human Shaman
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141
Strionic Resonator
,
: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")
Artifact
Strionic Resonator (moc) 384
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) 96
The Sibsig Ceremony
Creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever a creature you control enters, if you cast it, destroy that creature, then create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.
Legendary Enchantment
The Sibsig Ceremony (tdm) 91
Throne of Eldraine
As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.
: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
,
: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.
Legendary Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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