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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $11.99
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

Commander

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Drain

Qty: 5 Price: $23.75
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (inr) 326
Funeral Room
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 100
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
Starscape Cleric
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $50.50
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.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
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 (tdc) 177
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (inr) 388
Peer into the Abyss
Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.
Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (sld) 2021
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Priest of Forgotten Gods
, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add
and draw a card.
Creature - Human Cleric
Priest of Forgotten Gods (sld) 2006
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
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (brc) 159
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $185.45
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (eos) 1
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (soc) 380
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ecl) 271
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (mkc) 310
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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Lifegain

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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

Lifegain

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Protection

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Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
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 (plst) WAR-94
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (m3c) 298

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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 (drc) 51
Blood Pet
Sacrifice this creature: Add
.
Creature - Thrull
Blood Pet (plst) TMP-109
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
Crowded Crypt
: Add
.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on this artifact.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on this artifact. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Artifact
Crowded Crypt (drc) 88
Culling the Weak
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add
.
Instant
Culling the Weak (soa) 92
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (sld) 2020
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (plst) TMP-292
Pawn of Ulamog
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Pawn of Ulamog (soc) 223
Pitiless Plunderer
Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Pirate
Pitiless Plunderer (j25) 476
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (ecc) 57

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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 (mkc) 125
Forsaken Miner
This creature can't block.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88
Geralf's Messenger
This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life.
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 - Zombie
Geralf's Messenger (sld) 842
Gravecrawler
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Creature - Zombie
Gravecrawler (drc) 43
Nine-Lives Familiar
This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it.
When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Cat
Nine-Lives Familiar (fdn) 66
Oathsworn Vampire
This creature enters tapped.
You may cast this card from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.
Creature - Knight Vampire
Oathsworn Vampire (lcc) 204
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (fdn) 182
Relentless Dead
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature dies, you may pay
. If you do, return it to its owner's hand.
When this creature dies, you may pay
. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Zombie
Relentless Dead (soi) 131
Unearth
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
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 (tdc) 198
Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (sld) 1722

Recursion

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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
Blasphemous Edict
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
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) 407
Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (sld) 2019
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (tdc) 180
Force of Despair
If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.
Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
Murder
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Murder (mkm) 300
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (mb2) 187
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.
Instant
Tragic Slip (inr) 134

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 6 Price: $166.14
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (brr) 67
Carrion Feeder
This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Carrion Feeder (sld) 1114
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 396
Umbral Collar Zealot
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Umbral Collar Zealot (eoe) 123
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 (tdc) 199
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 (pmh3) 110s

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Tokens

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Bitterbloom Bearer
Flash
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Bitterbloom Bearer (ecl) 88
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (cmm) 155
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 (tdc) 193

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Tutor

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Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sld) 1856
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Insatiable Avarice
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+
— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.
Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Profane Tutor
Suspend 2—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay
and exile it with two 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.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 401

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Value

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Moonshadow
Menace
This creature enters with six -1/-1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more permanent cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere while this creature has a -1/-1 counter on it, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.
Creature - Elemental
Moonshadow (ecl) 110

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Maybeboard

Qty: 24 Price: $301.36
Blight Mound
Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Enchantment
Blight Mound (soc) 208
Bloodghast
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Spirit
Bloodghast (soc) 210
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
Body Count
Spectacle
(You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.
Instant
Body Count (ncc) 34
Boggart Trawler
When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.
Creature - Goblin
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
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) 322
Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (tdc) 176
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426
Fleshbag Marauder
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Warrior Zombie
Fleshbag Marauder (drc) 92
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (soc) 217
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warrior
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet (plst) OGW-86
Necropotence
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Enchantment
Necropotence (slc) 1995
Nether Traitor
Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Spirit
Nether Traitor (soc) 220
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 (otp) 18
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 (sld) 1755
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 (sld) 1725
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Temporal Extortion
When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81
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
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 (soc) 120
Urza's Cave
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land - Urza's Cave
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
Deathtouch
Boast —
: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
Legendary Creature - Demon Rogue
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 115

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