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Commander

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Songbird, Sonic Screamer
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Discard a card: Songbird gains flying until end of turn. (She can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Legendary Creature - Human Villain
Songbird, Sonic Screamer (msc) 762

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Draw

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Archon of Cruelty
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Creature - Archon
Archon of Cruelty (m3c) 197
Baleful Force
At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Elemental
Baleful Force (c13) 70
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 (msc) 346
Dread Presence
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Nightmare
Dread Presence (m20) 96
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
Monument to Endurance
Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.
Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 394
Necrologia
Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.
Instant
Necrologia (plst) 7ED-149
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (soc) 221
Ripples of Undeath
At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay
and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.
Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (plst) M10-112
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (c15) 267
Syphon Mind
Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.
Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111
The Speed Demon
Flying, trample
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.
Legendary Creature - Demon
The Speed Demon (dft) 105
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (pdsk) 120p
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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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 (scd) 80
Hatred
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
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
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Artifact - Equipment
Lashwrithe (nph) 143
Nightmare Lash
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip—Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Nightmare Lash (mrd) 219

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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 (soc) 363
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Legendary Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Snow-Covered Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Swamp
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 281
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: 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.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Strip Mine
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.
Land
Strip Mine (ath) 77
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (plc) 165
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
Wasteland
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.
Land
Wasteland (wc98) br330

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Protection

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Commander's Plate
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander

Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Commander's Plate (tmc) 135
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
Muck Drubb
Flash
When this creature enters, change the target of target spell that targets only a single creature to this creature.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Beast
Muck Drubb (plc) 76

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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 (soc) 207
Dance of the 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." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped 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/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay
. If the player does, untap that creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
Exhume
Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Exhume (pd3) 17
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (a25) 96
Necromancy
You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchantment
Necromancy (vis) 64
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 (fic) 282
Restart Sequence
Freerunning
(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Restart Sequence (acr) 30
Soul Exchange
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +2/+2 counter on that creature if the exiled creature was a Thrull.
Sorcery
Soul Exchange (fem) 43
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 (mh3) 278
Wake the Dead
Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn.
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Wake the Dead (cmm) 197
Will of the Abzan
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Will of the Abzan (tdc) 71
Writ of Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Writ of Return (ncc) 42

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Removal

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Archfiend of Ifnir
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Ifnir (ecc) 70
Big Game Hunter
When this creature enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Assassin Rebel
Big Game Hunter (tsr) 102
Dark Withering
Destroy target nonblack creature.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Dark Withering (tsr) 107
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Massacre Wurm
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Creature - Wurm Phyrexian
Massacre Wurm (fdn) 714
Meteor Golem
When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Meteor Golem (cmm) 399
Overseer of the Damned
Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Demon
Overseer of the Damned (scd) 98
Shadowgrange Archfiend
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way.
Madness—
, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Demon
Shadowgrange Archfiend (voc) 22
Shredder's Technique
Sneak
(You may cast this spell for
if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.)
Destroy target creature or enchantment. If an enchantment was destroyed this way, you lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Shredder's Technique (tmt) 77
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
Summon: Bahamut
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II — Destroy up to one target nonland permanent.
III — Draw two cards.
IV — Mega Flare — This creature deals damage equal to the total mana value of other permanents you control to each opponent.
Flying
Creature Enchantment - Saga Dragon
Summon: Bahamut (fin) 1
Vile Mutilator
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment.
Flying, trample
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken enchantment of their choice, then sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Creature - Demon
Vile Mutilator (dsk) 122

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Abhorrent Overlord
Flying
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Creature - Demon
Abhorrent Overlord (ths) 75
Balthor the Defiled
Minion creatures get +1/+1.
, Exile Balthor: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Dwarf
Balthor the Defiled (jud) 61
Boggart Trawler
When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.
Creature - Goblin
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Bone Miser
Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add
.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Bone Miser (c19) 15
Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
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 (c14) 139
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (5ed) 153
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (tle) 310
Extraplanar Lens
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.
Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 656
Grim Servant
Menace
When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Grim Servant (mh3) 97
Hoarding Broodlord
Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.
Creature - Dragon
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110
Necrogoyf
Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Lhurgoyf
Necrogoyf (m3c) 202
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
Stinkweed Imp
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Imp
Stinkweed Imp (ddj) 54
Underworld Hermit
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens equal to your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Human Peasant
Underworld Hermit (plst) MH2-105

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Tokens & Extras

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Nightmare
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library.
Creature Token - Nightmare
Nightmare (tthb) 12

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