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Commander

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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) 84

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Alt Commanders

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Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
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 (mid) 108

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Card Advantage

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Ancient Craving
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ancient Craving (c21) 135
Blood Pact
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
Court of Ambition
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.
Enchantment
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114
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 (clb) 124
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m15) 114
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Cleric Snake Warlock
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker (clb) 148
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 (m20) 122
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

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Damage

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (c17) 99
Bloodchief Ascension
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Falkenrath Noble
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Noble
Falkenrath Noble (j22) 414
Psychosis Crawler
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Psychosis Crawler (moc) 371
Strata Scythe
Imprint — When this Equipment enters, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Strata Scythe (c14) 274
Wound Reflection
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Enchantment
Wound Reflection (2xm) 113
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 (c20) 142

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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 (afc) 226
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Crypt of Agadeem
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Dakmor Salvage
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Geier Reach Sanitarium
: Add
.
,
: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.
Legendary Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (dmc) 213
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (j22) 105

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Planeswalker

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Liliana, Heretical Healer
Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (ori) 106Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (ori) 106

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Protection

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Crypt Incursion
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.
Instant
Crypt Incursion (dgm) 23
Dark Privilege
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Dark Privilege (vis) 56
Vampire Nighthawk
Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Vampire Nighthawk (c21) 157
Vampire of the Dire Moon
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature - Vampire
Vampire of the Dire Moon (m20) 120

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Ramp / Fix

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (ema) 218
Black Market
Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add
for each charge counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Black Market (c15) 116
Commander's Sphere
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Commander's Sphere (afc) 203
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 (mic) 17
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (a25) 82
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (cmm) 395
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (mic) 162

Ramp / Fix

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Recursion

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Call to the Netherworld
Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
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.)
Sorcery
Call to the Netherworld (c19) 108
Chorale of the Void
Enchant creature you control
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put target creature card from defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking.
Void — At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this Aura unless a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn.
Enchantment - Aura
Chorale of the Void (eoe) 91
Command the Dreadhorde
Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
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
Infernal Offering
Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards.
Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Infernal Offering (c21) 146
Vat of Rebirth
Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact.
,
, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Vat of Rebirth (one) 113
Veinwitch Coven
Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Veinwitch Coven (c21) 46
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

Recursion

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Removal

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Archfiend of Depravity
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Depravity (frf) 62
Demon's Disciple
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
Creature - Human Cleric
Demon's Disciple (cmm) 149
Innocent Blood
Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Sorcery
Innocent Blood (jmp) 244
Killing Wave
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Sorcery
Killing Wave (avr) 111

Removal

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Support / Utility

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Deathgreeter
Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Shaman
Deathgreeter (gvl) 33
Elixir of Immortality
,
: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.
Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (c21) 243
Sangromancer
Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Sangromancer (c21) 152
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 (ncc) 381
Venser's Journal
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Artifact - Book
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

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Theme: Reanimators

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Cult Conscript
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Cult Conscript (dmu) 88
Persistent Specimen
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton
Persistent Specimen (vow) 125
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (cmm) 183
Silversmote Ghoul
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Creature - Vampire Zombie
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154

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Tokens

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Army of the Damned
Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Army of the Damned (scd) 68
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 (clb) 669
Chittering Witch
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Creature - Human Warlock
Chittering Witch (afc) 95
Ghoulish Procession
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Enchantment
Ghoulish Procession (mid) 102
Ogre Slumlord
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.
Creature - Rogue Ogre
Ogre Slumlord (afc) 104
Open the Graves
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Enchantment
Open the Graves (scd) 97
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
Rise of the Dread Marn
Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Instant
Rise of the Dread Marn (khm) 107
Voldaren Bloodcaster
Flying
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you create a Blood token, if you control five or more Blood tokens, transform this creature.
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner (vow) 137Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner (vow) 137

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Wincon

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Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
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 (ths) 89
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.
Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (hou) 77

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Maybeboard

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Death-Priest of Myrkul
Skeletons, Vampires, and Zombies you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.
Creature - Cleric Tiefling
Death-Priest of Myrkul (afr) 95
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 (j22) 403
Drownyard Temple
: Add
.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Land
Drownyard Temple (clb) 892
Fleshbag Marauder
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Warrior Zombie
Fleshbag Marauder (scd) 78
Harvester of Souls
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature - Demon
Harvester of Souls (jmp) 243
Lich-Knights' Conquest
Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Lich-Knights' Conquest (woe) 96
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 (afc) 249
Nadier's Nightblade
Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Warrior Elf
Nadier's Nightblade (cmr) 136
Piper of the Swarm
Rats you control have menace.
,
: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
,
, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.
Creature - Human Warlock
Piper of the Swarm (afc) 106
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
Stinging Study
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.
Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
Suffer the Past
Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Instant
Suffer the Past (c21) 155
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 (eld) 107

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Upgrades

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Agadeem's Awakening
Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
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 (ema) 78
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 (ima) 82
Breach the Multiverse
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (uma) 94
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Grave Titan
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Creature - Giant
Grave Titan (c14) 145
Gravecrawler
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Creature - Zombie
Gravecrawler (j22) 423
Grim Hireling
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens.
, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Rogue Tiefling
Grim Hireling (afc) 25
Make an Example
Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)
Sorcery
Make an Example (ncc) 37
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
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 (rix) 81
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 (jmp) 270
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (jmp) 271
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
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 (cc2) 6
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (m15) 248
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

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