Flying, trample

You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Flying

Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

Enchant creature card in a graveyard

When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile an enchantment card from your graveyard. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Flying

Archfiend of the Dross enters the battlefield with four oil counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from Archfiend of the Dross. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game.

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Flying

Whenever Archon of Cruelty enters the battlefield or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Other black creatures get +1/+1.

Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

{X}, {T}: Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Flying

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Baron Sengir this turn dies, put a +2/+2 counter on Baron Sengir.

{T}: Regenerate another target Vampire.

Each player sacrifices two creatures.

Destroy target land or nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Whenever a green creature dies, its controller discards a card.

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles.

Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

{T}, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add {B}, then add an additional {B} for each charge counter removed this way.

At the beginning of your precombat 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 has every creature type.)

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

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.

{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Destroy all creatures. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.

II -- Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

III -- Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.

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 that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Breeding Pit unless you pay {B}{B}.

At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/1 black Thrull creature token.

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Threshold -- Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Menace

When Cemetery Desecrator enters the battlefield or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one --

• Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

• Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Target player sacrifices a creature.

Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

If a player would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, that player discards a card instead. If the player discards a card this way, they draw a card. If the player doesn't discard a card this way, they mill a card.

Destroy target non-Swamp land. If that land was nonbasic, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

Escalate--Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)

Choose one or more --

• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.

• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

As Conspiracy enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Spend only black mana on X.

Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Contamination unless you sacrifice a creature.

If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

First strike

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy Cosmic Horror unless you pay {3}{B}{B}{B}. If Cosmic Horror is destroyed this way, it deals 7 damage to you.

When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, 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.

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Each opponent who discarded a card that shares a card type with the card you discarded loses 3 life. (Players reveal the discarded cards simultaneously.)

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

{X}: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Enchant player

Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

When Cyclopean Giant dies, target land becomes a Swamp. Exile Cyclopean Giant.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.

{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.

When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.

Counter target spell.

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.

{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.

Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Choose one --

• Target opponent exiles a creature they control.

• Target opponent exiles an enchantment they control.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Menace

As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.

Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents they control and/or cards from their hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order.

Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Emerge {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)

When you cast this spell, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose from it a nonland card with mana value 3 or less and a card with mana value 4 or greater. That player discards those cards.

{T}: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Destroy target creature.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

{B}: Dread Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Cumulative upkeep--Pay 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a green or white permanent.

{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target green creature.

First strike, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -2/-2 counter on Ebon Praetor.

Sacrifice a creature: Remove a -2/-2 counter from Ebon Praetor. If the sacrificed creature was a Thrull, put a +1/+0 counter on Ebon Praetor. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less.

II -- Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

III -- Exile target opponent's graveyard.

{4}: Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy all creatures that share a creature type with the sacrificed creature. They can't be regenerated.

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, Master Breeder.

As Engineered Plague enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.

As long as your opponents control no creatures, Erebos's Titan has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Whenever a creature card leaves an opponent's graveyard, you may discard a card. If you do, return Erebos's Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.

Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Your opponents can't gain life.

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less.

Revolt -- Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Festering Evil deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

{B}{B}, Sacrifice Festering Evil: It deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

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 the battlefield this turn.

Players can't gain life.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life.

Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control. Round up each time.

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Other creatures you control get -1/-1.

{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else." Activate only as a sorcery.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life and discards a card.

Hellbent -- Skip your upkeep step if you have no cards in hand.

Madness {2}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Choose two --

• Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

• Destroy each creature with power 2 or less.

• Return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

• Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the highest power among creatures they control.

White spells cost {3} more to cast.

Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Deathtouch

Whenever Grave Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Ward--Discard a card.

Whenever Graveyard Trespasser enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)

Ward--Discard a card.

Whenever Graveyard Glutton enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to two target cards from graveyards. For each creature card exiled this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Menace

When Grief enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Evoke--Exile a black card from your hand.

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.

Destroy target creature.

Hagra Broodpit enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Flying

When Havoc Demon dies, all creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn.

Choose one --

• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.

• Remove up to three counters from target creature.

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, untap Helldozer.

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Destroy six target creatures.

Deathtouch

Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

Target player discards two cards at random.

Destroy target land. If that land was a snow land, Icequake deals 1 damage to that land's controller.

Haste

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ichorid.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ichorid is in your graveyard, you may exile a black creature card other than Ichorid from your graveyard. If you do, return Ichorid to the battlefield.

Protection from white

Secrets of the Soul -- {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Flying, trample

Skip your draw step.

Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Green enchantment spells and white enchantment spells cost {2} more to cast.

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Lifelink

For each {B} 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, Son of Yawgmoth.

First strike

At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no creatures, Kezzerdrix deals 4 damage to you.

Protection from white

{B}: Knight of Stromgald gains first strike until end of turn.

{B}{B}: Knight of Stromgald gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Flying

When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

If Lake of the Dead would enter the battlefield, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

When Laquatus's Champion enters the battlefield, target player loses 6 life.

When Laquatus's Champion leaves the battlefield, that player gains 6 life.

{B}: Regenerate Laquatus's Champion.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, destroy it.

{0}: Destroy Lethal Vapors. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Liege of the Pit. If you can't, Liege of the Pit deals 7 damage to you.

Morph {B}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

+1: Each player discards a card.

-2: Target player sacrifices a creature.

-6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

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.

Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.

When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if Lurking Skirge is an enchantment, Lurking Skirge becomes a 3/2 Phyrexian Imp creature with flying.

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.

Players can't draw cards.

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player loses 3 life, searches their library for a card, puts it into their hand, then shuffles.

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.

Equip {3}

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.

Flying

Each creature you control is a Vampire in addition to its other creature types and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

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.)

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Target player discards X cards at random.

Target player discards three cards.

Suspend 4--{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {B} and exile it with four 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.)

Protection from black

At the beginning of your upkeep, Minion of Leshrac deals 5 damage to you unless you sacrifice a creature other than Minion of Leshrac. If Minion of Leshrac deals damage to you this way, tap it.

{T}: Destroy target creature or land.

Target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

{1}: Misery's Shadow gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.

Flying

Primarch of the Death Guard -- At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.

Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

{B}: Regenerate Mortivore.

Lifelink

When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

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Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

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.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.

Each player sacrifices six creatures. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature."

When enchanted creature dies, its controller chooses target creature one of their opponents controls. Return Necrotic Plague from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Haste

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield.

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 {B}. If you do, return Nether Traitor from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Whenever a player casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays {3}.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Landfall -- Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis, the Fallen.

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Protection from white

{B}: Order of the Ebon Hand gains first strike until end of turn.

{B}{B}: Order of the Ebon Hand gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

When Oubliette enters, target creature phases out until Oubliette leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

As Painter's Servant enters the battlefield, choose a color.

All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 3 or greater. That player discards that card.

Pelakka Caverns enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.

{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Flying

{B}: Pestilence Demon deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.

Suspend 5--{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Indestructible

As Phylactery Lich enters the battlefield, put a phylactery counter on an artifact you control.

When you control no permanents with phylactery counters on them, sacrifice Phylactery Lich.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Prototype {1}{B}{B} -- 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)

Menace, lifelink

Ward--Pay life equal to Phyrexian Fleshgorger's power.

Trample

Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.

{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

II -- Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

III -- Exile all opponents' graveyards.

Deathtouch

As Plague Engineer enters, choose a creature type.

Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Each player who can't discards a card.

When Portal to Phyrexia enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices three creatures.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Each player loses a third of their life, then discards a third of the cards in their hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures they control, then sacrifices a third of the lands they control. Round up each time.

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Suspend 2--{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Target opponent reveals their hand and discards a creature card at random. Activate only during your turn.

Destroy target land.

Threshold -- If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy that land and Rancid Earth deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way.

Kicker {7} (You may pay an additional {7} as you cast this spell.)

Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles. If this spell was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles.

Kicker {4}{B}

When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up.

Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players.

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

{T}: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Sengir Vampire this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Sengir Vampire.

Flying

Whenever another creature dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Sengir, the Dark Baron.

Whenever another player loses the game, you gain life equal to that player's life total as the turn began.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.

{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Equip {2}

Flying

Shauku, Endbringer can't attack if there's another creature on the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.

{T}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Shauku.

Menace

When Sheoldred enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker.

{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)

I -- For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.

II -- Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.

III -- Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Choose one --

• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature.

• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token.

• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker.

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.

Deathtouch

Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.

Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.

Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

Flying

When Skeletal Vampire enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.

{3}{B}{B}, Sacrifice a Bat: Create two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.

Sacrifice a Bat: Regenerate Skeletal Vampire.

Kicker {2}{B}

Skyclave Shade can't block.

If Skyclave Shade was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Landfall -- Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if Skyclave Shade is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature, then sacrifices a land.

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.

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.

-2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink.

-7: Sorin the Mirthless deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

Choose one. If you control an artifact and an enchantment as you cast this spell, you may choose both.

• Exile target creature or planeswalker.

• Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, destroy all other creatures that share a color with it. They can't be regenerated.

When Starving Revenant enters the battlefield, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.

Descend 8 -- Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Destroy all Plains. For each land destroyed this way, Stench of Evil deals 1 damage to that land's controller unless they pay {2}.

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

({T}: Add {B}.)

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, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent.

{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both.

• Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power.

• Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, its controller sacrifices a creature or land.

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller chooses a creature that Takklemaggot could enchant. If the player does, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control attached to that creature. If they don't, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control as a non-Aura enchantment. It loses "enchant creature" and gains "At the beginning of that player's upkeep, Takklemaggot deals 1 damage to that player."

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.

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of their choice. It can't be regenerated.

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

II -- Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

III -- Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

II -- Each opponent discards a card.

III -- Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Flying, lifelink

Whenever The Haunt of Hightower attacks, defending player discards a card.

Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on The Haunt of Hightower.

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

As The Rack enters, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This creature can't block."

{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

As Throne of Eldraine enters the battlefield, choose a color.

{T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.

{3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

{1}{B}, Sacrifice Thrull Surgeon: Look at target player's hand and choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Enchant creature

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a plague counter on Traveling Plague.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on Traveling Plague.

When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller returns Traveling Plague from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield.

When Treacherous Blessing enters the battlefield, draw three cards.

Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life.

When Treacherous Blessing becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I, II -- Mill three cards. Then you may exile a creature or enchantment card from your graveyard. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

III -- You gain X life and scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You lose 3 life.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

First strike

Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

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Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

Flying

{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Pay 5 life: Destroy Volrath's Dungeon. Any player may activate this ability but only during their turn.

Discard a card: Target player puts a card from their hand on top of their library. Activate only as a sorcery.

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target white creature.

Creatures you control have lifelink.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: 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.

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}. Target opponent gains control of Witch Engine. (Activate only as an instant.)

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.

Counter target creature spell.

Protection from Humans

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.

{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)