Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)

{T}: Add {C}.

{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Backup 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)

Deathtouch

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

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.

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.

Exile target creature or planeswalker.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

Flying

When Cadaver Imp enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Carrion Feeder can't block.

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Clattering Augur can't block.

When Clattering Augur enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

{2}{B}{B}: Return Clattering Augur from your graveyard to your hand.

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

When Court of Locthwain enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it. If you're the monarch, until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among cards exiled with Court of Locthwain without paying its mana cost.

{T}: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to any target of an opponent's choice.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

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

When Entomber Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one --

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

• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature card from it. That player discards that card.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if an opponent lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

When Fleshbag Marauder enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Deathtouch, lifelink

This spell has flash as long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.)

Hidden Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

{4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Necropolis: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

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.)

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control

When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

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.

+2: Each player discards a card.

-X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

-8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

{2}{B}, {T}, Exile Magus of the Will: Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped.

When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

{T}: Add {B}.

When Nested Shambler dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is Nested Shambler's power.

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.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

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.

{2}{B}: Return Persistent Specimen from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.

You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Persist (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.)

Discard a card: Putrid Imp gains flying until end of turn.

Threshold -- As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Putrid Imp gets +1/+1 and can't block.

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Flying

When Reiver Demon enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

{2}{B}: Return Sanitarium Skeleton from your graveyard to your hand.

When Serrated Scorpion dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

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

When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Until end of turn, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Exile Sins of the Past.

Flying

Discard a card: Add {B}.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Threshold -- Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

When Stitcher's Supplier enters the battlefield or dies, mill three cards.

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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.

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

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

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

{T}: Add {C}.

{5}, {T}, Exile Underdark Rift: Roll a d10. Put target artifact, creature, or planeswalker into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library, where X is the result. Activate only as a sorcery.

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

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

Draw two cards.

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.

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.

When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.