When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature.

Choose one --

• Target player sacrifices an artifact.

• Target player sacrifices a creature.

• Target player sacrifices a planeswalker.

+1: Each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.

-3: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step if it has mana value 3 or less.

-8: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.

Flying

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

{T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target land.

Whenever Ashling, the Extinguisher deals combat damage to a player, choose target creature that player controls. The player sacrifices that creature.

Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.

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Destroy target nonbasic land. Bedazzle deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

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

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield tapped.

As Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than black.

{T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

When Burglar Rat enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

{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.

{T}: Add {C}.

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

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Canyon Slough enters the battlefield tapped.

Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.

{T}: Add {B}.

{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Target player sacrifices a creature.

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

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

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

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.

Defender

{2}{B}: Transform Concealing Curtains. Activate only as a sorcery.

Menace

When this creature transforms into Revealing Eye, target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player discards that card, then draws a card.

{3}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

{R}, {T}: Cult Guildmage deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature. Roll a d20 and add the toughness of the creature you sacrificed this way.

1--14 | Return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

15+ | Return up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way to the battlefield under your control.

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

Add {B}{B}{B}.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage deals 2 damage to them.

-1: Target player discards a card.

Target opponent discards two cards, mills two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

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

Destroy target land. Its controller loses 2 life.

Target player sacrifices a creature, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

Target player sacrifices a creature.

Destroy target land. You gain 2 life.

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

Choose one --

• Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment.

As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Sacrifice Fulminator Mage: Destroy target nonbasic land.

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

When Gatekeeper of Malakir enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Geothermal Bog enters the battlefield tapped.

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Target player sacrifices a creature and loses 1 life.

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card. Scry 1.

Flying

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one that hasn't been chosen --

• Each player sacrifices a creature.

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

• Transform Henrika Domnathi.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

{1}{B}{B}: Each creature you control with flying, deathtouch, and/or lifelink gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Target player discards two cards at random.

Each player sacrifices a creature.

Kicker {2}{B}{B}

Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead.

• Target opponent discards two cards.

• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less.

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Juri, Master of the Revue.

When Juri dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

+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.

Flying

When Liliana's Specter enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

{T}, Sacrifice Liliana's Steward: Target opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.

-3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.

-7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature.

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, Mayhem Devil deals 1 damage to any target.

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

Target opponent discards two cards, mills a card, and loses 1 life. You gain 1 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Target opponent discards a card at random.

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Mortician Beetle.

Roll a d20.

1--9 | Choose an opponent. That player sacrifices a creature.

10--19 | Each opponent sacrifices a creature.

20 | Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Kicker {2}{U} and/or {2}{R} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} and/or {2}{R} as you cast this spell.)

When Nightscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {2}{U} kicker, return up to two target nonblack creatures to their owners' hands.

When Nightscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {2}{R} kicker, destroy target land.

Target player discards a card.

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Destroy target land.

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

Trample

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

{T}: Add {B}.

{2}{B}: Phyrexian Totem becomes a 5/5 black Phyrexian Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

Whenever Phyrexian Totem is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.

Destroy target land. Poison the Well deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

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.

Destroy target land.

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 target creature or planeswalker.

Awaken 4--{5}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for {5}{B}{B}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

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).

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

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

Destroy target land.

Destroy target land or nonblack creature.

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

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

Target player sacrifices a creature.

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

Each other player sacrifices a creature. You create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each creature sacrificed this way.

Menace

Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card.

{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn.

Haste

The Balrog, Durin's Bane can't be blocked except by legendary creatures.

When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

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

I, II -- Each opponent sacrifices a creature unless they discard a card.

III -- Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Whenever Animus of Night's Reach attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in defending player's graveyard.

Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

Delirium -- If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead that player sacrifices a creature and a planeswalker.

{2}{R}, {T}: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Will of the council -- Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.

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.)

When Vindictive Lich dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player.

• Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

• Target opponent discards two cards.

• Target opponent loses 5 life.

When Virus Beetle enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.