Black Instants

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Dark Ritual Add {B}{B}{B}.

Dark Ritual

Deadly Rollick If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Deadly Rollick

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

Vampiric Tutor

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 "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Deadly Dispute

Village Rites As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Village Rites

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire Destroy target creature or planeswalker. // As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control." // This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Infernal Grasp Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Infernal Grasp

Withering Torment Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Withering Torment

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

Entomb

Go for the Throat Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Go for the Throat

Cabal Ritual Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Cabal Ritual

Culling the Weak As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Culling the Weak

Saw in Half Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Saw in Half

Corrupted Conviction As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Corrupted Conviction

Imp's Mischief Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Imp's Mischief

Snuff Out If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Snuff Out

Murder Destroy target creature.

Murder

Tainted Pact Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

Tainted Pact

Tragic Slip Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Tragic Slip

Bitter Triumph As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Bitter Triumph

Demonic Consultation Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Demonic Consultation

Dismember ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Dismember

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

Defile

Not Dead After All Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Not Dead After All

Soul Shatter Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Soul Shatter

Sheoldred's Edict Choose one — • Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Sheoldred's Edict

Plumb the Forbidden 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 lose 1 life.

Plumb the Forbidden

Flare of Malice You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Flare of Malice

Ad Nauseam Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Ad Nauseam

Lethal Scheme 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 this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Lethal Scheme

Undying Malice 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."

Undying Malice

Baleful Mastery 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.

Baleful Mastery

Feign Death 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."

Feign Death

Fake Your Own Death Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Fake Your Own Death

Murderous Rider // Swift End Lifelink When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library. // Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Supernatural Stamina Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Supernatural Stamina

Darkness Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Darkness

Nasty End As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Nasty End

Hero's Downfall Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Hero's Downfall

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands. Destroy target creature. // This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Sudden Spoiling 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.

Sudden Spoiling

Doom Blade Destroy target nonblack creature.

Doom Blade

Overkill Target creature gets -0/-9999 until end of turn.

Overkill

Vraska's Fall Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice and gets a poison counter.

Vraska's Fall

Tainted Strike Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Tainted Strike

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

Consuming Corruption

Force of Despair 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 this turn.

Force of Despair

Transpose Draw a card, then discard a card. You lose 1 life. If this spell was cast from your hand, create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent." Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Transpose

Sacrifice As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Sacrifice

Fatal Push 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 left the battlefield under your control this turn.

Fatal Push

Songs of the Damned Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Songs of the Damned

Rain of Filth Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add {B}."

Rain of Filth

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.

Stinging Study

Costly Plunder As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards.

Costly Plunder

Blood Pact Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Blood Pact

Curtains' Call Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Destroy two target creatures.

Curtains' Call

Archenemy's Charm Choose one — • Exile target creature or planeswalker. • Return one or two target creature and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

Archenemy's Charm

Astarion's Thirst Exile target creature. Put X +1/+1 counters on a commander creature you control, where X is the power of the creature exiled this way.

Astarion's Thirst

Whisper of the Dross Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Whisper of the Dross

Reckoner's Bargain As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Reckoner's Bargain

Vona's Hunger Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.

Vona's Hunger

Eviscerator's Insight As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards. Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Eviscerator's Insight

Shoot the Sheriff Destroy target non-outlaw creature. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws. Everyone else is fair game.)

Shoot the Sheriff

Price of Fame This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Price of Fame

Liliana's Triumph Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

Liliana's Triumph

Altar's Reap As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Altar's Reap

Crypt Incursion Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Crypt Incursion

V.A.T.S. Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Choose any number of target creatures with equal toughness. Destroy the chosen creatures.

V.A.T.S.

Fanatical Offering As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Fanatical Offering

Undying Evil 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.)

Undying Evil

Grim Affliction Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Grim Affliction

Outrageous Robbery Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast it.

Outrageous Robbery

Black Sun's Twilight Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Black Sun's Twilight

Cut Down Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Cut Down

Heartless Act Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Heartless Act

Pile On 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. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Pile On

Suspended Sentence Destroy target creature an opponent controls. That player loses 3 life. Exile Suspended Sentence with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with three 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.)

Suspended Sentence

Orcish Medicine Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn. Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Orcish Medicine

Withering Boon As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.

Withering Boon

Offer Immortality Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Offer Immortality

Szat's Will Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • 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.

Szat's Will

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 {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Rise of the Dread Marn

Slaughter Pact Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Slaughter Pact

Fight On! Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Fight On!

Bake into a Pie Destroy target creature. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Bake into a Pie

Erebos's Intervention Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Erebos's Intervention

Hostile Negotiations Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

Hostile Negotiations

Armor of Shadows Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Armor of Shadows

Breathe Your Last Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.

Breathe Your Last

Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight Deathtouch // You draw a card and you lose 1 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight

Consumed by Greed Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Consumed by Greed

Sephiroth's Intervention Destroy target creature. You gain 2 life.

Sephiroth's Intervention

Hellish Rebuke 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."

Hellish Rebuke

Hazel's Nocturne Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Hazel's Nocturne

Espers to Magicite Exile each opponent's graveyard. When you do, choose up to one target creature card exiled this way. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an artifact and it loses all other card types.

Espers to Magicite

Chain Assassination Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Destroy target creature. If another creature died this turn, draw a card.

Chain Assassination

Feed the Cycle As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay {B}. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Feed the Cycle

You Are Already Dead Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. Draw a card.

You Are Already Dead

Alesha's Legacy Target creature you control gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Alesha's Legacy

Cremate Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Cremate

Overwhelming Remorse This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Overwhelming Remorse

Cast Down Destroy target nonlegendary creature.

Cast Down

Gravepurge Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Gravepurge

Corpse Churn Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Corpse Churn

Mausoleum Secrets Undergrowth — Search your library for a black card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Mausoleum Secrets

Thrilling Encore Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Thrilling Encore

Vincent's Limit Break Tiered (Choose one additional cost.) Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control" and has the chosen base power and toughness. • Galian Beast — {0} — 3/2. • Death Gigas — {1} — 5/2. • Hellmasker — {3} — 7/2.

Vincent's Limit Break

Hatred As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Hatred

Return to Action Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Return to Action

Rowan's Grim Search Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard. You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Rowan's Grim Search

Body Count Spectacle {B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.

Body Count

Dark Withering Destroy target nonblack creature. Madness {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.)

Dark Withering

Faerie Fencing Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. That creature gets an additional -3/-3 until end of turn if you controlled a Faerie as you cast this spell.

Faerie Fencing

Murderous Cut Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Destroy target creature.

Murderous Cut

Cling to Dust Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card. Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Cling to Dust

Nameless Inversion Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Target creature gets +3/-3 and loses all creature types until end of turn.

Nameless Inversion

Power Word Kill Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Power Word Kill

Slice from the Shadows This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Slice from the Shadows

Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit Whenever a creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip {1} // Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit

Grave Endeavor Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.

Grave Endeavor

Shred Memory 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.)

Shred Memory

Ashnod's Intervention Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand."

Ashnod's Intervention

This Is How It Ends Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library, then faces a villainous choice — They lose 5 life, or they shuffle another creature they own into their library.

This Is How It Ends

Wake the Dead Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Wake the Dead

Demonic Gifts Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Demonic Gifts

Savor Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Savor

Terror Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Terror

Aphotic Wisps Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Draw a card.

Aphotic Wisps

Unseal the Necropolis Each player mills three cards. Then you return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Unseal the Necropolis

Bladebrand Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Draw a card.

Bladebrand

Shadow of the Grave Return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that you cycled or discarded this turn.

Shadow of the Grave

Raise the Draugr Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Raise the Draugr

Professor's Warning Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Professor's Warning

Six-Sided Die Choose target creature. Roll a six-sided die. 1 — It has base toughness 1 until end of turn. 2 — Put two -1/-1 counters on it. 3 — Six-Sided Die deals 3 damage to it and you gain 3 life. 4 — It gets -4/-4 until end of turn. 5 — Destroy it. 6 — Exile it.

Six-Sided Die

Malicious Affliction Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy. Destroy target nonblack creature.

Malicious Affliction

Unexpected Fangs Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

Unexpected Fangs

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

Tendrils of Corruption

Unbury Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Unbury

Eyeblight's Ending Destroy target non-Elf creature.

Eyeblight's Ending

Another Chance You may mill two cards. Then return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Another Chance

Shelob's Ambush Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Shelob's Ambush

March of Wretched Sorrow As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

March of Wretched Sorrow

Abnormal Endurance Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Abnormal Endurance

Necrologia Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Necrologia

Zuko's Conviction Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was kicked, instead put that card onto the battlefield tapped.

Zuko's Conviction

Blight Rot Put four -1/-1 counters on target creature.

Blight Rot

Sudden Edict 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 of their choice.

Sudden Edict

Victim of Night Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

Victim of Night

Battle-Rage Blessing Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Battle-Rage Blessing

Isildur's Fateful Strike (You may cast a legendary instant only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Destroy target creature. If its controller has more than four cards in hand, they exile cards from their hand equal to the difference.

Isildur's Fateful Strike

Rat Out Up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. You create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Rat Out

Maximum Overdrive Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn.

Maximum Overdrive

Darkblast 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.)

Darkblast

Shallow Grave Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Shallow Grave

Mirrodin Avenged Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. Draw a card.

Mirrodin Avenged

Oblivion's Hunger Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. Draw a card if that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)

Oblivion's Hunger

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

Dash Hopes

Poison the Cup Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2. Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Poison the Cup

Fated Return Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Fated Return

Crushing Disappointment Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Crushing Disappointment

Bitter Downfall This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature that was dealt damage this turn. Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Bitter Downfall

Live or Die Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Destroy target creature.

Live or Die

Foul-Tongue Shriek Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Foul-Tongue Shriek

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

Stab

Azula Always Lies Choose one or both — • Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Azula Always Lies

Succumb to Temptation You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Succumb to Temptation

Diabolic Edict Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Diabolic Edict

Gollum's Bite Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. {3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: The Ring tempts you. Activate only as a sorcery.

Gollum's Bite

The Spot's Portal Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. You lose 2 life unless you control a Villain.

The Spot's Portal

Death Denied Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Death Denied

Long Goodbye This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Long Goodbye

Swift Demise Swift Demise deals 1 damage to target creature. Then destroy each creature you don't control that was dealt damage this turn.

Swift Demise

Vendetta Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Vendetta

Grasp of Darkness Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Grasp of Darkness