Limited Edition Alpha

Deathlace

Deathlace {B}

Instant
Target spell or permanent becomes black.
Demonic Attorney

Demonic Attorney {1}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Remove Demonic Attorney from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Each player antes the top card of their library.
Demonic Hordes

Demonic Hordes {3}{B}{B}{B}

Creature - Demon
{T}: Destroy target land.
At the beginning of your upkeep, unless you pay {B}{B}{B}, tap Demonic Hordes and sacrifice a land of an opponent's choice.
Created to destroy Dominia, Demons can sometimes be bent to a more focused purpose.
5/5
Demonic Tutor

Demonic Tutor {1}{B}

Sorcery
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Related card: Key to the Archive
Drain Life

Drain Life {X}{1}{B}

Sorcery
Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.
Drudge Skeletons

Drudge Skeletons {1}{B}

Creature - Skeleton
{B}: Regenerate Drudge Skeletons.
Bones scattered around us joined to form misshapen bodies. We struck at them repeatedly—they fell, but soon formed again, with the same mocking look on their faceless skulls.
1/1
Related card: Revered Dead
Evil Presence

Evil Presence {B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
Fear

Fear {B}{B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has fear.
Frozen Shade

Frozen Shade {2}{B}

Creature - Shade
{B}: Frozen Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade."
—Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"
0/1
Gloom

Gloom {2}{B}

Enchantment
White spells cost {3} more to cast.
Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.
Howl from Beyond

Howl from Beyond {X}{B}

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

Hypnotic Specter {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Specter
Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..."
—Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"
2/2
Lich

Lich {B}{B}{B}{B}

Enchantment
As Lich enters the battlefield, you lose life equal to your life total.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.
Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game.
When Lich is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.
Lord of the Pit

Lord of the Pit {4}{B}{B}{B}

Creature - Demon
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Lord of the Pit. If you can't, Lord of the Pit deals 7 damage to you.
7/7
Mind Twist

Mind Twist {X}{B}

Sorcery
Target player discards X cards at random.
Nether Shadow

Nether Shadow {B}{B}

Creature - Spirit
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.
1/1
Nettling Imp

Nettling Imp {2}{B}

Creature - Imp
{T}: Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That creature attacks this turn if able. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step if it didn't attack this turn. Activate only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.
1/1
Nightmare

Nightmare {5}{B}

Creature - Nightmare Horse
Flying
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
The Nightmare arises from its lair in the swamps. As the poisoned land spreads, so does the Nightmare's rage and terrifying strength.
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Paralyze

Paralyze {B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.
Pestilence

Pestilence {2}{B}{B}

Enchantment
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.
Related card: Pyrohemia
Plague Rats

Plague Rats {2}{B}

Creature - Rat
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
"Should you a Rat to madness tease
Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..."
—Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"
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Raise Dead

Raise Dead {B}

Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Royal Assassin

Royal Assassin {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Human Assassin
{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.
Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.
1/1
Sacrifice

Sacrifice {B}

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

Scathe Zombies {2}{B}

Creature - Zombie
"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,/ Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;/ It had been strange, even in a dream,/ To have seen those dead men rise."/ —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
2/2