Magic 2011

Tome Scour

Tome Scour {U}

Sorcery
Target player mills five cards.
Genius is overrated, especially when it's someone else's.
Traumatize

Traumatize {3}{U}{U}

Sorcery
Target player mills half their library, rounded down.
He was left with just enough memory to understand what he had lost.
Unsummon

Unsummon {U}

Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
"You're trespassing in my reality. Ask permission next time."
—Simun the Quiet
Wall of Frost

Wall of Frost {1}{U}{U}

Creature - Wall
Defender
Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
"I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid."
—Lumi, goatherd
0/7
Water Servant

Water Servant {2}{U}{U}

Creature - Elemental
{U}: Water Servant gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
{U}: Water Servant gets -1/+1 until end of turn.
"This creature has innate perceptiveness. It knows when to rise and when to vanish into the tides."
—Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity
3/4
Assassinate

Assassinate {2}{B}

Sorcery
Destroy target tapped creature.
"This is how wars are won—not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed."
—Yurin, royal assassin
Barony Vampire

Barony Vampire {2}{B}

Creature - Vampire
"Poor little sun-dweller out past curfew. And to think, you might have survived if it wasn't so close to suppertime."
3/2
Black Knight

Black Knight {B}{B}

Creature - Human Knight
First strike
Protection from white
2/2
Related card: Blood Knight
Blood Tithe

Blood Tithe {3}{B}

Sorcery
Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
The Crimson Throne may be empty, but its coffers are full.
Bloodthrone Vampire

Bloodthrone Vampire {1}{B}

Creature - Vampire
Sacrifice a creature: Bloodthrone Vampire gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
"The underclass often forget that they are not tenants, or servants, but property."
1/1
Bog Raiders

Bog Raiders {2}{B}

Creature - Zombie
Swampwalk
Zombies are the perfect marshland fighters—they don't need to breathe and they don't care what they step in.
2/2
Captivating Vampire

Captivating Vampire {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Vampire
Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1.
Tap five untapped Vampires you control: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.
2/2
Child of Night

Child of Night {1}{B}

Creature - Vampire
Lifelink
A vampire enacts vengeance on the entire world, claiming her debt two tiny pinpricks at a time.
2/1
Corrupt

Corrupt {5}{B}

Sorcery
Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.
Dark Tutelage

Dark Tutelage {2}{B}

Enchantment
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.
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
—Seneca, Epistles, trans. Gummere
Deathmark

Deathmark {B}

Sorcery
Destroy target green or white creature.
There are few ways to escape the deathmark: bargaining with a demon, washing in the fabled waters of youth, and of course, death.
Demon of Death's Gate

Demon of Death's Gate {6}{B}{B}{B}

Creature - Demon
You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, trample
The locks on the cages of the damned are opened with keys of marrow, sinew, and blood.
9/9
Diabolic Tutor

Diabolic Tutor {2}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.
Disentomb

Disentomb {B}

Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
The armies of the dead always report well rested.
Doom Blade

Doom Blade {1}{B}

Instant
Destroy target nonblack creature.
The void is without substance but cuts like steel.
Related card: Key to the Archive
Duress

Duress {B}

Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
—Liliana Vess
Grave Titan

Grave Titan {4}{B}{B}

Creature - Giant
Deathtouch
Whenever Grave Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Death in form and function.
6/6
Gravedigger

Gravedigger {3}{B}

Creature - Zombie
When Gravedigger enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Only a thin layer of dirt separates civilization from an undead apocalypse.
2/2
Haunting Echoes

Haunting Echoes {3}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Howling Banshee

Howling Banshee {2}{B}{B}

Creature - Spirit
Flying
When Howling Banshee enters the battlefield, each player loses 3 life.
Villagers cloaked the town in magical silence, but their ears still bled.
3/3