Revised Edition
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.
Each player antes the top card of their library.
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.
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 {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 {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.
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 {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
El-Hajjâj {1}{B}{B}
Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever El-Hajjâj deals damage, you gain that much life.
1/1
Related card:
City in a Bottle
Erg Raiders {1}{B}
Creature - Human Warrior
At the beginning of your end step, if Erg Raiders didn't attack this turn, Erg Raiders deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.
2/3
Related card:
City in a Bottle
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"
—Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"
0/1
Gloom {2}{B}
Enchantment
White spells cost {3} more to cast.
Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.
Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.
Hypnotic Specter {1}{B}{B}
Creature - Specter
Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
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"
—Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"
2/2
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.
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
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.
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 {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 {5}{B}
Creature - Nightmare Horse
Flying
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
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 {B}
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters, 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.
When Paralyze enters, 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 {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.
{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Related card:
Pyrohemia
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"
—Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"
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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