Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

Blood Curdle

Blood Curdle {3}{B}

Instant
Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control.
Fear pierces the strongest armor.
Boot Nipper

Boot Nipper {1}{B}

Creature - Beast
Boot Nipper enters the battlefield with your choice of a deathtouch counter or a lifelink counter on it.
"I have a number of hyper-specific phobias and this somehow hits all of them."
—Aaru, Zagoth lumberjack
2/1
Bushmeat Poacher

Bushmeat Poacher {3}{B}

Creature - Human Soldier
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.
"If you've never feasted on Zagoth terror-pig, I got the best price you'll find."
2/4
Call of the Death-Dweller

Call of the Death-Dweller {2}{B}

Sorcery
Return up to two target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.
The living fear Nethroi's whispers. The dead heed them.
Cavern Whisperer

Cavern Whisperer {4}{B}

Creature - Nightmare
Mutate {3}{B}
Menace
Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent discards a card.
4/4
Chittering Harvester

Chittering Harvester {5}{B}

Creature - Nightmare
Mutate {4}{B}
Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent sacrifices a creature.
4/6
Corpse Churn

Corpse Churn {1}{B}

Instant
Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
"How did we find each other? So there I was, exploring a mound of monster corpses..."
Related card: Bind to Secrecy
Dark Bargain

Dark Bargain {3}{B}

Instant
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Dark Bargain deals 2 damage to you.
"The poacher's trade isn't monster parts. It's myth. People pay to be part of the fantasy."
—Kelsien, the Plague
Dead Weight

Dead Weight {B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
"You're not my quarry, little one. I'm after whatever comes to investigate your cries."
—Kelsien, the Plague
Dirge Bat

Dirge Bat {2}{B}{B}

Creature - Bat
Mutate {4}{B}{B}
Flash
Flying
Whenever this creature mutates, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
3/3
Durable Coilbug

Durable Coilbug {1}{B}

Creature - Insect
{4}{B}: Return Durable Coilbug from your graveyard to your hand.
"I've seen them survive lava, trampling, and a moloch's digestive system. They just roll out and get on with their lives!"
—Gannet, Skysail zoologist
2/2
Related card: Bind to Secrecy
Duskfang Mentor

Duskfang Mentor {2}{B}

Creature - Human Cleric
When Duskfang Mentor enters the battlefield, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control.
{1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.
"What she sees, I see. What she tastes, I taste."
1/3
Easy Prey

Easy Prey {1}{B}

Instant
Destroy target creature with mana value 2 or less.
Cycling {2}
The definition of "bite-sized treat" depends on who you ask.
Extinction Event

Extinction Event {3}{B}

Sorcery
Choose odd or even. Exile each creature with mana value of the chosen quality.
"Nature is more merciless than any hunter I've ever known."
—Zai, nightsquad captain
Gloom Pangolin

Gloom Pangolin {2}{B}

Creature - Nightmare Pangolin
"They say it survives on a purely bioluminescent diet. It's only active during the darkest of Indatha nights, making verification highly challenging."
—Gannet, Skysail zoologist
1/5
Grimdancer

Grimdancer {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Nightmare
Grimdancer enters the battlefield with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.
Most monsters are more frightening when they skitter unseen in the dark. Most.
3/3
Heartless Act

Heartless Act {1}{B}

Instant
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.
"It's them or us."
—General Kudro
Hunted Nightmare

Hunted Nightmare {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Nightmare
Menace
When Hunted Nightmare enters the battlefield, target opponent puts a deathtouch counter on a creature they control.
"The cruelest monsters inspire the greatest tales. The greatest tales inspire the cruelest hunters."
—Rielle, the Everwise
4/5
Insatiable Hemophage

Insatiable Hemophage {3}{B}

Creature - Nightmare
Mutate {2}{B}
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated.
3/3
Lurking Deadeye

Lurking Deadeye {3}{B}

Creature - Human Assassin
Flash
When Lurking Deadeye enters the battlefield, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
"There's no roar so mighty that it can't be silenced."
4/2
Memory Leak

Memory Leak {2}{B}

Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it.
Cycling {1}
"By halves does youth depart. I remember halves of names, halves of years, halves of myself."
—Ogaro, wandering sage
Mutual Destruction

Mutual Destruction {B}

Sorcery
This spell has flash as long as you control a permanent with flash.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.
Hunter and hunted both died thinking they had outwitted the other.
Mythos of Nethroi

Mythos of Nethroi {2}{B}

Instant
Destroy target nonland permanent if it's a creature or if {G}{W} was spent to cast this spell.
"And then the shadow took living form, and the shadow devoured the man whole—body, mind, and soul."
—Tales of the Ozolith
Nightsquad Commando

Nightsquad Commando {2}{B}

Creature - Human Soldier
When Nightsquad Commando enters the battlefield, if you attacked this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
"The big fella sounds hungry. Let's send him to bed without his supper."
2/3
Serrated Scorpion

Serrated Scorpion {B}

Creature - Scorpion
When Serrated Scorpion dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
Each scorpion's venom is unique, thwarting sanctuary healers' attempts to develop an antidote.
1/2