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Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

Blood Curdle {3}{B}

Instant

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control.

Fear pierces the strongest armor.

Boot Nipper {1}{B}

Creature - Beast

This creature enters 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 {3}{B}

Creature - Human Soldier

, , 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 {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 {4}{B}

Creature - Nightmare

Mutate
Menace
Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent discards a card.

4/4

Chittering Harvester {5}{B}

Creature - Nightmare

Mutate
Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

4/6

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 {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 {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 {2}{B}{B}

Creature - Bat

Mutate
Flash
Flying
Whenever this creature mutates, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

3/3

Durable Coilbug {1}{B}

Creature - Insect

: Return this card 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 {2}{B}

Creature - Human Cleric

When this creature enters, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control.
, : 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 {1}{B}

Instant

Destroy target creature with mana value 2 or less.
Cycling

The definition of "bite-sized treat" depends on who you ask.

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 {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 {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Nightmare

This creature enters 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 {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 {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Nightmare

Menace
When this creature enters, 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 {3}{B}

Creature - Nightmare

Mutate
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 {3}{B}

Creature - Human Assassin

Flash
When this creature enters, 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 {2}{B}

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it.
Cycling

"By halves does youth depart. I remember halves of names, halves of years, halves of myself."
—Ogaro, wandering sage

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 {2}{B}

Instant

Destroy target nonland permanent if it's a creature or if 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 {2}{B}

Creature - Human Soldier

When this creature enters, 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 {B}

Creature - Scorpion

When this creature 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