The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

Join the Dead

Join the Dead {1}{B}{B}

Instant
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
The more creatures that plunge to their deaths in the abyss, the more angry Echoes that arise to drag others down.
Malicious Eclipse

Malicious Eclipse {1}{B}{B}

Sorcery
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.
Aclazotz laughed as the dark shards closed around Chimil, plunging the Core into unnatural darkness. At long last, his bloody reign would begin.
Mephitic Draught

Mephitic Draught {1}{B}

Artifact
When Mephitic Draught enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
"Don't look at me. I'm not drinking it."
—Dranach, Dire Fleet boatswain
Preacher of the Schism

Preacher of the Schism {2}{B}

Creature - Vampire Cleric
Deathtouch
Whenever Preacher of the Schism attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Whenever Preacher of the Schism attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
2/4
Primordial Gnawer

Primordial Gnawer {4}{B}

Creature - Insect Horror
When Primordial Gnawer dies, discover 3.
Cave crawlers devour anything from plant matter to solid rock, but they prefer fresh meat.
5/2
Queen's Bay Paladin

Queen's Bay Paladin {3}{B}{B}

Creature - Vampire Knight
Whenever Queen's Bay Paladin enters the battlefield or attacks, return up to one target Vampire card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. You lose life equal to its mana value.
5/4
Rampaging Spiketail

Rampaging Spiketail {4}{B}{B}

Creature - Dinosaur
When Rampaging Spiketail enters the battlefield, target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn.
Swampcycling {2}
5/6
Ray of Ruin

Ray of Ruin {4}{B}

Sorcery
Exile target creature, Vehicle, or nonbasic land. Scry 1.
"We know Chimil's light as a warming, healing presence, but make no mistake: to those who would desecrate her lands, it is a terrible force of scouring fury."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan
Screaming Phantom

Screaming Phantom {2}{B}

Creature - Spirit
Flying
Whenever Screaming Phantom attacks, mill a card.
After a slow death in darkness, she flies into a rage at the slightest glimpse of light.
2/2
Skullcap Snail

Skullcap Snail {1}{B}

Creature - Fungus Snail
When Skullcap Snail enters the battlefield, target opponent exiles a card from their hand.
"Oh, come on! Aren't regular snails gross enough?"
—Derilene, expedition porter
1/1
Soulcoil Viper

Soulcoil Viper {2}{B}

Creature - Snake
{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Soulcoil Viper: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.
"As the snake sheds its skin to be born anew, we cast off death to rise as servants of Aclazotz."
—Vito, Church of Dusk heretic
2/3
Souls of the Lost

Souls of the Lost {1}{B}

Creature - Spirit
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or sacrifice a permanent.
Fathomless descent — Souls of the Lost's power is equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
"Do you remember us?"
*/1+*
Stalactite Stalker

Stalactite Stalker {B}

Creature - Goblin Rogue
Menace
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Stalactite Stalker.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice Stalactite Stalker: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is Stalactite Stalker's power.
1/1
Starving Revenant

Starving Revenant {2}{B}{B}

Creature - Spirit Horror
When Starving Revenant enters the battlefield, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
4/4
Stinging Cave Crawler

Stinging Cave Crawler {2}{B}

Creature - Insect Horror
Deathtouch
Descend 4 — Whenever Stinging Cave Crawler attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Caverns uninhabited by mycoids are often infested with worse.
1/3
Synapse Necromage

Synapse Necromage {2}{B}

Creature - Fungus Wizard
When Synapse Necromage dies, create two 1/1 black Fungus creature tokens with "This creature can't block."
"It's no good killing them? Then what do we do? Distract them with a tea party?"
—Mervin, Brazen Coalition prospector
3/1
Tarrian's Journal
The Tomb of Aclazotz

Tarrian's Journal {1}{B}

Legendary Artifact
{T}, Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
{2}, {T}, Discard your hand: Transform Tarrian's Journal.
Though officially deemed a heretic for his reverent writings on Aclazotz, Tarrian is viewed as a holy martyr by the most radical sects of the Church of Dusk.
Card has other part: The Tomb of Aclazotz
The Tomb of Aclazotz
Tarrian's Journal

The Tomb of Aclazotz

Legendary Land - Cave
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. If you do, it enters the battlefield with a finality counter on it and is a Vampire in addition to its other types.
Card has other part: Tarrian's Journal
Terror Tide

Terror Tide {2}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Those who go under rise again as cruel mockeries of their former selves, spewing foul water and keening with sorrow.
Tithing Blade
Consuming Sepulcher

Tithing Blade {1}{B}

Artifact
When Tithing Blade enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a creature.
Craft with creature {4}{B}
Card has other part: Consuming Sepulcher
Consuming Sepulcher
Tithing Blade

Consuming Sepulcher

Artifact
(Color indicator: Consuming Sepulcher is black)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
"Slake my thirst so that we both may be free."
—Faded inscription
Card has other part: Tithing Blade
Visage of Dread
Dread Osseosaur

Visage of Dread {1}{B}

Artifact
When Visage of Dread enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it. That player discards that card.
Craft with two creatures {5}{B}
Card has other part: Dread Osseosaur
Dread Osseosaur
Visage of Dread

Dread Osseosaur

Creature - Dinosaur Skeleton Horror
(Color indicator: Dread Osseosaur is black)
Menace
Whenever Dread Osseosaur enters the battlefield or attacks, you may mill two cards.
"It's not my fault! The glyphs for 'blessed' and 'cursed' look very similar!"
—Diego, Brazen Coalition translator
5/4
Card has other part: Visage of Dread
Vito's Inquisitor

Vito's Inquisitor {3}{B}

Creature - Vampire Knight
{B}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Vito's Inquisitor. It gains menace until end of turn.
"We usher in the Age of Everflowing Blood, when those who are fed upon will be fed, and those who feed will be satiated."
3/3
Abrade

Abrade {1}{R}

Instant
Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.
"What do you mean a walking clock destroyed all our cannons?!"
—Captain Lannery Storm
Related card: Kayla's Kindling