Magic 2010

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.
"The educated mind is heavy with lore and knowledge. It's also the most likely to collapse under its own weight."
—Ambassador Laquatus
Twincast

Twincast {U}{U}

Instant
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Imitation is the most dangerous form of flattery.
Unsummon

Unsummon {U}

Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Mages routinely summon creatures from the Aether. It's only fair that they occasionally throw one back.
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
Wind Drake

Wind Drake {2}{U}

Creature - Drake
Flying
A smaller cousin to the dragon, drakes are often seen at the side of powerful wizards who use them as airborne eyes and ears.
2/2
Zephyr Sprite

Zephyr Sprite {U}

Creature - Faerie
Flying
"I've never understood why so many beings lumber around on the ground. There are three dimensions, yet they use only two."
1/1
Acolyte of Xathrid

Acolyte of Xathrid {B}

Creature - Human Cleric
{1}{B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life.
Like all priests, she gives her blessings only to those truly worthy of them.
0/1
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
Black Knight

Black Knight {B}{B}

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

Bog Wraith {3}{B}

Creature - Wraith
Swampwalk
She died in this swamp, and so will you.
3/3
Cemetery Reaper

Cemetery Reaper {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Zombie
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Every grave cradles a recruit.
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
Consume Spirit

Consume Spirit {X}{1}{B}

Sorcery
Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.
Deathmark

Deathmark {B}

Sorcery
Destroy target green or white creature.
Even the noblest of intentions and strongest of wills inevitably crumble into dust.
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.
"Stop complaining. You can rest when you're dead. Oh—sorry."
—Liliana Vess
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
Dread Warlock

Dread Warlock {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Human Wizard Warlock
Dread Warlock can't be blocked except by black creatures.
"I don't know who to pity more: those who flee from my presence or the damned who can withstand it."
2/2
Drudge Skeletons

Drudge Skeletons {1}{B}

Creature - Skeleton
{B}: Regenerate Drudge Skeletons.
"The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, never surrender, and don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off."
—Nevinyrral, Necromancer's Handbook
1/1
Related card: Revered Dead
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
Gravedigger

Gravedigger {3}{B}

Creature - Zombie
When Gravedigger enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Oddly, no one questioned the Cabal's wisdom in hiring a zombie to work at the cemetery.
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
Hypnotic Specter

Hypnotic Specter {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Specter
Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
Its victims are known by their eyes: shattered vessels leaking broken dreams.
2/2