Modern Masters 2015
Death Denied {X}{B}{B}
Instant - Arcane
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.
Deathmark {B}
Sorcery
Destroy target green or white creature.
There are few ways to escape the deathmark: bargaining with a demon, washing in the fabled waters of youth, and of course, death.
Devouring Greed {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery - Arcane
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.
Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.
Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.
Dismember {1}{B/P}{B/P}
Instant
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
"You serve Phyrexia. Your pieces would better serve Phyrexia elsewhere."
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane
Dread Drone {4}{B}
Creature - Eldrazi Drone
When Dread Drone enters, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."
Each Eldrazi ancient spawned a lineage of horrors in unfathomable shapes.
4/1
Duskhunter Bat {1}{B}
Creature - Bat
Bloodthirst 1
Flying
Flying
The swamps go silent at its approach, but it still hears the heartbeat of the prey within.
1/1
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder {4}{B}
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.
2/2
Ghostly Changeling {2}{B}
Creature - Shapeshifter
Changeling
{1}{B}: Ghostly Changeling gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
{1}{B}: Ghostly Changeling gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
In desolate places, changelings may take the shape of fancies, or memories, or fears.
2/2
Grim Affliction {2}{B}
Instant
Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate.
Even the small wounds let hope bleed out.
Instill Infection {3}{B}
Instant
Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Draw a card.
Draw a card.
"The results of our ninth inoculation were the same. The specimen was, of course, euthanized before the contagion could spread."
—Vedalken research notes
—Vedalken research notes
Midnight Banshee {3}{B}{B}{B}
Creature - Spirit
Wither
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.
Many have heard the beginning of its low, sustained shriek but few the end.
5/5
Nameless Inversion {1}{B}
Kindred Instant - Shapeshifter
Changeling
Target creature gets +3/-3 and loses all creature types until end of turn.
Target creature gets +3/-3 and loses all creature types until end of turn.
Just as a changeling's influence can have dramatic effects, so too can its sudden withdrawal.
Necroskitter {1}{B}{B}
Creature - Elemental
Wither
Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.
1/4
Plagued Rusalka {B}
Creature - Spirit
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies."
—Savra
—Savra
1/1
Profane Command {X}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn.
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn.
Puppeteer Clique {3}{B}{B}
Creature - Faerie Wizard
Flying
When Puppeteer Clique enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
Persist
When Puppeteer Clique enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
Persist
3/2
Reassembling Skeleton {1}{B}
Creature - Skeleton Warrior
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Though you may see the same bones, you'll never see the same skeleton twice.
1/1
Related cards:
Bind to Secrecy
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Boneyard Aberration
Scavenger Drake {3}{B}
Creature - Drake
Flying
Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenger Drake.
Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenger Drake.
Dragons consider drakes to be mockeries of their perfection, destroying them on sight.
1/1
Scuttling Death {4}{B}
Creature - Spirit
Sacrifice Scuttling Death: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Soulshift 4
Soulshift 4
4/2
Shrivel {1}{B}
Sorcery
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
"Have you ever killed insects nibbling at your crops? I think that's what the Eldrazi believe they're doing to us."
—Sheyda, Ondu gamekeeper
—Sheyda, Ondu gamekeeper
Sickle Ripper {1}{B}
Creature - Elemental Warrior
Wither
His sickle was forged in the heat of another cinder's funeral pyre.
2/1
Sign in Blood {B}{B}
Sorcery
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Little agonies pave the way to greater power.
Spread the Sickness {4}{B}
Sorcery
Destroy target creature, then proliferate.
Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal.
Surgical Extraction {B/P}
Instant
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Thief of Hope {2}{B}
Creature - Spirit
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Soulshift 2
Soulshift 2
2/2