Urza's Saga
Crazed Skirge {3}{B}
Creature - Phyrexian Imp
Flying, haste
They are Phyrexia's couriers; the messages they carry are inscribed on their slick hides.
2/2
Dark Hatchling {4}{B}{B}
Creature - Horror
Flying
When Dark Hatchling enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
When Dark Hatchling enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
3/3
Dark Ritual {B}
Instant
Add {B}{B}{B}.
"From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began."
—Phyrexian Scriptures
—Phyrexian Scriptures
Darkest Hour {B}
Enchantment
All creatures are black.
"Yawgmoth spent eons wrapping Phyrexians in human skin. They are the sleeper agents, and they are everywhere."
—Xantcha, to Urza
—Xantcha, to Urza
Despondency {1}{B}
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.
When Despondency is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Despondency to its owner's hand.
Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.
When Despondency is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Despondency to its owner's hand.
Diabolic Servitude {3}{B}
Enchantment
When Diabolic Servitude enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.
When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.
When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.
Diabolic Servitude {3}{B}
Enchantment
When Diabolic Servitude enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.
When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.
When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.
Discordant Dirge {3}{B}{B}
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Discordant Dirge.
{B}, Sacrifice Discordant Dirge: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on Discordant Dirge. That player discards those cards.
{B}, Sacrifice Discordant Dirge: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on Discordant Dirge. That player discards those cards.
Duress {B}
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
"We decide who is worthy of our works."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Eastern Paladin {2}{B}{B}
Creature - Phyrexian Zombie Knight
{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target green creature.
"Their fragile world. Their futile lives. They obstruct the Grand Evolution. In Yawgmoth's name, we shall excise them."
—Oath of the East
—Oath of the East
3/3
Exhume {1}{B}
Sorcery
Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.
"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
—Sitrik, birth priest
—Sitrik, birth priest
Expunge {2}{B}
Instant
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Cycling {2}
Cycling {2}
Flesh Reaver {1}{B}
Creature - Phyrexian Horror
Whenever Flesh Reaver deals damage to a creature or opponent, Flesh Reaver deals that much damage to you.
Though the reaver is horrifyingly effective, its dorsal vents spit a highly corrosive cloud of filth.
4/4
Hollow Dogs {4}{B}
Creature - Phyrexian Zombie Dog
Whenever Hollow Dogs attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
A hollow dog is never empty. It is filled with thirst for the hunt.
3/3
Ill-Gotten Gains {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.
Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.
Looming Shade {2}{B}
Creature - Shade
{B}: Looming Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
The shade tracks victims by reverberations of the pipes, as a spider senses prey tangled in its trembling web.
1/1
Lurking Evil {B}{B}{B}
Enchantment
Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.
"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."
—Phyrexian Scriptures
—Phyrexian Scriptures
Mana Leech {2}{B}
Creature - Leech
You may choose not to untap Mana Leech during your untap step.
{T}: Tap target land. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Mana Leech remains tapped.
{T}: Tap target land. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Mana Leech remains tapped.
1/1
No Rest for the Wicked {1}{B}
Enchantment
Sacrifice No Rest for the Wicked: Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
"The soul? Here, we have no use for such frivolities."
—Sitrik, birth priest
—Sitrik, birth priest
No Rest for the Wicked {1}{B}
Enchantment
Sacrifice No Rest for the Wicked: Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
Oppression {1}{B}{B}
Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.
"Do not presume to speak for yourself."
—Gix, to Xantcha
—Gix, to Xantcha
Order of Yawgmoth {2}{B}{B}
Creature - Phyrexian Zombie Knight
Fear
Whenever Order of Yawgmoth deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Whenever Order of Yawgmoth deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.
2/2
Parasitic Bond {3}{B}
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Parasitic Bond deals 2 damage to that player.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Parasitic Bond deals 2 damage to that player.
"All bonds are parasitic. Only rulership is pure."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Persecute {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.
"My finest warrior was lost to the Phyrexians. I pray that Lady Selenia died honorably."
—Radiant, archangel
—Radiant, archangel