Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Distress

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Hypnotic Specter

Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Call to the Netherworld

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Vona's Hunger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Vashta Nerada

Indestructible
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vashta Nerada.

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Cao Cao, Lord of Wei

{T}: Target opponent discards two cards. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Mind Sludge

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever Archon of Cruelty enters the battlefield or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Abyssal Specter

Flying
Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment.

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Awaken the Erstwhile

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then creates that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Necrogoyf

Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
Madness {1}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Oppression

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Gravelighter

Flying
When Gravelighter enters the battlefield, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature.

Memory Jar

{T}, Sacrifice Memory Jar: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

Sudden Edict

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Target player sacrifices a creature.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Liliana's Reaver

Deathtouch
Whenever Liliana's Reaver deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When Extraplanar Lens enters the battlefield, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Unmask

You may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Temple of the Dead

(Transforms from Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}: Transform Temple of the Dead. Activate only if a player has one or fewer cards in hand and only as a sorcery.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Flying, lifelink
Whenever Aclazotz attacks, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
When Aclazotz dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures, then sacrifices X lands.

Fill with Fright

Target player discards two cards. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Abolisher of Bloodlines

Flying
When this creature transforms into Abolisher of Bloodlines, target opponent sacrifices three creatures.

Voldaren Pariah

Flying
Sacrifice three other creatures: Transform Voldaren Pariah.
Madness {B}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Voldaren Pariah // Abolisher of Bloodlines

Lingering Death

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature.

Liliana of the Veil

+1: Each player discards a card.
−2: Target player sacrifices a creature.
−6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {3}

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Fleshbag Marauder

When Fleshbag Marauder enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.

Demon's Disciple

When Demon's Disciple enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Tergrid's Lantern

{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card.
{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

Tergrid, God of Fright

Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern

Night's Whisper

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Dark Ritual

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Nezumi Informant

When Nezumi Informant enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Harsh Scrutiny

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card. Scry 1.

Praetor's Grasp

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Innocent Blood

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Diabolic Tutor

Delirium Skeins

Each player loses a third of their life, then discards a third of the cards in their hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures they control, then sacrifices a third of the lands they control. Round up each time.

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.
−3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sol Ring

Rotting Rats

When Rotting Rats enters the battlefield, each player discards a card.
Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Smallpox

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature, then sacrifices a land.

Liliana's Specter

Flying
When Liliana's Specter enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Indulgent Tormentor

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.

Shadowgrange Archfiend

When Shadowgrange Archfiend enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way.
Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Nether Traitor

Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return Nether Traitor from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Tourach, Dread Cantor

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Protection from white
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach, Dread Cantor.
When Tourach enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.