: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield tapped.

As Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than black.

: Add or one mana of the chosen color.

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more —

• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.

• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.

• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Defender

, Tap another untapped creature you control: Black Oak of Odunos gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by black creatures.

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a black permanent.

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove Black Ward.

Blackbloom Bog enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add .

Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add or .

: Tear Blacker Lotus into pieces. Add four mana of any one color. Remove the pieces from the game.

Target player reveals three cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Flying

Blacksnag Buzzard enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it if a creature died this turn.

Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

(: Add .)

Gate of the Black Dragon enters the battlefield tapped.

, : Seek a nonland card. Activate only once.

: You may tap or untap target artifact an opponent controls.

Korlash, Heir to Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

: Regenerate Korlash.

Grandeur — Discard another card named Korlash, Heir to Blackblade: Search your library for up to two Swamp cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Other creatures you control have dethrone.

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

−2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.

−8: You get an emblem with ", Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

Protection from red

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

You may choose not to untap The Blackstaff of Waterdeep during your untap step.

Animate Walking Statue — , : Another target nontoken artifact you control becomes a 4/4 artifact creature for as long as The Blackstaff of Waterdeep remains tapped. Activate only as a sorcery.