(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)

I, II, III — Mill three cards. You may put a historic card from among them into your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

IV — Historic spells you cast this turn cost less to cast.

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 tapped.

As Black Dragon Gate enters, 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 first 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 tapped.

: Add .

Blackcleave Cliffs enters 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.

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)

When Blacksmith's Talent enters, create a colorless Equipment artifact token named Sword with "Equipped creature gets +1/+1" and equip .

: Level 2

//Level_2//

At the beginning of combat on your turn, attach target Equipment you control to up to one target creature you control.

: Level 3

//Level_3//

During your turn, equipped creatures you control have double strike and haste.

You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 2 life. If you do, search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Choose one. Destroy target creature, then —

• Create a Food token.

• Create a Treasure token.

• Put a menace counter on a creature you control.

• That creature's controller mills cards equal to its power.

(: 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

When Settlement Blacksmith enters, if you control an Equipment, draw a card.

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

: Add .

, : Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Deathtouch

When Thorn of the Black Rose enters, you become the monarch.