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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Black Market Connections

2B · Enchantment

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.)

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NameManaTypeText
Subversive Acolyte 1BCreature — Human {2}, Pay 2 life: Choose one. Activate only once. • Subversive Acolyte becomes a Human Cleric. It gets +1/+1 and gains lifelink. • Subversive Acolyte becomes a Phyrexian. It gets +3/+2 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents." 2/3
Rise to Glory 3WBSorcery Choose one or both — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Return target Aura card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Crosis's Charm UBRInstant Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. • Destroy target artifact.
Borrowed Grace 2WInstant Escalate {1}{W} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or both — • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.
Curse of Wizardry 2BBEnchantment As Curse of Wizardry enters the battlefield, choose a color. Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, that player loses 1 life.
Deepwood Ghoul 2BCreature — Zombie Pay 2 life: Regenerate Deepwood Ghoul. 2/1
Goblin Game 5RRSorcery Each player hides at least one item, then all players reveal them simultaneously. Each player loses life equal to the number of items they revealed. The player who revealed the fewest items then loses half their life, rounded up. If two or more players are tied for fewest, each loses half their life, rounded up.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare 1BBLegendary Creature — 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. 3/3
Measure of Wickedness 3BEnchantment At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice Measure of Wickedness and you lose 8 life. Whenever another card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, target opponent gains control of Measure of Wickedness.
Ruthless Instincts 2GInstant Choose one — • Target nonattacking creature gains reach and deathtouch until end of turn. Untap it. • Target attacking creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.
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