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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
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Ransom Note 1Artifact — Clue When Ransom Note enters the battlefield, surveil 1. {2}, Sacrifice Ransom Note: Choose one — • Cloak the top card of your library. • Goad target creature. • Draw a card.
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Soot Imp 1BBCreature — Imp Flying Whenever a player casts a nonblack spell, that player loses 1 life. 1/2
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Faerie Tauntings 2BTribal Enchantment — Faerie Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may have each opponent lose 1 life.
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