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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
Treacherous Greed 1WBInstant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature that dealt damage this turn. Draw three cards. Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
Sapphire Charm UInstant Choose one — • Target player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. • Target creature gains flying until end of turn. • Target creature an opponent controls phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Dark Favor 1BEnchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Dark Favor enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life. Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.
Farid, Enterprising Salvager 2RLegendary Creature — Human Soldier Whenever a nontoken artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a colorless artifact token named Scrap. {1}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on Farid. It gains menace until end of turn. • Goad target creature. • Discard a card, then draw a card. 3/3
Power Taint 1UEnchantment — Aura Enchant enchantment At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Chancellor of the Dross 4BBBCreature — Phyrexian Vampire You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way. Flying, lifelink 6/6
Bloodchief Ascension BEnchantment At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.
Relic Bane 1BBEnchantment — Aura Enchant artifact Enchanted artifact has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life."
Mardu Charm RWBInstant Choose one — • Mardu Charm deals 4 damage to target creature. • Create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens. They gain first strike until end of turn. • Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Vapor Snag UInstant Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.
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