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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.)

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Grim Guardian 2BEnchantment Creature — Zombie Constellation — Whenever Grim Guardian or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life. 1/4
Oath of Lim-Dûl 3BEnchantment Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, sacrifice a permanent other than Oath of Lim-Dûl unless you discard a card. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.) {B}{B}: Draw a card.
Merciless Eviction 4WBSorcery Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers.
Thief of Hope 2BCreature — Spirit Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Soulshift 2 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.) 2/2
Plunge into Darkness 1BInstant Choose one — • Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each sacrificed creature. • Pay X life, then look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest. Entwine {B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma 2GULegendary Creature — Elf Ooze Wizard At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Cloak a card from your hand. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) • Put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control. 3/4
Blood Scrivener 1BCreature — Zombie Wizard If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life. 2/1
Invasion of Fiora 4BBBattle — Siege (As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.) When Invasion of Fiora enters the battlefield, choose one or both — • Destroy all legendary creatures. • Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
Tenured Inkcaster 4BCreature — Vampire Warlock When Tenured Inkcaster enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. 2/2
Painful Quandary 3BBEnchantment Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
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