Secrets of Strixhaven Commander

Animate Dead

Animate Dead {1}{B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Blight Mound

Blight Mound {2}{B}

Enchantment
Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Pests feed on carrion, mud, and one another.
Blood Artist

Blood Artist {1}{B}

Creature - Vampire
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic
0/1
Related cards: Blood Artist (Alchemy) Sanguine Brushstroke
Bloodghast

Bloodghast {B}{B}

Creature - Vampire Spirit
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
2/1
Doomwake Giant

Doomwake Giant {4}{B}

Enchantment Creature - Giant
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.
4/6
Final Act

Final Act {4}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Choose one or more —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
• Destroy all battles.
• Exile all graveyards.
• Each opponent loses all counters.
Ghoulish Impetus

Ghoulish Impetus {2}{B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1, has deathtouch, and is goaded.
When enchanted creature dies, return this card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
Hateful Eidolon

Hateful Eidolon {B}

Enchantment Creature - Spirit
Lifelink
Whenever an enchanted creature dies, draw a card for each Aura you controlled that was attached to it.
From the echoes of a violent life, a terrible foe is born.
1/2
Infernal Grasp

Infernal Grasp {1}{B}

Instant
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Ancient evils dwell within the burning chasm called the Ashmouth, ever ready to devour those foolish enough to travel alone.
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia {1}{B}

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed.
"Rise, my pretty thing. Why rot in the river when you can serve at my bidding?"
1/1
Keen Duelist

Keen Duelist {1}{B}

Creature - Human Wizard
At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.
2/2
Morbid Opportunist

Morbid Opportunist {2}{B}

Creature - Human Rogue
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
On Innistrad, one person's windfall usually starts with another person lying face down in the mud.
1/3
Related card: Xander's Wake
Nether Traitor

Nether Traitor {B}{B}

Creature - Spirit
Haste
Shadow
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
1/1
Night's Whisper

Night's Whisper {1}{B}

Sorcery
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
"I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?"
—Vraska
Parasitic Impetus

Parasitic Impetus {2}{B}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Pawn of Ulamog

Pawn of Ulamog {1}{B}{B}

Creature - Vampire Shaman
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."
2/2
Plumb the Forbidden

Plumb the Forbidden {1}{B}

Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Strixhaven forbade all magic from the Blood Age, so that is where Extus began his research.
Priest of Forgotten Gods

Priest of Forgotten Gods {1}{B}

Creature - Human Cleric
{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.
The Orzhov are not the only religious tradition on Ravnica, nor the oldest.
1/2
Smothering Abomination

Smothering Abomination {2}{B}{B}

Creature - Eldrazi
Devoid
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.
4/3
Umbral Collar Zealot

Umbral Collar Zealot {1}{B}

Creature - Human Cleric
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1.
"All things will fall to the Zero Point. By accepting this truth, my path is known and my fate is certain."
3/2
Veinwitch Coven

Veinwitch Coven {2}{B}

Creature - Vampire Warlock
Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Some Strixhaven study groups are more welcoming than others.
3/3
Viscera Seer

Viscera Seer {B}

Creature - Vampire Wizard
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1.
In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.
1/1
Witch of the Moors

Witch of the Moors {3}{B}{B}

Creature - Human Warlock
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Many hands for many evils.
4/4
Woe Strider

Woe Strider {2}{B}

Creature - Horror
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape — {3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard.
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
3/2
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Yahenni, Undying Partisan {2}{B}

Legendary Creature - Aetherborn Vampire
Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
"The time for subtlety is over, darling."
2/2