Eighth Edition

8ED · 710 cards · Released

Mind Sludge
Sorcery

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

When you get into the swamp, the swamp gets into you.

Mind Sludge
Sorcery

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

When you get into the swamp, the swamp gets into you.

Murderous Betrayal
Enchantment

, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Which hurts more: a sword in the gut or a dagger in the back?

Murderous Betrayal
Enchantment

, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Which hurts more: a sword in the gut or a dagger in the back?

Nausea
Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Nausea
Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Nekrataal
Creature — Human Assassin

First strike

When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

2/1
Nekrataal
Creature — Human Assassin

First strike

When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

2/1
Nightmare
Creature — Nightmare Horse

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

The thunder of its hooves beats dreams into despair.

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Nightmare
Creature — Nightmare Horse

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

The thunder of its hooves beats dreams into despair.

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Persecute
Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind

The worst is that which persecutes the mind."

—John Dryden,

"The Hind and the Panther"

Persecute
Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind

The worst is that which persecutes the mind."

—John Dryden,

"The Hind and the Panther"

Phyrexian Arena
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

A drop of humanity for a sea of power.

Phyrexian Arena
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

A drop of humanity for a sea of power.

Phyrexian Plaguelord
Creature — Phyrexian Carrier

, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death."

—Phyrexian progress notes

4/4
Phyrexian Plaguelord
Creature — Phyrexian Carrier

, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death."

—Phyrexian progress notes

4/4
Plague Beetle
Creature — Insect

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

No one knows whether they were named for the disease they carry or for the speed at which they multiply.

1/1
Plague Beetle
Creature — Insect

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

No one knows whether they were named for the disease they carry or for the speed at which they multiply.

1/1
Plague Wind
Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy."

Keld Triumphant

Plague Wind
Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy."

Keld Triumphant

Primeval Shambler
Creature — Horror Mercenary

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

His mind, like his body, is made up of the swamp's flotsam.

3/3
Primeval Shambler
Creature — Horror Mercenary

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

His mind, like his body, is made up of the swamp's flotsam.

3/3
Raise Dead
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The earth cannot hold that which magic commands.

Raise Dead
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The earth cannot hold that which magic commands.

Ravenous Rats
Creature — Rat

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Nothing is sacred to the rats. Everything is simply another meal.

1/1
Ravenous Rats
Creature — Rat

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Nothing is sacred to the rats. Everything is simply another meal.

1/1
Royal Assassin
Creature — Human Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

1/1
Royal Assassin
Creature — Human Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

1/1
Scathe Zombies
Creature — Zombie

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,

Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;

It had been strange, even in a dream,

To have seen those dead men rise."

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

2/2
Scathe Zombies
Creature — Zombie

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,

Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;

It had been strange, even in a dream,

To have seen those dead men rise."

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

2/2
Serpent Warrior
Creature — Snake Warrior

When this creature enters, you lose 3 life.

A hiss before dying.

3/3
Serpent Warrior
Creature — Snake Warrior

When this creature enters, you lose 3 life.

A hiss before dying.

3/3
Sever Soul
Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"The mortal world is a grove of sweet fruit, and I am ready to harvest it."

—Fallen angel

Sever Soul
Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"The mortal world is a grove of sweet fruit, and I am ready to harvest it."

—Fallen angel

Severed Legion
Creature — Zombie

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

No one in Aphetto answers a knock at the door after sundown.

2/2
Severed Legion
Creature — Zombie

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

No one in Aphetto answers a knock at the door after sundown.

2/2
Slay
Instant

Destroy target green creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

The elves had the edge in guile, skill, and valor. But in the end, only sheer numbers mattered.

Slay
Instant

Destroy target green creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

The elves had the edge in guile, skill, and valor. But in the end, only sheer numbers mattered.

Soul Feast
Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

You are who you eat.

Soul Feast
Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

You are who you eat.

Spineless Thug
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary

This creature can't block.

What it lacks in backbone, it makes up for in cruelty.

2/2
Spineless Thug
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary

This creature can't block.

What it lacks in backbone, it makes up for in cruelty.

2/2
Swarm of Rats
Creature — Rat

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

"Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life."

—Bram Stoker, Dracula

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Swarm of Rats
Creature — Rat

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

"Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life."

—Bram Stoker, Dracula

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Underworld Dreams
Enchantment

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."

—Rabindranath Tagore

Underworld Dreams
Enchantment

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."

—Rabindranath Tagore

Unholy Strength
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Such power grows the body as it shrinks the soul.

Unholy Strength
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Such power grows the body as it shrinks the soul.

Vampiric Spirit
Creature — Spirit

Flying

When this creature enters, you lose 4 life.

4/3
Vampiric Spirit
Creature — Spirit

Flying

When this creature enters, you lose 4 life.

4/3
Vicious Hunger
Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

Vicious Hunger
Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

Warped Devotion
Enchantment

Whenever a permanent is returned to a player's hand, that player discards a card.

"The spirit of the devout is easily crushed by the loss of hope."

—Fallen angel

Warped Devotion
Enchantment

Whenever a permanent is returned to a player's hand, that player discards a card.

"The spirit of the devout is easily crushed by the loss of hope."

—Fallen angel

Western Paladin
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Knight

, : Destroy target white creature.

"Expect nothing but scorn, flattery, and lies. And never turn your back on him."

—Northern paladin

3/3
Western Paladin
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Knight

, : Destroy target white creature.

"Expect nothing but scorn, flattery, and lies. And never turn your back on him."

—Northern paladin

3/3
Zombify
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it."

—Mystic elder

Zombify
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it."

—Mystic elder

Anaba Shaman
Creature — Minotaur Shaman

, : This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Just try taking this bull by the horns.

2/2
Anaba Shaman
Creature — Minotaur Shaman

, : This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Just try taking this bull by the horns.

2/2