Onslaught

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Wheel and Deal
Instant

Any number of target opponents each discard their hands, then draw seven cards.

Draw a card.

Words of Wind
Enchantment

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand instead.

"Be logical in all things. Do not allow instinct or passion to cloud your mind."

Volume II, The Book of Insight

Accursed Centaur
Creature — Zombie Centaur

When this creature enters, sacrifice a creature.

"The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties."

—Kamahl, druid acolyte

2/2
Anurid Murkdiver
Creature — Zombie Frog Beast

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

Aphetto's swamps are alive with the dead.

4/3
Aphetto Dredging
Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Phage became both executioner and savior, helping others to the same rebirth she had found.

Aphetto Vulture
Creature — Zombie Bird

Flying

When this creature dies, you may put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

3/2
Blackmail
Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Even the most virtuous person is only one secret away from being owned by the Cabal.

Boneknitter
Creature — Zombie Cleric

: Regenerate target Zombie.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Nothing comes together as easily as it comes apart.

1/1
Cabal Archon
Creature — Human Cleric

, Sacrifice a Cleric: Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"You are weak. I am strong. The protocol is obvious."

2/2
Cabal Executioner
Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

2/2
Cabal Slaver
Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever a Goblin deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

"In its natural habitat, the goblin is stupid, yet devious. Now it's stupid, devious, and powerful."

2/1
Chain of Smog
Sorcery

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Cover of Darkness
Enchantment

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.

Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Crown of Suspicion
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/-1.

Sacrifice this Aura: Enchanted creature and other creatures that share a creature type with it get +2/-1 until end of turn.

"Darkness, hide my fear."

Cruel Revival
Instant

Destroy target non-Zombie creature. It can't be regenerated. Return up to one target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Few Cabal fighters fear death. They fear what follows it.

Death Match
Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters, that creature's controller may have target creature of their choice get -3/-3 until end of turn.

The Cabal breeds many things for the pit fights, but it never breeds compassion.

Death Pulse
Instant

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle this card, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Dirge of Dread
Sorcery

All creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle this card, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.

Disciple of Malice
Creature — Human Cleric

Protection from white

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The lantern he carried did not light his way—it signaled his approach.

1/2
Doomed Necromancer
Creature — Human Cleric Mercenary

, , Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"His sacrifice shall not be forgotten. Now toss his body over there with the others."

—Phage the Untouchable

2/2
Ebonblade Reaper
Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever this creature attacks, you lose half your life, rounded up.

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

1/1
Endemic Plague
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy all creatures that share a creature type with the sacrificed creature. They can't be regenerated.

Entrails Feaster
Creature — Zombie Cat

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile a creature card from a graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If you don't, tap this creature.

1/1
Fade from Memory
Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Proper burial is a luxury Otarians can no longer afford.

Fallen Cleric
Creature — Zombie Cleric

Protection from Clerics

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

The most terrifying zombies are those with just a hint of their old selves left.

4/2
False Cure
Instant

Until end of turn, whenever a player gains life, that player loses 2 life for each 1 life they gained.

"I do unto others as others have done unto me."

—Phage the Untouchable

Feeding Frenzy
Instant

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

It wasn't as much a strategy as a dim instinct to drown their prey.

Festering Goblin
Creature — Zombie Goblin

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

1/1
Frightshroud Courier
Creature — Zombie

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.

, : Target Zombie creature gets +2/+2 and has fear for as long as this creature remains tapped. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

2/1
Gangrenous Goliath
Creature — Zombie Giant

Tap three untapped Clerics you control: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cabal clerics don't heal the sick—they heal the dead.

4/4
Gluttonous Zombie
Creature — Zombie

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

Greed and gluttony led him to death. Now they are his greatest assets.

3/3
Gravespawn Sovereign
Creature — Zombie

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

The Cabal never expected its creations to create servants of their own.

3/3
Grinning Demon
Creature — Demon

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

It's drawn to the scent of screaming.

6/6
Haunted Cadaver
Creature — Zombie

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, that player discards three cards.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

2/2
Head Games
Sorcery

Target opponent puts the cards from their hand on top of their library. Search that player's library for that many cards. The player puts those cards into their hand, then shuffles.

Headhunter
Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

1/1
Infest
Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"It is from Phage that this evil springs, and to her it shall return."

—Akroma, angelic avenger

Misery Charm
Instant

Choose one —

• Destroy target Cleric.

• Return target Cleric card from your graveyard to your hand.

• Target player loses 2 life.

Nantuko Husk
Creature — Zombie Insect

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The soul sheds light, and death is its shadow. When the light dims, life and death embrace.

—Nantuko teaching

2/2
Oversold Cemetery
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Patriarch's Bidding
Sorcery

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

"Family plots are so convenient."

—Cabal Patriarch

Profane Prayers
Sorcery

Profane Prayers deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

"We have ways to make you talk, but you have nothing interesting to say."

Prowling Pangolin
Creature — Pangolin Beast

When this creature enters, any player may sacrifice two creatures of their choice. If a player does, sacrifice this creature.

It's always hungry, yet easily sated.

6/5
Rotlung Reanimator
Creature — Zombie Cleric

Whenever this creature or another Cleric dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

2/2
Screeching Buzzard
Creature — Bird

Flying

When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

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
Shade's Breath
Instant

Until end of turn, each creature you control becomes a black Shade and gains ": This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

The grim business of the Coliseum casts long shadows.

Shepherd of Rot
Creature — Zombie Cleric

: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

"My priests swore loyalty to the Cabal not until death, but beyond it."

—Cabal Patriarch

1/1
Silent Specter
Creature — Specter

Flying

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

4/4
Smother
Instant

Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. It can't be regenerated.

"I can't hear them scream, but at least I don't have to listen to them beg."

—Phage the Untouchable

Soulless One
Creature — Zombie Avatar

Soulless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield plus the number of Zombie cards in all graveyards.

"Surrender your soul to me."

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Spined Basher
Creature — Zombie Beast

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

"How cute. Does it do any other tricks?"

—Braids, dementia summoner

3/1
Strongarm Tactics
Sorcery

Each player discards a card. Then each player who didn't discard a creature card this way loses 4 life.

"If you can't pay your gambling debts, you just might be tomorrow's main attraction at the Grand Coliseum."

Swat
Instant

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Few who cross Phage have the chance to repeat the mistake.

Syphon Mind
Sorcery

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Soul
Sorcery

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

As Phage drank their energy, a vague memory of Jeska stirred. Then she lost herself again in the joy of her victims' suffering.

Thrashing Mudspawn
Creature — Beast

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you lose that much life.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

It just obeys you. It doesn't like you.

4/4
Undead Gladiator
Creature — Zombie Barbarian

, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

3/1
Visara the Dreadful
Legendary Creature — Gorgon

Flying

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

"My eyes are my strongest feature."

5/5
Walking Desecration
Creature — Zombie

, : Creatures of the creature type of your choice attack this turn if able.

Such sacrilege turns blinding grief into blinding rage.

1/1