msem-instigator

Rend deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.
Whenever you cast a black spell, you may pay {1} and exile Rend from your graveyard. If you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker if it was dealt damage this turn.

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life and that permanent's controller loses 1 life.

Choose four nonland card names. Target opponent reveals their hand and discards all cards with the chosen names.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It has base power and toughness 1/1 and is a Construct in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Compose (Then if you cast this from your hand, exile it and create a Saga token with “r3—You may cast a copy of this card from exile without paying its mana cost.”)

Sacrifice Repurposed Killdrone: It deals 1 damage to any target. You gain 1 life.

Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—{1}{B}{B}, Sacrifice a creature or a planeswalker. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Restless Oppressor.

Target opponent chooses a creature card in your graveyard. Return the chosen card from your graveyard to your hand.

Trial 4 (As you cast this spell, an opponent of your choice may pay 4 life. If they don't, they fail the trial.)
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step unless the trial was failed.

Enspirit (As you cast this spell, you may exile a nonenchantment creature you control until this leaves the battlefield or fails to resolve. Reduce this spell's cost by the exiled card's mana value.)
When Returned Bokor dies, return it to its owner's hand.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a library has twenty or fewer cards left in it, return Returned Explorer from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

As long as there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, Returned Minotaur gets +1/+1 and has menace.

{B}: Revenant Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Destroy target creature. Investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

When Reverence Seeker dies, you may return another target Knight card from your graveyard to your hand.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay that creature's mana cost. If you do, search your library for a card and put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Menace
Revive {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it except it has no mana cost. Revive only as a sorcery.)

Flying
Whenever Revived Pterosaur deals combat damage to an opponent, that player discards a card.
{4}{B}{B}, Discard two cards: Return Revived Pterosaur from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Codex — Ser Wayver, the Broken Hour; Suzume Oshiruko; Aguri, Shadow of Doubt; Sukhar, Consort to the Dark; Chi Lee of the Underworld. (As this enters, conjure its contents into a shuffled face-up additional library.)
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast this codex's contents.

Foretell {1}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Choose one. If this spell was foretold, you may choose both instead —
• Each opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card revealed this way. Exile that card.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{B}, Exile Rift Splicing from your graveyard: Aetherize target creature card with mana value 3 or less in a graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery. (To aetherize, create a token that's a copy of it, then exile that token.)

Scry 1, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 1 life.

Submerge all creature cards in graveyards. (To submerge a card, exile it, then put it on the battlefield face down under its owner's control as a 2/2 creature.)

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.