• Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist – Turns your dead artifacts into power and profit, making an army of zombies while fueling your artifact recursion machine.

Planeswalkers (2)

• Karn, Living Legacy – Generates Powerstones and extra mana for all your expensive contraptions.
• Karn, the Great Creator – Shuts down opposing artifacts and fetches utility pieces from exile or your sideboard.

Creatures (36)

• Anrakyr the Traveller – Gives you free artifact reanimation from the graveyard every attack.
• Canoptek Spyder – Makes tokens and mills artifacts to fill your graveyard.
• Chronomancer – Draws cards when your artifacts die; keeps the engine running.
• Circuit Mender – A value loop that gains life and draws when it leaves play.
• Cryptek – Buffs your artifact creatures and speeds up your army.
• Dalek Drone – Menaces the board and sacrifices things for value. Exterminate!
• Disciple of the Vault – Punishes opponents every time an artifact dies. Ouch.
• Filigree Familiar – Gains life, draws cards, dies beautifully.
• Foundry Inspector – Reduces all artifact costs, making your turns explode in tempo.
• Gleaming Barrier – A tiny wall that gives you a Treasure when it dies.
• Grim Haruspex – Draws cards when your creatures die. Works great with Ashnod’s fodder plan.
• Hangarback Walker – Scales with mana and leaves behind a cloud of flying Thopters when it dies.
• Imotekh the Stormlord – Doubles your artifact token production every time you reanimate something.
• Junk Diver – Retrieves dead artifacts from the graveyard for endless recycling.
• Lokhust Heavy Destroyer – Destroys opponents’ creatures on ETB. Nice removal on a body.
• Marionette Master – Drains opponents every time one of your artifacts bites it. A true finisher.
• Memnite – Free artifact body. Great early sacrifice fodder.
• Myr Retriever – Brings back a fallen friend from the graveyard when it dies.
• Myr Sire – Leaves behind another Myr when it dies. Great for loops.
• Noxious Gearhulk – Big lifegain and removal wrapped in a robot body.
• Ornithopter – Another free flyer that’s perfect sacrifice fuel.
• Perilous Myr – Deals damage when it dies. Repeat that loop enough and it adds up.
• Phyrexian Walker – Free blocker that fits perfectly into the artifact synergy pile.
• Psychomancer – Drains opponents and gains life whenever your artifacts die.
• Reassembling Skeleton – Comes back again and again for your sacrifice outlets.
• Runed Servitor – Symmetrical card draw and artifact death triggers. Fun politics tool.
• Ruthless Technomancer – Turns your creatures into Treasures and reanimates big hitters later.
• Scampering Surveyor – Finds key lands like Cabal Coffers or Phyrexian Tower.
• Scrap Trawler – The glue of the deck; recurs artifacts in descending cost chains.
• Solemn Simulacrum – Classic ramp and card draw robot. Always solid.
• Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender – Gets huge when artifacts die, plus tasty flavor text.
• Threefold Thunderhulk – Spits out a bunch of Construct tokens and scales with artifacts.
• Treasure Keeper – Cascades into free spells when it dies. Love that value.
• Virus Beetle – Small but mean; forces discard and feeds the machine.
• Workshop Assistant – Recurs another artifact when it dies. Essential combo piece.
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician – Sac outlet, draw engine, and proliferate machine. Absolutely busted.

Sorceries (9)

• Diabolic Intent – Tutor that loves your dead creatures.
• Exsanguinate – Late-game finisher that drains the whole table.
• Feed the Swarm – The rare black answer to enchantments.
• Living Death – Board wipe and mass reanimation all in one.
• Profane Tutor – Suspend this early and grab what you need later.
• Rise of the Dark Realms – The ultimate reanimation spell. Steal all the corpses.
• Terisiare’s Devastation – Artifact-themed board wipe that resets everyone else.
• Their Name Is Death – Kills all non-artifact creatures. Perfect for this deck.
• Victimize – Two-for-one reanimation spell. Just feed it a spare Myr.

Instants (9)

• Dark Ritual – Classic burst of black mana for explosive starts.
• Defile – Scales with your Swamps for efficient creature removal.
• Fell the Profane – Creature removal that drains life as a bonus.
• Go for the Throat – Efficient, reliable spot removal.
• Infernal Grasp – Kills anything for just 2 mana and 2 life. Easy trade.
• Malakir Rebirth – Saves your key creature from removal and re-triggers ETBs.
• Sheoldred’s Edict – Great at sniping indestructible or hexproof creatures.
• Soul Shatter – Forces everyone to sacrifice their biggest threat.
• Withering Torment – Deals with creatures and punishes life gain.

Artifacts (12)

• Ashnod’s Altar – Free sacrifice outlet for infinite loops and mana combos.
• Bolas’s Citadel – Lets you play the top of your library like a greedy villain.
• Crowded Crypt – Stores up zombies and explodes into an undead army.
• Krark-Clan Ironworks – The other half of infinite artifact mana loops.
• Mana Vault – Explosive early ramp for those big artifacts.
• Mox Opal – Free mana once metalcraft is online.
• Mycosynth Lattice – Turns everything into an artifact, unlocking massive synergy (and combo potential with Karn).
• Nim Deathmantle – Enables infinite recursion loops with your sac outlets.
• Radiant Lotus – Big mana rock that also fixes colorless ramp.
• Skullclamp – Draws two cards every time your 1/1 dies. Bonkers here.
• Sol Ring – You know it, you love it. It’s Sol Ring.
• Trading Post – Draws cards, makes goats, recurs artifacts. Jack of all trades.

Lands (31)

• Barad-dûr – Makes Orc Armies for sacrifice or blocking duty.
• Bojuka Bog – Graveyard hate that doesn’t cost a spell slot.
• Buried Ruin – Gets back any artifact you’ve lost.
• Cabal Coffers – Mono-black’s signature mana explosion.
• Demolition Field – Destroys problematic lands like Gaea’s Cradle.
• Field of Ruin – Another answer to utility lands.
• Inventors’ Fair – Tutors artifacts when you’ve got metalcraft online.
• Maze of Ith – Keeps you alive against giant attackers.
• Phyrexian Tower – Sac outlet that generates extra black mana.
• Reliquary Tower – No hand size limit, because you’ll draw tons.
• 14 Swamps – The essential black mana foundation.
• The Mycosynth Gardens – Copies your best artifact for a turn.
• Thespian’s Stage – Copies Cabal Coffers for maximum mana.
• Urza’s Cave – Utility land for artifact synergy.
• Urza’s Saga – Makes Constructs and fetches cheap artifacts like Skullclamp.
• Vesuva – Copies your best land, often Coffers or Tower.
• War Room – Draws cards without relying on artifacts.
• Witch’s Cottage – Reanimates a creature to the top of your deck.