Commander

• Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist – Taps to return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield at sorcery speed, but the creature comes back as a Skeleton with no abilities.

Planeswalkers

• Liliana of the Veil – Makes every player discard, or makes one player sacrifice a creature, which is a fine way to stock your own graveyard while ruining someone’s evening.
• Liliana, the Last Hope – Shrinks an attacker, and its minus ability mills two cards and lets you take a creature from your graveyard back to your hand.
• Liliana, Waker of the Dead – Its plus ability makes each player discard, with opponents who can’t discard losing 3 life, and its minus ability shrinks a creature by the number of cards in your graveyard.

Creatures

• Alpharael, Stonechosen – A 3/3 whose ward makes anyone who targets it discard a card at random, and its attack trigger can cut the defending player’s life in half when something has left the battlefield this turn.
• Ayara, First of Locthwain – Whenever a black creature enters under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1, and she can sacrifice another creature to draw a card.
• Bloodghast – It can’t block, but it keeps crawling back from the graveyard whenever a land enters under your control.
• Dark Confidant – Gives you an extra card every upkeep in exchange for life equal to the mana value of whatever you flip.
• Darkstar Augur – A black creature that gives the deck one more body to discard, reanimate, or sacrifice as the situation demands.
• Death’s Shadow – A 13/13 that shrinks by your life total, so it gets scary once you have paid enough life for cards and mana.
• Disciple of Bolas – Sacrifice another creature when it enters and you gain life and draw that many cards, based on the sacrificed creature’s power.
• Doom Whisperer – A 6/6 flying trampler for five mana that lets you pay 2 life to surveil 2.
• Elegy Acolyte – Another black body for the graveyard shell, equally happy as a discard target or a reanimation target.
• Emet-Selch, Ascian – Lifelink, lets you pay 2 life in place of each black mana in a cost, and grows every time you cast a black spell.
• Giant of Babil – A trampling brute that enters tapped and doesn’t untap normally, but untaps whenever you cast a historic spell.
• Golbez, Clad In Darkness – Pings each opponent for 1 whenever creatures die or creature cards move in and out of graveyards, which makes every reanimation spell a little painful for the table.
• Grave Researcher – A black creature that adds one more graveyard-flavored body to the pile Xu-Ifit gets to pick from.
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel – Drains each opponent for your devotion to black and gains you the same amount.
• Junji, the Midnight Sky – A 5/5 flying menace dragon that, when it dies, either makes each opponent discard two cards and lose 2 life or steals a non-Dragon creature from a graveyard.
• Keen Duelist – A black creature that gives the deck one more body to work with.
• Nine-Lives Familiar – A black creature that fits the recursion theme and is not precious about dying.
• Ob Nixilis, the Fallen – Every land drop can make a player lose 3 life while Ob Nixilis grows by three +1/+1 counters.
• Rottenmouth Viper – Squeezes opponents each time it enters or attacks by forcing them to sacrifice, discard, or lose life.
• Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar – A black legend that adds another body to the creature count.
• Skeleton Crew – A creature that, with the commander’s habit of making Skeletons, feels right at home.
• Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon – A flying infect dragon that can gain haste or regenerate for a single black mana each.
• Tragedy Feaster – A black creature that gets along well with a deck full of discard effects.
• Twilight Diviner – A black creature that pads the creature count and gives the graveyard something to chew on.
• Unstoppable Slasher – A deathtouch creature that can cut a player’s life in half when it connects.
• Witch of the Moors – A deathtouch body that, if you gained life this turn, makes each opponent sacrifice a creature and lose 2 life at your end step.
• Zenos yae Galvus – When it enters, everything except itself and one chosen opposing creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn, and it transforms if that chosen creature leaves the battlefield.
• Zodiark, Umbral God – An indestructible 5/5 that costs five black mana, makes each player sacrifice half their non-God creatures when it enters, and grows whenever a player sacrifices another creature.

Sorceries

• Dread Return – Returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield, and flashback lets you sacrifice three creatures to do it again.
• Echoing Return – Puts a creature card from your graveyard into your hand along with every other card that shares its name.
• Forever Young – A sorcery that supports the graveyard plan.
• Nuclear Fallout – Every creature gets twice -X/-X until end of turn, and each player gets X rad counters.
• Persist – Brings back a nonlegendary creature from your graveyard with a -1/-1 counter on it.
• Profane Command – A flexible X spell that can drain a player, reanimate a creature, shrink creatures, or make them harder to block.
• Victimize – Sacrifice a creature to return two creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
• Zero Point Ballad – Destroys all creatures with toughness X or less and costs you X life, and if X is 6 or more it returns a creature it destroyed under your control.

Instants

• Archenemy’s Charm – A three-mode instant that can exile a creature or planeswalker, return one or two creatures and planeswalkers from your graveyard to your hand, or pump a creature with two counters and lifelink.
• Baron Rivalry – An instant that gives the deck another interactive option.
• Battle at the Big Bridge – Destroys a creature with mana value 2 or less for one black mana, or mana value 4 or less if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.
• Bitter Triumph – Destroys a creature or planeswalker, and you pay for it by discarding a card or paying 3 life.
• Culling the Weak – Sacrifice a creature and add four black mana.
• Dark Ritual – Turns one black mana into three, which is how a turn-one Xu-Ifit sometimes happens.
• Feign Death – Gives a creature a temporary safety net that returns it with a +1/+1 counter if it dies this turn.
• Infernal Grasp – Destroys a creature for two mana and costs you 2 life.
• Sheoldred’s Edict – Makes an opponent sacrifice a nontoken creature, a creature token, or a planeswalker, depending on the mode you pick.
• Songs of the Damned – Adds one black mana for each creature card in your graveyard.
• Undying Malice – Gives a creature a one-turn promise to come back with a +1/+1 counter if it dies.
• Warping Wail – An instant that gives the deck one more interactive option.

Artifacts

• Arcane Signet – Taps for one mana of a color in your commander’s color identity.
• Conjurer’s Closet – Lets you flicker a creature you control at the beginning of your end step.
• El Dorado Sarcophagus – An artifact that rounds out the support package.
• Gauntlet of Power – Pumps every creature of the chosen color and makes basic lands tap for extra mana of that color.
• Kefka’s Tower – Lets you play cards off the top of your library by paying life instead of mana, and sacrificing ten nonland permanents makes each opponent lose 10 life.
• Pact Weapon – An artifact that rounds out the support package.
• Sol Ring – Taps for two colorless mana, and a Commander table will let you know how they feel about it.
• Thought Vessel – Taps for colorless mana and removes your maximum hand size, which pairs nicely with all that discard.
• Vorpal Sword – Gives a creature +2/+0 and deathtouch, and for eight mana it can make any combat damage to a player an instant win.

Enchantments

• Corpses of the Lost – Buffs the Skeletons and Zombies you control, which is convenient when your commander keeps making Skeletons.
• Sothera, the Supervoid – When a creature you control dies, each opponent exiles one of their creatures, and if a player controls no creatures at your end step, Sothera sacrifices itself to put one of those exiled creatures onto your side with two extra +1/+1 counters.

Lands

• Bojuka Bog – Enters tapped and exiles a player’s graveyard, handy against the other reanimator player at the table.
• Crypt of Agadeem – Taps for black, or pays two to tap for black mana equal to the black creature cards in your graveyard.
• Drannith Ruins – A nonbasic land that helps keep the mana base running smoothly.
• Leechridden Swamp – Taps for black, and can drain each opponent for 1 if you control two or more black permanents.
• Midgar, City of Mako – A land that enters tapped for black, with an adventure side that lets you sacrifice an artifact or creature to draw two.
• Mortuary Mire – Enters tapped for black and puts a creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
• Myriad Landscape – Enters tapped, taps for colorless, and can sacrifice itself later to fetch two basic lands.
• Swamp – Twenty-six copies of the most reliable land in the deck.
• Terrain Generator – Taps for colorless and can put a basic land from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
• Witch’s Cottage – Enters untapped if you control three or more other Swamps, and can put a creature from your graveyard on top of your library.

Sideboard

• Unearth – Returns a creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, and it cycles for two.
• Zombify – Returns any creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield for four mana.