5 best black Magic: The Gathering cards in Streets of New Capenna

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Magic: The Gathering’s latest expansion, Streets of New Capenna has some pretty fantastic cards hiding in the collection. This list focuses on the powerful black cards that arrived in the game with this recent update. From potential new iterations of classic cards, graveyard and mill shenanigans, and amazing ways to search through decks for cards, there is a lot to love about black in Magic: The Gathering right now.

While Magic: The Gathering’s latest expansion is heavily focused on three-colored factions, the mono-colored cards certainly shine on their own. Black, in Streets of New Capenna, offers a great deal of graveyard control.

Since black can bring creatures back from the grave, having a nice and full graveyard is often a benefit to these kinds of decks. In this expansion, the Self-Mill and Aristocrat archetypes are both given significant updates.

Self-Mill decks remove cards from their own decks and put them into the graveyard. This is done to either create a unique win condition or get cards from the graveyard and put them into play. Aristocrat decks are decks that are built around sacrificing cards that are in play to gain a benefit.

An honorable mention has to go to the Vampire Scrivener. An uncommon Vampire with 1 attack and 1 toughness, whenever you gain life on your turn, it gains a +1/+1 counter. Whenever you lose life during your turn, it also gains a +1/+1 counter.

It also has flying, so in a lengthy game, it could become a terrifying damage dealer, but the 5 mana cost makes it undesirable unless the player is running solid mana ramping options.

Cemetery Tampering is a really interesting enchantment, which also has Hideaway 5. This means that when you put this card into play, look at the top 5 cards on your