Cato's common for common
Steinhauser's common for uncommon?

steinhauser's common

Cato's uncommon

Common: Steinhauser.

Uncommon: Steinhauser

thatmarkguy had a cool uncommon, but I'm not sure that it's actually an uncommon.

Ok, I figured it out.

Voting so far:

Common
Cato - 7
Steinhauser - 3
Effigy - 1
Parad - 1

Uncommon
TP - 4
Confused - 2
Steinhauser - 2
Ace of Moxes - 1
Cato - 1

Other
Mown's common in the uncommon slot - 1
Steinhauser's common in the uncommon slot - 1

Ok, next criteria is to make a black uncommon utility creature.

Sunseared Arric --
Creature - Spider (U)

Whenever Sunseared Arric blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature at the end of combat.

Many arrics build their webs out of sunlight, instead of silk.
2 / 3

Battlefield Salvager
Creature - Human Wizard [2/2] (U)
Exile target creature from your graveyard: Add to your mana pool. Use this mana only to cast creature spells.

Bloodwind Diviner
Creature. (U)
, T: target instant or sorcery spell gains "Lose 1 life and draw a card"
2/3

Drillskull Delver
Creature - Beast (U)
Whenever Drillskull Delver becomes tapped, put target artifact or creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
When a delver gets cold, it burrows down to the ground. Scavengers often follow, hoping to find food or relics preserved in the ice.
1/4

get it???? tapped == frozen

Soul Taxer -
Creature - Zombie Cleric
Whenever an artifact or enchantment dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If that artifact or enchantment is a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
While the living craftsmen poured their heart and soul into their creations, the dead tore them apart to savour the taste of what they had lost and forgotten once again.
1/2

[Cardname]
Creature - [Creature Type]
When ~ comes into play put a 2/2 black zombie creature token into play.
2/2

Verity Gnasher
Enchantment Creature - Spirit
When ~ enters the battlefield, exile target token.
"Your possessions are but shackles, keeping you from my radiant embrace."
2/1

Artifact hate in black booyah.

Ebonscale Butcher
Creature—Viashino Berserker (U)
, Sacrifice a Viashino: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
From eggshell to cookpot
—Viashino expression meaning "one's entire life"
2/2

What better utility is there than to tutor?

Student of Finality
Creature - Human Wizard (U)
Mastery - when Student of Finality dies, if you control an Artifact, a Creature, an Enchantment, and a Land, you may search your library for any card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
In life, he wasn't considered a star student at the Academy. His professors only saw his worth in his final project - too late to reward him for it.
1/1

Steinhauser. Mown's is super cool too, he should totally submit that ability for some other common or uncommon slot.

Er, could I throw one in real quick?

Unscrupulous Merchant
Creature

When ~ enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose an artifact or enchantment card from it. That player discards that card.

"Here, let me take that off your hands"

2/1

Gotcha.

I like thatmarkguys' for the dies mastery, but I don't quite see mastery in black.
And I thought Viashinos were supposed to be primarily GR here.

For now I vote Confused since I like how it works.

Eh, supposed and supposed. They're technically only in black and red right now, although I would like to see them in RG. I'd imagine we could have a couple black oddballs, although I wouldn't want any tribal cards there I don't think.

Gonna go with Shazzeh I think, because it feels flavorful. Well, maybe except the part where it starts reanimating creatures.

Mown