Try Coercion, Dark Inquiry, Diplomacy of the Wastes, Doomfall, Memory Leak, Memory Theft, Never Happened, Perish the Thought, Reckoner Shakedown, or Toil of the Invasion, if you just want to pluck a card of your choice out of an opponents hand for three mana
If a spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost
The old Mono-Black Devotion deck he featured in was one of the best decks of the original Theros Standard format, but was a bit more of midrange deck than a deck based around permanents
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Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet is another vampire sac outlet that is devastating for your opponents to deal with, denying them their graveyards and giving you protection against wipes