Choice of Damnations

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Choice of Damnations

Sorcery — Arcane

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.

YourNeighborhoodGhost on ✠ Ascendency or Ashes (Marchesa) ✠

2 years ago

nice deck, Choice of Damnations is such a great card, maybe you will like Cruel Entertainment

reddeath68 on Everything Has a Price

2 years ago

Lithelain Some interesting suggestions, the problem with Vengeful Strangler  Flip is that they just sacrifice whatever you put the curse on. Accursed Witch  Flip would work better but she is a bit more expensive at 4 CMC.

Combustible Gearhulk Is interesting but they can be a huge whiff at 6 mana if you hit lands, plus milling can rope you of much needed cards. For instance imagine if you accidently mill your needed board wipe or kill spell, especially if Killing Wave is your board wipe over Choice of Damnations as that would only do 1 damage.

Creeping Chill Would work much better in a self mill deck, something like dredge or surveil.

reddeath68 on Everything Has a Price

2 years ago

zapyourtumor I am not sure where you are testing Choice of Damnations but in my experience it is a solid board wipe. The only issue is that it is bugged on MTGO. The ideal usage is when your opponent has a fairly solid board state and low HP they can't offer much life and are forced to sacrifice most of their board. For example say they have 7 lands and 5 creatures but only 4 life. At most they can only offer 3 life or they will automatically lose should we accept their offer, as such they have to sacrifice all but 3 permanents, including lands. Or we can accept their offer of 3 life and then bolt them. Either way there is utility but it has to be used right. Ideally you might want a second guaranteed board wipe ready.

As for Knollspine Invocation I recently added that as a sort of backup plan. The weakness of our deck is if our opponent just lets us draw off from our Risk Factor's and Sword-Point Diplomacy's then we end up with a hand full of cards and no outlet for them and the opponent would have saved themselves a lot of life. But with Knollspine Invocation instead of casting them we can pay the same cost and direct them at our opponents face or even a creature if it posses a threat to us. I will agree that it is a smidge clunky and mana intensive but I haven't found a better solution yet. I am open to suggestions

zapyourtumor on Everything Has a Price

2 years ago

Good points, although in my own testing I found Choice of Damnations to be pretty slow and clunky. I eventually ended up cutting it down to 1 copy.

Just wondering, why is Knollspine Invocation in the deck? It seems really mana intensive for what it does. Is it just to burn out the last few life points of the opponent after they pay away most of their life?

reddeath68 on Everything Has a Price

2 years ago

zapyourtumor Some fantastic suggestions, especially Killing Wave. To go over the list.

Curse of the Cabal Feels to slow and with the prevalence of the cookbook deck, I see this as a blow out against me.

Temporal Extortion I had thought about it, but I was going budget. If I find some spare cash I could certainly see it in the deck.

Killing Wave fantastic and will likely become my go to unless I can get Choice of Damnations for cheap as that hits all permanents instead of just creatures.

Pain's Reward I had thought about it, but it feels like a potential blowout where the opponent could force me to bid too much for needed card draw.

Indulgent Tormentor 5 mana CMC and dies to bolt. That didn't feel right to me. If it was either a bit cheaper or had a higher toughness I would consider it.

Desecration Demon Maybe a possible include if the deck needs more creatures. Against a deck without creatures, or with very few creatures, it could be great. However those types of decks usually run either heavy removal, bounce, or something of the like. Also I kind of want the pressure to be on their life total more than the board state.

As for a legacy deck, my experience in legacy in minimal so I can't comment too much on the meta and whatnot, but it could be fun. Currently I am planning to test a different kind of jank there being Eight-and-a-Half-Tails with a enchantment called Earnest Fellowship to nullify most threats to my creatures and run Rune of Protection: White to protect myself. The deck will run Norn's Annex and Ghostly Prison to deal with creature decks.

Lithelain on Everything Has a Price

2 years ago

reddeath68 Oh damn, turns out MTGO is not the same as MTG Arena, my bad (I was using Arena).

I went ahead with Torment of Hailfire as there were no local sellers with Choice of Damnations, but I also think the latter is far better.

I played yesterday and I loved dash hopes, sword-point diplomacy, vexing devil... overall very fun, although I found myself somehow getting the oponent to 1 or 2 hp and being unable to finish them off (it could be bad luck with lightning bolts). I'm also a bit unsure about the extort creatures, perhaps I'll tweak it a little bit and tell you how it goes (although I lack much knowledge - I don't play since the times of ninth edition).

All in all, fun times! Thanks.

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