Contaminated Bond

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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
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Contaminated Bond

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you play this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

Kazierts on Monoblack Burn [Budget/Casual/Jank]

1 year ago

wallisface, in regards to your thoughts:

  • Yes, Fruit of Tizerus isn't great, just as Shock isn't for . However, doesn't have many equivalents to Lightning Bolt.

  • Following on the topic of a Bolt equivalent, I considered Chancellor of the Dross, but it's a problematic card. It's really only useful on the first turn, becoming even worse on later turns, since its only utility would be Smallpox fodder.

  • Again I have to agree with your assessment, but just with Sword-Point Diplomacy. 3 mana is kinda slow for burn decks, but I also know one of the main problems with burn decks is they tend to run out of gas. Sword-Point Diplomacy can burn and provide card advantage. Sign in Blood on the other hand is a bit better, being 2 mana. Probably the better option would be Night's Whisper, but it's a bit out of budget.

  • Clawing Torment, as well as some cards like Sinister Possession and Contaminated Bond, can be pretty decent against more aggressive decks, but useless against more control decks. For this reason I opted to run card draw. I'll still consider you suggestion and add the Chancellor to the maybe, just to playtest and see how well it works.

The deck isn't meant to be aggro. I'm just dumb and wrote something in the descprition that isn't what I wanted to meant. I'll change it to aggressive.

Really appreciate the suggestions!

Coward_Token on Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

2 years ago

Oh yeah, there's also some non-death Auras mostly associated with Xantcha that would be nice to put on goaded creatures, like Vampiric Link, Treacherous Link, and Contaminated Bond

Epicurus on Warweaver's Chant

2 years ago

Hello Snakeman!

Saw your post on the AyCD thread, but unfortunately I'm no good at suggesting cuts. I did want to comment anyway, though, because I really like Thantis (though I've never built her myself) and I've envisioned her a bit differently than what you have here.

In my opinion, you should run a lot more attack-consequent cards. In other words, cards that punish your opponents for attacking you.

On the top of that list is No Mercy, which some people don't like to use because it causes hurt feels. To me, though, it's a no-brainer. Here's a few others I like:

In addition to that list, I might also suggest Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant and Parasitic Impetus, both of which feed your theme, and Druids' Repository, which is great ramp in any attack heavy deck.

There I go, making things even more complicated, hahaha...

Cheers!

Balaam__ on 101% Mono Black Burn

2 years ago

Bond of Agony is exactly the sort of spell I was looking for—great call, Chasmolinker.

I’ll pass on the land destruction, mostly because I recently built a deck abusing all sorts of cards in the Pooling Venom/Contaminated Bond wheelhouse. Bloodghast would definitely combo nicely with Zulaport Cutthroat’s LTB effect, but without him it doesn’t ‘burn’ in and of itself, so I can’t bring myself to include it. Again, it’s probably a bad call as far as winning games is concerned, but this deck was more of a thought exercise to me than something I’d expect to perform well. I appreciate the input as always.

mrdehring on Sygg Rogue Tribal

3 years ago

Welcome to EDH. This looks like a great tribal deck and rogues are a lot of fun. It looks like you have figured out that you can't play red. The rule of EDH require that you can only have the mana symbols that are in your commander. Noggle Bandit is technically red so you will have to cut that card as well.

I had a Sygg, River Cutthroat deck back in the day and I had a lot of fun effects that caused people to take a few points of life loss so I draw cards on their turn. Not sure where your budget is but Contaminated Bond and Revenge of Ravens are some ways to get a few extra cards; Revenge of Ravens also works as a deterrent to people attacking you. Other cards to think about are Bloodchief Ascension and Painful Quandary.

Happy brewing.

legendofa on Should We Be Worried About …

4 years ago

Throwing this out as a possibility: already has cards like Contaminated Ground , Contaminated Bond , and Relic Bane . My prediction is soft removal and punishment, not Disenchant .

HalbrechtHalbrecht on Life drain

5 years ago

I love mean decks like this! XD +1 from me.

Contaminated Bond made me think of Contaminated Ground , which could be fun in this deck! It really messes with their mana base and hence their ability to cast spells, potentially screwing up their color fixing as well as making them choose between being a turn behind (effectively) on mana or losing even more life.

What to cut? I'm not sold on Blood Artist and especially Zulaport Cutthroat being great in this deck, unless you KNOW you're going up against a deck that wants to sac its own creatures for value. In fact, that's the very sort of deck that these cards are good in, commonly known as the Aristocrats archetype. You need to be able to reliably ensure creature deaths through removal or sac effects in order to make Blood Artist consistently good, but you're only running 5 such effects. Note that unlike the Artist, the Cutthroat only triggers on your own creatures dying, so it's not even good against a deck that regularly sacs its creatures. So if you're going to keep one of the two, I'd keep the Artist and replace Cutthroat with Contaminated Ground.

passascats on Take My Xantcha

5 years ago

I feel like there is a lot more interesting things you could do with this deck.
There are a lot of forced combat cards out there that can make sure players are tappedout when she goes to swing: Avatar of Slaughter, Grand Melee, War's Toll, Goblin Diplomats, Total War, Warmonger Hellkite, and Invasion Plans.
There are also some cool enchantments that can help drain her controller or boost your life without mana: Visions of Brutality, Vampiric Link, Contaminated Bond, and Treacherous Link.
Temur Battle Rage, Psychotic Fury, and Uncaged Fury can boost commander damage or save her from death when she's facing another 5/5 blocker.
This one might be over budget, but Crawlspace can really help make sure you don't get hit with every other attacking creature on the board.
Good Luck!

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