Crow of Dark Tidings

Creature — Zombie Bird

Flying

When Crow of Dark Tidings enters the battlefield or dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield), mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Legality

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

Discussion (47)

Shaffe_House on Araumi of the Dead Tide

2 years ago

Creatures

Reanimation Targets:

Game Winners

Diluvian Primordial, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Sepulchral Primordial, Triplicate Titan, Grim Guardian, Underworld Sentinel

Value Targets

Archaeomancer, Baleful Strix, Banshee of the Dread Choir, Broodbirth Viper, Clone Shell,Demon's Disciple, Doomwake Giant,Fleshbag Marauder, Impaler Shrike, Meteor Golem, Mulldrifter, Noxious Gearhulk, Overseer of the Damned, Peregrine Drake, Reef Worm, Shriekmaw, Solemn Simulacrum

Enablers:

Champion of Wits, Crow of Dark Tidings, Deranged Assistant, Merfolk Looter, Millikin

Others:

Crashing Drawbridge Soldevi Adnate Solemn Simulacrum Wonder

Stew-Bi-Wan on The Power of my Graveyard

3 years ago

A simple card like Stitcher's Supplier gets you 6 cards in your graveyard early. Similar creatures like Crow of Dark Tidings are also good for that. Stinkweed Imp and other dredge are great too. Help get all those creatures to the bin. Also, an excellent blocker you keep bringing back.

WItC on Budget Beginner Teaching Decks (#4 Black)

4 years ago

I like it ClockworkSwordfish. Gorging Vulture is a strictly better card, and I worry that it will make graveyard shenanigans too reliable. Also, I do favor the Crow of Dark Tidings art, but both are good and certainly up to personal taste. I'll give it a trial run in a few games.

triproberts12 on Hogaak Persist Combo

4 years ago

Isn't this backwards of how these leagues normally work? I thought the winner is the only one that doesn't get the budget bump, so the most powerful deck doesn't snowball.

Anyway, Mindwrack Harpy is the most pushed intro deck card I've ever seen. That's my first add.

I also like putting in more creatures with ETB effects. It's kind of awkward that you'll want to tap mana dorks for Hogaak. Glowspore Shaman, Golgari Thug, Crow of Dark Tidings, Gamekeeper, and Mire Triton can all help get Hogaak out by turn 3 if you have a good turn 1 play.

There are a lot of good gold cards in BG graeyard stuff, too: If you have anyone that's relying on indestructibility, Drown in Filth is a good budget option to feed your graveyard. If you're built around Hogaak, I'd think it should regularly be a hard removal spell with upside. Nyx Weaver is just a great card in any graveyard deck, and cheap, too. Jarad's Orders is a good double-tutor. Underrealm Lich is worth the $2, in my opinion. I would also ask yourself whether Eternal Witness is $3.50 better than Acolyte of Affliction/Golgari Findbroker/Treasured Find. Storrev, Devkarin Lich didn't get much fanfare, but the power and price tag are there.

Animist's Awakening is good value at just over $1. World Shaper and Splendid Reclamation are a little more expensive, but higher impact than other $4-5 cards I see in the list. Lower on the ramp ladder, note that Harrow and Springbloom Druid put a land in the yard. Funeral Rites isn't a bad draw spell for this deck. Same for Winding Way, Gather the Pack and Relentless Pursuit. Syphon Mind doesn't have much to do with the theme, but I start with it in most of my black value decks. Dark Deal could be very good, especially if your draw power is maximized and you can use your yard as a second hand. Greenwarden of Murasa is just a powerful card. Same for Phyrexian Delver.

Some other general budget cards for considering: Ransack the Lab, Corpse Churn, Dead Reckoning, Grapple with the Past, Hatchery Spider, Millikin, Mindwrack Demon, Once and Future, Splinterfright, The Mending of Dominaria, Skullwinder, Blood for Bones, and Vigor Mortis.

triproberts12 on Sometimes They Come Back | The Scarab God

4 years ago

Siren of the Silent Song is a favorite of mine. Also, no Empty the Pits , Syphon Flesh , Vizier of the Scorpion , or Moan of the Unhallowed ? Gotta go wide! I also recommend Stitcher's Supplier , Returned Reveler , and Crow of Dark Tidings . Stocking the graveyard is a good way to spend an early turn, so you can start getting value right away when TSG hits the board, and the mediocre bodies don't matter later, since they can come back as 4/4's. I also recommend Mire Triton and Tymaret Calls the Dead when Theros Beyond Death comes out.

bubba64 on Budget Hogaak Smash

4 years ago

SCARY_N00B The artwork on Crow of Dark Tidings is great and I appreciate the gradual value it grants. But in most cases I would rather have an ability that mills me for 3-5 cards at once. Especially at 3 mana. Thanks for the feedback though!

SCARY_N00B on Budget Hogaak Smash

4 years ago

Maybe find a way to add Crow of Dark Tidings ? Its a pretty solid way to mill yourself.

ICSM on "Bring Out Yer Dead" (Muldrotha, the Gravetide)

5 years ago

I'm of the opinion that Perpetual Timepiece is bordeline mandatory in any muldrotha list. It both self-mills and protect your yard for a very cheap price. It is just flat-out better than, say, Crow of Dark Tidings .

You are running World Shaper , but not The Mending of Dominaria or Splendid Reclamation . While shaper is by far the best of the three, I see no reason not to include the other two.

You seem to be missing a sac outlet to get your Eternal Witness, Archeomancer and the like into the yard so you can play them again. The Ideal would be something like Ashnod's Altar , or Phyrexian Tower , but Vampiric Rites and Viscera Seer are budget alternatives.

What do you mean you don't play Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds in Muldrotha? Those are beyond awesome, because they garantee land drops every turn as long as your commander is online.