Dampen Thought

Instant — Arcane

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Splice onto Arcane {1}{B} (As you play an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Legality

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

Discussion (10)

Balaam__ on Balaam__

1 year ago

@MEGAKNIGHTMEGAKNIGHT but if you didn’t run Dampen Thought or some sort of direct damage spell, I don’t see any way to win here. No creatures means no combat damage, so unless there’s something I’m still missing I think you kind of have to run Dampen Thought.

Balaam__ on MEGAKNIGHTMEGAKNIGHT

1 year ago

Aha, I understand now. I figured the only possible wincon was through milling out the opponent’s deck, but couldn’t piece together the infinite mana/stack portion. I would definitely recommend some sort of maindeck fireball-esque direct damage spell though, as you said. There aren’t any Surgical Extractions to worry about in Pauper, but it’s not impossible to completely remove Dampen Thought in which case you’d be in trouble.

Delphen7 on MTG acrostic

1 year ago

I've looked at it a bit, but I think it would be helpful to know which (if any) clues you've gotten.

The ones I've found (or have a decent idea of) thus far are:

• B) I think it's Mirari as that makes the most sense, but could also be Hankyu or Onulet
• E) I want to say tao
• F) The only black instant from 2004 or earlier that gives -1/-1 with 5 characters in its name is Night
• G) Mark Rosewater has a post from 2016 that says BFM inspired split cards, but it's weird that post is from 2016 and the puzzle is from 2004.
• J) I'm fairly sure it's weenie
• K) The only word that comes after splice on cards is onto (Dampen Thought)
• T) I heavily suspect this is flash, but the h in location 149 is throwing me off.

Disasterpiece on Scorched Earth

5 years ago

This is a tricky one, I would seriously consider splashing a third color for access to cards that fetch artifacts like Fabricate but the mana fixing becomes a serious issue. I would happily drop AEther Membrane to do this but a three color deck just sounds inherently unreliable in terms of mana.

I mainly wanted to try to build around Isochron Scepter and my thoughts other than straight burn would be Doom Blade , Geth's Verdict , Mana Leak , Angelsong , Assassin's Trophy , Bile Blight , Commencement of Festivities , Dampen Thought , Dash Hopes , Deflecting Palm , Essence Scatter , Feed the Clan , Growth Spiral , Heroes' Reunion , Increasing Vengeance , Nourish , Raise the Alarm , Redirect , Solidarity of Heroes , Turn to Frog , Twincast , Veil of Secrecy , Whitesun's Passage .

I don't know, it just seems like the scepter could be a really awesome addition to a lot of decks but you would want the scepter plus a fetch for it as well.

imafreak05 on Control Mill

6 years ago

Mind Sculpt, Startled Awake  ^Flip and Dampen Thought are all good mill cards.

Mana Leak, Rune Snag and Stymied Hopes are some good control ideas.

Jace's Sanctum is a good Enchantment to run.

I SAY COUNTER GOOD SIR! is my Counter/Mill Deck I built.

Araignee on Windmill 2.0

6 years ago

Hi! Gave me some ideas to improve on my good old Ravnica Dimir deck :) You might want to put Shriekgeist into your creatures. Cheap nice fellow who helps with milling. Or for the multiplayer, Wight of Precinct Six might come in handy (and heavy), so would ths guy: Jace's Phantasm.

For some cheap milling, here goes Thought Scour. And of course, Dampen Thought. If you have some mana to spare, Psychic Drain is a nice one too. If you want to invest some money into your deck, the ultimate milling thing is Glimpse the Unthinkable which would get deadly with your enchantemnts.

Alkadron on

6 years ago

Kindred Boon and That Which Was Taken are both pretty gross with the Myojin, alongside being generally good cards and thematically appropriate.

(Not sure if you're familiar with the storyline of Kamigawa, but the Spirits were at war with the mortal realm because Konda, Lord of Eiganjo stole their divinity for himself. That's what's being depicted on the card That Which Was Taken.)

Also Dampen Thought is not good. You'll never mill someone out with it; it just won't do much. I'd swap it out for Horobi's Whisper or Eye of Nowhere.

aleister23 on Frazzled

6 years ago

I think it you need some more good early interactions until you have the mana to pull of double half deck.

I would cut sea scryer and phantasms as your early turns want to have more control and not really beating and scryer looks nice but feels like a magnet for removal. This would open up 6 spots to add some R with 2 Geistblast for the combo kill and 4 Glacial Ray for board control.

Adding red would also allow for some better ramp than signet or chalice with Desperate Ritual if you add even more arcane cards like 3 Dampen Thought instead of 1 traumatize and the psychic surgery

But i know this are a lot of changes and i am not sure if it would change your deck to a whole new deck :-P sry for that