Deity of Scars

Creature — Spirit Avatar

Trample

Deity of Scars enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

{B/G}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Deity of Scars: Regenerate Deity of Scars.

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
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

DrukenReaps on Commanders you have built in …

2 years ago

TypicalTimmy a friend of mine plays god tribal. He included some of the avatars from Eventide. I forget which ones are all in there but it's some of these guys Overbeing of Myth, Deity of Scars, Divinity of Pride, Dominus of Fealty, and Nobilis of War. He activates his gods with some regularity.

ClockworkSwordfish on Power-4 Stompy Growth

2 years ago

Garruk's Gorehorn kind of feels like a weak point in a deck full of otherwise solid creatures - 3 toughness is just so low for five mana! Since every single land in your deck produces green mana, there's no reason not to run Gigantosaurus in its place. Same mana cost but just flat-out bigger! Some other really solid five-mana creatures to consider include Wolfir Silverheart, Arbor Colossus and Deity of Scars.

wint3rz3d on Double negative

3 years ago

hi check out Needle Specter Noxious Hatchling and Deity of Scars

PhthisisClock on Negative Creep Modern

4 years ago

Removed the now-banned Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis , 1x Channeler Initiate , and 1x Necroskitter .

Added 1x Deity of Scars , and 2x Dusk Urchins .

Zakuzelo on Negative Creep Modern

4 years ago

You know, I was really hoping you'd point out some key thing I was missing about Necroskitter that warranted keeping him. Damn. Love that guy.

Anyway...the biggest issue I can see with this build is that so many picks revolve around having Hapatra and/or Scarabs in play, or in having lots of snakes and bugs from those two cards. Even with seven of those cards and three tutors, that seems questionable. Therefore, I think the best stuff too look at would be cards that work better with your token generators, but are still strong without them.

Carnifex Demon ? Deity of Scars ? Midnight Banshee ? Dusk Urchins ?

Darth_Savage on Hapatra & Izoni.

5 years ago

One of the advantages of Modern is that you can access a large pool of cards and find the most efficient option, but as a newer player those cards won't be necessarily known to you. That being said you have slipped into one of the bad habbits that most new players have; you aren't running 4x of any card in your deck, this reduces the consitency of your play. It might seem more interesting to have lots of different cards, but in the long run it actually hurts your deck.

Now you happen to have chosen the theme of -1/-1 counters and these haven't actually played a major part of magic that often. One of the earlier sets to play around with them was Eventide, it featured: Twinblade Slasher, Quillspike, Woodlurker Mimic, Cauldron Haze, Noxious Hatchling, Soul Snuffers, Wickerbough Elder, Deity of Scars and finally Necroskitter. That is clearly a lot of cards, it isn't exaustive and I'm not suggesting you use them all, but I hope you can start to see the options in the Modern format.

Every deck wants to draw cards, well from Shadowmoor there are two obvios cards that help you do that Dusk Urchins and Scarscale Ritual. More up to date now, one card I was surprised you didn't include was Obelisk Spider, which strikes me as a good fit, then again another spider also struck me as a good fit, this time from Journey into Nyx, if you want tio utilise your graveyard Nyx Weaver. The biggest baddest -1/-1 spell though came from Mirrodin Besieged Black Sun's Zenith.

This is just the start though, to give you a taste of what earlier sets might offer your deck. For now try to work out which cards you want to see in every opening hand and run four of them, then build the deck around those core cards. Good luck and enjoy brewing your deck.

Chasmolinker on Competitive Mono Black Midrange on a Budget

5 years ago

I wouldn't cut Gary for anything. Deity of Scars is simply a budget Phyrexian Obliterator. Although with the reprint it took a decent drop in price.

Sargeras on Competitive Mono Black Midrange on a Budget

5 years ago

Chasmolinker

The problem with playing Deity of Scars is that if we choose to play him, we are further increasing the curve of the deck, even though he's interesting to play. You could definitely play him as a one of over something like Lashwrithe, or ditch gray merchant and with him as big beater on top.