Essence Feed

Sorcery

Target player loses 3 life. You gain 3 life and put three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {{1}} to your mana pool."

Tokens

• Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C

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
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (13)

Snap157 on Korvold, Fae King, ruler of Eldrazi

3 years ago

This is so cool! Have you considered Rapacious One instead of Essence Feed? Maybe Ashnod's Altar? I feel like the altar would be able to net you twice the mana from your eldrazi spawn and can also provide on-demand death to your creatures, and a hit from Rapacious One can easily advance your board state towards something powerful and repeatable.

As backups, I would consider Quicksilver Amulet or Elvish Piper in case you can't get enough mana eldrazi.

Your land base looks good, however Korvold especially benefits from lands that can sacrifice themselves. Fetch lands like Wooded Foothills, Verdant Catacombs, Bloodstained Mire, Windswept Heath, Misty Rainforest,Prismatic Vista, Scalding Tarn and Polluted Delta could really speed up your mana base and let you draw cards at the same time! I get that they may be out of budget- proxies are always an option if your playgroup is cool with them. Additional lands like Spawning Bed, Lotus Field, Jund Panorama, Blighted Woodland and Fabled Passage work well too.

Harrow instead of Wild Wanderer would fit your sacrifice theme. Pitiless Plunderer would give you double value while Broodwarden only buffs some of your creatures. You're not really winning with spawn, and a lot of your best eldrazi produce scions anyway.

I like your removal package, but I feel like there are some unneeded spells that can also be cut for ramp/removal. Things like Fog, Spawning Breath, Prismatic Omen, and Wave of Vitriol don't really advance your game plan (at least not as much as you'd like them to), and I think things such as Breaker of Armies, Nature's Lore, and Corpsehatch, and Commander's Sphere would work some wonders.

This is a super cool concept and I'm eager to see it in the future. I hope this helps!

lil_cheez on helix effects

4 years ago

Abundant Maw
Bloodrite Invoker
Blood Tithe
Chancellor of the Dross
Essence Feed
Gonti's Machinations
Morsel Theft Rhystic Syphon Siege Rhino
Vampire Sovereign

Skoodly on Eldrazi Annihilation (NEEDS HELP)

5 years ago

Pitiless Plunderer would double your eldrazi spawn sac triggers on Mazirek as opposed to a flat increase like Call the Scions or Essence Feed

Bif_Slagthor on Lord Tressertron

7 years ago

Well, Grixis is usually more control-combo rather than beatdown-voltron, but it shouldn't be too hard to make work with a little tweaking. First, we will talk of my favorite aspect, you guessed it, card draw. It's definitely better with Arcanis the Omnipotent and Sign in Blood, but I'm pretty sure you want draw that's cheaper than six mana, right? So recommendations: Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Coastal Piracy, these are just a few suggestions, but if you want, you could also look into artifacts like Mind's Eye, but you're blue and black, so your options aren't exactly limited. Ooh, there's also Phyrexian Arena and my personal favorite Read the Bones. Next, we talk cuts, then we talk what to add. So I'll try to give a brief reason while I'm at it; Butcher Ghoul: it's a 1/1 for two that does,well, nothing. Eldrazi Skyspawner: same as butcher ghoul. Emrakul's Hatcher: see previous. Opaline Unicorn: It's a rock with summoning sickness, put in a real rock.Phage the Untouchable: I've found she backfires on me more often then not, but this one is up to you.Pharika's Chosen: see Butcher Ghoul. Thraximundar: he needs his own deck, he is not a 99 filler. Not of This World: replace with Cyclonic Rift. Corpsehatch: replace with Doomblade. Devils' Playground is not a very good card, replace with Ponder or Brainstorm. Essence Feed: not great, replace with removal, like Reality Shift or Go for the Throat. Argentum Armor too expensive. replace with Loxodon Warhammer or Sol Ring. Gem of Becoming: replace with Gilded Lotus. Manalith= strictly worse than Darksteel Ingot. If you want me to give more suggestions on what to add, leave a message on my wall, but I'll leave here for now as this is a long-ass comment, and don't want you having to read a wall of text.

Panzerforge on Spawning Pool Party

7 years ago

Yes...Otherworldly Outburst fixes the mana curve nicely...

Goodbye Essence Feed.

Panzerforge on Spawning Pool Party

7 years ago

Soon...

Will replace the expensive Essence Feed and provide a suitable early game boost!

Panzerforge on Spawning Pool Party

7 years ago

Hey, Arthsi, thanks for the update!

I'm glad you're having success with a version of this, but I like my cards far too much to give them up.

The Swarm Surge + Foul-Tongue Shriek combo is absurdly fun, and Tragic Slip is such a potent removal, I would miss them too much. Even the late-game fun of Essence Feed has won me a few games.

As for Chandra's Fury, I opted for it over Electrickery thanks to the 4 damage that it also inflicts. Against a token creating deck, I don't want to just hit all their 1/1's, I want to also do some damage to the player at the same. Chandra's Fury does that really well.

IcyLightning on Sanguine Bond/ Exquisite Blood Deck

7 years ago

I love Sanguine Bond so I'm going to take a crack at helping out this deck.

I'm assuming you're new to Magic and don't have access to a ton of cards, so I'll keep it pretty budget, even though there are a TON of cards that could benefit this deck longterm if you really like it and want to make it competitive, such as Vampiric Tutor and Demonic Tutor like Triton suggested. Also try to establish a format you're playing in. If its casual, that's fine, it just helps out knowing what cards you can work with when building and advising on a deck.

• First the basics, the deck is kind of all over the place. You have a lot of cards that don't assist the win con, or what you're main strategy for the deck is, which is using Sanguine Bond to deal damage or going infinite with Sanguine Bond+Exquisite Blood. So cull the herd, cards like Duty-Bound Dead don't contribute to your win condition at all, and should be replaced with something that can benefit the deck more.

• Creatures:I'd say go for the lifelink route, as it will trigger Sanguine Bond and also help sustain you longer, which is essential in this type of deck while you are setting up your combo. You already have some creatures such as Insatiable Harpy, but there is a ton of cheaper and all around better creatures that can do it better. Vampire Nighthawk Def. this guy, run 4x. He is value for days.Child of Night Classic Monoblack creatureMourning Thrull Not explicitly lifelink, but the same effectDivinity of Pride is excellent in a lifegain deck, and could potentially be an alt win con

• Spells:You need to run more then 1 copy of Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood if you want to have any hope of getting those cards out consistently, and consistency is the hallmark of a good MTG deck. So run several copies, maybe not 4 of each unless you are REALLY committed to the combo, I'd suggest 3 Sanguine Bond and 2 Exquisite Blood, and then add from there if you still have trouble getting them out.You can Tutor for them with Diabolic Tutor, a budget Vampiric Tutor or Demonic Tutor.

• Also, I'd run more dedicated removal. Doom Blade, Murder, Flesh to Dust are all great mono black removal and budget friendly.Tribute to Hunger can be good for this deck, but is much more situational. Tendrils of Corruption and Exsanguinate both have the potential to be devastating.

• Ditch cards like Banewasp Affliction, Molting Snakeskin. They don't add much to the deck. Essence Feed is just way to expensive for its effect. Swap out Golden Urn, Demon's Horn, and Staff of the Death Magus for more Whip of Erebos, or add in Chalice of Life  ^Flip or Elixir of Immortality.

• Read the Bones and Sign in Blood can both be great card advantage for a deck that has excess life like yours will, so definitely add more of those.

-Unless you're really set on Liliana of the Dark Realms, she doesn't add much to the deck.

• Also, run 24 lands, maybe 23 if you can consistently get out the Bonds, but they are both 5 cmc, so you're Average CMC cost is high. This means you need the land to be able to play them. You could run some non basic lands such as Ghost Quarter to help thin the deck, or something like Radiant Fountain to give you that much more life, but don't run too many of these. And if budget isn't a concern... well there are ton of pricey lands that could really speed up the deck.

One more note, and that is the Mono Black deck. This deck can really benefit from splashing White. Like really benefit. White has so many options available for lifegain its ridiculous.

You can check out my Vampire tribal Sanguine Bond deck here if you wanted to see something like that:

Blood is Life... And your Death

And there are a lot of other more competitive versions of this deck that could really assist you should you want to up this into higher territory.

Wow I wrote a lot, but Black/White is my favorite color combo and was the first deck I ever made, so it holds a special place to me. Hope that I helped, and don't hesitate to ask any questions!