Festering Evil

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, Festering Evil deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

{B}{B}, Sacrifice Festering Evil: Festering Evil deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

Coward_Token on Jumpstart 2022

1 year ago

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• Don't like most of the Japanese art, looks like cheap screencap alters. Mind you, I like anime.
• Runadi should really be titled Hydra Caller
• Creeping Bloodsucker is a fine addition to Belbe, Corrupted Observer, even if it doesn't curve. Three life a turn isn't bad either.
• Chevill is getting support at a glacial pace
• I'd rather have another Plague Spitter reprint than Festering Evil
• Towering Gibbon looks so cute, haha. I kinda wish it looked at all your permanents though, mostly feels like a more boring green Clone
• I've definently never seen Kibo before. Anyway, are primates only getting two new cards? Because I feel gruul doesn't have very exciting support for EDH. At least Scrounging Bandar works.
• Pirated Copy: So this isn't quite Clone + Tandem Lookout. For one, it's drawing you on combat damage only, so no shenanigans with Lightning-Rig Crew. However, it also lets you copy other people's stuff, which means that their combat can benefit you. I think, but am not sure, that copying a token will make the drawing ability work with all tokens with the same type that aren't otherwise named. Because go-wide decks needed to be put down more in EDH. Not really into this with Admiral Beckett Brass TBH, too high MV. (What I really want is for Protean Raider to get the preserved tribal part of the ability.)
• Don't like white getting copies trough Preston the Vanisher, even if they're weak. Illusions in particular don't feel right for a truth-oriented philosophy, although I suppose light can blind and not just reveal. Surprised it didn't have a blue mana pip somewhere.
• Ashcoat curves nicely enough into Marrow-Gnawer, regardless which one is your commander. Attack with Ashcoat to give your Rats extra power, sacrifice one of them with Gnawer for extra tokens (and even more attack power next turn), then recur the saced rat with Ashcoat. Getting to recur not just one put two cards a turn is quite generous too.

KongMing on Rakdos Demons

4 years ago

I see the way you are trying to dominate the board is through mass wipes, some general sacrifice and destroy effects, and big flying creatures who hit hard once the board is clear. It's a great strategy for something like Red/White or Red/Green. But you're playing Red/Black, which means you have ample sacrifice and graves games you can play. You just need to maybe be willing to cut a couple bigger demons for smaller creatures who act as sac fodder, and replace your targeted Instant removal with repeatible effects that have better longevity in a multiplayer game.

First, you want to benefit more from sacrificing creatures and having things die. Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos are incredibly oppressive cards whose forced sacrifice go through hexproof, shroud, and indestructible. Zulaport Cutthroat, Pawn of Ulamog, Smothering Abomination, and Grim Haruspex are a few examples of these.

Fleshbag Marauder, Merciless Executioner can force sacrifices all around the board.

Viscera Seer is an example of a good sac engine, but there are many more. Then all you really need is either token generators to produce zombies/imps/elementals to sac, or a recursion engine that puts things from grave to your field/hand.

Some cards that can help get Rakdos out and rack up damage on your turn: Festering Evil, Fireblade Artist, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, Lim-Dul's Hex, Magmatic Force, Palace Siege, Subversion.

SpiralWolfos on Does a card like this …

4 years ago

I'm not sure where you're playing the deck at, but there are cards like Pestilence , Pyrohemia and Festering Evil if you're willing to put the mana into them. Fiery Confluence will also allow you to deal 1 damage 3 times, similar to the effect that cdkime was talking about. If you are using this effect for Polyraptor, I think Izzet Staticaster could be pretty cute repeatable way to ping the original Polyraptor as well as all the tokens. Hopefully you'll be able to use one of these.

Cloudius on orzhov enchantment hate

5 years ago

Auramancer mainly fetches Auras. I went through your list again and realised you don't run them at all, so we can ignore this suggestion.

In EDH, I'd play redundant cards if the effects are important, so u may not cut the Annex.

I'd cut the following:

Subversion - It's a 5 drop, and at best gains you 3 life each turn. It's worst in 1 v 1 situations.

Festering Evil - Same reasons as above. 5 drops should have a bigger impact on the game imho. I'd run Pestilence if I needed the damage effect, it costs 1 mana less and you have to wait till your upkeep for it to trigger.

Screams of the Damned - Same reasons as above.

Royal Assassin - He has a fragile body and can only kill 1 creature per turn. Perhaps Grave Pact if you need more removal, as you can churn out tokens and sac them to trigger GP.

Drana's Emissary - 1 life loss/gain won't get you very far, esp when we start with 40 HP in EDH.

Myojin of Night's Reach - It's effect us powerful but it's also an 8 drop. By the time you cast him, chances are, most of our opponents would have emptied their hands and have very few cards in their hands by then.

I've a Orzhov deck, though it's not the same concept as yours, perhaps you can draw some inspirations from it too. Here's the deck link.

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Caerwyn on Will WotC Keep Life Loss …

5 years ago

Yes--I think black having its own distinct feel and mechanic is important. I do not foresee Wizards abandoning life loss as a fundamental component of Black's identity.

Also, I take issue with your statement of "dealt damage in the past, but always when draining life": Artifact Possession, Choking Sands, Corpse Lunge, Curse Artifact, Curse of Thirst, Cursed Land, Dakmor Plague, Dead Reckoning, Desolation, Dry Spell, Evincar's Justice, Famine, Festering Evil (I think this is sufficient to prove my point, but I'm only at the letter F and there would be a lot more to copy and paste).

smitm901 on Mogis, Paragon of Attrition

6 years ago

Thanks for the idea, I never really thought about how vulnerable to non-basic land hate my deck was and the additional basics will make it run smother since I have enough dual lands for potential color problems. if you are planning on going Death Pits of Rath + AEther Flash, I would recommend running Festering Evil, cuz of the oppressiveness of the Death Pits of Rath + Festering Evil.

Squirrel_of_War on

6 years ago

Maybe more cards that deal damage on upkeep so you can get a consistent reduction in CMC for your dudes.

• Enslave(multipurpose)
• Festering Evil
• Collapsing Borders
• Form of the Dragon(risky)
• Goblin Bomb(20 damage!)