Gruesome Slaughter

Sorcery

Until end of turn, colorless creatures you control gain "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

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
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

TypicalTimmy on Ghostly Flame and Thran Lens

2 years ago

I'm pretty busy, but here is a link for Eldrazi that care about colorless creatures

There is also Gruesome Slaughter, Swarm Surge, Tomb of the Spirit Dragon and Hedron Blade.

Honestly, with the exception of MAYBE Tomb and probably more so Slaughter, there's not enough synergy to waste slots in any deck for any format.

DrukenReaps on Druken Distortion

2 years ago

Gruesome Slaughter out

Sensei's Divining Top in

Might change up the commander to OG Kozilek, if I'm going to be the arch enemy why go soft on them?

meME12 on help me with my morophon eldrazis please!

3 years ago

Wargate , Kindred Discovery , Gruesome Slaughter , Herald's Horn , Icon of Ancestry , Coat of Arms , Chromatic Lantern , Chromatic Orrery , and Skyclave Relic could all also earn a place in this deck.

CrimsonWings3689 on The Swarm

4 years ago

Recommendations at 112 cards in decklist:

Cards to remove:

Kodama's Reach - Cultivate is the cheaper of the 2 ($ wise) and the deck can likely only support one of the 2 with how few basics you're running.

Crucible of Worlds - unless you're playing in a land destruction heavy meta, you're only likely going to benefit with this versus mill or forced discard. You're not running fetchlands so it's utility is very limited.

Illusionist's Bracers - while you have more than a handful of creatures with abilities you could double up on, the equip cost plus those activations is somewhat prohibitive. If your commander was still Sliver Queen, it would make more sense. As is it seems like an overly complicated way to double up on your effects.

Questionable Inclusions:

Rings of Brighthearth - potentially works with Barrage Tyrant, Each activation of the tap ability Gruesome Slaughter grants your colorless creatures, Idol of Oblivion, Brood Butcher, Deepfathom Skulker, Drowner of Hope, Eldrazi Displacer, Essence Depleter, Sliver Queen, Spawnsire of Ulamog, Ugin, the Ineffable, and Golos, Tireless Pilgrim. ---- Doubling World Breaker's ability doesn't make sense. With each ability costing a minimum of 2 (minus Gruesome Slaughter's activations), and up to 7, that extra 2 is going to add up fast.

If it's worth it for you for the 11-12 cards that have the abilities, that's one thing. but I would keep it as a tentative for right now with needing to cut 12 cards from the total list (9 if you cut the 3 mentioned above)

Dischord on Who toucha my spaghet!

4 years ago

I would try and find a copy of Nevinyrral's Disk to replace Gruesome Slaughter . The disk has much more impact than the slaughter, and also works as a catchup mechanism if you're behind.

Also, I noticed in your Maybeboard that you're looking to run Command Tower and Commander's Sphere - don't fall into that trap! Since Kozilek, the Great Distortion has no colors in his color identity, Command Tower and Commander's Sphere can't tap for any mana. For more information, check out the rulings from the Gatherer link for Commander's Sphere here.

QuietMyth on Primer: Kozilek, The Great Distortion Of The Board

5 years ago

merdrach hey, thanks for the interest. I had a stable, tight list around mid-2018, but then I sold a lot of the pieces at Grand Prix Milwaukee in November. So, right now I don't have a paper list.

That doesn't take away my 4+ year mastery of the deck though, so I'll come out and say it, if you do want to play this deck, it's gonna be pricey. You need to begin with the payoffs, Ugin, all 5 playable Eldrazi Titans are all going to be what you want to pick up first. You can make budget choices with the ramp, but it's gonna be a lot slower obviously. Cards like Jeweled Amulet are surprisingly effective.

When you're building on a budget it's easy to fall into traps, Gruesome Slaughter for example, make no mistake, is unplayable unless you're running a less tuned version of this deck with 30+ creatures. Make sure that, for boardwipes, you get the full suite of Ugin, the Spirit Dragon , Oblivion Stone , Nevinyrral's Disk , All Is Dust , and, if you're really into wiping the board, Perilous Vault , but you'd rather not exile all your ramp artifacts.

That being said, we've also gotten a whole lot of new gas in newer sets. The Immortal Sun and Karn, Scion of Urza are great.

Kingtalk on Get off my Land (and yours)

5 years ago

Kemokyle I like Raging Swordtooth, I'll consider it. Thanks!

beowolf11 Gruesome Slaughter and Juntu Stakes are gonna have to go in there, too funny. thanks for the suggestion man!

beowolf11 on Get off my Land (and yours)

5 years ago

Hey legit deck! here's some cards that might be cool withLiving Plane

Gruesome Slaughter might be cool but on the pricey side at 6 cmc, but describes what's going on well. Maybe Juntu StakesReverenceShirei, Shizo's CaretakerMyr Superion too