Harsh Scrutiny

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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
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Harsh Scrutiny

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card. Scry 1.

legendofa on Skeleton Deck

11 months ago

Skeletons are my favorite tribe, but they're pretty underpowered compared to most others. How closely do you want to stick to Modern mono-black?

I would start by cutting the Harsh Scrutinys for lands. They're the narrowest discard effect, and the scrying doesn't do enough to make up for that, in my opinion. My next cut would be two Tragic Slips for more lands. They're good removal if you hit the Morbid, but I'm not sure this deck will do that reliably, so they will give -1/-1 more often than not. Then cut the Coat of Arms for one more land and a Paragon of Open Graves. This should give you 22 lands.

If you're building this on Cockatrice, how high-power do you want to go?

TheOfficialCreator on Tergrid EDH

1 year ago

I'm not sure Gauntlet of Power or Invoke Despair are necessary.

Cards like Thoughtseize, Ostracize, Inquisition of Kozilek, Harsh Scrutiny, etc. are pretty good with Tergrid s well.

Also, Memory Jar, dear god.

Reality Smasher, Street Wraith, Struggle for Sanity and Wit's End are also possible inclusions, as are Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual.

Chasmolinker on So, You Wanna Play Jund Yea? (Budget)

2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback amicdeep. I like bonecrusher in a full power Jund list. But this list is so heavily reliant on counters that it doesn’t have a good spot to fill. I could see it in a lower to the ground version or maybe replacing a single bolt.



Dread Fugue could help bring the cost down to make room for another thoughtseize. But I look at discard in Jund as trying to get rid of non-creature spells since we have so much removal available. That normally leads me to Duress over any other cards. I’ve previously looked at Harsh Scrutiny in this spot but found duress to be a better card in most matchups.



Domri looks like a flexible threat. I like all of those abilities in a budget deck. More removal, more ramp, more power, more resilience. Good stuff. I could see moving lili to the sb or cutting a nissa for one.

TheVectornaut on my attemp at a deck..

2 years ago

Straight up, I don't think I've ever seen a non-proxy Damnation cast in real life. Anyway, if you're struggling against some sort of elf combo, maybe add hand disruption to slow down or stop them. Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek are the classic picks, but I also like Collective Brutality and Harsh Scrutiny for more narrow applications. Or, if you're looking to punish the draw, Underworld Dreams or a splashed Notion Thief could be pretty funny, albeit less effective. A final suggestion might be type-hate cards. Plague Engineer naming elf and Crippling Fear naming vampire might get the job done but would probably require removing Ayara.

legendofa on Budget Torture

3 years ago

You have some good discard pressure here. The Eldest Reborn feels a little out of place here, though. I might suggest some instant-speed discard, like Scroll of Griselbrand , Necrogen Spellbomb , or Funeral Charm in place of maybe a couple of Harsh Scrutiny or Agonizing Remorse.

PyroSwardsman on Yuriko Test

3 years ago

The deck is looking pretty good. I like the creature base you have chosen, there are a couple questionable creatures though. Cloudreader Sphinx seems kind of bad in this deck. If you just want a flying scryer, perhaps Sphinx of Foresight, Prognostic Sphinx, Stormwing Entity, or Siani, Eye of the Storm.

Passwall Adept is just not good enough. its too much of a resource drain. Opt is not helpful in this deck since you immediately draw the card after scrying. Cunning Evasion wont do much good I am thinking since most of your creatures wont be blocked anyway.

In my opinion, you need a few less low CMC cards and a few more high CMC that you can use to get Yuriko damage in. For cuts, I would start by looking at any creatures that cost CMC 2/3 that dont provide value other than being unblockable (Invisible Stalker, Vault Skirge (love that card btw). I would then look at replacing sorceries with instants where possible. Darksteel Pendant and Crystal Ball are not good enough in my opinion and are too much of a resource investment unless there is some sort of artifact strategy I am missing. Dimir Keyrune provides interesting utility but is inefficient. Consider Arcane Signet instead or perhaps even Dark Ritual. Thran Dynamo is fairly efficient for cost to mana provided but it seems most of your mana needs are for color. Key to the City is for yuriko after she is out I assume.. I would probably run Aqueous Form instead because it has a scry effect on attack which is pretty desirable.

Here are some cards to consider in not much particular order:

Zhalfirin Void

Moonring Island

Chromatic Orrery (high cmc and provides a lot of mana)

Mission Briefing (can add card to graveyard for delve and recast Brainstorm which is arguably one of the best cards in the deck)

Condescend

Chain of Vapor (way to return a card to hand as well as an opponents card or cards)

Archaeomancer (can get brainstorm back and can be returned to hand with ninjitsu potentially)

Harsh Scrutiny

Shrieking Drake

Archetype of Imagination

Flood of Tears (this is a pet card of mine. You can return a bunch of cheap creatures and then put out something big like a Chromatic Orrery)

Lim-Dul's Vault

Scroll Rack (spendy but so good)

Soothsaying

Spire Owl

Diabolic Vision

Index

Spy Network

Trickery Charm (does multiple things you want)

Beseech the Queen

The Magic Mirror

The Cauldron of Eternity

Deep-Sea Kraken

Avatar of Woe

Void Beckoner

Dead Drop

Tombstalker

Curse of the Cabal

Connive / Concoct

Grozoth (requires you to build around it to be worthwhile but can be good)

Scion of Darkness

Treasure Cruise

Baral's Expertise

aholder7 on Is my pet card good

3 years ago

even in modern, CA doesn't really fit mill decks as they usually go all out for the mill kill. CA doesn't have evasion of any kind either which really hinders him. if you want to make a deck that allows them to do well, i'd suggest a dimir control deck with lots of cheap hand disruption and counter spells with a few nice finishers with this as one. your discard spells are no longer blanks against empty enemy hands because of the mill option. admittedly there are probably better options but i feel that he is more reasonable in this build than a straight mill deck.

vague list assuming you want budget.

4x Raven's Crime

2x Harsh Scrutiny

2x Duress

4x Mana Leak

2x Negate

4x Drown in the Loch

4x Merfolk Secretkeeper

3x Blizzard Specter

3x Consuming Aberration

24x land

that leaves a few cards to add and you can fill them out to fit your style

Heavy into mill 4x Mind Funeral 4x Maddening Cacophony

more dudes on the field 4x Thing in the Ice  Flip 4x Aegis Turtle

bigger spells are cooler 4x Devastation Tide 4x Set Adrift

if you didn't want this to be budget obviously add snapcasters and fetches and feel free to add more cards like Remand.

recell08 on Budget Abzan Midrange

3 years ago

First of all: thanks for your input! To be honest.. I don't like Duress in the mainboard (at least not in my meta), but Harsh Scrutiny performed quite well in my Lantern Control-deck. Maybe I could cut Duress and replace it with 2 more copies of Harsh Scrutiny or even Doom Blade.

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