Minister of Pain

Creature — Human Shaman

Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)

When Minister of Pain exploits a creature, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

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
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

TheVectornaut on The "Rain of Gore" Debacle

3 years ago

Howl of the Horde, Howl from Beyond, Howl of the Nightpack. Listen, I just like wolves. Also Altar's Reap, Everlasting Torment / Neverending Torment, Tendrils of Agony, Hellrider, Hell's Thunder, Into the Maw of Hell, Sign in Blood, Minister of Pain, Descent into Madness, Shreds of Sanity, Soul Scourge, Screams from Within, Crown of Fury, Devils' Playground, Nightmare's Thirst.

Immortalatom on Honorless Meren cEDH

4 years ago

pao2 what're your thoughts on Living Plane? I know you already run Life / Death, but I've seen Living Plane do some dirty work in my pod with Minister of Pain, just bopping everyone else's lands.

janushif on Honorless Meren cEDH

4 years ago

pao2 Great work on the deck! I love it, I used to play the old Honorbru version, but I soon felt that the stax heavy build was too slow and not as entertaining to play unlike this list.

In terms of ways with dealing with Flash Hulk, I do not see other options than discard and Plague Engineer. How do you think that Plague Engineer fits into the deck? Sadly, it does not deal with the Spellseeker line, howeover it provides utility similar to Minister of Pain.

Plague Engineer can kill either Cephalid Illusionist or Nomads en-Kor. The card can also be used against most mana dorks if named elves. What do you think of this card as a possible inclusion?

The other options would be Duress , Thoughtseize or Praetor's Grasp. I am not sure that these options are as good as Plague Engineer, given that it strays away from the creature fokus of the deck. But I think I will test them out myself. How you considered som of these cards in the list given the current meta?

On a side note, spore frog can also be useful against Najeela.

roguelikedev on Honorbru Meren (Finite Hulk)

4 years ago

Judas13 you're welcome, I appreciate it. Ashiok dies to damage, put in 1-2 Minister of Pain effects and swing. I made this dumpster fire largely to explore the idea, it has all of the playable cards in that category except Plague Mare because I couldn't find mine. Please don't use that deck though, consider it a very rough first draft.

Frank_Glascock on Meren’s Thousand-Eyed Army [Primer]

4 years ago

I am thinking of adding Living Plane with Minister of Pain . We have four tutors to get Living Plane. I may add a Imperial Seal in place of Final Parting . Birthing Pod becomes more viable with this option. What are your thoughts on this?

Have you considered Mindslicer ? It seems that we can play the top deck game much more easily utilizing our graveyard with just Meren in play.

MediSyntax on RazaBridge Combo

5 years ago

Yeah, I cut Minister of Pain a while ago because it just did nothing too often in my meta; swapped it for Plaguecrafter who always does something for the same CMC.

CyborgAeon on RazaBridge Combo

5 years ago

There are a few main options available; If your meta is increasingly dork-dependent - Ascendant Evincar is quite useful as a pseudo- Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite . Not ideal, but very much an option. I'll create an additional section for the description to show potential options for this flex-slot. I also feel that Minister of Pain encompasses a flex-slot, as in a dorkless environment the low-sweep is underwhelming (especially when it doesn't remove tymna)

GolgariJunkman on This... is... メーレン！！！

5 years ago

@tbjbenjamin

I have tried Ravenous Slime and it wasn't very good at all 'cause the meta shifts lately so it was a good suggestion but the wrong time, you know? ... Grand Arbiter Augustin IV and Najeela, the Blade-Blossom dominating lately while Circu, Dimir Lobotomist and Marath, Will of the Wild (also Stax but with Kiki/Pod) wasn't a hard matchup.

Make Obsolete and Minister of Pain - I haven't tried them but in the nearest future I will! I like the idea but I would prefer Minister of Pain over Make Obsolete 'cause it's repeatable with Meren.

Assassin's Trophy - Good call! Also a good addition and on the list for this month!

I have look at your list and it's amazing! The addition of Bottomless Pit and Contamination with crackwood liege, Ophiomancer and Bitterblossom as token producers.