Legality
| Format | Legality |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Magic Duels | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
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| Set | Rarity |
| Commander 2017 (C17) | Rare |
| MTG: Commander (CMD) | Rare |
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Nin, the Pain Artist
Legendary Creature — Vedalken Wizard
, : Nin, the Pain Artist deals X damage to target creature. That creature's controller draws X cards.
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Nin, the Pain Artist Discussion
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Tiana, the only boros commander that draws
1 week ago
Yeah, so is it my imagination that Sram, Senior Artificer, the most popular mono-white commander on EDHREC and one of the cheapest card draw engines in the Command Zone in the game, next to Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
Flip, Baral, Chief of Compliance, Kami of the Crescent Moon, Nin, the Pain Artist, Sygg, River Cutthroat, and the almighty Thrasios, Triton Hero, while Sram also being one of the most efficient after it hits.
Or you know, Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero, a repeatable tutor in the command zone, Djeru, With Eyes Open, another tutor, Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle, repeatable recursion much like the old Reya Dawnbringer, or in red Daretti, Scrap Savant, one of the most popular mono-red commanders (#2 on EDHREC) with built in card selection, recursion, and more, emblemmy recursion on top, Zada, Hedron Grinder, a storm commander that gains card advantage with effects like Expedite, Godo, Bandit Warlord being a tutor, Feldon of the Third Path being recursion that is repeatable.
And again, the other boros commanders like Depala and Munda.
I guess I was mistaken, and some of the most popular commanders of all time, like Zada storm on a budget, Sram, or Daretti never existed.
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Commanders by Power Level [EDH Tier List]
1 week ago
Yeah, and storm is overrated IMO, trust me, there are many reasons I think that a 99 card colorless stax deck without a commander is able to compete in High Powered, not Competitive, not 'Maximum Powered,' but it is as good, relatively to almost each and every other High-Powered list I have tested out, meaning it is equal in winrate to the following lists from a set of hundreds of games against the Tier 1-2 lists:
Xira Arien Paradox Storm, Azami, Lady of Scrolls Paradox Combo-Control, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Token-Combo, Talrand, Sky Summoner Control&Extra Turns, Gaddock Teeg Creature-Stax/Hatebears, Sliver Queen Combo, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir Lockout Combo, Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow turns, Zada, Hedron Grinder storm, Dralnu, Lich Lord Paradox Storm, Inalla, Archmage Ritualist Infinite Turn Combo, Ishkanah, Grafwidow Food Chain, Shattergang Brothers stax, Nin, the Pain Artist IsoRev Combo, Selvala, Explorer Returned Combo-Stax, Seton, Krosan Protector ElfBall/Druid Tribal, and The Locust God combo.
ZendikariWol on Group Hug and/or Politics in ...
2 weeks ago
I forgot to mention earlier that a political card can also be cards that give a backhanded gift (ie Nin, the Pain Artist). Also, not listing every curse in Magic's history.
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Voke1012 on
Locust God
1 month ago
all i can think of off the top is Nin, the Pain Artist though i think the new Thousand-Year Storm have you thought of copying your spells or even your commander for even more synergies?
WhichKing on
Discarding Dragon Specters
1 month ago
I think you're going to have to take a direction with the deck. It seems that your deck is being pulled in too many different directions. Big finishers (with your commander being one), discard enablers, discard payoffs... the balance depends on how you want to take your deck.
If you want to stick with Crosis, I'd recommend building a control-ish deck with him at the top end (or close to it) of your mana curve. Take out your specters and dragons. Run more low-to-the-ground utility drops like Baleful Strix, Serendib Sorcerer, Liliana's Specter, Nin, the Pain Artist, Nivix Guildmage, Notion Thief etc. Run cards that force discarding like Necrogen Mists, Creeping Dread, Painful Quandary etc. Go heavy on removal and draw spells. Alongside your commander, you can have some big spells as a way to end the game when they go long, like Torment of Hailfire, Exsanguinate, deathcloud. Unless the vast majority of your cards are CMC 4 or below, the deck will be very clunky imo.
blud_roze on
Woohoo! Voodoo!
3 months ago
@Logics
Thanks for the suggestions, and nice catch on Tinker!
I'll replace Tinker with Psychosis Crawler, bc it is a solid draw engine when combined with Nin, the Pain Artist. Almost as good as the tutor.
As strong as it looks, I'll avoid Willbreaker. Steal Your Stuff gets an irrational amount of hate at my lgs, and five CMC is too much for such a fragile target without more support.
FormerBalloon on
Draw/Mill
3 months ago
- Wheel of Fortune
- Jace's Archivist
- Wheel and Deal
- Teferi's Puzzle Box
- Forced Fruition
- Temple Bell
- Dictate of Kruphix
- Howling Mine
- Horn of Greed
- Mind Over Matter
- Sigil of Sleep
- Tandem Lookout
- Nin, the Pain Artist
- Font of Mythos
- Fevered Visions
- Spiteful Visions
- Underworld Dreams
- Waste Not
- Dark Deal
- Magus of the Wheel
- Molten Psyche
- Reforge the Soul
- Time Reversal
- Whispering Madness
- Winds of Change
- Curiosity
- Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
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Nekusar, Oprah’s Apprentice!
3 months ago
Burnished Hart, Mogis, God of Slaughter, Damnable Pact, Nin, the Pain Artist, Oblivion Stone, Darksteel Plate
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