Plunge into Darkness

Instant

Choose one - Sacrifice any number of creatures, then you gain 3 life for each sacrificed creature; or pay X life, then look at the top X cards of your library, put one of those cards into your hand, and remove the rest from the game.

Entwine (Black) (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Tsukimi on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

9 months ago

legendofa All great suggestions! I had considered all of these when building except Tainted Sigil and Plunge into Darkness. I do like that Tainted Sigil hits all players including us. I am now realizing we can recur it with Sun Titan, Angel of Indemnity so it's definitely going high on the maybelist. Right now if I make cuts it will most likely be for some self mill effects. Thanks for the feedback!

legendofa on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

9 months ago

I'm not sure if there's room for more combo suggestions, since this looks really solid as-is, but:

• Plunge into Darkness lets you fine-tune your life for a turn, and combos with Children of Korlis and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to take out an opponent.

• Vizkopa Guildmage has an activation cost, but it turns Vito's life drain into an untargeted effect that hits all your opponents. It basically switches the "target" and "all" parts of Vito.

• Tainted Sigil allows you to totally rebalance your life total.

• Near-Death Experience + Plunge into Darkness/Necropotence is an instant-speed win, but might need an Angel's Grace or something.

• Phyrexian Unlife might be a good safety valve.

zachz on Mind-Gnawer

1 year ago

You've made an excellent tribal deck! I love the theme and the sheer quantity of foil cards. I have a few budget suggestions, but I don't know if they have foil options or not.

Demonic Tutor is very powerful, but also incredibly expensive. If you are looking for a budget alternative, you could try Beseech the Queen. It's more CMC expensive, but lets you search for anything once you have enough lands.

Rite of Consumption is another cheap "sac a creature to kill a creature" option like Bone Splinters.

20 of your 26 creatures are 3 CMC or below, so you could get great mileage out of an Unearth. You could also try Soul Stair Expedition for creature returns possibly? This deck seems like you would have several opportunities for Plunge into Darkness for baiting people with whether you are going to replace a rat with Ninjitsu or sac them after attacking.

Have fun with the rat collection.

legendofa on Verrak Suicide

1 year ago

Any thoughts on Plunge into Darkness? It's a semi-tutor that combos with Children of Korlis and Vizkopa Guildmage for an instant-speed "Pay X life: Gain X life and each opponent loses X life."

CriticalZER0 on Hedron Alignment Esper

1 year ago

Have you considered Plunge into Darkness or Spoils of the Vault?

Azoth2099 on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

2 years ago

jameswarlord

Hey dude, Happy New Year! Hope you're 2024 started in a great way.

I'm stoked that you found a more personalized build that you really love, man! Let's talk about it.

If you're big on Bolas's Citadel, pairing it with Sensei's Divining Top & Aetherflux Reservoir seems natural to me but if you don't want to run combos I understand lol. The Reservoir is also just an awesome value piece here, though. I was really surprised to not see Angel of Destiny in the list, though! More ways to use your life as a resource like Ad Nauseam or Defiler of Faith might be worth considering here too. You're gaining so much life here, I might even consider crazy stuff like Plunge into Darkness, Peer into the Abyss & Spoils of the Vault if you're feeling froggy like that.

I can't remember if I saw Boon Reflection & Rhox Faithmender in the list, but...they exist too lol.

Good hearing from you!

abby315 on Apple Accessories, Now with Malware

2 years ago

TIL that WotC didn't make any BW cards that make Cursed Roles for opponent's creatures, even though that's clearly the flavor of this commander. That's so weird! Anyway, love the deck idea. Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip is probably a good utility land. Final Payment and Rite of Oblivion could replace some of your 3CMC removal spells to bring the CMC down, since you will have a lot of nonland permanents to move around. Plunge into Darkness could be a decent "tutor" with so much lifegain.

CinnaBunMon on Wacky Waving Infallible Life Flailing Masochists

2 years ago

@legendofa

Near-Death Experience is definitely something I'd like to add in. Probably more of a side-board for me though, just not a big fan of "You win the game" cards.

I do like Blood Celebrant, only problem is most of the "pay x life" effects in this deck give you something back for that X. It is darn good for mana fixing though.

I think I will squeeze Plunge into Darkness and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose in there (I do like that Vito is just Sanguine Bond on a stick). The others are bit out of my typical price range.

I'll definitely give your deck a look over and see if anything pops out to me.