Reaping the Rewards

Instant

Buyback-Sacrifice a land. (You may sarifice a land in addition to any other costs as you play this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

You gain 2 life.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (9)

carpecanum on 100% Fair Burn Firesong and Sunseeker

11 months ago

Mark of Asylum so you don't die from your own board wipes. Chain Reaction will cause massive damage in multiplayer games. Maybe Purity?

I want to say Reaping the Rewards and Worthy Cause but you would have to really change a lot just to make those fit properly.

McToters on No Man's Land (Mageta) [[Primer]]

2 years ago

Monomanamaniac No worries! Your feedback is welcome and helpful. I really like the Crashing Drawbridge rec, Swiftfoot Boots I could end up adding to if Lightning Greaves doesn't do enough work. Doubling up on that may not be a bad idea in the end. It'll mostly depend if I will have a slot for it. Cheers

freezerboy hey thanks for taking the time to play-test and comment! I'm pleased to hear the land grabbing works as I planned it too. Your question is the main trouble I've had so far in creating this angle for the deck... I really just have Basri Ket and Elspeth, Sun's Champion for offense. My other idea was to use Armored Ascension and Unquestioned Authority on Mageta to go in for lethal commander since the idea is Mageta would be the only creature left on the board. Other than that, if I'm outlasting my opponents I figure I would just get in damage slowly but surely. It's a crappy strategy, so I'm game for more recs regarding firepower. I don't think there are any Hail Marys in the direction of lands matter for white other than Admonition Angel, Emeria Shepherd and Trove Warden. I did have a few really janky ideas like Ondu Greathorn and Retreat to Emeria to pump or go wide. I also found a Reaping the Rewards in my cards yesterday which coukd be fun to pull off before Armageddon resolves.

Gattison on Reaping The Briar Combo

5 years ago

+1! Cool idea.

eyes2sky: check it out. a Brian deck we haven't thought of yet. Awesome =D

It looks like the deck revolves around 12 cards: Epicure of Blood + Reaping the Rewards, with Bloodbriar as the finisher. Since there is sadly no redundancy available for these effects in pauper, you probably need a lot of draw to ensure this happens every game.

Perhaps some Night's Whispers would help? Implement of Ferocity has very high synergy with Bloodbriar and could be considered a cantrip-of-sorts.

Maybe move Journey to Nowhere to the sideboard and add something like Crop Rotation or Cultivate or even Sakura-Tribe Elder?

Also, I would personally get rid of Skyshroud Elf in this build altogether, and add +2 Elvish Visionary, and +2 Elvish Mystic/Llanowar Elves if you still want the ramp.

Apostle's Blessing is an amazing defensive card that should at least be sideboarded.

You also may want to consider some Trample effect for Brian, such as Rancor (which can be re-used an anything before or after Brian shows up) or Wildsize or something.

Hope at least some of that helps! I (and a friend) have been messing around with Bloodbriar decks for quite some time now, so it's cool to see somebody else using the card in a new way. If you want, check out what we came up with here.

Snogglesworth on Spicy Abzan Pauper Combo Help

5 years ago

I have a pauper deck that uses Epicure of Blood and Reaping the Rewards to sac all of your lands and get those great life gain triggers. Generally, if this doesn't kill them it will at least make the life difference very hard to stabilize.

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Philoctetes on Licia, the Sanguine Storm

5 years ago

@onehitterquiter

Hey! Thanks for looking through the deck!

Reaping the Rewards I have never considered the card before, but I really like the idea! I am adding it to the maybeboard and will be thinking on it for awhile, because I do think it has some potential.

If only it was black or red mana it would be a shoo-in I feel. White mana is often the chokepoint, but I can see this offering a way to bleed off some excess white mana while upping our spell count by 3 or 4 on it's own which is nothing to sneeze at, while also offering us a way to enable casting Licia multiple times during a Burnt Offering sequence. Very cool suggestion!

king-saproling on Licia, the Sanguine Storm

5 years ago

What do you think of Reaping the Rewards? Early game it can get Licia out slightly faster, late game it can be a bomb with Guttersnipe.

TheACTR on Firesong and Sunspeaker, Burn Cows || EDH

6 years ago

Regardless, I love the deck. +1 from me. I have a similar build myself and I think you might could consider Reviving Dose, Blessed Wine, Ritual of Rejuvenation and Reaping the Rewards. The first three act as Instant speed versions of Survival Cache while the latter is a decent finisher if you have your commander and lands to burn.

Boza on Super Smash Boros | Firesong & Sunspeaker EDH

6 years ago

"Whenever a white instant or sorcery spell causes you to gain life, Firesong and Sunspeaker deals 3 damage to target creature or player." Lifelink on WR spell does technically cause damage with this Minotaur Legend!

3 damage from the spell. That spell gains lifelink, so you gain 3 life from that + 3 from the text of the card.So you gain life twice from a white spell, giving you an extra 3x2 damage.

Righteous Confluence, if you choose the last mode 3 times, will gain you 15 life and cause 3 Bolts!

White redirection effects are particularly good - Deflecting Palm will gain lifelink and create 2 bolts in addition to its normal effect! Sun's Bounty is an awesome effect and combines well with Worthy Cause! Reaping the Rewards turns every Plains into a Bolt! Incidental lifegain like Blessed Alliance becomes awesome when you add a Bolt to it.

I cannot even imagine how much damage and life you will do/gain from Brightflame.

Warleader's Helix is also awesome - 8 life and 4+3+3 damage!

Boros Charm gains you 8 life, while letting you do 4+3+3 damage!