Slow Motion

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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

Slow Motion

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature unless he or she pays (2).

When Slow Motion is put into a graveyard from play, return Slow Motion to its owner's hand.

SufferFromEDHD on An Affinity For Affinity

11 months ago

With 27 artifact creatures, 18 artifacts and 4 artifact lands I'm confident your commander will always cost 2.

Metallic Rebuke the affinity Mana Leak

Slow Motion and Cessation potential upgrades to your aura creature control theme. The return to hand clause is very powerful.

DreadKhan on Into the Sharknado

1 year ago

My personal gripe with Capture Sphere is that it's too much mana for the effect. If you expect to be able to swing at people, there is Fall from Favor that has seen some play, 3 mana is closer to what you want to pay to remove a serious problem creature (and Monarch can mean lots of extra cards), though Blue has stuff like Pongify, Curse of the Swine and Reality Shift, as well as Ravenform and Resculpt that can also exile an artifact. Another issue Capture Sphere has it that it doesn't remove the creature from the field, so any abilities that just require the creature to exist will still work, which can be a real problem. The final issue is as you note, if you can deal with an enchantment the effect can be removed, in contrast with a Pongify. I think it's a better card for a sideboard, where you bring it in for games 2 or 3 in the games where it'll matter, to avoid having it clog up your hand when it doesn't.

I used to use Slow Motion a fair bit, and while it has very good matchups, it also has lots of them where the opponent doesn't care about 2 mana and can just kill you with the creature your aura didn't kill, and that is a card that the opponent can't deal with as easily, it still doesn't consistently enough matter, or doesn't immediately get the creature off the field. In my Delver deck, which is a bit higher budget but not a lot, I run Counterspell and Psionic Blast to deal with stuff/close out games a smidge quicker, both are instant, both use less than 4 mana and Psionic Blast is almost never a dead card, since I can just bolt my opponent.

DreadKhan on Merfolk

2 years ago

Have you thought about Slow Motion, and maybe an Energy Flux because you don't run artifacts? Flux is very much a 'depends on what people play in your area' card, but it's a nice sideboard card if you ever want one.

You also might want to set this to something like Casual for the format of the deck, so it doesn't list most of the deck as 'banned'.

Cool decks, lots of old favorites in here!

Dammjan on

2 years ago

Hey DreadKhan, thank you for your suggestions. The two lands you suggested are realy cheap and can be a good addition to the deck. I will have a look which lands I can delete out of my original deck to add those since I don t want to get rid of too many basic lands. The other cards you suggested seem to fit realy good into my deck too. Especially Contempt, Slow Motion and Fool's Demise seem to be good cards for this deck. But I realy don t know which cards to take out of my original deck. Maybe you can suggest one. Thank you!

DreadKhan on

2 years ago

Darkwater Catacombs and Skycloud Expanse tend to play very well for me, low budget or not tbh. War Tax is a solid pillow-fort effect. Slow Motion is a really good budget card, since you keep getting it back. Contempt might be worth casting. Fool's Demise Mark of Eviction are also interesting, mostly as repeatably castable enchantments that can hinder opponents.

bushido_man96 on The Mischief Makers

3 years ago

Flickering Ward is great value. Fallen Ideal can put those tokens to use.

If your interested in being annoying, there are several Urza block enchantments that return to hand when they go to the graveyard from the battlefield: Sleeper's Guile for some evasion, Brilliant Halo (not that great), Despondency to nerf a creature, Cessation and Slow Motion can be really annoying.

Apollo_Paladin on Still the One

3 years ago

Neat build!

I'm not saying it NEEDS a revamp, but if you want to toy around with it:

Have you thought about splashing Black into this deck? That could help a lot with your control vs. creatures (particularly in Legacy format).

Vampire Hexmage is pretty much the other staple combo card with Dark Depths. You might also toss another Thespian's Stage in there as well just to complete that combo set for "speed Depths" too either way.

Slow Motion can be evil recurring control for you, I've got a midrange deck that uses those to devastating effect. It can be fun to stack them up on a creature the opponent is hell-bent on saving, only to lose out and return them all to your hand for a repeat.

Propaganda is another card I use in my blue control deck and it's quite effective (especially with multiples in play).

Index can be quite helpful in a deck relying on combos for speed. 1 mana for Scry 5 can be brutal and give you a massive advantage off the draw.

DreadKhan on No mana for you

4 years ago

Have you considered Slow Motion ? It can be pretty nasty, being able to be recycled like Rancor. I also like Flood a ton, that card has won my generally abominably bad blue decks some games. Useless vs flying sucks, but a one of maybe? I also wonder about some of those old, weird upkeep cost cards blue got back in the day that targeted enchantments I think? Power Taint might let you interact with enchantment type decks, maybe a sideboard card?

Random thing, but back when I was a younger man, I found a cheap Mana Web singleton in a binder nobody was looking through for years I bet. I was sure it and Meekstone could be good cards, but I'd have to find more... low and behold, neither is cheap! Good finds, and your deck looks like an interesting build.

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