Tar Fiend

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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
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Tar Fiend

Creature — Elemental

Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Tar Fiend enters the battlefield, target player discards a card for each creature it devoured.

harbingerofduh on Snackrifice

4 years ago

Don't forget that you have a second infinite-mana combo here with Endless Cockroaches and Phyrexian Altar. Cast Cockroaches with Endrek on the battlefield; sacrifice the Thrulls and the Cockroaches for 4 black mana; recast Cockroaches for a net gain of B every time.

Suggestions:

  • You're really light on lands. I have to think that you mulligan a ton or struggle to hit the 5 mana you need for Endrek. I'd highly recommend at least three to four more lands, and definitely more mana rocks to ensure that Endrek hits the battlefield fast enough for your combos to kick in.

  • You really want Blasting Station in this deck. When Endrek dumps a handful of Thrulls on the board, each one will create a trigger for the Station's untap ability. Then you respond to each individual trigger by sacrificing a Thrull. This combo turns every batch of Thrulls into a batch of damage, and if you have one of your Phyrexian Altar loops going, it becomes a table-killing combo of infinite damage.

  • You can do way better than Defiant Salvager and Ravenous Harpy. Tar Fiend can devour all the Thrulls it creates in one swoop, becoming a 16/16 and emptying an opponent's hand. Priest of Forgotten Gods is a value machine. Cards like Plaguecrafter and Fleshbag Marauder come down early, help control the board, and are really fun to recur. (Fleshbag Marauder even helps make your Gravecrawler more consistent.)

  • Dross Harvester can basically ensure that you can't be killed by anything except decking or commander damage.

  • Kuon, Ogre Ascendant is almost strictly better than Magus of the Abyss in this deck. Flipping Kuon into his enchantment form is child's play for Endrek, and as an enchantment, Kuon is far less vulnerable than a 0/3 creature that kills itself if you play it into an empty board.

If you're looking for other ideas, I have my own Endrek deck that does pretty similar things to yours: The Bloodthirsty Endrek Sahr

Matso on

5 years ago

Tar Fiend might fit in well.

Olive_pdx on

6 years ago

Nice deck! I'm a friend of Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest as well...I would add Tar Fiend to make the opponents discard their hands. I think you can do it with just a few creatures/tokens, maybe 5 or 6 is enough to dominate the board: have Mycoloth eat 6, he gets 18 counters with Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest on the board. Next turn make 18 token on upkeep, and throw down Tar Fiend for the biggest hand size in play. At that point you can wait for the next turn or flicker Mycoloth with Conjurer's Closet. If there are 10 tokens left after Tar Fiend then he gets 30 counters. Then you can use Gruesome Fate on the next turn or something like Zulaport Cutthroat if you have a sac outlet

MRDOOM3 on sacrifice brings victory

6 years ago

I feel as if Prossh, Skyraider of Kher is a better commander choice, because Sek'Kuar is restricted to only nontokens.

Thromok the Insatiable is another nice option, although he unfortunately lacks trample.

Dragon Broodmother is another nice token producer along with Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.

Eliminate the Competition, Bitter Ordeal, Reprocess, Urborg Justice, and Plunge into Darkness are all nice cards centered around saccing creatures.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed can be used to repeatedly sac non-human creatures

Tar Fiend is nice as well.

Unfortunately, most of my suggestions are mono-black, mainly because I only have experience with Endrek Sahr as a commander, although my Endrek Sahr EDH is centered around the same mechanic.

44for4 on Kill 'Em All

6 years ago

Hey Mike94 thanks for the suggestions. I actually went ahead and took your advice and swapped in Ophiomancer and Bitterblossom because I've been looking for ways to make more tokens for free, and I swapped out Tar Fiend and Mind Slash because they really weren't doing a whole lot for me. Thanks man!

UltimatHedgehog on Fodder Elves

6 years ago

I don't have to expend many creatures with devour. They have devour 2 and Corpsejack Menace doubles it again. For 2 replaceable tokens I get 8 counters, or 16 if I have 2 corpsejacks out. Then Mycoloth makes more tokens for each counter each turn which get counters from Oran-Rief, the Vastwood. Mycoloth did get removed by my opponent in one game but it wasn't detrimental. I still won with the tokens it made, the elves, and Tar Fiend which made him discard his hand after devouring some tokens.Also Ezuri, Renegade Leader can't combo with Devoted Druid because regenerate doesn't work on 0 toughness.

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