The Stone Brain

Legendary Artifact

{2}, {T}, Exile The Stone Brain: Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles their library, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

jethstriker on turn 1 Iona, sheild of …

3 months ago

Some of my thoughts:

• Griselbrand is a much better all purpose target than Iona. I recommend maxing Griselbrand count first before maxing Iona.

• Collective Brutality is a swiss army knife for Reanimator. Its an uncounterable discard outlet, pre-emptively answers opposing countermagic and removal, kills problematic small creatures, finishes off weakened opponent, and at the very least gives back some life lost from Reanimate and Griselbrand activations.

• Buried Alive is slow for Reanimator. If you really want this, maybe just run 1, but not the full 4.

• Why is The Stone Brain in the deck? If you're worried of opposing card, I think you're far better off with discard like Unmask and Thoughtseize. They also doubles as a discard outlet if you really need to.

• Also why casual? The deck is 1 card away from being legacy legal. Just replace Sol Ring with maybe Lotus Petal and you have a legitimate constructed deck.

Krugz on The Inevitable Annihilation

10 months ago

Profet93 I agree. The very reason I have this is you guessed it, the storm meta in my playgroup. If anything, this hurts me most so I'll have to be extra careful and assess my manabase very well before dropping this. This would only makes sense to even play if I already have enough mana rocks and discounts to not bother. The Stone Brain and Jester's Cap are also worth mentioning if I just wanted to stop their wincon.

But yeah, thank you for all of your suggestions, man. I'm beginning to understand how to better optimize what this deck is trying to do.

nbarry223 on Viga-BOOM! (better mana)

1 year ago

Yeah, the only cards that make sense which I didn't really consider (I've seen them a few times) are Pick the Brain and Shimian Specter - still don't think they make the cut. Shimian Specter seems pretty disgusting if you can get it to stick around, but that would be quite the challenge in a creature based deck like this. I could see it being a decent game 2 tool in a control shell if you play little to no creatures, making them side out most of their removal, but beyond that, it is a little too fragile. I've contemplated Surgical Extraction before, but it relies on them already playing their threat, which is too late for me, since we don't have any targeted discard or mill. I ran Necromentia and Unmoored Ego for a while, but the colorless aspect of The Stone Brain just makes it worth that extra mana of investment.

JacobAGrossman on Viga-BOOM! (better mana)

1 year ago

You ever looked at Invasive Surgery? Seems right up your alley, along with Test of Talents and The Stone Brain

Redundacy on Turbo mil

1 year ago

In my experience, one of the weaknesses of mill is decks that care about putting their own cards in the graveyard. If you wanted to put cards in the sideboard, I'd recommend options to either shift to self-milling like Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, or options for graveyard hate, like Soul-Guide Lantern or The Stone Brain. It would make your deck run slower, but you'd be able to hold on against things like abzan greasefang, or any of those graveyard-matters cards.