Reaping the Rewards

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Big Apple Highlander 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
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
PreDH Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

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.

Balaam__ on Balaam__

1 year ago

@legendofa I love it, it’s like getting in a time machine.

These are definites:

Thumbscrews

Wall of Blossoms

Antagonism

Crystal Chimes

Rune of Protection: Lands

Ring of Gix

These are some I’m not sold on. Your deck, your call.

Reaping the Rewards feels to me like the camera is pulled back a smidge too far for it to be someone treading water looking at their own hands sticking out.

Verdant Touch Looking at the positioning of the hands, we’re actually looking at whoever they belong to from our perspective. The head belonging to those hands should be where the sparkle of light is.

Brand I think it’s just us looking at someone else’s hand.

Repentance just a low camera angle, I don’t think that’s anyone in particular’s perspective.

Reap hand in bottom left corner, and hand in bottom right corner, but the viewpoint is just a random camera angle fixed between whoever each of those hands belongs to. I don’t get the sense this is 1st person.

Essence Bottle from the angle, I think we’re looking at some sick person’s hand resting on their belly. It isn’t the viewpoint of either the sick person or the healer.

Edit——forgot to compare against your deck list with this batch. Please ignore any duplicates you’ve already listed.

carpecanum on 100% Fair Burn Firesong and Sunseeker

2 years 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]]

3 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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.

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