Songs of the Damned

Instant

Gain {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

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
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

SufferFromEDHD on Fillin' up me graveyard

5 days ago

Wheel of Fate or Reforge the Soul the gas this deck needs

Songs of the Damned might be useful

Expedition Map > Wayfarer's Bauble

leovolt884_ on Zubera Zubera ずべら

6 days ago

So since you asked, here's my stupid idea: Mill yourself. a ton. I know, that doesnt really work with the zubera's but there's more. Once you have 6 or more creatures in your graveyard you can profit. With Archaeomancer, Ardent Elementalist, any mana filterer like Prismite and any sac outlet like Makeshift Munitions in play you can win with the red zubera. Cast Ghostly Flicker and return the flicker + Songs of the Damned to your hand. Cast songs, filter 2 black into a blue, cast flicker, repeat. accrue infinite mana. Cast Exhume or some reanimation spell to return Ember-Fist Zubera to play, sac it, and cast flicker again this time returning the flicker and exhume to hand. Repeat. The zubera don't care how many are in your graveyard, just how many went there this turn. It's like going to an arcade and just pushing a baskteball in and out of the hoop to get a ton of points. This is stupid, and a horrible infinite combo, but its a thing.

These creatures are just horrendously bad. For advice otherwise I can just say play control, maybe some fogs, lots of card draw and ramp. Try to sac your board and maybe do some Songs of the Damned shenanigans to recur one or two but really don't stress about making the strategy good. It's jank, and is quite funny, and holds a special place on the more casual wincons of decks

Crow_Umbra on Ratica Apocalyptica

3 months ago

No prob Craeter! The only other fairly cheap mana accelerators that I can think of are some of the various Ritual effects like:

• Dark Ritual

• Sacrifice

• Songs of the Damned

• Cabal Ritual

capwner on Oops, All Bugs!! 2: Electric Bugaloo

7 months ago

Thanks SufferFromEDHD! Yeah Songs of the Damned is a pretty core part of our gameplan here :) I've never built belcher in EDH before so this was fun, I'd like to try a 4 or 5 color list sometime. I saw one on here that looked cool where you used 5c Sisay to tutor Inventors' Fair to tutor the Belcher. I think 5c could be a lot of fun just because you could run a lot more mdfc land and build it more like a normal deck. I am also playing around with an idea for a budget version of this deck that uses The Chain Veil to grist ult same turn and kill without needing the Yawgmoth's Will or Lion's Eye Diamond, the main cost for the deck. Thanks for checking out the list :)

SufferFromEDHD on Oops, All Bugs!! 2: Electric Bugaloo

7 months ago

Nice seeing a unique glass cannon! I have run a boring 4 color Belcher with 4 mountain duals before but this is a unique twist.

Songs of the Damned you need all the mana you can get and this gets big.

Profet93 on Turbo Hulk Reanimator | Budget Varolz [PRIMER]

7 months ago

Icaruskid +1 - Deck is very solid.

Songs of the Damned - Ramp, could replace rain of filth.

High Market - ? Probably not needed at all but its nice to have a land sacoutlet that doesn't get stop by an opposing cursed totem. Can be useful to get hulk to die to get other cards?

I wonder how Moonlight bargain is treating you given it's high cmc.

DreadKhan on The Mimeospasm [Reanimator Terminator] - primer

7 months ago

Yeah, Dreadnought is one of those cards I was sure you'd already know about, but it seems really convenient with your Commander.

I think Triskelion is a better card with your Commander than Walking Ballista, but both can go infinite with Mikaeus iirc, but you'll need an extra piece with Walking Ballista because Mikaeus makes it a 1/1 base creature, so it won't die because it has no counters, Triskelion can ping itself and still have a ping for something else, meaning you can combo off easier with it, so I'd go with that.

I'm a bit surprised that Necrogoyf would be smaller than Tarmogoyf, especially if you've got Mill in your deck, it looks in every bin for creatures, surely there are 2 or 3 in each opponents' bin? If you've got 3 opponents with 2 creatures a piece (which doesn't seem like a big ask by mid game, but I don't know your playgroup the way you do!), that's 6 creatures before counting your own, and you've probably been filling it as well. I think I misread the Urborg one, it only looks at your graveyard, so you're definitely correct about that one!

It's not EXACTLY 'Fast Mana', but Songs of the Damned can generate a bunch of mana if you have a full graveyard, it's the kind of card you use with Razaketh, the Foulblooded I figure.

Keep in mind that there is a difference between playing a land with Explore or using Burgeoning, Burgeoning won't let you use Crucible unfortunately, but has a very high ceiling potentially. I use Burgeoning in my Sisay, Weatherlight Captain deck because that deck would love to have a hand with 6 lands and Burgeoning, but it's less keen on Explore and similar effects. You could try a Sakura-Tribe Scout, it's potentially better ramp than Birds of Paradise, you just have to run enough lands to justify it (I think 37 is fine), it's also a cheaper card to test out I suspect. Oh, with a card like Razaketh you can easily chain together a win if you've got lands, I do that in Meren with Life / Death which turns all my lands into creatures so I have plenty of fodder for Razaketh, I usually chain a few untap effects (I just recycle Benefactor's Draught a couple times to generate enough mana to win), Razaketh is a great card if you've got access to LED (even Lotus Petal can do work, and if you can tutor up Lotus Petal with Razaketh you can always dig out Mox Amber fwiw). I think if you wanted you could switch out Runescarred Demon for Razaketh (or just pretend Runescarred is Razaketh to test haha), both are tutors that cost a lot of mana, Razaketh is a much better body and a much better tutor IMHO.

If you want Haste on your Commander I think I'd use Hall of the Bandit Lord, it's not a spectacular card but it will give you access to Haste, I've been fairly happy with it in a competitive list that cared about Haste on the Commander, it's a terrible land but Haste is REALLY good sometimes.

capwner on Oops, All Bugs!! 2: Electric Bugaloo

8 months ago

DarkKiridon Nope, no lands! The whole point of this deck is to use Recross the Paths, Abundance, or Goblin Charbelcher to reveal the whole deck and put it back in ANY order. From there we can stack 30 insects on top, mill them all with grist, and then win on the spot with Songs of the Damned. Full combo description is in the Oathbreaker list linked in the description, it works exactly the same just with 30 bugs instead of 17.

Because of the combo gameplan, I lean towards bugs that are A. Cheap so I can turn on Springleaf Drum, and B. X/1s to sac to Skullclamp, rather than some of the more 'playable' insects like those you mentioned. You could really run any insects you like though, they are really just there to get milled. I'm running some intentionally bad ones just for style points. An optimal build would have every 1 cost insect before anything else I think.

Thanks for the comment! :)