Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

wallisface on Ooze tribal

3 years ago

Some thoughts:

• As far as creatures, i’d suggest ditching Experiment One and Manaplasm. You have almost no creatures that can evolve Experiment One so its basically a vanilla 1/1, which isn’t great. Manaplasm just feels very weak for a 3cmc card.

• You should consider adding Scavenging Ooze, as that’s probably the best Ooze in magic. A copy or two of Biogenic Ooze could also be useful for this deck.

• Necroplasm feels incredibly dangerous to your own board state, as its very likely to kill a lot of your creatures. It also kills itself once it has 3 counters, which feels really bad. I would be very hesitant running that card.

• Massive Might, Appetite for Brains, and Fossil Find are all terrible cards, and should probably be swapped out for anything else. Your deck is already 10 cards more than it needs to be, so i’d suggest just ditching them all to try get back to 60 cards.

Eonaut on What's Your Favorite Spooky MTG …

3 years ago

I feel as though Banewasp Affliction is quite unnerving, as are Spinal Graft, Maw of the Obzedat, and Appetite for Brains. As far as straight up creepy, Undying Evil and Hobblefiend rank pretty high for me. What about Ichorid or the original printing of Maze of Ith?

Destroyerbirb on You Have To Call Me Nighthawk

4 years ago

ANub1s90 Very nice deck. I just have a few suggestions listed below.

Duress and Vicious Rumors are decent discard spells, but a bit lacking when compared to other discard spells. Try out Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek or even Appetite for Brains.

Why not 4x Nighthawk Scavenger in the mainboard? It's a better Vampire Nighthawk.

Last thing, mana base. Fetchlands are good for getting basics and increasing your chances of getting a non-land card. Nurturing Peatland is card draw in the late game, and you might want some "Man-Lands" such as Mutavault to keep the hits coming even when you are at the late game with no cards in hand. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is great with colourless lands as it turns them into swamps if needed. Another spicy thing you could try out is Cabal Stronghold, a modern-legal, slightly worse Cabal Coffers.

+1 from me.

bitterblossom125 on

6 years ago

On second thought Appetite for Brains is a terrible card. True its one mana and can stop a wrath but if it doesn’t do exaxtly that its utter trash. It can’t hit tutors (which are the same as wraths), or hate, or draw (which equal the aforementioned cards) and even on the off chance the opponent has something else in hand worth worrying about, it likely can’t hit that either. Plus, the more competetive our opponents, the worse it gets and the more likely it is to whiff. Will maybeboard and add if I can’t handle wraths with the current package.

bitterblossom125 on

6 years ago

Trying Appetite for Brains . The problem with this card and Collective Brutality is that they are too narrow. However, AfB hits 95% of common wraths and only costs one mana, so it won’t even slow me down to cast. If the opponent doesn’t have a wrath, it won’t be able to remove their interaction or hate. However, I’m mostly just worried about wraths anyway, and it still discards something, unlike collective brutality which may whiff entirely.

Darth_Savage on ESPERANDO EXILE

6 years ago

Your deck isn't pure control, rather it is an aggro-control hybrid, which is fine.

Lets deal with the NO (counters) section of a control deck. The first cards I thought of when looking at your deck were Delay, Grimoire Thief and Countersquall but they might be more than you want to spend. Since your using creatures to exile Familiar's Ruse is budget friendly and gives you the chance to recast your creature and exile a new card. Judge's Familiar is a creature and a cheap evasive creature at that, so is probably worth consideration. Perplex Might work as a counter or tutor. Honorable mentions Dawn Charm (fog or conditional counter), Dash Hopes (a black counter, really) and Dissipate. You might want to think about other spells too Thought Scour, Vapor Snag, Appetite for Brains, Castigate and Transgress the Mind...

The creature side of my suggestions is much shorter, first up is two one drops Deadeye Tracker and Mardu Woe-Reaper, they have similar uses essentially sending cards back to exile. For two drops there is Brain Maggot, basically additional copies of Tidehollow Sculler. Now we jump a bit to the control finisher, your using The Eldest Reborn I'd suggest backing that up with Cryptic Serpent and maybe Tasigur, the Golden Fang. Finally Murk Strider is worth consideration as well.

I'm not expecting you to use all of these cards, rather I'm throwing out ideas that might be of use to you. Hopefully this is of help, have fun with your brew.

Darth_Savage on Everything's Comin' Up Millstone

6 years ago

You have three (Mind Funeral, Archive Trap and Glimpse the Unthinkable) out of the five core mill cards, I'm guessing Mesmeric Orb isn't included for budget reasons? Hedron Crab possibly isn't included so you can be creatureless? I'm not sure Transgress the Mind or Thought Scour belong here though. Instead of Transgress you could use Appetite for Brains, as for Thought Scour, I'd suggest Breaking / Entering or Mission Briefing.

Otherwise this deck looks good, have fun with your brew.

PhthisisClock on Negative Creep Modern

6 years ago

Phillygreenman007 thanks for that suggestion! I saw Canker Abomination in other decklists and have tossed around that idea a bit lately. I think I could add a lower cost synergistic creature and cut Incremental Blight for the sake of speed. I think I need to keep my cards at no greater than 4cmc. I also have been considering sideboarding Appetite for Brains, but I might be getting overboard with removal. Any thoughts on Brains?