Basilica Screecher

Creature — Bat

Flying

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {WB}. If you do, each opponent loses one life and you gain that much life.)

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

jarid250 on Black Burner

1 week ago

Yeeeah, and I don't exactly want to play tap lands to be able to pay the flashback cost.. and it wouldn't be a mono black burn deck anymore, which is sort of the novelty.

I opted for Fruit of Tizerus instead, but then thought I needed a few more creatures, so I tried Serrated Scorpion.. which I might swap out for Basilica Screecher.

The deck's still a WIP.

TheForsakenOne on K'rrik, Manipulator of Life (Totals)

1 year ago

This deck seems very .... confused. On one hand you have swamp synergies, on the other sacrifice synergies, and then you have weird cards like Elder Brain that don't fit into either. I'd suggest picking one of the two theme's and sticking to it.

Cards I would suggest cutting:

Withercrown (just not a good card)

Crypt Incursion (Too situational, its going to be dead a lot of the time)

Xathrid Gorgon (Too slow)

Visara the Dreadful (Removal magnet + too slow)

Consume Spirit (There are better mana sinks than this)

Corrupt (Needs too many swamps to be worth the mana)

Liliana's Shade (Also just not a good card)

Elder Brain (just a weird card in general and too inconsistent)

Cards I would suggest adding:

Abhorrent Overlord (Makes a buch of creatures for your sacrifice triggers)

Pontiff of Blight, Thrull Parasite, Basilica Screecher (More extort cards that synergize very well with K'rrik)

Exsanguinate (Better mana sink than consume spirit)

Nirkana Revenant (Another mana doubler for swamps)

Vein Ripper (Very good for this kind of deck, but it just came out and is currently pricey so I'd wait to buy this one)

Bitterblossom, Dreadhorde Invasion (make a creature every turn for your sacrifice outlets)

Viscera Seer the classic free sacrifice outlet. Also see Woe Strider

Ayara, First of Locthwain (Free creature with K'rrik out and pings opponents every time a black creature enters which usually happens a lot with sac decks)

griffstick on Creatures that do Damage Over …

2 years ago

• Treasury Thrull
• Crypt Ghast
• Pontiff of Blight
• Life Insurance
• Blind Obedience
• Vizkopa Confessor
• Knight of Obligation
• Thrull Parasite
• Syndicate Enforcer
• Kingpin's Pet
• Basilica Guards
• Tithe Drinker
• Basilica Screecher
• Syndic of Tithes

SirHipHopHippo on Sivriss of the Snekwild

3 years ago

The deck is saying it’s not legal because of Basilica Screecher. You can’t run Extort in a deck without Black and White sadly.

Lithelain on Everything Has a Price

3 years ago

Hi, passing by to add my two cents as I found these cards that have similar mechanics:

Vengeful Strangler  ^Flip: I like this one as it is an assured 2 hp each turn unless blocked (thus killed) and therefore attached to potentially some high value creature or planeswalker. Perhaps Basilica Screecher could be replaced/mixed with this.

Combustible Gearhulk: kinda expensive but with a similar mechanic as Sin Prodder.

Creeping Chill: good synergy with Combustible Gearhulk, but otherwise kind of bad imo (perhaps only worth ituseful against milling decks?).

StopShot on 9/13 Commander Banning/Unbanning

3 years ago

Step 1: Cast Worldfire.

Step 2: With Worldfire on the stack, activate ability of either: Blisterspit Gremlin, Brimstone Trebuchet, Lightning-Rig Crew, Lobber Crew, Nettle Drone or Thermo-Alchemist.

Step 3: With ability and Worldfire on the stack, cast either: Dualcaster Mage, Fork, Fury Storm, Increasing Vengeance, Reiterate, Reverberate or Wild Ricochet targeting Worldfire.

Off-color options: Basilica Guards, Basilica Screecher, Blind Obedience, Crypt Ghast, Kingpin's Pet, Syndic of Tithes, Thrull Parasite, Tithe Drinker, Witherbloom Apprentice, Refuse / Cooperate, Insidious Will, Narset's Reversal, Twincast, Naru Meha, Master Wizard.

(This is by no means an exhaustive list, it just happens to be the best mana-cost effective cards I could find.)

carpecanum on - Beledros -

4 years ago

Basilica Screecher and Thrull Parasite are cheap and can provide a lot of life pings (or any of the bigger extort cards, I see you have the Crypt Ghast there already).

Aspect of Mongoose if you need to protect your boss. Dark Ritual to get him out sooner.

Spairut on Baby don't hurt me, no more...

4 years ago

Have you thought about extort cards? Like Basilica Screecher or Tithe Drinker ?