Birthing Pod

Artifact

({GP} may be paid for with either {G} or 2 life.)

{1}{GP}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost/mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only at any time you could cast a sorcery.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

hyalopterouslemur on Thinking about how we evaluate …

5 days ago

Well, my point was originally that what matters depends on your deck. (I forgot Birthing Pod shenanigans.) And that YouTubers need to understand, you can't just say this card rox/this card sux.

Re: Skullwinder, it's because it's not really card advantage, I'd imagine. Neither is Regrowth, but there's just a prejudice against giving opponents options. (Group hug does nothing but enable combo degeneracy.)

FormOverFunction on Aura Farm

2 months ago

Maybe make it a reverse Birthing Pod? Return an aura that’s one less cmc? Something like that? Seems fun!

Ash_Karath on Meren Sacrifice Shenanigans

5 months ago

Hi! Thanks for the comments! :)

Got some new cards yesterday, updated the deck accordingly. Removed these cards: Izoni, Thousand-Eyed The Gitrog Monster Smothering Abomination Unearth

I put in these: Spore Frog Viscera Seer Braids, Arisen Nightmare Animate Dead

Birthing Pod and Attrition is under consideration.

My budget? Well, I can't really spend more than 50 Euros for a single card... Total direction? Hmm. Not really sure what you mean. Do you think the deck theme is too spread out? And yes, I'll gladly discuss more! :)

theNeroTurtle on Meren Sacrifice Shenanigans

5 months ago

Buried Alive seems like it would be super effective here allowing you to play specific creatures at your end step with your Commander.

Viscera Seer is a great sac outlet.

I don’t feel like Smothering Abomination is that great because of the CMC and limited times it is usable. Phyrexian Altar would be more efficient.

Birthing Pod seems like it would be pretty good as a tutor.

Attrition is good too.

I think that should be good for now. I don’t really know what your budget looks like and I don’t know the total direction you are trying to really go. More than happy to go back and forth about it.

Flarhoon13 on Not a B-deck. It's my A-Sidisi deck!

1 year ago

May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

Not a B-deck. It's my A-Sidisi deck! Turn 5 Win 10-11. Turn 2 Satyr Wayfinder; t3 Birthing Pod; t4 Stinkweed Imp podded for Necrotic Ooze, the lynchpin of the deck. Turn 5 dredged back Stinkweed Imp and binned Fauna Shaman (The Fittest Elf). Ooze used Fauna Shaman's activated ability to discard Skittering Skirge to search for Asmodeus the Archfiend. Well, discarding Asmodeus the Archfiend to Ooze's new Skittering Skirge activated ability generated one black mana. Ooze with Skirge and Asmodeus both in the yard allowed me to draw and play my entire deck turn 5, since Ooze gets both of their activated abilities but not Asmodeus the Archfiend's pesky downside. Going 10-11 puts the win percentage at .476

TheOutcastWarlock on Should Muldrotha Eldrazi be Sac …

1 year ago

My deck Muldrotha Eldrazi is a new deck I've been working on to compete at the higher power tables I run into. The idea is to dredge into life of the loam for lands while using cards like Malevolent Rumble to make spawn/scions to ramp into them. Support pieces include Birthing Pod & Cankerbloom.

I've used this exact deck several times and it's too slow, has no impact on the board, and is super fragile. If I add cards like Protean Hulk and Greater Good, what should I replace? Should I add the bigger eldrazi? What should I have as control pieces? Should I scrap this deck and start over from scratch?

I have no budget so any suggestions would be useful. Thanks in advance.

austintayshus on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

The Storm King {2}{G}{R}{U}

Legendary Creature - Elemental Bird Wizard

Flying

Other creatures you control have haste.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you create a 1/2 blue bird creature token with Flying named Storm Crow for each instant or sorcery spell you have cast this turn.

4/5

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Seems like a more fair version of Storm.

Make a Birthing Pod or Yisan, the Wanderer Bard card that lets you skip cmc's

For example, if you sac a 3 cmc creature or have 3 verse counters, this card should be able to get a 5 or 6 cmc creature. Doesn't have to be that kind of jump in cmc specifically, but make it make sense for the card.

scottbaker91 on Budget Meren Eldrazi spawn

1 year ago

Some cards I would consider, in no particular order. IMO, you need more board control. Birthing Pod, Skullclamp, Parallel Lives, Doubling Season, Whisper, Blood Liturgist, Ghoulcaller Gisa, Infernal Genesis, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent Tombstone Stairwell, Scroll Rack, Sadistic Hypnotist, Living Death, Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, Toxic Deluge, Fleshbag Marauder, Attrition, Survival of the Fittest (expensive), Pernicious Deed, Defense of the Heart

Deathreap Ritual ---> Moldervine Reclamation