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Bone Miser
Creature — Zombie Wizard
Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add .
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.
MTGBurgeoning on
Magar the Horrible
1 month ago
Thanks for commenting! Soooo, no barriers??? Okay, if that's the case, we begin with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Cabal Coffers. The burst black mana production can pay for multiple 1 and B activation costs of Magar. As long as we're upgrading the land base, other considerations include the less costly Fabled Passage, Raucous Theater and Blazemire Verge, the pricier Bloodstained Mire and Prismatic Vista, and the reach-for-the-sky Ancient Tomb and Badlands. As for spells, there aren't too many pricy Magar-friendly spells that I can recommend here, which is one of the great investment advantages of piloting a Magar build. A lot of the most impactful Magar-assisted spells are bulk rares and mythic rares. However, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt the overall synergy of the deck by including Jeska's Will and Demonic Tutor. Those two cards would make Magar very, very happy. One less costly spell that I want to add is Call Forth the Tempest, but a copy has not crossed my path yet. Another consideration, although I do not recommend it, is Wheel of Fortune. I do not recommend it because I prefer to NOT put so many additional cards in the hands of my opponents, regardless of how much it may wreck in-game and in-the-moment strategies by opponents. Aside from these Magar-friendly cards, the only other cards I would offer as considerations are support cards like Bone Miser, Deflecting Swat, and Deadly Rollick. Once you complete your build, I would LOVE to see what you have! Happy brewing!!
MagicMizz on
Varina: Unalive in 2025
4 months ago
SaberTech yea we will see. Its pretty consistent when im goldfishing.
And like you said, I have alot of smaller zombies that I like to curve into varina.
In this deck, I generally want as many creatures in the yard as I can get for things like Tombstone Stairwell and my creature count is so high that I almost always get to discard alot of them and make more zombies to swing with Bone Miser.
We will see how it works when I actually play at a table. I'll let you know when I do.
SaberTech on
Varina: Unalive in 2025
4 months ago
Glad to have been of some help.
I'm a bit worried about how little mana ramp you have in the deck, but you kept a lot of smaller zombies in your list so the deck may just play well on curve. That's something that only some playtesting will be able to determine. If you start to find that some of the cards feel pretty mediocre most of the time when you draw them then I would recommend swapping them for mana rocks. I like being able to discard unneeded mana rocks to draw more cards off of Bone Miser when it is on the board, and having either Teferi's Ageless Insight or Alhammarret's Archive out as well further increases the value.
DarkKiridon on Any discard payoffs on mono …
11 months ago
There's also Dark Deal and the Waste Not on a stick for yourself creature: Bone Miser.
Megrim is the other Liliana's Caress for one more mana if you need it.
Tergrid, God of Fright Flip if you're feeling mean? :)
DeinoStinkus on
I Must Posses All, or I Possess Nothing
11 months ago
Brainstealer Dragon is a bit on the end of the curve, but seems definitely worth it. Also, Dark Ritual. Never a bad time for a Dark Ritual.
I think the worst thing you left out is Bone Miser. My black heart sobs at this exemption.
KayneMarco on
Lands Don’t Matter…They Kill
1 year ago
Esparza93: Waste Not only works when opponents discard. The Bone Miser works when I discard lands to deal damage or to draw cards or gain life with windgraces abilities. And the combo idea isn’t bad but I only want the deck to win through discarding or playing lands.
Rhadamanthus on How does Bone Miser work …
1 year ago
The game will start another cleanup step and you will have to discard again. This will keep going until the game doesn't need to start any additional cleanups.
If something happens during cleanup that causes abilities to trigger or state-based-actions to be checked, the game will go through the process of dealing with them and will start another cleanup after the current one is over.
514.3. Normally, no player receives priority during the cleanup step, so no spells can be cast and no abilities can be activated. However, this rule is subject to the following exception:
514.3a At this point, the game checks to see if any state-based actions would be performed and/or any triggered abilities are waiting to be put onto the stack (including those that trigger “at the beginning of the next cleanup step”). If so, those state-based actions are performed, then those triggered abilities are put on the stack, then the active player gets priority. Players may cast spells and activate abilities. Once the stack is empty and all players pass in succession, another cleanup step begins.
Decks built around The Gitrog Monster like to take advantage of this rules interaction. Bone Miser offers a similar opportunity.
wallisface on How does Bone Miser work …
1 year ago
When you’re in the cleanup step you only discard down to 7 cards once. This will cause abilities to be put on the stack such as Bone Miser, which will resolve once you’ve finished discarding down to 7. There won’t be additional cleanups after this in the turn, so even though Bone Miser might draw you back up to 8-or-more cards when its ability resolves, you’ve already finished the forced-discard, and don’t do it again that turn.
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