Bone Splinters

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

Discussion (46)

Saccox on Eldrazi Token Sacrifice

5 minutes ago

Hi tearrow,you can use Spark Harvest instead of Bone Splinters . What do you think about Bastion of Remembrance ? you have one soldier for sacrifice and an another "blood artist's effect". Another cards that you can use are Perilous Myr , Poison-Tip Archer , Bone Picker , Butcher Ghoul .

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Tie-Breaker

3 weeks ago

The card I meant is Bone Splinters btw.

TheoryCrafter on An Expendible Army

1 month ago

Have you considered Bone Splinters as an alternative to Murder? An Alternative to Mortify would be Vindicate .

May I suggest Zulaport Cutthroat as a cheaper option to Falkenrath Noble? You might only gain life for the deaths of creatures you control, but unlike Blood Artist, ZC can do damage to an opponent if necessary. An alternative to Mentor of the Meek would be Grim Haruspex . Again, it would only be affected by your creatures, but at least you won't have to pay mana to draw a card.

Situations at various points will require board wipes that exile. I'd recommend Merciless Eviction .

Personally, if you're going to use Darkest Hour, you need a board wipe or two that destroys all creatures. One of them should be Doomskar , as you can spread out the casting cost through it's foretell ability.

Also, you should consider Disentomb and any of it's functional reprints for reusable instances. Bojuka Bog, Mortuary Mire and Witch's Cottage should all be in your deck. BB for graveyard hate, MM and WC for getting cards out of the graveyard.

Happy Hunting!

Spirits on Undying Persistence

1 month ago

Forgot my friend Erebos, Bleak-Hearted , definitely one of my fav's and fits your indestructible/god theme too. Phyrexian Arena is a good 6 power draw.

Last couple topics,

I made an assumption and grouped Draw above Damage, and Deathtouch above Token.

Deathtouch 16%, Control 16%, Damage/Life 15%, Recursion 8%, Token 6%, Draw 6%, Discard 2%, Ramp 2%, Land 29%

Further on Card Advantage (which includes draw):

I know why your doing it and the thought process behind it, but here's an alternative perspective.

Your cards like Blood Divination , Costly Plunder , Pitiless Pontiff , Bone Splinters , Final Payment , Severed Strands , Spark Harvest are usually paired with LTB effect (like your damage/life and afterlife abilities), more along lines of Grave Pact (Also Dictate of Erebos , Butcher of Malakir , Dark Prophecy , Nightmare Shepherd , Etc.) or Reveillark / Academy Rector types.

The issue is Blood Divination why not Necropotence ( Greed ) for CMC1 less, and no sacrifice, let's you refill your hand anytime, Grim Haruspex /Etc. Why Spark Harvest / Bone Splinters over Swords to Plowshares or Path to Exile or Mortify or even Bloodchief's Thirst / Generous Gift if your after planeswalkers.

So how are creatures getting into the graveyard, if your not sacrificing them along with other effects, a value engine!! Skullclamp is a necessity, Viscera Seer is strong, Phyrexian Altar (this card is cEDH level though), more things like Priest of Forgotten Gods & Ayara, First of Locthwain . Why sacrifice a deathtouch creature to LTB damage/life when you can Corpse Knight instead and get the value up front? Yahenni, Undying Partisan , Village Rites is ok because its CMC1 and Instant, you don't need tutor in battlecruiser/low (up to power 5), but cards like Diabolic Intent which also feed into things like Mausoleum Secrets are value. Ashnod's Altar , Doom Foretold , Razaketh, the Foulblooded , etc.

Key is value in / value out. Don't waste the value out just to enable your recursion. Value-in, Value-out, then recur. More Immortal Servitude (battlefield), less Soul Salvage (hand). Reanimate / Animate Dead (anyone's graveyards), Unburial Rites , Victimize , Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip, Revival / Revenge , Command the Dreadhorde , Blood for Bones .

Luminous Broodmoth / Lurrus of the Dream-Den could be some cool interaction with the graveyard.

Topic Interaction:

Kinda touched on it, in previous. Control 16% is quite a bit, inline with power level. If you replace Ashen Rider , Bone Splinters , Final Payment , Severed Strands , Spark Harvest . Some should become the "sac outlets", like Skullclamp / Viscera Seer and some just better interactions (Instant speed whenever possible). Anguished Unmaking , Utter End , Swords to Plowshares , Merciless Eviction , Plaguecrafter / Demon's Disciple (Better Fleshbag Marauder unless your utilizing the Zombie part), Shriekmaw , Path to Exile , Generous Gift , Deadly Rollick , Dire Tactics , Hagra Mauling  ^Flip, Unmake there's lots.

Burglar Rat : If you like him! Elderfang Disciple , Yarok's Fenlurker , Rotting Rats (with Unearth).

If you want to jump on a teams chat or anything when you have some time happy to help, just discord chat me, hopefully something that helps you focus this deck to a 4-5

multimedia on Fear the Swarm

1 month ago

Hey, nice budget version of Edgar.

You have the right idea with wanting to cast Vamps quick to take advantage of eminence, but the manabase also needs to match this strategy. There's too many lands that will always ETB tapped which reduces the consistency of casting Vamps quick. More dual lands that can ETB untapped would speed up game play.

Some budget land upgrades to consider:

• Caves of Koilos --> Forsaken Sanctuary
• Unclaimed Territory --> Gateway Plaza
• Exotic Orchard --> Idyllic Grange
• Battlefield Forge --> Stone Quarry
• Tainted Field --> Boros Guildgate
• Smoldering Marsh --> Cinder Barrens
• Ash Barrens --> Evolving Wilds
• Temple of Silence --> Akoum Refuge
• Temple of Triumph --> Bloodfell Caves

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Some other budget cards to consider adding:

• Knight of the Ebon Legion
• Forerunner of the Legion : Vamp tutor and it can repeatable pump
• Pact of the Serpent : from Kaldheim Commander and it's a powerful draw spell with Vamp tokens.
• Shadow Alley Denizen : repeatable evasion
• Rakish Heir : grows each Vamp who does combat damage to a player including itself.
• Necropolis Regent
• Etchings of the Chosen : anthem and can be repeatable protection for Vamps from board wipes by sacing tokens to protect nontoken Vamps.
• Scapegoat can save all nontoken Vamps from a board wipe by sacing one token and you get to cast the Vamps again to recover as well as trigger more eminence.
• Bloodline Pretender : it can get huge because it triggers whenever a Vamp token is created.
• Raise the Draugr : can recur two Vamps for two mana at instant speed.

Higher CMC Vamps as less needed because you have Edgar who's the six drop you want to cast more than the others, but Necropolis Regent is a budget second. Like Edgar, Regent is also good with a Vamp swam as well as with Edgar and other flying Vamps.

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Some cards to consider cutting:

• Price of Knowledge
• Sengir, the Dark Baron
• Crimson Honor Guard
• Arvad the Cursed
• Bishop of Binding
• Bloodbond Vampire
• Malakir Cullblade
• Disentomb
• Bone Splinters
• Ambition's Cost

Good luck with your deck.

Pathinfder97 on

1 month ago

For life link and death touch I like Vampire Nighthawk and Gifted Aetherborn over Blood Glutton . Because it’s mono black maybe Gray Merchant of Asphodel could have a place here?

Some budget removal would be Bone Splinters , Eliminate , Smother or Murder . Drag to the Underworld May be a good option as well.

Some lifelink enchantments are Vampiric Link and Eternal Thirst Dark Ritual isn’t modern but can help cast big creatures early if you’re playing kitchen table.

Duress can be helpful going up against faster decks and a peek at someone’s hand is always nice.

This looks like a fun deck to play!

multimedia on Teysa Karlov Aristocrats

4 months ago

Hey, Skullclamp is one of the better repeatable die effects with Teysa since drawing 4 cards each time you equip to a creature for 1 mana is very good value. Skullclamp could replace Wayfarer's Bauble. The maybeboard is packed full of good cards that could be upgrades and there's several budget cards there to consider adding.

• Arcane Signet
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Viscera Seer
• Archon of Justice
• Sun Titan
• Court of Grace
• Demon's Disciple
• Woe Strider
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Kaya's Wrath
• Generous Gift
• High Market
• Tainted Field
• Temple of Silence

These cards could replace:

• Vivid Marsh
• Vivid Meadow
• Orzhov Guildgate
• Gavony Unhallowed
• Dauntless Cathar
• Voracious Null
• Unruly Mob
• Countless Gears Renegade
• Thallid Omnivore
• Bone Splinters
• Elixir of Immortality
• Fellwar Stone
• Thallid Soothsayer

Other good budget cards with Teysa: Dark Prophecy, Midnight Reaper, Dreadhorde Invasion, Victimize, Ministrant of Obligation, Marauding Blight-Priest, Path of Ancestry, Witch's Cottage, Esper Panorama, Ash Barrens.

Good luck with your deck.

Apollo_Paladin on Casual Zombie Horde

4 months ago

The Gravecrawlers you're running there pair remarkably well with stuff like Bone Splinters and Village Rites. You may want to look into some of those options even if they're only for Sideboard for temporary use in/out against certain decks.

I really like some of your choices here; nice mix of old & new! +1