Browbeat

Sorcery

Any player may have Browbeat deal 5 damage to him or her. If no one does, target player draws three cards.

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
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

DemonDragonJ on Is Black Allowed to have …

3 months ago

"Punisher" effects, effects that force a player to choose between multiple equally unpelasant options, have been part of this game for many years, and are usually found in black and red, such as Browbeat, Tyrannize, Choice of Damnations, or Painful Quandary, but Mark Rosewater mentioned in these two posts that red is allowed to have "punisher" effects, but that black is not, a philosophy with which I disagree, because black has always been the color that most focuses on cruelty and malice, and there have been two cards in recent sets, Starseer Mentor and Perforating Artist, that have "punisher" effects, so I am wondering what the general opinion of other players is, on this matter.

What does everyone else say, about this subject? Do you believe that black should have "punisher" effects? I certainly am interested to hear your opinions, on this matter.

Goldberserkerdragon on Valeyard voting

6 months ago

So why are you playing Browbeat in your commander deck?

Goldberserkerdragon on Valeyard voting

6 months ago

I run Browbeat in my rakdos burn/sac deck. Makes for a funny situation lol. Take 5? Ok, just as good as drawing three cards. I draw three for three? Awesome.

halanvaina on Mono Red Control/Mill (Premodern)

10 months ago

All right I updated the deck more over the past while.

Added Feldon's Cane to try to keep a grip on the late game. Took out Book Burning since it seemed to have too little impact on the game, at least compared to other things in the list. Took out Mogg Bombers for Lavaborn Muse for repeatable damage. Still going to keep the two beaters in the deck, but Took out Butcher Orgg for Kamahl, Pit Fighter. The fact he can tap to do a lighting bolt is better than the former. Another addition is Devastating Dreams as the finisher. Cards like Jayemdae Tome and (hopefully) Browbeat will draw me enough cards, and might even luck out & shuffle my graveyard into my libary afterward.

While I do agree with opponents choosing two different options a terrible idea most of the time, the thing is with damage and fairly low cmc means that eventually your opponent will just have to do what I want. It's not like Library of Lat-Nam, where its too expensive to play too much, and it's always going to be the far worse option. Least the way I see it. Also I'm going to replace Dwarven Ruins with Balduvian Trading Post when i can. Thing that sucks is I already ordered the cards before these recent revisions. So I guess I'll live with it until I see one. Same goes for the most of the other replacements.

skibulk on Confusion In The Ranks

1 year ago

A few things to consider:

• Swap Browbeat with Brass's Tunnel-Grinder  ^Flip. You can exchange it. It can dig deeper. It doesn't generate card advantage but people can't pay life to counter it either.
• Swap Springjack Pasture with Mirrex.
• Add Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance.
• Seasoned Pyromancer could be good.

skibulk on Confusion In The Ranks

1 year ago

A few things to consider:

• Swap Browbeat with Brass's Tunnel-Grinder  ^Flip. You can exchange it. It can dig deeper. It doesn't generate card advantage but people can't pay life to counter it either.
• Swap Springjack Pasture with Mirrex.
• Add Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance.
• Seasoned Pyromancer could be good.

skibulk on Confusion In The Ranks

1 year ago

A few things to consider:

• Swap Browbeat with Brass's Tunnel-Grinder  ^Flip. You can exchange it. It can dig deeper. It doesn't generate card advantage but people can't pay life to counter it either.
• Swap Springjack Pasture with Mirrex.
• Add Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance.
• Seasoned Pyromancer could be good.

Icaruskid on Dominus Burn

1 year ago

SufferFromEDHD Thank you for the recommendations!

I was initially running Harness the Storm but as much as I found it hilarious to play in a singleton format like Commander, I didn't like having to pay the full spell cost for each copy.

I might have to put one more ramp spell in the deck and even though it's technically not ramp I very much like Expedition Map to grab Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle or War Room.

Gamble would absolutely win more games as I guarantee I would use it to find Thrumming Stone 9 times out of 10. I'm trying to show restraint so this doesn't end up being even more of a combo deck.

I really like the punisher cards you suggest like Browbeat for card advantage or damage. I dislike giving opponents the choice of which is the lesser evil though even with the double damage upside. For now, I think a few looting draw spells and "draw 7 cards" wheel effects work well enough because I can discard Dragon's Approach and speed up cheating a dragon into play.