Burning Sands

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, that creature's controller sacrifices a land.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Valengeta on Salt Devastation

6 months ago

I like Michiko because she can punish combat damage and other sources of damage like Impact Tremors and Orcish Bowmasters. When she is paired with Dissipation Field it's really a headache for the opponents. You can choose the order of the effects to cause maximum damage

Seize the day might be cheaper than Aurelia, but only allows for one creature to attack again and it's a two-time use card that ends up being one mana more expensive than Aurelia in the long run, whereas you pay 6 for her and she stays on the field to trigger the extra combat every turn for all my creatures. I'm gonna need every ounce of damage to win since I'm running a low creature count and most of them are weak and more focused in control

I will try to open a slot of Burning Sands in the meantime

Valengeta on Salt Devastation

6 months ago

I have made some changes to the deck, including some cards you've suggested and others like Ruination, Jokulhaups and Dawn's Truce

You make a good point about replacing the Myr and Ornithopter dorks for less removable rocks. The Ramos' ones look very cool. Maybe replace the dorks and Mind Stone for them?

I like Burning Sands, although it might backfire a bit too much for my taste. What would you replace for it?

SufferFromEDHD on Salt Devastation

6 months ago

Soul Partition can exile anything and plays into your Grand Arbiter Augustin IV angle taxing them as you take resources. Speaking of taxes and resource denial... Where's the Burning Sands?

Capsize > Cyclonic Rift

I know that might be a controversial take but Rift is one and done. Capsize is forever with your mana rocks :)

Cut some of your creatures. Palladium Myr? Vesuva cloning your Ancient Tomb is better.

Big fan of Dwarven Miner for the nostalgia (started during Mirage) but Dwarven Driller is cooler and you really need mana rocks.

Ornithopter of Paradise great common but you aren't running modifications and being a creature just makes it vulnerable to removal. A mana rock would be better.

Eye of Ramos, Heart of Ramos and Tooth of Ramos have been really useful in my build.

SufferFromEDHD on Brian Stacks' Armageddon (EDH)

1 year ago

Mana rock tribal meets land destruction. I'm in :)

Impending Disaster AND Planar Collapse I like seeing both of these in the same deck. Great use of Magus of the Balance!

Mudslide and/or Smoke would be useful tax.

Pendrell Mists + Burning Sands No creatures and no lands... is this not your deck in a nutshell?

Land Tax and Seismic Assault might be useful.

Humility if you truly hate your friends.

Sevinne's Reclamation recycles a good chunk of the deck.

hootsnag on Ruby Control

1 year ago

Burning Sands should stay red. It fits with land destruction. The only other viable color would be black.

SufferFromEDHD on Ruby Control

1 year ago

hootsnag

I agree with your assessment of Smoke being in the wrong color(s) but what color do you think Burning Sands should be shifted to? Maybe black. Not white or green. Blue would be the Legends version haha.

I see what you mean about creatures. I need to make a few cuts.

hootsnag on Overgrown Garden

1 year ago

I agree that modern players and sets just aren't what they used to be. Luckily there are still old school players out there that play older cards and surprise you with their innovation. I actually cut Sadistic Sacrament from my Oloro deck. I needed the space for more tutors and counterspells lol. Honestly, I figured out over time that having multiple tutor cards is broken in EDH. You can have the best deck idea out there but if you can't get the cards, it doesn't matter. Also, I wished cards like Burning Sands and Smoke were printed in colors other than red. I tried to make a red control deck once but quickly realized that red doesn't have enough good cards for it without using creatures. Red and Black together works well but I didn't find a good commander so I just decided to move on. Btw, I don't know if you use discord or not, but we could talk at length about magic there if you'd like. I moved states and I don't have a current play group so it's been a while since I've talked much about magic with people.

SufferFromEDHD on Overgrown Garden

1 year ago

Modern WOTC sucks. It is full of pseudo intellectual weirdos. The kids that used to play Yu-Gi-Oh that transitioned into MTG. They brought the power creep and the endless over printed products. Timmy likes turning big dudes sideways. I like getting new reanimation targets but it's been in an unhealthy place for a few years. I miss 1 big set/ 2 secondary sets/1 core set/1 special release. GREAT formula.

I too am big on enchantments. Just did a building exercise on enchantress in each color.

Tainted aether is fun. Burning Sands is another one. Combos with the king of fun Pendrell Mists

Sadistic Sacrament = GG in your meta