Cabal Pit

Land

Tap: Add {{B}} to your mana pool. Cabal Pit deals 1 damage to you.

Threshold — {{B}}, Tap, Sacrifice Cabal Pit: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	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
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (32)

SufferFromEDHD on The Sibsig Ceremony

4 days ago

Shizo, Death's Storehouse evasion for both commanders

Cabal Pit potentially clear the path

SufferFromEDHD on Mountain Dew Maha Blast

10 months ago

Great deck name and a great list!

Darkblast and Screams from Within reusable removal

You definitely have room for some utility nonbasic lands. Stuff like Cabal Pit, Deserted Temple, Bojuka Bog, Cabal Stronghold, Crypt of Agadeem, Bonders' Enclave, War Room

Contamination if you hate your friends

Caeruleus on Murders and Acquisitions (Marchesa Superiority)

2 years ago

Hiya! I played a Black Rose deck for 6 and half years, and here are some of my observations:

(1) If you want to run some more unusual creatures, Thalakos Deceiver is exceptional, as is Goblin Grenadiers.

(2) you can spike the power and create significant annoyance with Dauthi Voidwalker. Remember the void counters track between instances, so you can really can just smack with it until you need it, and then it remembers all the cards its exiled over its whole life span.

(3) In your land base, take out some of the slower lands for Threshold Cycle Cabal Pit, Cephalid Coliseum and Barbarian Ring. The neat trick is you wait til you've filled up your bin with stuff (before her Ladyship brings them back), and activate them then. Otherwise they are painlands which enter untapped and add coloured mana.

(4) The last cute trick is Trinket Mage. Now, if the Ozolith and the Skull Clamp weren't good enough reasons... Consider Myr Scrapling and Hope of Ghirapur, both of which are exceptional utility creatures of the deck. If you want to be extra spicy, you can even add some artifact lands so you use the mage to mana fix

thesilentpyro on Korvold - Treasures Without Borders

2 years ago

With the resurgence of the lands theme in the deck, I feel like I want one or two more utility lands. Options:

• Crystal Vein
  Extra land drops + Crucible effects is a situation that the deck may get into pretty often.

• Wasteland
  Strip Mine backup. Never not good.

• Thespian's Stage
  Not as good as Thespian's Stage, but that doesn't make it bad.

• Dryad Arbor
  Fetchable creature that can be sac'd to creature outlets and used with creature recursion.

• Blast Zone
  Removal, albeit slow.

• Cabal Pit/Barbarian Ring
  Creature removal. Random burn to the face with Ring if you have spare mana and land drops with nothing else to do with them.

• Argoth, Sanctum of Nature  ^Meld
  Token maker, feeds recursion. But it's very slow and the ETB untap condition isn't reliable. It makes me consider Titania, Voice of Gaea  ^Meld so I can tutor for one when I have the other (and Titania's lifegain on its own isn't the worst either), but that's probably too many slots for an unreliable effect. The meld not happening until your own upkeep sucks too.

• Tranquil Thicket/Barren Moor
  Go nuts with Loam, turn Wrenn and Six into a draw engine.

• Kessig Wolf Run
  Wincon on a land. Though Korvold usually grows quickly enough on his own to do the job.

Asgeren on An Old-School Nightmare

3 years ago

Ah yeah, the sac lands are not very janky. Don't know of any other sac lands.. but maybe Peat Bog, Cabal Pit or Subterranean Hangar will be interesting to you, and they're all very cheap ;)

SynergyBuild on None

4 years ago

For recursive lands: Mystic Sanctuary (Dumb Good), Witch's Cottage, Mortuary Mire all work once, but with flickerable effects it's all fine, and you can sacrifice Buried Ruin, Petrified Field, Sequestered Stash. Hall of Heliod's Generosity/Academy Ruins are insane in the right decks, and Emeria, The Sky Ruin is busted in the late game. Mistveil Plains sort of works as recursion, and is repeatable, but is best with tutors and tutor chains. Even Unholy Grotto works amazingly in zombie decks!

(Nonbudget versions would be like Volrath's Stronghold)

Some other draw engines I didn't mention prior are Sea Gate Wreckage, Throne of the High City, Grim Backwoods, and sort of Desolate Lighthouse.

Some tutors like Tolaria West that MagicMarc mentioned would be Inventors' Fair, and Sanctum of Ugin.

Removal is plentiful on lands, but pretty specific. Blast Zone is a favorite of mine, and is dumb good. Ghost Quarter, Field of Ruin, Dust Bowl, Encroaching Wastes, Memorial to War, and Tectonic Edge all deal with lands. Arena, Barbarian Ring, Blighted Gorge, Cabal Pit, Desert, Keldon Megaliths, Keldon Necropolis, Mouth of Ronom, Rath's Edge, Grasping Dunes, Ifnir Deadlands, and Quicksand are good against creatures, and some walkers.

Reznorboy on Why Has Golos Become More …

4 years ago

I think it's a fair question. I honestly don't think he's very competitive, his activated ability being totally based on luck- however, he is very, very, very generic. Literally take this example. I could go online and make a Roon of the Hidden Realm deck. Wait a second - now I want to play the deck, but what?! I don't own Roon?! Easy. I own Golos. Check. Mate. Copy the deck and replace a couple cards now. Add Buried Ruin. Add Conjurer's Closet. Add a couple more like Academy Ruins, Elixir of Immortality, and Fabricate. Done.

What about K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth? Easy. Cabal Coffers, Cabal Pit, Swamps, and the rest are the same.

Emry, Lurker of the Loch? Same as Roon.

Similar things can be said with Ramos, Dragon Engine.

StopShot on Flash Banned

5 years ago

To a lot of decks its still the wincon. Rest in Peace, Grafdigger's Cage and Planar Void is powerful enough to stop it consistently, but it shuts down my own deck's strategies. Instead I would run Nevermore naming Flash but I can't even run that tactic anymore. Lesser forms of graveyard hate such as Scavenging Ooze and Tormod's Crypt are not good enough as they can't prevent a dies trigger such as how Rest in Peace does.

In the event a Hulk player hard-casts Protean Hulk and then right after casts a spell like Diabolic Intent or Life's Legacy to sacrifice it as part of the cost the only way I could possibly see of disrupting that at instant speed in non-blue is through Aven Mindcensor. I know the Aven is typically good in EDH, but it doesn't nearly answer as many combos as Pyroblast does nor can I run a second copy of it nor cast it for one mana.

Hulk isn't so bad of a problem that it needs to be completely banned either. The issue is any hulk pile with Grand Abolisher or Thassa's Oracle is just too difficult to stop at all. Grand Abolisher requires you to run super narrow cards you wouldn't run anywhere else like Ghost-Lit Raider and Cabal Pit just to get around it and Thassa's Oracle requires answers in blue like Stifle to stop it or Torpor Orb which will be a magnet for removal for everyone playing at the table.

Unless more efficient non-niche answers get printed in other colors the strategy is still too strong. The banning shouldn't have made this strategy slower. The banning should have made it easier to combat which it has only done for blue.