Chain of Smog

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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 (50)

Flarhoon13 on Atraxa's Dicebag of Holding (Need all the dice)

3 weeks ago

Nov 2 Atraxa's Dicebag of Holding lost to Rich's Zevlor, Elturel Exile. I had 28 counters on a Champion of Lambholt but two castings of Do or Die from Rich slowed me down enough for him to pull out Professor Onyx with the Chain of Smog for the win. I killed Matt on Sultai Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Floop-The-Pig on Discard Mono Black

4 months ago

legendofa Thank you for your input, it is very much appreciated. I actually addded Chain of Smog ealier but didnt even think about making it an infinite combo with Professor Onyx. Ill add some of these other ones to the deck too

legendofa on Discard Mono Black

4 months ago

Welcome to the club, Floop-The-Pig!

My first thought here is Chain of Smog. On top of being another discard spell, you can repeatedly target yourself with Professor Onyx out to get a full life drain from all your opponents.

Doom Blade doesn't excite me, unless you know your opponents won't be running black. I've never used Temple of the False God, but it has kind of a reputation as a trap, that looks better than it is. Bojuka Bog is another graveyard exile effect that I recommend.

Also consider adding some more mass removal. Something like Black Sun's Zenith or Toxic Deluge would help clean up all the creatures that get through your discard effects.

legendofa on Whither Blooms the Darkness? pEDH

4 months ago

commonhippo I tried to tell Chain of Smog to quit slacking off and get reprinted at common. Maybe I can just color in the silver set symbol?

Pauper EDH only allows commons, except for the commander.

commonhippo on Whither Blooms the Darkness? pEDH

4 months ago

you had one job: Chain of Smog

Infernalshell on Inflicting Pain and Everlasting Bloodshed

9 months ago

Profet93 these are great suggestions, especially the lockout pieces in black since those are cards I'd never thought of using (or even really heard of before) and that'll protect my board pretty nicely. I also didn't realize there was a baby Cabal Coffers out there so that'll be an immediate include over Mortuary Mire or Grasping Dunes and Thespian's Stage will likely replace the other one since that'll give me access to better ramp.

The wincon(s) at this moment is either through combat damage or through sacrifice synergies with Syr Konrad, the Grim, Vein Ripper, and/or Zulaport Cutthroat and as a last resort Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon will help close out some games too. I toyed with the idea of Chain of Smog + Professor Onyx for an alternate wincon but that felt like it would be too close to cEDH for my pod since we generally don't play combos that are less than 3 cards.

sergiodelrio on How is Archmage Emeritus and …

10 months ago

Slightly off topic, but holy cow, that's criminal!

T1 Clever Lumimancer into T2 Chain of Smog swing for lethal.

legendofa on How is Archmage Emeritus and …

10 months ago

Chain of Smog doesn't require that the target player actually has enough cards to discard. If you target someone with fewer than two cards in hand, they will discard their entire hand (which could be zero). So you can target and re-target yourself, no matter how many cards you have in hand.

Archmage Emeritus lets you draw a card whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery. So if you keep targeting yourself with Chain of Smog, you will continually draw a card, then immediately discard and draw another card. This can happen as many times as you choose, filling your graveyard and emptying your library as needed.