Choke

Enchantment

Islands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

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 (49)

legendofa on Why is Untapping Lands a …

1 month ago

wallisface I'm still going to contest that. Scryfall search comes up with 45 mono-green cards with the words "untap" and "land". Ignoring stuff like Blizzard and Choke, there are nine cards in that group with ye olde bordere that untap lands, seven with the Modern border, and fourteen with the 2015 border, skipping those whose primary purpose is to turn lands into creatures like Wakeroot Elemental. Two of them are legal in Standard, and thirteen--about a third of the total, and more than ye olde bordere--are legal in Pioneer. I'm not seeing the dropoff for land untapping in green.

{G} Ye Olde Bordere, "untap" + "land": Ley Druid, Elder Druid, Juniper Order Druid, Nature's Chosen, Early Harvest, Earthcraft, Awakening, Argothian Elder, Krosan Restorer. total 9

{G} Modern Border, "untap" + "land": Rude Awakening, Nature's Will, Stone-Seeder Hierophant, Magus of the Candelabra, Garruk Wildspeaker, Bear Umbra, Urban Burgeoning, Voyaging Satyr. total 8

{G} 2015 Border, "untap" + "land": Nissa, Worldwaker, Initiate's Companion, Hope Tender, Nissa, Genesis Mage, Blossom Dryad, Ley Weaver, Wilderness Reclamation, Sculptor of Winter, Saryth, the Viper's Fang, Likeness of the Seeker  ^Flip, Civic Gardener, Rustvine Cultivator, Portent Tracker, Innocuous Researcher. total 14

{G} Ye Olde Bordere, "untap" + "permanent": Emerald Charm, Seedborn Muse. total 2

{G} Modern Border, "untap" + "permanent": none.

{G} 2015 Border, "untap" + "permanent": Cacophodon, Rime Tender, Jorn, God of Winter  ^Flip. total 3

{G} Ye Olde Bordere, "untap" + "Forest": Llanowar Druid. total 1

{G} Modern Border, "untap" + "Forest": Patron of the Orochi, Woodland Guidance, Arbor Elf. total 3

{G} 2015 Border, "untap" + "Forest": none.

So there's 39 green cards that can untap lands in some capacity, with 34 of those being more or less land-specific. Again, these counts ignore cards that untap lands by turning lands into creatures, focusing only on those whose main function is the untap. It also ignores Un-cards.

Analysis of blue to follow.

nbarry223 on Colorshift Land Control

1 year ago

Don’t forget Choke + Quicksilver Fountain as a really convoluted option.

It’s not a super viable strategy in my opinion because it is slow and can be played around. Land hate like this hits certain decks hard, as some are super greedy. It is more viable as a sideboard option than a build around strategy in my opinion.

A more realistic option if you want to attack lands is probably Plow Under + Primal Command.

nbarry223 on Modern Horizons 3 Predictions/Wishlist

1 year ago

I’d like to see more powerful specific hate cards. Effects that target 1-2 enemy colors, or target things that are too prevalent in the format is what I’d like to see.

For example, some 2 CMC enchantment that counters everything no mana was spent on (in white because white gets nothing and taxing makes sense).

Another form of non-basic hate restricted to a specific color. Maybe another color hoser like Choke.

I would like an adventure style powered down Land Tax as well. If your opponent has more lands than you, search your library for a land and put it into play (3 cmc white sorcery) and a creature with power and toughness equal to your opponents lands (would be beefy in EDH) for maybe 5 cmc green.

I’d be okay with card designs where they push limits like that, but aren’t super overpowered and/or answer needed gaps. I do not want to see more designs like ragavan and MH2 elementals that speed up the format even further.

Control really needs love in today’s meta game and I hope they get some tools from MH3.

plakjekaas on Dual Land Cycles that You …

1 year ago

Especially the red one is questionable if it ever gets printed, because of its silly combo potential with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle. For the modern Primeval Titan decks, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove already does the same, I know, but that one can't actually be found by Primeval Titan itself.

The blue one too, would have way too heavy implications on modern, with Boil and Choke being modern legal cards, and the same goes for the white one with Flashfires also being a modern legal card. Seeing how Armageddon was never in Modern either, I suppose it might take a while until they might ever show up, and if they do, it will probably be in a commander product.

sylvannos on Baldur's Gates

2 years ago

@lcarl3035: That's actually a really good idea. Go even deeper with something like Stasis with Choke in the sideboard? Just grind the game to an absolute halt and abuse the fact we can play a bazillion lands each turn via Manabond?

Shadowdragonlink on Mono-Green Goodstuff Inc.

2 years ago

hey dude you said you need need some good sideboard options so here is some how about Force of Vigor for artifacts and/or enchantments and its free to cast yay. Veil of Summer for control matchups. Endurance is a good card for graveyard decks and a surprise blocker. Choke one of my fave for any thing blue. Void Mirror to help in the cascade matchups. Thragtusk one more in side bord for burn and fast matchups to get lost life back and make a come back Weather the Storm works to but would be better in a matchup were the opponent cast a lot of spells like Prowess decks. thats all i can think of at the mo mate i hope it helps by the by i love the deck

wallisface on Peoples Wishlist for Double Masters …

2 years ago

Just curious to see what people are hoping for with the incoming Double Masters 2022.

Personally, i’m hoping for a Choke reprint (I hate playing cards that aren’t black-border) and Painter's Servant (cards getting dummy-expensive, and hopefully they can make an alt-art version that looks more appealing).

jacobpmesser on Merfolk Land Hate - Global Warming

2 years ago

I'm working on a landhate deck in blue.

I think, instead of Ashiok, maybe Confounding Conundrum could do the same thing for a mana cheaper. It also gives you a Leonin Arbiter effect w/Ghost Quarter/Field of Ruin. If you're on the play and it gets out on your t2, that could completely ruin their game.

Then, there's Trinisphere.

I'm also looking at Squelch for cantrip. Other cantrips/draw: Remand, Censor, Repeal, and a 1 of Noxious Revival, just in case.

This gets away from what you're trying to do... But you could splash green for Choke. Don't play islands.