Cursed Land

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player.

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
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

a7thson on Card creation challenge

3 years ago

Teferi, That Guy Again?

Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi

Your opponents can't cast spells, use abilities, or do basically anything other than tap lands for mana, without asking "Teferi, May I?". If you allow the spell or ability, add a Loyalty counter. If you counter the spell or ability, remove a Loyalty counter.

[-3] Choose target opponent. Search their library for any one card and remove it from the game. You may play that card as if it were in your hand.

[-6] Choose target opponent. You control his next turn.

[-9] Take three turns after the current one. Because, you know, sometimes two isn't enough.

for the next UN set. I'm aware there's a similar card already :-)

challenge: an enchant land like Cursed Land or Psychic Venom that's less awful and would actually see play.

Caerwyn on Will WotC Keep Life Loss …

5 years ago

Yes--I think black having its own distinct feel and mechanic is important. I do not foresee Wizards abandoning life loss as a fundamental component of Black's identity.

Also, I take issue with your statement of "dealt damage in the past, but always when draining life": Artifact Possession, Choking Sands, Corpse Lunge, Curse Artifact, Curse of Thirst, Cursed Land, Dakmor Plague, Dead Reckoning, Desolation, Dry Spell, Evincar's Justice, Famine, Festering Evil (I think this is sufficient to prove my point, but I'm only at the letter F and there would be a lot more to copy and paste).

Teknetic on

7 years ago

Growing Ranks is green, so you have to cut that. You could probably also stand to drop 4-6 lands.

So this is more a macro thing about this deck's construction, but life gain really isn't going to help you in EDH. Something like Ajani's Vengeance is just a terrible card. Not only do you already start on 40 life, which is quite a bit to punch through, but the difference between 40 life, 100 life, and 1000 life is generally not super relevant in EDH games. Most decks run an infinite combo of some description to blow you out of the game, and even if they don't, commander damage doesn't care how much life you gained. So if you're running a card and the only thing it does is have enchantment typing and incidentally gain you some life, you should cut it.

After that, Cursed Land will likely never kill anyone, because 40 life is too much to work through, and it's only one damage a turn, also assuming they don't just sac the land to get rid of the enchantment. Hecatomb is not only absurdly expensive to get onto the table, but it's also way too slow. If you're running the white Honden, you should run the black one as well. All of the "Creatures can block an extra creature" cards can get pretty easily cut, considering you can just power out a bunch of blockers with Daxos.