Dark Confidant

Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

SufferFromEDHD on Genju say All Realm Matter

1 month ago

raises fist in the air in Genju solidarity

Dark Confidant would be so powerful in this deck with 46% zero CMC. Cut Diabolic Intent.

Floodbringer & Oboro Breezecaller > whichever 2 moonfolk you think are the weakest. Uyo seems bad in a deck with 6 spells.

Blossoming Tortoise > Sporemound

Treasure Hunt > Maelstrom Nexus

Ancient TombGC > Sol Ring

This deck would greatly benefit from Academy Ruins, Hall of Heliod's Generosity and Volrath's Stronghold

dgalarza on A Means to an End

1 month ago

Nice take! Always happy to see good Bob lists.

Icbrgr on Bob's Dadrock 8 Rack

4 months ago

How does Dark Confidant feel in here? I've been looking at 8rack lately and thought it seemed neat

NV_1980 on Kaalia of the Waifu

4 months ago

Honestly I don't think I've ever seen a Kaalia deck quite like this one.

Some general notes: The deck could really do with some additional mana-sources aside from your lands to make it a bit quicker. I tried to play-test it ten times or so and each time, I couldn't do anything meaningful until turn 3 or 4 at the earliest. Stuff like the signets (Arcane Signet, Boros Signet, Orzhov Signet, Rakdos Signet and/or maybe the talismans (Talisman of Conviction, Talisman of Hierarchy, Talisman of Indulgence could all be of tremendous value in this regard.

Then there's draw. Right now the deck contains maybe 1 or 2 actual draw resources. You also have 5 or 6 tutors; most of which I presume are meant to find you your combo pieces. I see you have blink options in here too, which allows you to reuse some of your tutors, which is nice. However, most EDH decks contain at least 10 or so card-advantage options to keep things moving along steadily during games. For this deck, I'd recommend CA-options like Bloodgift Demon, Dark Confidant, Harvester of Souls, Phyrexian Arena and/or Rakdos, Patron of Chaos. I can think of more, but these are quite expensive (money-wise) and considering the deck's current budget, those might not be suitable.

Hope this brew works for you, good luck!

SufferFromEDHD on Ob Nixilis 43 Lands.dec

4 months ago

Dark Confidant/Dark Tutelage is the draw tech for this strategy. I will be adding Phyrexian Arena and Vampiric TutorGC upon your observation.

Balaam__ on Cosmic Charybdis

5 months ago

I am very fond of any deck that plays Magic ‘not normally’, i.e. using/abusing zones of play in strange and advantageous ways. I like the mission statement here, but I wince a little when considering the enormous potential life loss Spoils of the Vault and Dark Confidant can incur. There is Scavenging Ooze, but is that enough to offset it? I’m eyeing that Shadowspear in the sideboard and wondering if it should see maindeck use. Then again, if things go according to plan it may not be needed and thus that slot be better occupied by what you currently have. Tough to say without extensive use.

Andramalech on Mage Factory

5 months ago

Consider cards like: Seasoned Pyromancer, Young Pyromancer, Faithless Looting, Faithless Salvaging, Past in Flames, Lier, Disciple of the Drowned, Dark Confidant, Ripples of Undeath, Goblin Lore, and maybe consider Sensei's Divining Top. CHeers!

SufferFromEDHD on The Mind-Razing Monarch

5 months ago

Baleful Mastery why not main board?

Burning Inquiry so much looting for so little

Cephalid Coliseum one person loots

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned > Yawgmoths Will (getting wild upon Andramalech request)

Dark Confidant looove this card in EDH but consider adding Sensei's Divining Top and/or Witch's Clinic to offset the serious life loss. Urza's Saga could grab it along with a playset of your other fancy jewels.