Darkslick Shores

Land

Darkslick Shores enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer lands.

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

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
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
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

wallisface on Kamarupa’s Challenge

1 month ago

My thoughts as a rough draft

• 4x Darkslick Shores
• 3x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 4x Swamp
• 2x Undercity Sewers
• 4x Verdant Catacombs

• 2x Watery Grave

• 3x Quicksilver Fountain

• 4x Fatal Push

• 4x Damnation
• 4x Preordain
• 4x Counterspell
• 4x Drown in the Loch
• 3x Spell Pierce

• 2x Force of Negation

• 4x Bloodghast

• 2x Harbinger of the Seas
• 3x Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student  ^Flip

I feel like Bloodghast plays soo well as a wincon alongside Oboro that it felt like the direction to push in. Everything else is ensuring we get enough time to flood the board and create misery.

idfkgabe on Ninja-Core

9 months ago

Hello MITKO, I do see that Drowned Catacomb works better than Secret Passage, I do have another land suggestion such as Shipwreck Marsh, and Darkslick Shores.

wallisface on Timely tokens

1 year ago

Some thoughts:

• You never really want to play lands that are very likely to enter the battlefield tapped - all of Vineglimmer Snarl, Choked Estuary, Necroblossom Snarl, and Zagoth Triome are all waay too slow to be useful. If you can't acquire fetchlands, then I'd suggest trying to acquire the fastlands - Blooming Marsh, Botanical Sanctum and Darkslick Shores.

• With no basics, you automatically lose to Blood Moon if an opponent plays it. You also have absolutely nothing to gain if the opponent casts Path to Exile or Assassin's Trophy on one of your permanents.

• For Collected Company to have any reasonable chance of hitting at least 2 creatures, your deck needs to have at least 27 creatures within it - without this number there's no point to playing the card. At the moment, with only 15 creatures that the card can use, the card just isn't good enough.

• Once you remove Collected Company, your deck has a lot more lands than it will need - and you could easily drop down to 22 (or possibly even 20).

• Urza's Saga lends itself really well into finding various 1-of toolbox cards that can save you in certain situations. Having a single copy of cards like Shadowspear, Pithing Needle, Relic of Progenitus etc can help you put-the-squeeze on many opponents.

• Lonis, Cryptozoologist really wants to live in a deck with lots of creatures. Just like Collected Company, your creature-count isn't high enough to justify this card.

• If you're playing Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, you probably want to play the full playset, as well as the full 4-ofs each of Ovalchase Daredevil and The Underworld Cookbook.

Idoneity on When Will WotC Finish the …

1 year ago

WOTC is rather capricious as to what land cycles they finish and when.

Typically, they finish land cycles in adjacent set releases, such as the checklands in Dominaria and Ixalan (see Isolated Chapel and Glacial Fortress. But they have also quixotically completed the showland cycle with Strixhaven in 2021 (see Furycalm Snarl), despite it first being introduced on a separate plane in 2016's Shadow's Over Innistrad (see Fortified Village). They do this a lot, starting with the allies then bargaining it over to the enemies:

1995 brought Underground River then 2001 had Shivan Reef, 2010 brought Darkslick Shores then 2016 had Spirebluff Canal. These are rather large gaps, ranging from months to years.

There are plenty of land cycles that haven't been finished or haven't even begun. The five ally-colored lands from Future Sight has partially been officiated, consisting of Horizon Canopy, Grove of the Burnwillows, Graven Cairns, Nimbus Maze, and River of Tears. All of these are rather unique; two have been finished. Kind of. Modern Horizons parlously gave Horizon Canopy an enemy family. The Graven Cairns cycle was completed in Eventide and Shadowmoor. The rest are lonesome.

There's still Amonkhet's cycling cycle to finish up, so who knows when the buddy lands will be tended to.

nuperokaso on Ninjas and Rogues

1 year ago

• 33 lands is too low and will force too many mulligans. Try playing 35 lands. To prevent being mana flooded with these extra lands, add lands that have some activated ability that can be used later in the game. I suggest adding Creeping Tar Pit, Access Tunnel.
• You have too few dual lands fixing your colors. You'll likely end up missing one of the colors. Here's a list of dual lands to consider: Choked Estuary, Darkwater Catacombs, River of Tears, Darkslick Shores, Shipwreck Marsh, Drowned Catacomb, Sunken Ruins, Temple of Deceit.
• Since you are an aggro deck, you need to play untapped lands. Remove The Dross Pits. BTW, you have it listed twice, which is obviously a mistake.

Dead_Blue_ on This zombie tribal deck needs help

2 years ago

Drowned Catacomb or Darkslick Shores over Bad River you really don’t want lands that come into play tapped

wallisface on Dimir Horrors

3 years ago

Vampire Hexmage doesn’t particularly help you here, as it only interacts with Thing in the Ice  ^Flip, and is only mildly faster than casting spells anyway (while leaving your counter-magic down, so likely more vulnerable to interaction). I’d ditch it in place of Opt.

I’d also suggest removing Dimir Charm for more copies of your other, better, counterspell options. The charm is just going to be too situation too often to be useful.

I think you prolly want to work towards the full playsets of all of Darkslick Shores, Underground River and Watery Grave - your deck feels super-dependant on having access to both BB and UU on turn 2. If you can afford Polluted Delta, they’d obviously help too.

zapyourtumor on Xanathar Dimir Control

3 years ago

Manabase could be improved with more Watery Graves, Polluted Delta, Darkslick Shores, Drowned Catacomb.

I recommend adding more Murktide, just so you can slam down a clock faster. Maybe some Jace, the Mind Sculptor as well if you can afford him.

Hero's Downfall is kind of bad, I'd replace it and Bloodchief's Thirst with some Fatal Push. Path of Peril seems like a dubious choice of boardwipe since you can't even cast its cleave cost, and it tends to be very situational outside of Lurrus Decks. I'd cut both and go up a Damnation if you want more sweepers, then maybe put another one in the sideboard.

I would also definitely play 3-4 Snapcaster Mage, which is just an amazing card in any control deck, and could also help you win the game since you're so light on wincons.