Despondency

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.

When Despondency is put into a graveyard from play, return Despondency to its owner's hand.

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (10)

StopShot on Building my first WUBRG (almost) …

2 years ago

The decklist is in its very early stages of development. It's an Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip commander deck, but I only want to cast the back-half The Prismatic Bridge to consistently play my pet-card Evershrike as my real commander. Evershrike is not legendary and my playgroup is against the idea of me building Evershrike as the commander due to it not being legendary, which is why I'm using Esika as the commander to build my Evershrike EDH deck legally.

This deck is on a budget - most cards should be under a dollar, with the occasional exception being under two dollars and bombs/must-haves being under five dollars if they're exceedingly good/synergistic with the deck's mechanics. Cards listed over $5 I already own.

Deck:

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Evershrike Prototype

Commander / EDH* StopShot

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Because of how The Prismatic Bridge works, to ensure Evershrike is tutored 100% of the time it has to be the only creature card in the 99 along with no planeswalkers. I think this is a fair deck building restriction as it's a trade-off to having access to all 5 colors.

I'm not used to building in 5 colors. I don't own any green staple/ramp cards and green is not really a color I want to lean too heavily into. That being said I feel like I might have gone overkill on the mana rocks. Tips on color fixing would be appreciated. I want to cast The Prismatic Bridge consistently, but I want my deck to rely on only two or three colors to cast most spells.

Because of Evershrike's ability to self-reanimate it doesn't need to use a command zone to ensure its longevity. That being said, spot-removal that exiles and graveyard hate is a death sentence for this deck and thus it's important the deck runs many efficient answers around exile effects, such as a high density of 1-mana auras for emergency reanimations and creature sac-outlets to dodge exile and creature-steal spells and abilities.

I'm not quite sure what direction I should take the deck's arsenal of removal spells. Counter magic would be best against exile spot removal whereas destruction spells work best against graveyard hate permanents.

Lastly, cards like Despondency and Launch are in the list to ensure I always have an aura in hand to reanimate Evershrike with.

bushido_man96 on The Sagas of the Mardu

2 years ago

Thank you, GoldenDiggle! I really appreciate that!

I've got some fleshing out to do here, so thank you for the suggestions. I've got some good stuff in my collection already, which helps. The stuff I have to buy, I'll have to watch the budget on.

I'm planning on running some of the Saga block bounce enchantments, like Despondency, to abuse Ghen's effect. This is a work in progress, and will come together slowly. I love the sagas and am always looking for ways to abuse them in any colors. I use Muldrotha for that in Sultai.

bushido_man96 on The Mischief Makers

4 years ago

Flickering Ward is great value. Fallen Ideal can put those tokens to use.

If your interested in being annoying, there are several Urza block enchantments that return to hand when they go to the graveyard from the battlefield: Sleeper's Guile for some evasion, Brilliant Halo (not that great), Despondency to nerf a creature, Cessation and Slow Motion can be really annoying.

markbeloit on Card creation challenge

5 years ago

Subtle Drain

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, choose one -

• Tap up to two target noncreature artifacts enchanted player controls.

• Enchanted player discards a card.

• Enchanted player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.

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Interestingly enough, at least one depression card has aready kind of been created: Despondency .

Next create a card symbolizing friendship.

Frytrix99 on Enchantment Noble B/G

7 years ago

I play Crippling Blight to avoid getting block when I attack, like Noble Quarry. But you're right that the card is a little bit weak.

I like Blightcaster, it could be really usefull. Also, I don't have a lot of 4 drop (only my noble), so it would be appropriate to use it.

You're right about Seal of Primordium. I need it, at minimum in the sideboard.

Despondency has the same effect as Rancor, which is much better here.

I'm not sure about Seal of Doom. It works well with the deck, but it's 1 more mana compare to Doom Blade, and can't target black creature, opposed to Murder.

gnikrul on Enchantment Noble B/G

7 years ago

Need more uncommons you say? How about Blightcaster? Just think, Stab Wound kills a Myr Enforcer outright if you have one on the battlefield.

Definitely need Seal of Primordium in there. You just can't leave the house without a Disenchant effect.

Crippling Blight seems weak in a deck that isn't highly aggressive.

I also question the inclusion of Doom Blade/Murder. Not only could they be replaced with Seal of Doom, most problems they solve are solved just as easily by Lignify. Since you already have a lot of targeted removal (especially if you run Blightcaster), perhaps it would be better to diversify into your favorite variant of Diabolic Edict, Geth's Verdict, or Tyrant's Choice?

I don't think it's optimal but you could also consider running Despondency as a way to keep those Constellation triggers coming.

Overall seems like a lot of fun!

bushido_man96 on Mazirek, Shaman of the Swarm ($60 budget)

7 years ago

I run a deck with Smokestack and Rancor in it. Another black bouncing enchantment is Despondency. I used to try to run it in a black/green deck with the stack, but paying 2 for Despondency every turn slowed things down a lot more than I liked. But if you get enough tokens and graveyard recursion going on, you could really make it work for you. Add a Grave Pact to that mix, and everyone starts to hate you. I see the pact has really gone up in price, too. Glad I bought a handful of those early on.

snewgoblin on Blightcaster PAUPER

8 years ago

Nice deck, have you considered Despondency and Mourning? While these cards don't do much on their own, they synergize well with your commander. btw +1