Devouring Greed

Sorcery — Arcane

As an additional cost to play Devouring Greed, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.

Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.

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

Discussion (42)

Quicksilver2785 on 56: Orzhov Afterlife

2 years ago

I thought about some of the Silverquill cards but I found Dramatic Finale too slow since it only triggers once per turn and costs double that of Intangible Virtue. Also, the Inklings don't work Devouring Greed which can bypass defenses on a stalled board. I was using Grim Haruspex instead of Village Rites, it is more vulnerable but can be another death trigger.

Epicurus on Kami-Dor: A Tribal Spirits Primer

4 years ago

I second bushido_man96's suggestion of Skull Prophet. I'd add to that Devouring Greed, and also recommend Life from the Loam, which dramatically helped my own Karador deck. Other cards that help my own deck a lot are Priest of Forgotten Gods, Teysa Karlov, Bog Witch and Life's Legacy. None of those are on theme, though, so use your discretion.

My Karador deck is Cleverly Named Graveyard Deck. Note that I don't run the Reveillark combo, because I refuse to. But you might find inspiration there.

Cheers!

Phostration on Ajani’s Dream

4 years ago

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose! Makes any life you gain into damage as well, doubling the damage dealt by Devouring Greed! Also I have a feeling your deck isn't standard legal lol.

dichia on

4 years ago

hungry000,I understand that Long-Forgotten Gohei might not be the best card choice here. Probably Honor of the Pure is better even if I'm running spirits and Devouring Greed. I'm not opposed to change it. The reason why I'm not including Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Bitterblossom, etc... is that my purpose is not to make a really competitive deck. Let's say that my aim is to build a deck around a concept in the best way possible and in this case the concept was to make a different version of the competitive BW Tokens decks that only runs spirit tokens to take advantage of Devouring Greed.

I don't know if I explained myself well or if it even make sense, but that's the reason I'm not putting Sorin in the list.

dichia on

4 years ago

UPDATE

So I thought that the problem of the deck was that I was trying to make too many strategies fit in it, ending with none of them being very efficient.

Therefore I gave up the sacrificing strategies for a more straightforward deck based on spawning spirits, buff them, and just if needed use Devouring Greed.

dichia on

4 years ago

abby315 that's true. The reason why I didn't include him (and also Bitterblossom, which is another good card for token decks) is that it gives me vampire tokens. It doesn't really change much, cause only Devouring Greed requires specifically spirit tokens, but it bothers me a bit. It's not like it's going to be competitive or something, so I give a lot of importance to the theme of the deck.

If I had to run a competitive deck, I would surely use him and Bitterblossom, and probably some other cards that give different kind of tokens.

dichia on Orzhov Spirits

4 years ago

Naksu, your deck is very similar, if not the same, to what I was trying to do and I got a lot of hints out of it. I'm probably going to run one Westvale Abbey  ^Flip and Ghost Quarter which are also good for the theme (really important to me). I upvoted it btw. Since you have surely more experience with this kind of deck, I've got a couple of questions:

do you think Doomed Traveler is worth it? I find that it's very easy to play around him. Probably it's better to change it for a 1-cost removal like Path to Exile or Inquisition of Kozilek/Thoughtseize rather than another 1-cost spirit creature. The only one I like is Kami of False Hope cause it can proc Promise of Bunrei at any time.

What do you think of Midnight Haunting and Kaya's Guile? The first could be good to build an heavy Devouring Greed and the second is really versatile.

Last question: I see you use Bontu's Last Reckoning with Selfless Spirit, but since it keeps your lands tapped, couldn't it stop you from playing a maybe topdeck Devouring Greed? Isn't it better to play a 4-cost boardwipe spell?

Anyway, thanks for the interest and for the help.

dichia on Orzhov Spirits

4 years ago

I'm building a BW spirits deck based on tokens, and I want to keep it BW.

I've got two problems though:

1) I can't find a good drop-1 that synergize well with tokens and spirits other than Doomed Traveler, which didn't do a good job by far. The deck should be pretty fast and aggressive, so I guess a drop-1 is required, correct me if I'm wrong. 2) I decided to replace card:Teys Karlov with Ghost Council of Orzhova because her first effect is never used with the other cards and because council's effect is good to sacrifice card:Doom Traveler and trigger Promise of Bunrei. Moreover, council's a spirit so I can sacrifice him too for Devouring Greed which is a secondary finisher in case the game stalls. Problem is: ghost council didn't do a good job too. I actually like Teysa more, but the fact that I'm not going to use her first effect bothers me. So, in the end, the best thing would something to replace card:Doom traveler that could also trigger Teysa Karlov.