Dread

Creature — Elemental Incarnation

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

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
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

SaberTech on Board buffs?

1 day ago

Invasion Plans, Magnetic Web, and Nemesis Mask are interesting ways to force blocks.

I don't know what sort of creatures you are running in the deck, but if you think that you are frequently going to have creatures with high power on the board then No Quarter can help to prevent them from dying if they are blocked by a bunch of smaller creatures. It also neutralizes the usefulness of low-power deathtouch creatures.

Dread and No Mercy discourage opponents from attaching you.

Tsukimi on Card creation challenge

9 months ago

Reason {2}{G}{U}{U}

Legendary Creature - Hydra Elemental

Flying, Trample

This creature enters with 6 Foresight counters on it. If this creature would be destroyed or exiled while it has 1 more Foresight counters, instead remove a Foresight counter from this creature.

Whenever this creature receives a counter, and whenever a counter is removed from this creature, each opponent draws a card.

6/6

"Reason dictates that knowledge must be shared."

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I present an elemental Lorwyn style Hydra!

Create another multicolor Lorwyn style elemental ala (Dread, Vigor, Purity.)

HeavenlyAxe on Competitive Shadow Tribal [Primer]

2 years ago

I dont think I'd have any card in my deck with the sole purpose of being a blocker. Id hate it every time I drew the card.

Darkness is a fog in black

Ensnaring Bridge might work if you can play around it. Your guys are small but your buffing them.

Stuffy Doll + Pariah's Shield is cute but on their own they are sort of dead draws.

Hissing Miasma is a deterrent but not a very strong one

Crawlspace limits the number of attackers

Exquisite Blood might solve the problem in another way

Mirage Mirror acts as a great deterrent that also has a lot of utility.

Marchesa's Decree give you monarch which you can always get back so thats sweet

Revenge of Ravens meh

Davriel, Soul Broker very strong

Dread

Solemn Simulacrum the best blocker lol

Not exactly what you asked for but hopefully gave you some good ideas.

DemonDragonJ on Savage Destruction

2 years ago

I have replaced Darigaaz, the Igniter, Dread, and Death Cloud with Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire, Ziatora, the Incinerator, and Fraying Omnipotence, because the newer cards are vastly superior to the older cards, and that did, unfortunately, increase the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.92 to 3.95, but those numbers are deceptive, since I would have needed to spend at least 2 mana on the {X} in Death Cloud's mana cost to receive good value from it.

DemonDragonJ on How Can I Put Ziatora, …

2 years ago

I wish to put Ziatora, the Incinerator into my Kresh the Bloodbraided EDH deck, but I am not certain what card I should remove to make room for her.

The most logical choice is Darigaaz, the Igniter, because he does not contribute to the main theme of the deck and simply has been outclassed, but I was also considering replacing Dread, due to its heavily monocolroed casting cost, or The Immortal Sun, since recent comments from other users have inspired me to rethink me decision to include that card in every EDH deck that I make.

What does everyone else say about this subject? Which card should I remove to put Ziatora, the Incinerator into this deck?

griffstick on Indulgent Tormentor or Visara the …

2 years ago

Ok, I've used all of those cards befor and the problem with them is

• Indulgent Tormentor, it's just a bad card, if it was 4 mana to cast I'd say yea it's just another version of Loyal Subordinate and you can run it. With giving your opponents 3 options it's bad.

• Visara the Dreadful, the cost to cast this at 6 mana is really one of the biggest problems with this card. Secondly, because it doesn't have haste, you'll have to wait a turn to use it. It's tap ability to destroy is really what's the best part of the card but because it's a tap ability you can't attack with the flying 5/5. That also applies to Avatar of Woe. Although Dread doesn't do anything that you can see (like Ghostly Prison). It seems like it's a bad card. But it's not. It hits for 6 with fear. And protection from the crack back.

In my honest opinion, you'd be better off running Royal Assassin in place of Visara the Dreadful or WOE. And running Ophiomancer in place of Dread.

DemonDragonJ on Indulgent Tormentor or Visara the …

2 years ago

I have a copy of Dread in my Kresh the Bloodbraided EDH deck, but that creature's ability is reactive, and I wish to replace it with a creature whose ability is proactive, and I am currently considering either Indulgent Tormentor or Visara the Dreadful, so which creature does everyone else here prefer?

DemonDragonJ on Does this Deck Have Sufficient …

2 years ago

DrukenReaps, I chose Dread because its ability synergizes with Kresh, but I agree that its cost is rather strict for a three-colored deck, so are there any creatures that are very similar, but with a more lenient mana cost?