Exquisite Blood
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander 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
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Exquisite Blood

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

DreadKhan on Lightning Bolts shoot from my fingertips

3 weeks ago

It's a bit pricey, but Exquisite Blood is generically very good with burn effects. If you don't mind a combo potentially showing up you can also use Sanguine Bond, which also happens to love your Commander's Lifelink (and fwiw unlike most decks that just throw that in you are VERY able to burn people to actually win on the spot).

I think if you want to use Manabarbs maybe you should look at more Artifact type ramp that won't trigger it? There are some easy ones like Rakdos Signet, Talisman of Indulgence that can even give you coloured mana, and some like Worn Powerstone and Thran Dynamo that can help keep your Commander on the table. Also, maybe I'm missing a ton of them, but IMHO you should have more artifacts if you want to use a Mox Opal.

Some other random goodies you might like: Maddening Hex (this would be HILARIOUS with some doublers), Chandra's Ignition (if you target something with lifelink remember it's the CREATURE doing the damage, so you can gain a TON of life off of this if the board is fairly full, and it's great with a Deathtouch source like Gift of Doom), Fire Covenant (one of the best burn spells ever), and MAYBE a Rionya, Fire Dancer since you've got all those Sorceries.

YMMV but I love having some small card draw effects in a deck like this, maybe Night's Whisper, Winds of Change, Humble Defector, and/or Phyrexian Arena? I feel like Sign in Blood's BB might be awkward.

It's not exactly 'lightning from your fingers', but Brash Taunter is one of the funniest creatures in Magic, just having the little guy out can make you much harder to attack into, and before your turn if you didn't need to remove/burn something you can use mana you're holding up to pick a fight with the biggest creature on board. It's nutso with all your damage doublers IMHO. One of my favorite interactions in all of Magic is how good Scavenged Brawler is with Taunter, it's the kind of thing you won't pull off often, but if people aren't running enough Swords to Plowshares family effects it's amazing.

DreadKhan on Sorin of House Lifegain and Combos

2 months ago

If you have payoffs for life loss/life gain maybe Axis of Mortality will play well? I will admit it's a fairly derpy card in some ways, but the ability to steal the highest life total, or give the Archenemy the lowest life total is very strong in practice, and it can create really big swings for something like Exquisite Blood or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to generate even more value from.

DreadKhan on Kaervek, the Enchantress

2 months ago

Maybe Rite of the Raging Storm? Rite plays very well with Exquisite Blood and Berserkers' Onslaught, as well as Dauthi Embrace (fwiw Rite and Revel in Riches are almost a combo). There and Back Again is an interesting option, especially since your Commander can kill Smaug if you want the mana. Captive Audience is an old favorite of mine, though the tokens can backfire I guess. Since you're probably not on any combos maybe Protection Racket? Liliana's Contract can draw some cards without a huge drawback. There is also Infernal Tribute, which can draw cards and can get rid of Enchantments you want gone.

Oooh, just had an evil thought, what if you used Descent into Avernus? It'll help keep your Commander on the field while ensuring the maximum number of triggers for him, all while paring away life from each player!

indieinside on Raphael, Fiendish Savior

3 months ago

another great Exquisite Blood combo would be to pair it with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose.

YamishiTheWickedOne on Edgar Markov: Dark Ambitions

3 months ago

I've been looking at lowering my mana curve lately, some power cards are absolutely worth the cost, but I've never been in a situation where I needed and could pay for Ruinous Ultimatum for example, so I swapped in Toxic Deluge. Ripper is a monster and Citadel wins games. I'm still testing New Blood but I'm more focused on consistency even as I shift more to an aristocrats combo build. As great as it is, a 2-color Boros enchant that you can't really ramp into any sooner than turn 2-3 feels a little clunky. I'm experimenting now with The Meathook Massacre and have been pleasantly surprised. Also many of my recent wins have been due to the combo of Vito or Sanguine Bond + Bloodthirsty Conqueror or Exquisite Blood. With a perfect hand, I had one game where I ramped out an instant win combo on turn 3.

legendofa on Help me to build a …

7 months ago

What kind of combo are you looking for?

Lock combos (something like Teferi's Puzzle Box + Notion Thief or Arcane Laboratory + Knowledge Pool) are pretty close to Stax and tend to lead to saltiness, but are as control-combo as you can get.

Instant win combos (Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank or Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond, for example) end the game fast, but need to be supported a little more, especially if the pieces don't do much by themselves.

"Open-ended" non-infinite combos (Rona, Tolarian Obliterator  Flip + Pestilence + Body of Knowledge) are the least salt-inducing, as long as you can finish them in a reasonable time, but they might not close out the game.

SaberTech on Help me to build a …

7 months ago

Yeah, I agree with Crow_Umbra. Slowing the game down with a bunch of wrath spells is going to get at least some of your opponents salty. If that's acceptable to you though, an option that pops to mind for me is Oloro, Ageless Ascetic.

  • Lends itself well to a deck with a bunch of wraths because it can do something while still in the command zone.
  • The deck can focus around planeswalkers and/or enchantments so you aren't as affected by your own wraths.
  • Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood can be your main combo.
  • Something like Virtue of Persistence is early removal and a potential late-game win condition by reanimating your opponents' dead creatures to use against them.
  • Idyllic Tutor isn't on the Game Changers list but is still a good tutor to help you find your combo.

The downside is that it isn't exactly the cheapest deck to build if you don't already have a bunch of the cards.

DreadKhan on Fun cards make fun decks

7 months ago

When you talk about 'fun cards', it makes me think of political stuff, nothing makes for memorable games like politics showing up. I'm a fan of Axis of Mortality and Exquisite Blood, either is a useful card on it's own, but combined they can be really, really fun (opponent's exchanging life totals is treated as one gaining and the other losing life, so it'll trigger Esquisite). War Tax is a fun political trick, not sure if I prefer Tax or Flood, both can actually do valuable work.

Fractured Identity is a nice Azorius card that can both remove a problem card while also making a whole bunch MORE problems! Very weird with Strixhaven Stadium for example. Visions of Duplicity is an interesting spell if your Commander has a fairly high MV, the effect is quite strong potentially. If you like the idea of giving opponent's some choices to keep things interesting, there are also Callous Oppressor and the very $$$ Preacher. Fealty to the Realm is the final relevant theft effect that comes to mind, not sure if it's good enough.

I'm one of few people who cape for them, but some of the Advocates are very strong repeatable effects; I like Pulsemage Advocate, and I love Spurnmage Advocate. I love how vs some people you can actually hurt them by putting stuff they need in the graveyard into their hand, and that you can also give the player who's fallen behind a tiny leg up.

Oh, and if you ever feel like having a blocker that can feed people cards, there is Flumph, yet also Soldevi Sentry (which is a 'combo' with Smothering Tithe in the sense that you can just feed someone as many cards as both people want, handy if you're helping them dig for a solution fwiw). Coveted Jewel is hilarious in the right meta, a real joy to see in action.

Dawnbreak Reclaimer can do a shocking amount of work sometimes, as can a World Queller (even funnier with Martyr's Bond).

You might want to look into the Hunted creatures, Hunted Horror is probably the best, but there some others that work a bit differently.

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