Extirpate
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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
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Extirpate

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles their library.

KongMing on Toughness Trilogy, Ep. III: The Wall of Phenax

2 weeks ago

How about Surgical Extraction or Extirpate? Same effect, one can be paid with life, the other has Split Second. A benefit of this effect is that if you choose a nonland card, you can potentially remove up to 3 land cards from its owner's deck deck, making your Mind Funeral effects even more potent. Your choice between these two would probably depend on the amount and types of interaction in your work pod.

Edit: Considering your manabase is mostly focused, Surgical Extraction might be the go-to.

Balaam__ on Monoblack Discouragement

6 months ago

Quite nice. Depending on your budget and how performant you want the deck to be, I’d encourage you to consider replacing Extirpate with Surgical Extraction; it’s a pricier card but slightly more competitive.

YesterdaysGhost on Cash-Strapped Black Racks

8 months ago

Great question, seshiro_of_the_orochi! When I initially built this some 10 years ago Thoughtseize was indeed kept out due to it's price point. It was quite a staple at the time in Standard during Theros block too!

But the main reason it doesn't come in nowadays is the life point defecit for casting. With the speed of Modern and the very precarious position life can be in at the end of a game every 2 life points matter.

Inquisition of Kozilek and Extirpate both fill a similar outcome to Thoughtseize. If someone were looking to use it however I would say you could drop Cry of Contrition and a single Raven's Crime to put three of them into the deck :)

kamarupa on

10 months ago

Like wallisface said, this looks very susceptible to removal spells. 3x Loran's Escape is probably not sufficient. Invisible Stalker is a great creature for a deck such as this. If you can find creatures that have built in durability/protection, those tend to be favored in aura decks like this. To that end, if not creatures, there are def auras that can help give your creatures more staying power - Hyena Umbra being high on that list.

I don't think All That Glitters is worth it. It's half an Ethereal Armor at double the MV.

1xHall of Heliod's Generosity seems pretty valuable here. I also think 4 more dual lands would help, especially given how many spells you have that require either or WW or BB to cast. (something many people try to avoid in non-monocolored decks) And personally, when I play with black, I usually include 1xBojuka Bog and often 1xCastle Locthwain.

I also suggest limiting instants like Fracture to the sideboard as much as possible. You want/need as many enchantments down as possible. Use spells like On Thin Ice as much as you can. Classics like Journey to Nowhere and Oblivion Ring aren't the lowest MV or as fast as instants, but the bump to the enchantments that care is worth it.

The thing I really like about Kor Spiritdancer is the draw card. Almost every deck needs a way to draw extra cards, and repeatable effects are among the most powerful. That also makes your 'dancer even more of a target. It may well be easier to use different creatures and add a draw card spell than it is to protect and draw cards from your 'dancer. It's a tantalizing, but difficult creature to successfully build around.

When it comes to the sideboard, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to include spells duplicate mainboard spells. IE, Fatal Push isn't doing anything Path to Exile doesn't already do well. Kaya's Guile, on the other hand, using the sacrifice mechanic, does do something Path doesn't - it get's around hexproof AND indestructible. You might find Extirpate useful. Fracture should be in the sideboard. That eliminates the need for Mortify.

Basshunter on Slime Caves Minibiome from Starbound

10 months ago

Stain the Mind, Extirpate and so on....could this work to mate extreme strong dittos`?!?1?

wallisface on Mill deck

1 year ago

Some thoughts:

  • mill decks never want to run any creatures other than Hedron Crab and Ruin Crab. All these other creatures you’re running do nothing to help you mill, and end up being anti-synergies in your deck (you’re unlikely to win through combat damage, and by having these cards you’re just ruining your chances to win by milling either).

  • some of your mill cards are super sub-optimal. For instance Tome Scour is the equivalent of running Shock in a burn deck - both cards too to little to get the job done and just end up leaving you empty-handed while your opponent is still alive. Same goes for Mind Funeral… it does too little for its investment. Better options include Fractured Sanity, Maddening Cacophony, and Tasha's Hideous Laughter.

  • You currently have no form of interaction, which means you’re just going to get stomped on… even the fastest mill decks can’t outpace typical aggro/combo decks, and need to buy themselves time. I would expect to see cards like Fatal Push, Extirpate/Surgical Extraction, Drown in the Loch, and Crypt Incursion here.

wallisface on Grinding like a pepper mill

1 year ago

Cool, for a pure mill $50 list I'd be doing something like this (all prices from Card Kingdom):

Comes to $49.95 total.

Ammonzy on Mill.ionaire [Modern UB Mill]

1 year ago

God-Eternal-Magic-Player

Obviously my personal deck is super expensive because it's Foiled out. But UB Mill is one of the cheaper modern decks to build since mill cards aren't really that popular across other formats.

I think the only real expensive cards are Archive Trap that's like $15 each and the mana base, primarily the Polluted Delta and Flooded Strand. Oboro is expensive at like $40 but it's not required to run the deck, it's simply for max efficiency to sync with crabs and we miss land drops.

So tweak the manabase and find replacements for the Archive Traps for a fairly good, budget version?

Extirpate is a solid budget version of Surgical Extraction. And it's good even in the future if you decide to invest more, as you can move the Extirpates to the sideboard as the split-second can be very useful

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