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| 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 |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Haunting Misery
Sorcery
As an additional cost to play Haunting Misery, remove X creature cards in your graveyard from the game.
Haunting Misery deals X damage to target player.
ThatWeirdPerson on
It's Just a Flesh Wound ($100 Meren)
2 years ago
I rlly want to put Tranquility in there because the deck has no enchantments but I don't know what to swap it with. Also, what do you all think about Haunting Misery
Wabbajacke on
Haunted House!
2 years ago
Nice Deck and i love this spooky Theme! :)
Maybe Iname, Death Aspect would be a good include.
I just drop a List of creepy Cards i found, maybe you can use some of them:
- Revenant
Thief of Hope not that scary, but would fit in with the spirit theme.
Some instants:
- Darkness
Some sorcerys:
- Extract
tumamaenmondongo on
3 years ago
There's a fringe combo archetype call One-Land Spy. It basically plays a single forest, fetchable with Land Grant, a bunch of ways to ramp into Balustrade Spy or Destroy the Evidence to get your whole deck into the graveyard at once. From there, there are plenty of ways to win, typically casting a Haunting Misery for 20 something, retrieving it from the graveyard off Anarchist, casting it by flasbacking Morgue Theft, with mana generated from Songs of the Damned and rituals.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/1-land-spy-hard-mode/ That one is a more elaborate version IMO, which wins through looping songs of the damned, to pay for a second loop which could be either Gray Merchant of Asphodel to drain life, or Balustrade Spy to mill your opponent.
The only thing you should be changing from that version is Gitaxian Probe which isn't pauper legal anymore. Replacing those, players are using cantrips like Manamorphose or cycling creatures, mana fixers like Abundant Growth, Springleaf Drum or mana dorks, rituals like Culling the Weak, or even stuff like Commune with Nature to dig for spy.
TheChaosVault on
Cycling Storm
5 years ago
tkraak maybe, when I tested a similar list I found that with Consume Spirit I only could get lethal with very lucky hands where I could chain several Songs of the Damned and immediately had Consume to cast, whereas Haunting Misery I only needed to keep 3 mana up while I cycled my deck down to 10 cards or so.
VeggiesaurusRex on
Cycling Storm
5 years ago
TheChaosVault, I briefly considered Haunting Misery but I think that Consume Spirit is a flashier way to win.
As for the Snow-Covered Swamps, they're purely aesthetic. They serve no real purpose in the list.
TheChaosVault on
Cycling Storm
5 years ago
I like the list, although I personally prefer Haunting Misery as a wincon. May I as though, why snow covered swamps?
TheChaosVault on
Misery Crusher
5 years ago
Soul Exchange is not Pauper legal, whatever TO may say. However, Exhume, which does not require you to have a creature to exile, is. Also, Ulamog's Crusher and Haunting Misery, while both perfectly fine wincons by themselves, don't really fit in the same deck. Misery is ideal for combo decks such as Cycling Songs and One Land Spy, whereas Crusher is best when reanimated early before the opponent can answer the threat. It would likely be better to focus either on the Misery combo plan or add more reanimation targets.
ANemoAcids on
5 years ago
Pickachu202, the petals are often used to splash colours for protection spells, and forcing your opponents hand, or making them play reactively. The sideboard in this deck is to change strategy and catch them off-guard, so for this particular deck, I could almost be strict enough to say the petals are dead draws unless you are trying to float blue mana to bluff a counterspell, or actually legit include one, and change your sideboard to combo protection instead of strategy switch.
In non-pauper it will force counterspells because people must choose between countering your Lotus Petal or Autumn's Veil that you are (most assumedly) casting petal to attempt to use (or Angel's Grace and the like, depending on what combo decklist you are running). Usually you keep a land that can tap for the colour of the one drop spell up so that when they choose which one you still resolve the other, unless miraculously they found 2 counterspells for each attempt, in which case it doesn't matter cos they don't have a third, or the mana for a third, to stop the wincon spell like Haunting Misery.
A top notch counterspell to consider for the Lotus Petal Protection strategy in Pauper, is of course Muddle the Mixture because if nothing else after floating your threatening blue mana, you will tutor a cabal ritual off of it when you start to struggle for fuel to the combo, not only this but you sacrifice a petal AND discard a muddle, meaning you filled your graveyard by two cards to reach threshold even quicker.
(You could consider this an early game jank graveyard filler, and combo enabler, if you are versing a deck where you do not need to concern yourself with counterspells. I've found three or four times in my playtests with this current list I have a cabal in hand, and only 5-6 cards in graveyards, struggling to fill it while keeping enough mana to cast the threshold cabal on the same turn).
The advantage to floating your blue mana is bluffing or not, you increase the chances of comboing uninterrupted for a while as your opponent works out whether they need to invest in stopping you. With this particular jank combo it's borderline impossible to tell if somebody is whiffing, 'cos 90% of it literally looks like a whiff, you're just floating mana, cycling random shit, losing life, until the end where you drop the finishers.
The downsides to floating blue mana. You cannot pump Consume Spirit with it. Though this should be largely ignoreable considering it will still tutor for your ritual to compensate with black mana once you're ready.
Another upside to splashing blue for lotus petal is throwing in dimir backwaters for gain 1 life dual lands. Goes a long way when you start to recycle Wraiths. But this will slow and hurt your landbase a little. However it's still tutoring mana which again still makes up for it.