Hidden Horror

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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
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Hidden Horror

Creature — Horror

When Hidden Horror enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you discard a creature card.

HappyTuna on Learn Magic: Black

1 year ago

I dont think this is actually good at showcasing what black is about, I think I just got distracted by malefic scythe and tried to cram it in here.

A better combo might be something like Hidden Horror and Zombify, returning something like Black Dragon, Pestilence Demon, or Gloom Sower

Epicurus on GRISELBRAND’S NECRO-STORM [Primer]

3 years ago

Hello fellow Legacy aficionado!

My own collection of decks mostly consist of what I identify as "casual," which is to say that by tournament legality definitions they are predominantly Vintage or Legacy, but I don't own any power nine or otherwise incredibly costly cards so they're not necessarily competitive in those formats.

Having said that, I own an old-school reanimator deck (my usual reanimation target in which is Tidal Kraken, because it puts a clock on the game), and in mine, the sure-win, first turn combo is Dark Ritual into Entomb and Exhume. I'm sure you're familiar with that move.

The biggest - and maybe only - difference between my deck and this one is that mine is mono-black. So I'm using Hidden Horror, Vampire Hounds and Bog Witch for self discard. Faithless Looting seems like a more effective choice, I wonder looking at your deck if the problems of operating in, effectively, 3 colors is justified in the resultant effectiveness.

Mind you, I'm running Hell's Caretaker and Victimize with some Nether Shadows and Nether Traitors, so maybe they're enough different of decks that I shouldn't be comparing them like I am.

Sorry, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have been playing the same deck for twenty years, and had never considered that the construction of it could be different and somehow better, until looking at yours. So, thanks for that. At some point maybe I'll add my deck to the site, and perhaps you'll see it.

Darth_Savage on

6 years ago

Mill is a difficult thing to win with, but I have a couple of suggestions for you...

  • The strongest mill decks I've seen use Mesmeric Orb, if your on a budget Memory Erosion or Altar of the Brood might be ok but are nowhere near the power of the Orb.
  • Fraying Sanity should be a 4 of, this is one of the best mill cards printed in a long time.
  • Tome Scour and Mind Sculpt should be replaced with 4 Breaking / Entering.
  • Fetch Lands, they are pricey but they let you trigger Hedron Crab twice, this is incredibly useful.

The other option is to up the aggro side of this deck, maybe try to use horror tribal 4x Hunted Horror, 4x Thing in the Ice Hidden Horror and to make it all click 4x Torpor Orb.

Hope this helps

GobboE on Drop a Draco Challenge

7 years ago

I actually used to have a black deck like that, I do not have the expensive cards, but this deck was fast and mono black coloured.

It had, among some other things, 4 Hidden Horror, 4 Body Snatcher, 4 Dark Ritual, 4 Animate Dead, 4 Dance of the Dead, and a combination of Scion of Darkness, Draco, and Nicol Bolas (not hard casting him anyway). I think I also had Bog Witch, and Jet Medallion in there....and certainly removal (Terror, and Dark Banishing at the time) to remove pesky blockers

Play was simple:Either turn 1 Dark ritual > Hidden Horror and then turn two animate Draco and start swinging, and remove blockers

Or turn 2 Dark ritual > Body Snatcher and then as above (if body snatchers get's killed it's even easier)

You virtually always have drawn some ramp so a turn three big bad monster was certainly no exception.

Arby_Q on Does this Alesha need a …

7 years ago

Firestorm is easily the best discard effect to use with Alesha. Even if you miss your fourth mana, you can clear a path for her as well as pull something out of the graveyard.
Avatar of Discord and Hidden Horror are decent as well.

bennybubbles on All is hell that ends well

8 years ago

I feel like some of your targeted removal could be removed (haha get it), because in EDH Damnation is much better than Doom Blade. However, this depends entirely on your playgroup and whether you have regular games with the same people. If a lot of your playgroup runs creature light decks, targeted removal is fine, but if there are a few creature heavy decks, wrath effects like Damnation is fine. And I know that wrath effects kill Meren of Clan Nel Toth, and I hate using wrath effects for that reason also, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Now I know that you already have Damnation but I am just pointing out the things that I have noticed running a Golgari EDH deck. Hidden Horror, Slum Reaper and those kind of cards are good, but I feel like you need less of those and more Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Smothering Abomination and tokens for days. Also, a good card to fuel Meren of Clan Nel Toth is Sadistic Hypnotist. I run one in my Nath of the Gilt-Leaf deck, and while I use it for the discard, you could use it for the mass free sacrifice, where the discard is just a bonus. This sacrifice will also help for Dictate of Erebos, Grave Pact as well as Golgari Germination, which while it doesn't allow you to go infinite like I used to think it did, still nets you a bunch of sacrifice fuel, which gets you a bunch of experience counters, a bunch of (kind of) removal, and a bunch of discard.