Infernal Tribute

Enchantment

{2}, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.

Legality

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

Discussion (47)

FormOverFunction on Help with EDH Food Deck

6 months ago

When it comes to sacrifice in black, I always want to remind people about Infernal Tribute. They still haven’t reprinted it, so it’s not cheap, but it’s pretty nice to have on board. You can’t sac a token to it, so it wouldn’t help with food specifically, but it’s a good one to keep in mind.

DreadKhan on Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

6 months ago

I've always loved Mazirek, such a cool Commander! I think Make an Example would probably do some work in here, and it's little brother Do or Die would probably be decent as well.

Mitotic Slime is a good source of creatures-from-a-creature, the only ones that can compete are cards like Underworld Hermit, which makes an army of squirrels equal to your devotion to Black. There are things like Grismold, the Dreadsower that can make a lot of bodies (it gives them to opponents as well, but if you can force them to sacrifice those tokens both Grismold and Mazirek go nuts), Grismold even offers a backup Commander of a sort for long games when you might not be able to recast Mazirek.

I'm not sure if you're interested in reanimation effects, but Hell's Caretaker is a free sac each upkeep, and he can bring back your best creature in exchange for your worst. Coffin Queen can reanimate from any graveyard, but it's especially useful to reanimate your opponent's stuff because it gets exiled when it dies. If you want a repeatable reanimation effect there is Demon of Dark Schemes, this offers a small wipe and it works very well with Pitiless Plunderer and something like the aforementioned Mitotic Slime.

Since your Commander cares about sacrifice effects, have you thought about using Diligent Farmhand and Dawntreader Elk in here? There is also Burnished Hart, all of these ramp you and can trigger Mazirek if he's out. There is also Ordeal of Nylea that would work with Mazirek later game (or anything that can get in early). I'm not sure if it comes up very much, but I put Forsworn Paladin in my Golgari deck because it had Haakon, but what I noticed was that it's also a useful way to ramp in Black, which importantly can fix your mana (to let you cast Green ramp), it's very low to the ground and can generate triggers for Mazirek or help recast Mazirek later.

Have you ever tried Sadistic Hypnotist? This offers a free and infinite sac outlet, and the effect can be pretty strong if you've got a bunch of creatures to burn through. Another really versatile sac outlet is Infernal Tribute, this lets you sacrifice any non-token permanent (it has to be an actual card) to draw a new card. I'm not 100% on it being a fit, but Savra, Queen of the Golgari is a pretty impressive payoff if you regularly have creatures being sacrificed, it can put a lot of pressure on an opponent's board.

It can get very out of hand with Mazirek, but I feel like I have to mention One with the Kami, it's very good on Mazirek with a free sac outlet. Similarly any creatures you can find with Persist will work very well with Mazirek and sac outlets, though again, this might be more pushed than what you're looking for. I took a gander and Aerie Ouphes might be interesting, and there is always Woodfall Primus, these might help support your Puppeteers!

If you ever want to throw in something pricier, I think Old Gnawbone would be absolutely hilarious in here.

DreadKhan on Eating My Own Game v1.0.4

7 months ago

I think you probably would be interested in Infernal Tribute, it's only restriction is that it has to be an actual card, you can't sac tokens with it, but it's repeatable and gives you cards. It is hard to cast unfortunately!

FormOverFunction on Why is Black Now Allowed …

8 months ago

I like the idea of having a mono-Black player trying to stay ahead of a snowballing trail of deals with various unsavory entities. I think the challenge is that there are some emergency exits, like Infernal Tribute that are 100% get-out-Of-jail-free ;p

DreadKhan on Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest - Insect tribal

1 year ago

Not sure if you're asking me or not, but there are tutorials for it IIRC, which is how I figured almost everything out, but I'm going to type it out with a bunch of spaces added in. If you wanted to link to Infernal Tribute, you'd type [-[-c-a-r-d-:-infernal tribute-]-], without all the dashes you'd end up with Infernal Tribute, just take out each - and it should work.

BTW, I don't think I mentioned that card, it can't sacrifice tokens but it can sacrifice any actual card you want to draw a card, making your board bigger and providing resources.

Just making sure I'm correct, but One with the Kami wouldn't work with your building restrictions because it makes Spirits, right? I love that card in Mazirek, just needs a couple bodies and a sac outlet to go off.

DreadKhan on Sacrifices Must Be Made

1 year ago

If nothing else, Make an Example is a shockingly good card in Rakdos as removal that dodges almost any form of protection, and it hits all opponents at once. Do or Die is also worth a look, but it never hits your opponent's best stuff with any reliability. Final sorcery that's really good in Rakdos is Phyrexian Purge, which is a very one-sided wipe that only costs 4 mana.

I feel repetitive at this point, but Rite of the Raging Storm is very much worth a look in Juri, it gives a sac every turn and it also just generates chaos. It also synergizes with great stuff like Mask of Griselbrand and Exquisite Blood, which also loves Citadel of Pain (and Protection Racket, which is like Phyrexian Arena did a giant bag of steroids as long as you're not on obvious combo).

I feel like Agitator Ant is a solid card here, Ogre Slumlord is also very good with lots of removal/sacrifice effects, Mayhem Devil is probably an auto-include unless I'm missing something, not sure if it's relevant, but Infernal Tribute can both let you sac any non-token and draw cards at the same time, it's like really wonky Necropotence Plus with your Commander, only you pay mana and permanents to draw cards and deal damage. Very weird but Whip of Erebos would let Juri (and everything else) have Lifelink, which can be handy, it can also bring something back if you want.

DreadKhan on Mazirek's life drain !

2 years ago

Huh, looking further, it looks like you don't have very many sacrifice outlets for your Commander's ability, you really should add some. Your Commander's ability only works when a permanent other than Mazirek is sacrificed, so cards like Plaguecrafter (there are a ton of them now) are good, as are infinite sac outlets like Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar, and Altar of Dementia is a win con with the above One With the Kami. At your budget I'd even be running some Fetchlands, because your Commander doesn't care what you sacrifice, it just has to be a permanent. Infernal Tribute is a reasonable option to just sacrifice whatever, but it has to be an actual card, it doesn't work with tokens.

For some stuff to remove, I'd definitely look at removing the lifegain artifacts, and most lifegain cards that aren't Aristocrats (stuff like Blood Artist or Syr Konrad, the Grim are great in your deck). Without enough ways to sacrifice your permanents, you won't be able to trigger Mazirek.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Breya's Bodacious Badonkadonk

2 years ago

The list indeed looks pretty impressive. A pretty cool finisher would be Cranial Plating. Infernal Tribute would basically turn all of your cards into clue tokens. And Ruthless Knave is a value engine in a treasure heavy deck.