Moment of Silence

Instant

Target player skips his or her next combat phase this turn.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

OLucas on Mono-White Keyword Banding

4 years ago

Also consider Teferi's Protection and Flawless Maneuver.

If you want another Moment of Silence type effect there's Holy Day.

Cloudchaser.Kestrel on Oracle en-Vec

6 years ago

Woah - I had never seen Oracle en-Vec before.

I immediately think of Moment of Silence effects (of which you have one set with Orim's Chant ) but it seems like there's enough potential of having an opponent overcommit and then taking out their entire board with a one mana instant - to have it be worth it.

Festival , Stonehorn Dignitary in your second main phase, or Master Warcraft might all be good.

Grixxas on

8 years ago

Just recently I've been looking into ways to experiment with Esper Faeries myself using my Grixis Faeries as a base. Things I would consider or suggest are: Sorin, Solemn Visitor who can create 2/2 vampire tokens or give your creatures +1/+0 and lifelink, Vault of the Archangel which gives all of your creatures lifelink and deathtouch for 2WB, replacing Dismember with Murderous Cut which saves life and is fueled by all of your other cantrips and spells, and cutting down on Quickling for Scion of Oona to take more of an aggressive and removal evasive approach.

Being more of a control/tempo deck, having responses and answers to a variety of situations will help you position yourself better. This includes using discard effects like Despise, Duress, Hymn to Tourach to attack their hand, Ponder and Brainstorm to draw cards, and counterspells like Spell Pierce, Spell Snare, and Daze to keep them off their game.

Looking at what you currently have, Moment of Silence is likely to be the card you are going to use when you're losing and will be a dead draw when you're winning. Turnabout is good but you already run 4 Mistbind Clique so making a few cuts to either would be necessary to drop the higher end of your curve. If Feeling of Dread is something you really want to keep, Send to Sleep with Spell Mastery might be more worthwile and effective at keeping big creatures tied down. Dismiss is a less effective version of Cryptic Command but can still work well and is somewhat easier to cast.

Rawnald_G._Erickson_II on Pacific Sleeper

8 years ago

The combo with Isochron Scepter and Festival (or Moment of Silence ) seems pretty solid, but because you need to tap the Scepter in order to activate the combo, it would only work once. This could be a bit of a difficulty when playing against 2 or more other players. It might be helpful to add a card such as Voltaic Key in your sideboard just in case you encounter this situation.

Aless55 on Very Enchanting [Pauper]

9 years ago

I liked Tangle because of its tap effect, instead of Terrifying Presence run Fog, less mana for a slightly better effect. Some other options are: Moment's Peace, Respite,Holy Day, Spore Frog, Angelsong, more of your Dawn Charm, Ethereal Haze or Moment of Silence.

I'm glad I could help and I'd like to hear the outcome of your playtesting and your placing at the pauper event! ~ Cheers