Necrogen Spellbomb

Artifact

(Black), Sacrifice Necrogen Spellbomb: Target player discards a card.

(1), Sacrifice Necrogen Spellbomb: Draw a card.

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
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (38)

zapyourtumor on How Not To MTG

2 years ago

Necrogen Spellbomb is cute but a really weak card even with saga. I recommend 1 Pithing Needle and 1 Nihil Spellbomb in the main, both are really useful and the spellbomb can be cycled if graveyard hate isn't needed. To be honest, I know you want a lot of artifacts to tap for Herald, but Necrogen Spellbomb and Chromatic Star are probably getting sacrificed anyways so I don't think they are worth including. Grief is also kind of a bad card if you aren't building around it with flicker effects or like in BR scam decks so I'd cut both copies. And since Herald is a fat 7 cmc creature I'd definitely go down to 3, and maybe 2 copies. Most 8rack players have tested Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage since it was released and agreed that it isn't that good. 1 copy is sometimes played though.

I would probably replace them with removal like Bloodchief's Thirst, Fatal Push, and maybe 1x Dismember, and you also probably need the 8rack classic Raven's Crime which is absolutely amazing when getting mana flooded.

There is also the nonbo of Ensnaring Bridge preventing your Herald and constructs from attacking, which is why most rack players running saga cut down on mainboard bridge copies, but on the other hand ensnaring bridge is an artifact that taps for herald.

Also neither Animate Dead nor Dance of the Dead are legal in modern. A way to reanimate herald with Persist after discarding it with lili sounds interesting but probably not feasible unless you find a few other ways to discard herald. And at that point you'd be trying to fit too many things into one deck.

zapyourtumor on Grixis Academy

3 years ago

Urza's Saga makes fat constructs that make use of all the artifacts you're spitting out with manufactor (always has bothered me that it's not manufacturer, tf is a manufactor??). And it fetches Oven if you have a cat, or Cookbook to make some more food. Of course if you run saga you could run some 1 of toolbox artifacts like Pithing Needle and Shadowspear (and Necrogen Spellbomb in the sideboard).

Urza, Lord High Artificer is similarly very strong in any manufactor deck with blue.

For cards to cut, I would probably cut Glaze Fiend. The card is cute, but all the X/X constructs can take over the beatstick slot so Glaze isn't as important anymore. Fireweaver burns the opponent, but doesn't really do much if manufactor is being removed. I would probably cut this as well if you need to make space.

Thought Monitor helps draw some cards and stuff.

zapyourtumor on Inferno Titan's Jinxed Artifact Collection

3 years ago

You have no artifact recursion synergies for Necrogen Spellbomb , so it's basically a 2 mana draw 1 which is terrible. If you really want card draw, then maybe you could include Thrill of Possibility -type effects.

Gilbobaggins on Inferno Titan's Jinxed Artifact Collection

3 years ago

Necrogen Spellbomb I use as a cheap turn 2 card draw. I completely forgot about Shattering Spree I will definitely toss 4 of them in. Bazaar trader was in my sideboard incase someone pithing needle or spyglass my idols. I do find myself more often then not needing idols or traders. I'm just a fan of idols when I am able to give them to my opponents and they have no lands cast creatures to return idol to me

zapyourtumor on Inferno Titan's Jinxed Artifact Collection

3 years ago

Shattering Spree

Don't really understand the Bazaar Trader Jinxed Idol package here, don't really understand Necrogen Spellbomb either. I would much rather have 4x Lightning Bolt .

Romer on Tinybones Leaves You with Nothing

3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions KayneMarco! I've now added Words of Waste but I'm holding off on Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip - it fits perfectly, but I already have cards with similar effects (like Wheel of Torture) and it's so hard to fit more cards in.

Glad you appreciate how terribly evil this is, megaquazoid ;)

bradtheimpaler13: I aim for discard effects that impact only opponents where possible but a lot of my discard impacts everyone. Still, that means in a rotation around the table, my opponents combined do more discarding than I do so while Bone Miser would net me some advantage, it's not as much as some other effects I have like Waste Not, Asylum Visitor or Noetic Scales.

DemMeowsephs, Necrogen Spellbomb absolutely fits thematically but using a whole card to make a single opponent discard 1 feels like a bad trade. I prefer to find permanents with ongoing discard effects, or that make all opponents/players discard. It's also tough finding room considering all the new discard effects lately... which is a good problem to have, really.

DemMeowsephs on Discard Me, Daddy

4 years ago

On my quest to also build a tinybones deck, I found some of the cards below that have really been an asset to me. Maybe they could help you out too.

Instant Speed Discard Cards: _(Allows you to force them to discard on their turn, so you can get a draw trigger then too.)

• Necrogen Spellbomb , Funeral Charm , Black Cat / Mindslicer / Elvish Doomsayer like cards, that discourage people from attacking you while also possibly making them discard on their turn, Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip (also has a special second flipside ability), Torment of Scarabs (they have to really screw themselves over every turn unless they discard), Cry of Contrition (can be sort of like a bounty, taxing someone when the creature dies which can be on someone else's turn), Unmask , Greel, Mind Raker , Gibbering Descent

Other Cards:

• Wight of Precinct Six , The Eldest Reborn , Reanimate , Command the Dreadhorde , and Yawgmoth's Vile Offering .

legendofa on Budget Torture

4 years ago

You have some good discard pressure here. The Eldest Reborn feels a little out of place here, though. I might suggest some instant-speed discard, like Scroll of Griselbrand , Necrogen Spellbomb , or Funeral Charm in place of maybe a couple of Harsh Scrutiny or Agonizing Remorse.