Offering to Asha

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {{4}}. You gain 4 life.

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
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (3)

Sorin_Markov_1947 on The Bane of Playgroups

4 years ago

Okay, I have a few cards I question.

Battle Mastery doesn't really seem to fit the deck

Azorius Chancery is just bad

Evolving Wilds can be replaced by Fabled Passage (or add one of both, but if you do that also add Terramorphic Expanse

Convolute could be replaced by any auto-counter that also costs three mana (like

Sinister Sabotage ) unless the goal here is just to make them spend more mana and not to actually stop them. Same with Offering to Asha

Into the Roil is not an effective bounce spell for its cost

And then a few to recommend.

If you like Scytheclaw , Quietus Spike does nearly the same thing.

Icefall Regent is a very good fit for this deck.

Norn's Annex is another thing similar to Ghostly Prison , but can cost your opponent life if they aren't playing white.

Cryptic Command is similar to Ojutai's Command , but be wary of the triple blue cost.

Mystic Confluence and Force of Will are both good counterspells.

And then Mana Drain is just boss.

Correnon on Lucas and Will: Stranger Friends

8 years ago

Alhammarret's Archive looks life it would fit perfectly here. Add in Psychosis Crawler and maybe Words of Worship and you can have a fun, if less infinite, version of the infinite life gain/loss combo (Oloro and Well of Lost Dreams will help). It would also be cheaper than Exquisite Blood, or compliment it.

If you're looking for more tutors, Transmute cards like Brainspoil are good and usually cheap. Diabolic Revelation can tutor for a whole combo, and if you have enough card draw to activate it then Archmage Ascension will turn every draw into a tutor.

If you play mostly multiplayer and not two player, Extort is a very strong mechanic. Pontiff of Blight and Blind Obedience are more good options for this, and both Exsanguinate and Debt to the Deathless can be good finishers - if you're okay with everyone hating you for using them!

Suture Priest can help against tokens and other creature-heavy decks, and Purity against burn and damage combos. If you have trouble getting your own infinite life loss combo going or if others are using lifegain, you could bring them much closer to death with Magister Sphinx, or Repay in Kind if you're prepared.

If you need to make cuts, there are some things that don't seem too necessary for your goals even if they're good cards. Signal Pest and Chasm Skulker in particular don't seem too useful here. Shadowmage Infiltrator and Sire of Stagnation could probably be cut, and Springleaf Drum switched for a mana rock in case of creature wipes. War Report has potential to gain you a lot of life but has no other impact so something with additional or modal effects might be better, like Overrule, Fall of the Gavel, Offering to Asha,Dromar's Charm, and plenty more.

Lastly, you have a few lands that work well with basics, but not many basics. Glacial Fortress and Isolated Chapel seem like they will often come out tapped at least in early game, so I wouldn't buy them if you don't have them already. If you do, they'll still be duals once they untap. Tainted Field seems more risky though, since it might not be able to produce colored mana unless you add more swamps. Your artifact lands function like basics or worse and only seem somewhat useful for Thopter Spy Network. If you cut any of these, you could add in more basics if you want to more in the early game. Otherwise Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds can find what you need and all of the Zendikar/Tarkir lifegain duals should be good for your deck.

Hope this helps! Let us know how the deck is playing out so far.

ShadowFriend on georges foofy deck

8 years ago

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