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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Freeform | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Pre-release | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Standard | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Painful Quandary
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
jozef on
Gwendlyn Di Corci
2 months ago
DreadKhan, great suggestions! I'm working with cards I own, but will consider picking up Liliana's Caress and Bloodchief Ascension if I can get them for a bargain somewhere. They're pretty expensive for how niche they are. I think I have a Painful Quandary I could add in.
DreadKhan on
Gwendlyn Di Corci
2 months ago
I'm guessing I'm missing something, but why no Liliana's Caress? Maybe Bloodchief Ascension? It's risky but an incredibly strong effect. Since you're not running lots of creatures and might want the discard, maybe Breathstealer's Crypt? I feel like if Shrieking Affliction makes sense that Painful Quandary might be worth a look, it's 5 mana but the effect is amazing with stuff like Megrim and other discard effects.
It's always a joy to know that people are still using the OG Legends!
KongMing on
"Draw Me Like One of Your French Cards"
4 months ago
Manabarbs and Awaken the Erstwhile are some of my favorite group slug cards. Painful Quandary is great asymmetrical hate too.
Dreadhorde Butcher, Feral Ghoul, Giggling Skitterspike, and Gleeful Arsonist might make a good target for Deadpool on your field, since his base power is so much greater than theirs.
Quicksilver on
The Misanthropic Guide to Knowledge
8 months ago
Would Painful Quandary add to the pain?
DemonDragonJ on Is Black Allowed to have …
9 months ago
"Punisher" effects, effects that force a player to choose between multiple equally unpelasant options, have been part of this game for many years, and are usually found in black and red, such as Browbeat, Tyrannize, Choice of Damnations, or Painful Quandary, but Mark Rosewater mentioned in these two posts that red is allowed to have "punisher" effects, but that black is not, a philosophy with which I disagree, because black has always been the color that most focuses on cruelty and malice, and there have been two cards in recent sets, Starseer Mentor and Perforating Artist, that have "punisher" effects, so I am wondering what the general opinion of other players is, on this matter.
What does everyone else say, about this subject? Do you believe that black should have "punisher" effects? I certainly am interested to hear your opinions, on this matter.
TheoryCrafter on "Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls" EDH …
9 months ago
Welcome Back to Magic. I broke my description down to the three deck types yer seeking.
Aristocrats: Take advantage of death triggers to hurt your opponent. Examples of cards are Blood Artist, Dreadhorde Butcher and Zulaport Cutthroat. Graveyard recursion cards like Disentomb, Gravedigger, Mortuary Mire and Valgavoth's Faithful should be considered.
Burn: Spells, instants and sorceries, and abilities of permanents that deal noncombat damage. Examples include, but are not limited to, Blightning, Bonfire of the Damned and Lightning Bolt. Cards you should add to any Rakdos burn deck include, but are not limited to, Pestilent Spirit, Soul-Scar Mage and Toralf, God of Fury Flip.
Punisher: A Sophie's Choice in every spell. Examples include, but are not limited to, Book Burning, Dash Hopes, Killing Wave, Painful Quandary and Vexing Devil. I would also consider any creature with the Afflict ability, especially Wildfire Eternal to be punisher cards.
As for cards that will feed into your commander's static ability, I would recommend Burning Anger, Psychosis Crawler, Scrawling Crawler and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse.
Thank you for reading me out. I hope this helps give you a baseline of what you're looking for. Happy Hunting!
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
10 months ago
Dublin, Mageking of Night's Choke
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Menace, Flying
Creatures you control have have "Ward - Pay 5 life and discard a card".
Whenever a permanent you don't control deals damage to you, its controller sacrifices it.
2/5
Ever felt like combining Painful Quandary and better Dissipation Field into a mono-back commander? There you go.
The next challenge is available up there.
