Pestilent Cauldron

Artifact

{T}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, tokens are put into the graveyard before they cease to exist), you gain 1 life."

{1}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

{4}, {T}: Exile four target cards from a single graveyard. Draw a card.

Tokens

• Pest 1/1 BG

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (5)

xacto14 on Mean Green Returns

1 year ago

It's based on the fact that Karn, the Great Creator can both return Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip from the side and return it from exile once it's cast as Restorative Burst  ^Flip.

The preparation of the combo is having Nykthos in play with enough devotion, two copies of Karn and two copies of Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner spread across your hand, the battlefield, and your graveyard.

You tap Nykthos for at least 14 mana.
Cast Karn2 for 4 mana, Karn1 is legendary rule-d in the yard.
Karn2 gets Pestilent Cauldron from the side.
Cast Kiora2 for 3 mana, Kiora1 is legendary rule-d in the yard.
Kiora2 untaps Nykthos.
You cast Restorative Burst for 5 mana and it gets exiled, get back Karn1 and Kiora1 from the yard, and gain 4 life.
You spend the last 2 mana for Nykthos and add at least 14 mana.

It's infinite life and infinite mana, the latter of whom lets you cast the front side of Pestilent Cauldron with one of the few black sources in your deck and mill your opponent.

ClockworkSwordfish on Good Cards That You Just …

2 years ago

I have a real loathing for all the "kitchen sink" cards that have been cropping up more and more lately - the type that give you a ton of fiddly little incremental advantages. Strixhaven was especially bad for this. Things like Magma Opus, Culmination of Studies, Multiple Choice, Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip, Scale the Heights... there's being versatile, then there's being overdesigned and obnoxious.

The same goes for creatures with a number of "might as well" abilities that are likely to never come up in actual gameplay. Questing Beast is perhaps the worst offender, but Moritte of the Frost, Vadrok, Apex of Thunder, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, Graveyard Trespasser  ^Flip, Orvar, the All-Form, any double-sided creature... these things aren't even fun to read.

nbarry223 on A New Type of Amulet

2 years ago

Alright, I updated it to what I was thinking. It has infinite life/scry/mana/damage combos now, and Karn, the Great Creator tutors for win conditions in the form of Walking Ballista and Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip.

The combos are numbered (custom categories on the side), and combo #4 fetches Walking Ballista which goes infinite with Heliod, Sun-Crowned. The scry with infinite life combo has Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip as a win condition, and the flip side of that card actually lets me recur basically any two cards in the deck if needed as well.

Jackfrost23 on The Black Sacrament

2 years ago

Cards you should consider: Bone Shards, Bontu the Glorified, Bloodthrone Vampire, Plumb the Forbidden, Inquisition of Kozilek, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Severed Strands, Rankle, Master of Pranks, Fatal Push, Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip, Callous Bloodmage, Sedgemoor Witch, Hunt for Specimens/Cram Session with Necrotic Fumes/Pest Summoning, Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip, Shamble Back, Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip, Westvale Abbey  ^Flip, Vampire of the Dire Moon

ThunderThighs on pm me pest tokens

2 years ago

I would recommend Pest Infestation, Containment Breach, Sedgemoor Witch, Professor of Zoomancy, Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip, Blight Mound, and Blex, Vexing Pest  ^Flip for consideration.