Plunge into Darkness

Instant

Choose one - Sacrifice any number of creatures, then you gain 3 life for each sacrificed creature; or pay X life, then look at the top X cards of your library, put one of those cards into your hand, and remove the rest from the game.

Entwine (Black) (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

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
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

legendofa on Verrak's Worst Nightmare | V-HOB

4 months ago

Blood Celebrant and Plunge into Darkness are a couple of cards that let you pay any amount of life at instant speed for cheap. Could either of these find a place? I see Celebrant in the maybeboard, and I think it would be good support for the main deck.

legendofa on Packages

4 months ago

Creativity noted and approved. Nice work!

I usually try to build synergy-forward decks; I'd rather use a bunch of less-powerful cards that support and interweave with each other than a bunch of individually good cards that don't interact.

One package I'm using right now is kind of a variation on the Exquisite Bond combo. Use the Exquisite Blood effect with Blood Celebrant or Plunge into Darkness and Tainted Sigil or Children of Korlis to pay a bunch of life, immediately gain it back, and make someone else (or everyone else with Vizkopa Guildmage) lose a ton of life. The life payment cards also play well with Near-Death Experience, so there's three independent but interconnected win conditions.

I'm also experimenting right now with creatureless (except for the commander) decks, and I think my biggest success is a Grixis enchantment deck that makes it really hard to keep creatures around. Breathstealer's Crypt punishes drawing, Soul Barrier punishes casting, AEther Flash + Repercussion + Death Pits of Rath punish entering, No Mercy and Propaganda punish attacking, and Vile Consumption and Pendrell Mists punish existing at all. Just a nice little network of Creatures Not Allowed.

Tsukimi on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

1 year ago

legendofa All great suggestions! I had considered all of these when building except Tainted Sigil and Plunge into Darkness. I do like that Tainted Sigil hits all players including us. I am now realizing we can recur it with Sun Titan, Angel of Indemnity so it's definitely going high on the maybelist. Right now if I make cuts it will most likely be for some self mill effects. Thanks for the feedback!

legendofa on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

1 year ago

I'm not sure if there's room for more combo suggestions, since this looks really solid as-is, but:

• Plunge into Darkness lets you fine-tune your life for a turn, and combos with Children of Korlis and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to take out an opponent.

• Vizkopa Guildmage has an activation cost, but it turns Vito's life drain into an untargeted effect that hits all your opponents. It basically switches the "target" and "all" parts of Vito.

• Tainted Sigil allows you to totally rebalance your life total.

• Near-Death Experience + Plunge into Darkness/Necropotence is an instant-speed win, but might need an Angel's Grace or something.

• Phyrexian Unlife might be a good safety valve.

zachz on Mind-Gnawer

1 year ago

You've made an excellent tribal deck! I love the theme and the sheer quantity of foil cards. I have a few budget suggestions, but I don't know if they have foil options or not.

Demonic Tutor is very powerful, but also incredibly expensive. If you are looking for a budget alternative, you could try Beseech the Queen. It's more CMC expensive, but lets you search for anything once you have enough lands.

Rite of Consumption is another cheap "sac a creature to kill a creature" option like Bone Splinters.

20 of your 26 creatures are 3 CMC or below, so you could get great mileage out of an Unearth. You could also try Soul Stair Expedition for creature returns possibly? This deck seems like you would have several opportunities for Plunge into Darkness for baiting people with whether you are going to replace a rat with Ninjitsu or sac them after attacking.

Have fun with the rat collection.

legendofa on Verrak Suicide

2 years ago

Any thoughts on Plunge into Darkness? It's a semi-tutor that combos with Children of Korlis and Vizkopa Guildmage for an instant-speed "Pay X life: Gain X life and each opponent loses X life."

CriticalZER0 on Hedron Alignment Esper

2 years ago

Have you considered Plunge into Darkness or Spoils of the Vault?

Azoth2099 on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

2 years ago

jameswarlord

Hey dude, Happy New Year! Hope you're 2024 started in a great way.

I'm stoked that you found a more personalized build that you really love, man! Let's talk about it.

If you're big on Bolas's Citadel, pairing it with Sensei's Divining Top & Aetherflux Reservoir seems natural to me but if you don't want to run combos I understand lol. The Reservoir is also just an awesome value piece here, though. I was really surprised to not see Angel of Destiny in the list, though! More ways to use your life as a resource like Ad Nauseam or Defiler of Faith might be worth considering here too. You're gaining so much life here, I might even consider crazy stuff like Plunge into Darkness, Peer into the Abyss & Spoils of the Vault if you're feeling froggy like that.

I can't remember if I saw Boon Reflection & Rhox Faithmender in the list, but...they exist too lol.

Good hearing from you!