Sadistic Sacrament

Sorcery

Kicker {{7}} (You may pay an additional {{7}} as you cast this spell.)

Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles his or her library. If Sadistic Sacrament was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles his or her library.

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
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

Ogrecorps on "Unbeatable" card combo, or so …

3 weeks ago

UPDATE: VICTORY!!

Here's the deck I used (warning, it is not great and I'm open to suggestions to improve it as a more general-purpose meme deck that strips out important things and leaves someone else to actually kill people in free-for-all format.) https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/18-06-25-SkD-grrr/?cb=1750236034

The story: 3 players, me with the meme deck, work friend with the "you cannot lose the game" mystery deck, and a third with a deck specifically filled with legendaries of as many types as he can make work.

My starting hand had Leyline of the Void and I kicked off hostilities with Bitter Ordeal and got to peruse through the "cannot lose" deck to see how it works. Key cards found: Herald of Eternal Dawn, Negate, Three Steps Ahead, Restricted Office / Lecture Hall, Virtue of Persistence. I took out one of the 4 Heralds. The legendaries deck built up nicely with about 6 or 7 big creatures with deathtouch (All-Out Assault) and flying and vigilance and lifelink and other such nonsense. This player normally likes to be fair (i.e. spread the damage around, not pick on anyone) when he feels like he's winning so I had to warn him off with the strongest arguments I could that I was absolutely not a threat to him, that I had built the deck specifically to counter the other player. Cannot Lose had no creatures out so Legendaries swung at him fully with enough to put him to -9 life. Looked like it was over already and then pop! Cannot Lose flashed out Herald of Eternal Dawn before combat damage was dealt, keeping him alive despite negative life.

Cannot Lose then quickly got out two lecture halls from Restricted Office / Lecture Hall, giving the herald and both lecture halls hexproof. Around here I realized a major weakness in my deck: it largely has to target something in the opponent's graveyard, making Leyline of the Void super not helpful. Happily, Cannot Lose Get Lostd it. Because nothing much was going to graveyards that I wanted to strip out, I built up a little supply of Extirpate and Surgical Extraction - this will be important later... Legendaries took about 6 turns and smashed Cannot Lose to about -30 life while enjoying all the lifelink that gave him.

It was at this point that Cannot Lose messaged me privately to say that he'd won, it was just going to take an hour. The next turn, he used Loran's Escape on his Herald and then used one of his Restricted Offices for a boardwipe. My defenses being so pathetic, were fine. Legendaries, however, got cleaned out, 7 or 8 big beasts in the graveyard... This left Cannot Lose as the only one on the table with any attacking power and a pair of Fountainports to slowly grow an army of fish with.

Somewhere in the excitement I'd stripped out all of his Get Lost, and Stock Up. I knew from searching his hand that he had a Negate still ready for something that might kill his Herald, the only thing keeping him alive. Then came the exchange I'm going to be hearing about all day today at work from Cannot Lose, the part where he's kicking himself for doing what he did: Legendaries brought out a planeswalker; Cannot Lose used Three Steps Ahead to counter it, putting a copy of one of his 2 counter spells in his graveyard. I targeted it with Surgical Extraction. He Negated. I surgical extracted his Three Steps and then Extirpated his Negate, successfully exiling all of his counterspells! He has already told me that he shouldn't have countered the planeswalker, that he should have just used fish from Fountainport to neutralize it.

And then Legendaries Ruinous Ultimatumd. Herald, hexproofs, and my two Wall of Vines all gone! Cannot Lose was at -30 something life and evaporated in a long silence followed by a drawn out frustrated groan. He'd nearly fought his way back and if only he could have had another Herald in hand to flash out or I hadn't stripped out his counterspells... He was also intimately familiar with Legendaries' deck because the two of them worked on it closely together so knew exactly how little strength he had left after all of those creatures got wiped with no serious options for bringing any back. Either way though, I still had 3 Sudden Spoilings in my library somewhere so chances were decent I'd get him killed for being in negative life sooner or later.

Thus began the long, slow final phase of the battle wherein I had only defensive creatures, and Legendaries had 40-something life but only one or two offensive options left in his deck which was down to about 27 cards to my 35ish. I used Liquimetal Coating and Splinter on one of his Plains, a generally useless move and one I probably should have saved for an actual threat but I was just happy Cannot Lose had lose'd. The end came when I fired off a kicked Sadistic Sacrament, ensuring that there wasn't going to be anything left to hurt me. Before I searched his deck, however, Legendaries capitulated and we called it there, official cause of death: inevitable milling out.

legendofa on "Unbeatable" card combo, or so …

4 weeks ago

Somewhere in the depths of my profile, I have a theoretical combo that's something like 20 cards that I specifically made to be as "you can't lose the game" as possible, and people still poked holes in it.

Suggestions Show

If you want to beat the unbeatable, based on the description, I would go mainly {B}. There's not much that can survive a big -X/-X like Black Sun's Zenith or an unmorphing Bane of the Living. Leyline of the Void and Bojuka Bog are graveyard hate with different forms of uncounterability. Lier, Disciple of the Drowned shuts down counterspells, and stuff like Eyes of the Wisent punish blue spells (like most counterspells).

Praetor's Grasp and Sadistic Sacrament also punish combos with low redundancy, on top of Bitter Ordeal.

I'm not quite sure what the second clue could be. Assuming your interpretation is correct, there aren't that many cards that grant abilities from the graveyard, and most of them are offensive, not defensive. Arcane Lighthouse strips shroud and hexproof without being countered, and Sudden Spoiling strips inherent hexproof and shroud, if that comes up. Yixlid Jailer shuts down all graveyard tricks, on top of the graveyard hate above.

If you plan on making it 3v1, have two people run hard control while the third goes for combo breaking. Metaphorically, get two people to hold him down while the third goes through his pockets. Or just go triple aggro and attack before he can get set up.

MalPrac on Exile Focus Commander/Deck?

10 months ago

Been brainstorming a deck for awhile but cant seem to find the right commander for it. Been wanting to make a deck that tries to mess around with Exiling cards but cant seem to find the right commander for it.

Trying to find more options beyond the typical "exile card(s) from hand or top of library to cast"

Legendary creatures on the right path but prefer other or more colors
-Edgin, Larcenous Lutenist
-Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
-Squee, the Immortal

Some card examples of what im looking for -Eternal Scourge
-Void Attendant
-Riftsweeper
-Sadistic Sacrament
-Rootcoil Creeper
-Misthollow Griffin

griffstick on No sacrifice

1 year ago

If it's cards within the deck you could eliminate the problem befor it becomes one with cards like Sadistic Sacrament, Jester's Cap and many more similar cards

Basshunter on Slime Caves Minibiome from Starbound

1 year ago

Sadistic Sacrament, Surgical Extraction

hootsnag on Overgrown Garden

1 year ago

I agree that modern players and sets just aren't what they used to be. Luckily there are still old school players out there that play older cards and surprise you with their innovation. I actually cut Sadistic Sacrament from my Oloro deck. I needed the space for more tutors and counterspells lol. Honestly, I figured out over time that having multiple tutor cards is broken in EDH. You can have the best deck idea out there but if you can't get the cards, it doesn't matter. Also, I wished cards like Burning Sands and Smoke were printed in colors other than red. I tried to make a red control deck once but quickly realized that red doesn't have enough good cards for it without using creatures. Red and Black together works well but I didn't find a good commander so I just decided to move on. Btw, I don't know if you use discord or not, but we could talk at length about magic there if you'd like. I moved states and I don't have a current play group so it's been a while since I've talked much about magic with people.

SufferFromEDHD on Overgrown Garden

1 year ago

Modern WOTC sucks. It is full of pseudo intellectual weirdos. The kids that used to play Yu-Gi-Oh that transitioned into MTG. They brought the power creep and the endless over printed products. Timmy likes turning big dudes sideways. I like getting new reanimation targets but it's been in an unhealthy place for a few years. I miss 1 big set/ 2 secondary sets/1 core set/1 special release. GREAT formula.

I too am big on enchantments. Just did a building exercise on enchantress in each color.

Tainted aether is fun. Burning Sands is another one. Combos with the king of fun Pendrell Mists

Sadistic Sacrament = GG in your meta

debuf on Mentally Screw With Your Friends [Negan Primer]

2 years ago

I have a recommendation, even though I have not been around for long, I suggest Sadistic Sacrament for some more removal.