Scavenging Ooze

Creature — Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this and you gain 1 life.

Combos

• Archangel of Thune + Scavenging Ooze

Legality

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
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

Icbrgr on Naya Dragon tribal

1 month ago

I assume just as a generic midrange shell?... early game ramp/cost reduction (Llanowar Elves and Momo, Friendly Flier) for the Dragon payoff/wincon and supplement it with removal Fiery Impulse, Get Lost, Abrade and some other goodstuff like Heroic Intervention/Scavenging Ooze/Knight of Autumn kinda stuff?

hyalopterouslemur on Packages

4 months ago

Yeah, there are actually a lot of cool things you can do with Smile at Death in any color combination. The things I can think of:

• Clones Blue has a lot of clones, and most of them are 0/0 outside of the battlefield.
• Entry triggers These are fairly obvious. Pay special attention to ones like Hornet Queen and Blade Splicer on one side; Ravenous Chupacabra, Chomping Changeling, and Goblin Settler on the other; and Eternal Witness on the third.
• Sac activated abilities These are the easy ones. Things like Silverchase Fox can provide a lot of card advantage if you bring them back every turn.
• +1/+1 counter effects The classic Spikes are useful here, but so are things like Phantom Nishoba. Not bad getting an 8/8 phantom.
• Evolution Witness This is sort of a special one, because the trigger is off the +1/+1 counter being put on Evolution Witness. Still, why should creatures with power 2 or less have all the fun? Evolution Witness lets you recur everything.

Finally, I must mention that Felothar the Steadfast, Doran, the Siege Tower, and Arcades, the Strategist are even better with Smile at Death.

At a bare minimum, Smile at Death gives you 6 points of power divided between 2 creatures, every turn. But there's a lot more. Just watch out for the usual gravehate. (Scavenging Ooze, Bojuka Bog, FarewellGC, Nihil Spellbomb, Rest in Peace, etc.)

kamarupa on All Will Be One

4 months ago

You're right. But... you've already got 6 slots currently devoted to spells that require creatures: Blade of the Bloodchief and Stocking the Pantry. To be honest, I was trying to avoid being too specific about what I think you should do and was just responding to your own idea about adding more removal, but now that I've taken a more serious look at your deck, I do have a lot of very specific advice, if you're interested in that, and Longstalk will definitely be a more effective choice if you do decide to follow my recommendations.

My specific advice is to cut Blade of the Bloodchief - you don't have enough creatures and you don't have any vampire and vampires probably aren't the best tribe for counters anyway. Cut Firebending Lesson - it's not that good and doesn't advance your wincon. Move Fire Magic to the side board. Cut Utopia Sprawl and Arbor Elf. If you're going to ramp, you might as well advance your wincon with it. Space in your deck is premium. No room for any card that doesn't do at least 2 things. Cut Basking Broodscale - we can find creatures that get more than one counter for less and do more. Move Runic Armasaur to the sideboard. That opens up 22 slots, if my quick math is correct.

Add 4xGyre Sage, 2xIncubation Druid, 2xRishkar, Peema Renegade, and 1xChanneler Initiate. That's a bit slower of a ramp package, but it's also more robust on theme, and creates at least one repeatable counter source. That takes up nine of the 22 slots, 13 remaining.

Add 2xEvolution Sage - it's a great spell on theme, but you gotta have stuff with counters on it for it to make a difference.

Add 4xPredator Ooze and 2xPrimordial Hydra. Those can be wincon threats on their own and interact with All Will Be One repeatedly. That's another 6 slots used, 5 remaining.

Add 3xLongstalk Brawl. 2 slots remaining

Add 2xInspiring Call.

Cut 4xForest and 2xMountain. Add 1xYavimaya, Cradle of Growth, 1xKarn's Bastion, and 4xCragcrown Pathway

Add 2xScavenging Ooze to the sideboard.

Add 1xThe Ozolith to the sideboard.

Add 1xHeroic Intervention to the sideboard.

Add 2xBeast Within to the sideboard

Add 1xFog to the sideboard

Add Return to Nature to the sideboard.

Final thoughts: The above recommedations, I think, would put your deck into a slightly slower, but more robust configuration with some protections and some draw card built in. It would be missing a way to get things back from the graveyard, which can be very useful in some matchups and also lacks lifegain, which can also be helpful, especially with grindier midrangers such as this. Lifegain is pretty easy - something like Essence Warden or Weather the Storm maybe? Getting stuff out of the graveyard isn't quite as good with green, but still doable. Bala Ged Recovery, perhaps?

Other spells to consider if space can be made for them: Hardened Scales, Bow of Nylea, Song of Freyalise, Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter, Inscription of Abundance

Tippycat on Oops ! All Permanents

7 months ago

Cool! A few thoughts...

Ground Seal also stops you from targeting things in your graveyard... including stopping Meren of Clan Nel Toth. Not sure this is going to help if someone has a Scavenging Ooze. Without an sorcery like Bitter Ordeal (which can be amazing) I think you're better off trying to stay ahead of your opponents and get those creatures on to the battlefield ASAP rather than worrying too much about graveyard protection.

If you use even fewer basic lands, Hermit Druid could be even better. With Sidisi, Brood Tyrant out that would be amazing.

Since your theme is self-mill, I also really like The Master, Transcendent which is in your Sideboard.

Could think about replacing Seal of Primordium with Reclamation Sage to have another creature to trigger and get back from the graveyard.

I also wonder if you could use a few more ways to give your stuff trample besides just Brawn. There is Garruk's Uprising which also helps with card draw. Surrak and Goreclaw would give creatures trample and haste which might be helpful.

Your ability to stop fliers is pretty low. Wonder would be an easy add here.

And for another wincon that avoids sorceries, you could look at Bringer of the Last Gift as a creature version of Living Death.

Andramalech on Cosmic Charybdis (Retired)

1 year ago

legendofa could not for the life of me remember Cling to Dust, so I super appreciate that commentary. Gaining 3 life from the exile and potentially scaling this at 4 mana again makes it very consistent, and very interesting in my opinion. Way less likely to use the Whip of Erebos because of mana value concerns.

For now, I'm gonna leave it maybeboard until I can test play it later today. I was thinking CTD would likely be in the same spot as Scavenging Ooze.

I greatly appreciate the commentary, don't forget to upvote if you believe in my space boogeyman!

Czarnian90 on Arachnophobia, Webs of Fear (Shelob)

1 year ago

I'm really glad to see your interest, and I'm happy to share my experiences and ideas here. The deck works quite well overall, so making major changes is difficult. After our last test night, I made a few adjustments and added some new cards. However, I couldn’t include everything—mostly because I honestly don’t know what to cut yet. I’ll need to play a few more games against different opponents to better identify underperforming cards.

To start, I swapped out Sentinel Spider for Skysnare Spider. Both are dear to me, but Skysnare offers better overall value. I also added Deathsprout—more removal improves defense, and fetching an extra land boosts mana ramp for my bigger spiders.

With a heavy heart, I removed Arachnus Spinner and Arachnus Web. They're fantastic for flavor, but the Web isn’t very effective, and together they take up two valuable slots.

I’ve also expanded Vraska’s influence in the deck—she now takes a place on the battlefield herself. Vraska, the Silencer brings deathtouch, shrinks the opponent’s graveyard, and generates treasures to help with ramp. As for Vraska and the slight snake theme in the deck—although I was hesitant at first, I’ve grown to like it. I can easily imagine Vraska or even Saryth working alongside spiders.

Flavor-wise, the next card might be pushing it a bit, but mechanically Greta, Sweettooth Scourge fits the deck very well. She interacts nicely with Food tokens, improves card draw, and buffs spiders.

Lastly, I added Revitalizing Repast  ^Flip. I couldn’t resist such a solid card—it protects Shelob or other key creatures, provides a buff, and can even support ramp.

To make room, I cut Aquastrand Spider and Scavenging Ooze. The Ooze is strong, but off-theme and not essential here.

As the final touch, I included The Swarmweaver. More tokens and spider buffs are always welcome. I removed Wilt in its place—a good card, but situational, even if it can replace itself.

In the waiting album I’ve got Broodspinner, Nyx Weaver, Graverobber Spider, Attendant of Vraska, Vraska's Fall, Back for More, You Look Upon the Tarrasque, Cairn Wanderer, and Graveshifter. Time will tell if any of them will find a home in the nest.

Rekt_Angles on Life gain hurts huh?

1 year ago

Considering the lifegain theme combined with an aristocrats style gameplay based on creatures dying, I would recommend for your consideration Veinwitch Coven, Pest Infestation, Starscape Cleric, Creeping Bloodsucker, (Possibly, depending on token generation) Mirkwood Bats, and possibly cut Epicure of Blood since 5 mana is a lot to ask for an effect you're getting more efficiently elsewhere.

Also recommend Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose for doubling up on life loss, Well of Lost Dreams for a consistent draw engine, Scavenging Ooze for graveyard hate that synergizes with your play pattern, Bloodthirsty Conqueror is a duplicate of Exquisite Blood that goes infinite with your commander, Prosperous Innkeeper for one shot ramp strapped to a soul-sister type of effect, and some sac outlets like Viscera Seer wouldn't go amiss since you really want things to die. Phyrexian Reclamation also suits this playstyle well since you'll likely have more life than you know what to do with, your creatures are mostly cheap to cast, and being able to instant speed recur your creatures to hand is valuable in this archetype.

Hope this helps!

lachrymal on Infect (Budget, Modern, Mono-Green)

1 year ago

2017 Playtest Notes:

Game 1

Lost 1-2 against Naya Burn. Consider: Witchbane Orb, Leyline of Sanctity, Collected Company, Feed the Clan, Spellskite, Bow of Nylea, Scavenging Ooze, Obstinate Baloth, Dryad Militant

Game 2

Lost 0-2 against Grixis Death's Shadow. Consider: Fog, Invigorate, Hornet Sting, Hurricane, Squall Line, Tormod's Crypt, Ground Seal, Staff of Nin, Collected Company, Autumn's Veil, Feed the Clan, Scavenging Ooze, Obstinate Baloth, Dryad Militant

Game 3

Lost 0-1 against Affinity. Consider: