Skullscorch

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random unless that player has Skullscorch deal 4 damage to him or her.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

xipee808 on Rushed to die

2 months ago

DreadKhan ive never seen Skullscorch before i love that idea. Dashed hopes hasnt worked too well for me either outside of commander just wanted to keep it as another attempt to make it work

DreadKhan on Rushed to die

2 months ago

I've tried to make Dash Hopes work a few times, but I've never liked it in practice. I think Breaking Point is a more useful 'choice' card if you want to cost people value, but it's only good vs creature lists. I'm actually a believer in some choice cards, I just can never hit the sweet spot for Dash Hopes, if a spell isn't worth 5 life it wasn't worth my 2 mana, most of my decks would rather do something more proactive, I think in a Rakdos list I'd play Skullscorch over Dash Hopes most of the time, I'm way happier with costing my opponent 2 random cards if they don't want to pay the life. I'm happy it works for you, you give me hope that my 4 copies won't just gather dust forever!

One thing I find people underestimate about Bonecrusher in a list that cares about Prowess is that it's not just a 4/3 that's hard to remove, it also offers you another Prowess trigger when you draw it later, by putting in Slickshot you do lose out on that aspect fwiw, even if Slickshot is probably the stronger card in a vacuum. In Legacy I still find cards that are worth killing for 2 mana, and that one in a million game you care about damage prevention Stomp has your back.

SufferFromEDHD on Dominus Burn

1 year ago

Breaking Point, Browbeat, Blazing Salvo, Molten Influence, Skullscorch the rattle snake cards get a serious boost alongside Solphim.

Expedition Map to get that Valakut.

Gamble get whatever you need.

Bonus Round win the game.

Final Fortune possibly, maybe?

Harness the Storm similar jank to Pyromancer Ascension that has no place in EDH but Dragon's Approach turns it into an engine.

rockolos22 on dragons

6 years ago

Crater's Claws instead of Red Sun's ZenithEarthquake is still good in this deck in addition to Subterranean Tremors . Maybe both?Flame Slash is cheap one-mana creature kill.Magmatic Insight Card draw?Breath of Darigaaz Burns the field, leaves your creatures and deals damage to opponent.Wheel of Fortune A beast of a card-draw spell, used when your hand is empty.The Flame of KeldDangerous Wager Card draw.Browbeat would actually work well here.Skullscorch something violent to do on turn 2.Pyroclasm Amazing, procs your dragon egg.Mizzium Mortars Yup, more burn.

Uskebasi on List of Color Pie Breaks/Bends

7 years ago

Another two:

Artifact Blast is another counterspell in red, and Skullscorch is a conditional Hymn to Tourach.

akkd on You have choices, but they're all bad

7 years ago

Nice deck! +1!

I was messing up with it a little bit and a couple of changes I would make would be:

-1 Mogis, God of Slaughter since the devotion trigger is not going to happen, and 4 cmc for 2 damage only is a bit steep, whenever I got him, he was more of a dead weight.

-1 Skullscorch not a big fan. At least the times I played with it, I didn't pull it of. If I were to keep it, I would raise it to 2 copies at least.

-2 Painful Quandary Although it's a good card, it's just not that good for this deck. Definately a no go for me at least.

+2 Blackmail or Hymn to Tourach and IMO wouldn't lose the flavour of the theme. (Personally, I'd go with Blackmail but that's just me)

+2 Banefire Since we need a finisher and by finisher, I mean I expect to use by paying 5 >.

Once again, nice deck man! =]

Optimator on Professor Perplexus's Preposterous Postulation

8 years ago

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