Smokestack

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on this.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

hyalopterouslemur on Question about brackets

1 month ago

So, I've noticed that three cards are mass land denial but the deckbuilding software thinks are legal in lower brackets?

• Smokestack
• Tangle Wire
• Winter Moon

So, are these MLD?

hyalopterouslemur on New player got a question.

1 month ago

What you're looking to play is a Stax deck. The good news is, a lot of Stax pieces are colorless. The bad news is, first, Stax is expensive, and secondly, Stax decks generally place you right in Bracket 4. (It's cards like Smokestack and Winter Orb that place you there.)

One thing you can do, regardless, is play Winter Moon, which costs under $2 at most places. More expensive decks tend to run more nonbasic lands, especially in the current meta where 4+ colors is the norm. In a deck like you're building, you're going to be running mostly (all?) basics, which are unaffected. Stax kinda works like that, finding ways to break symmetry.

Asder on Card creation challenge

6 months ago

Smogbreath Debaser {4}{B}{R}

Creature - Dragon Elemental

Flying

When Smogbreath Debaser enters the battlefield or attacks, put a soot counter on it.

Each other creature thats not a Dragon or Elemental gets -1/-1 for each soot counter on it.

2/7

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Create a beast elemental, or another card that uses soot counters such as Smokestack

Femme_Fatale on Commander bracket recommendation

9 months ago

note that the list hasn't been implemented yet. That specific part does hit Magus, Balance and Cataclysm but doesn't hit Razia's Purification, Balancing Act nor Pox. I can add in an additional option for permanents, Pox has unique wording so will have to be manually added.

This is what I have so far.

Mass Land Denial:

"sacrifice ... lands"
"each player sacrifices ... lands"
"return ... lands to their owner's hand"
Exception: If the above ... has "two" or "three" in it for any of them.
Note the requirement for the word land to be plural.

"lands don't untap"
"Players can't play lands"
Exception: If the card is instant or sorcery.

"each player ... chooses ... land(s) ... sacrifices the rest."

"return all lands to their owners' hands"

All instances of the word "land" dictated as a requirement in the strings above can be swapped for "permanent".

"Whenever a player .... that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand."

"lands are (land subtype)."

All instances of the word land dictated as a requirement in all the strings above can be swapped with "nonbasic land", "Plains", "Forest", "Island", "Mountain" or "Swamp".
All instances of the word "sacrifice" can be swapped for "destroy" or "exile".
All instaces of the word "player" can be swapped for "opponent".

A global expection for all Mass Land Denial is made if "nonland" is ever in the textbox.
Individual cards bypass exceptions.

Individual cards: Desolation, Equipoise, Hall of Gemstone, Mana Vortex, Mist of Stagnation, Parallax Tide, Pox, Quicksilver Fountain, Sands of Time, Smokestack, Storm Cauldron, Tangle Wire, Temporal Distortion, Thoughts of Ruin, Words of Wind, World Queller

SaberTech on Commander bracket recommendation

9 months ago

Thoughts on Smokestack potentially counting as mass land destruction? It doesn't specifically target lands, but generally the end goal is to leave opponents with no permanents on board while keeping some of your own.

AstroAA on Edh options

1 year ago

I run a Adeline, Resplendent Cathar tribal humans/anthems deck that can get out of control very quickly. If you're in a four-person pod, Adeline makes three tokens a turn. If you stack anthems like Cathars' Crusade, all creatures you control permanently get +3/+3, including the tokens that just ETB'd off of her effect, making you go from 7 power on board (Adeline + three tokens) to 19 power on board (7 from Adeline, 12 from 3 4/4 tokens).

The only problem with the deck is it's mono-white, however I honestly genuinely enjoy building in mono-white. It's a challenge due to all your mana ramp being weird like Tithe or Land Tax, and all your card draw options giving opponents benefits like Secret Rendezvous or Cut a Deal. Either way, I enjoy the challenge. Since Adeline, Resplendent Cathar is mono-white, you have a fairly wide range of prison/stax options if you really wanted to go that route to control the board. Smokestack is a great option since you're constantly generating tokens and can just pay for it with them.

UltimateRoxas40 on Suggestions for a precon commander …

1 year ago

I use some pieces from the Necron deck in my Glissa, the Traitor deck. It has a lot of artifacts going in and out of the graveyard, so those Necron cards were an easy slot in.

If you want to lean into a more staxy/control version, there are several additional cards that can work well with her (Torpor Orb, Smokestack, Tangle Wire, Grave Pact, etc)

I've got some of those in my version of Glissa. Shameless plug for my deck haha. Glissa, Traitor of Mirrodin [Artifact Primer]

SomeDipshit on Shanghai Dawn - Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

1 year ago

Smokestack

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