Smothering Tithe

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay . If the player doesn't, you create a colourless Treasure artifact token with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Gain one mana of any colour."

Discussion (46)

gimmeseven on Card creation challenge

1 day ago

Jason, Blaster Master

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Frog creatures you control have reach and trample

: Frog creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

: Gain control of target creature with power , it loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Challenge: Create a Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe type card in any color

Caerwyn on Oblivion Engine

2 days ago

RNR_Gaming for a 13/13 with Trample, Indestructible, and "if you remove me, I wipe your board?" Affinity is pretty powerful, particularly in eternal formats where you can run Artifact Lands, things like Smothering Tithe, and where players already are running lots of mana rocks (which effectively add an additional when casting Affinity for Artifact spells).

multimedia on Teysa Karlov

2 days ago

Hey, saw your forum topic asking for help. This is a good budget version of Teysa and you have several nice cards.

Some lower CMC cards within the budget to consider adding:

• Doomed Traveler
• Open the Armory: tutor for Skullclamp.
• Tithe Taker
• Plaguecrafter
• Skirsdag High Priest: repeatable 5/5 Demons, morbid can trigger on any player's turn even when an opponent's creature dies.
• Dark Ritual
• Dreadhorde Invasion

Cards to consider cutting for these:

• Martial Coup
• Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder: his token making ability is better in mono black or Rakdos; it's not needed when playing white.
• Vindictive Vampire: the worst aristocrat here.
• Smothering Abomination: doesn't trigger when a creature dies only when a creature is saced, there's better repeatable draw options/sac outlets here.
• Black Market: Smothering Tithe is better ramp.
• Sifter of Skulls: Pitiless Plunderer and Pawn of Ulamog are better.
• Choose one, cut the other, from Butcher of Malakir or Martyr's Bond.

Good luck with your deck.

DemonDragonJ on Kill them With Kindness

1 week ago

I have replaced Font of Mythos with Smothering Tithe, since this deck already has more than enough effects that make ever player draw a card, and I need to help myself more than I help everyone else.

DemonDragonJ on Font of Mythos or Smothering …

1 week ago

In my Kynaios and Tiro deck, I have numerous cards that make all players draw cards, but I am contemplating replacing Font of Mythos with Smothering Tithe, since I need to help myself more than I help any other player, and that deck already has plenty of cards that provide further card drawing. I originally was considering replacing Mind's Eye with Smothering Tithe, but I am too fond of the eye to remove it from the deck.

What does everyone else say about this? Should I replace Font of Mythos with Smothering Tithe?

The_Munchkin on Deck does not contain a lapdance *ding* Sliver EDH

1 week ago

CrimsonWings3689 I don't really see the comparison between Unsettled Mariner and Smothering Tithe. The Tithe and study taxes happen on basically every players turn, and if they don't pay the tax you get value. They warp games because, unlike the targeted removal that would trigger Unsettled Mariner, they will always happen, and, when at some point someone doesn't pay it, you get a huge payoff.

Maybe you face a lot more targeted removal in your games, but for me, being able to counter a wrath effect or combo piece has been far more useful for me that any tax effects that will probably only hit 2-3 targeted removal spells a game.

CrimsonWings3689 on Deck does not contain a lapdance *ding* Sliver EDH

1 week ago

I suppose it depends on how often your opponents ramp out quickly vs when you as the combo player do. Think of it like Smothering Tithe. Do you really think people pay it the majority of the time? If you do, you likely haven't seen enough games with it because it warps games. Even Rhystic Study can warp a game in stealing mana from your opponents in a "pay the 1 or I get card advantage" extortion.

It's been a very rare thing where those pieces are a hindrance when drawn. People get caught up not being able to pay the 1 to target you or your things with Unsettled Mariner, or the 2 with Diffusion Sliver. There are also times where players might run out of removal from other threats or might rely on others to assist. Whether they can or not is a different story, but the opponents also have to weigh their tempo loss when fighting a tax effect if it hinders them and the others advance their board states free and clear without the obstacle... no one wants to be the one to get rid of a Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger for the same reason.

Your own experience may vary, and that's also fine. Sticking a tax effect on my board for removal has proven more useful to fight 3+ people than a single counterspell could.

Tzefick on Taborax's Apostles of Despair

1 week ago

Very nice alternative. I must say I think your list of searchable demons is a little thin and not that much utility to get. It appears you mostly have demons that grant card draw in some fashion.

I would probably put in something like Archfiend of Depravity or Pestilence Demon for swarm control. And I do find Archfiend of Despair a very neat tech choice to wallop an opponent out who has taken a bit too much damage. Or Sower of Discord to either dissuade an opponent from attacking into you or to utilize damage against one player to swing against another.

While Reaper from the Abyss is a very nice card that keeps on giving, I find Overseer of the Damned to be a good alternative, as the effect happens immediately and can better be utilized to save your skin or deal with a problematic creature from an opponent.

Also I'm surprised to not see Secret Salvage nor Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker in your list.

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All this being said I don't think I'll ever drop the Orzhov variants of Shadowborn Apostle decks.

The amount of value you can get with Black-White is well worth it in my eyes.

Cards like Aven Shrine or Remembrance are easily paying themselves back in short time.

Include cards like Immortal Servitude and Rally the Ancestors and if you're a bit more casual; Angel of Glory's Rise. Even if you only have a small slew of Apostles, you can use them again and again for quite cheap.

Of course there's the palette of removal that is accessible with white; Vindicate, Utter End, Anguished Unmaking. Merciless Eviction is also a favorite along with Austere Command.

And while we're at it, throw in a Smothering Tithe.