Snuff Out

Instant

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

leovolt884_ on Domain Zoo 2025 2nd try

1 week ago

Personally I like Lush Growth over Abundant Growth to enable your creatures and this deck is just naya anyways so it's a lot better than it is in 4 or 5 color domain. I would maybe consider some tapped duals that have basic land types so you can have a swamps or islands for domain without banking on drawing Nylea's Presence. 6 copies of Terramorphic Expanse/Evolving Wilds are pretty slow already so swapping them for tap lands doesn't seem like too much of a loss. Running the swamp type on a few lands + 4 Nylea's Presence in the deck would make running some copies of Snuff Out pretty consistent. Having premium removal that costs 0 mana seems great for a creature heavy aggro deck. I don't see too much of a point in Kor Skyfisher as you really have no good targets to bounce. It's a niche combo with rancor since bouncing the enchanted creature puts it in the graveyard, then back into your hand, but it seems like too much of a tempo loss to have to bounce your own beaters. I guess you can also bounce a land and replay it if you miss a land drop but if that's what you're going for I would suggest going down to 18 lands and cutting 1-2 Matca Rioters to run more aggressive 1 drop creatures. Spark Elemental, Jungle Lion, Jackal Familiar, Goblin Cohort, Clockwork Percussionist, Fanatical Firebrand, or Gingerbrute are all aggressive 1 drops that come to mind. Clockwork Percussionist in particular provides card advantage which is very good and can help you hit land drops if you choose to run a lower land count.

Deck looks cool and keep in mind these are just suggestions, have a nice day <3

leovolt884_ on The Face of Immortality

1 month ago

Martyr of Sands is a really fun cleric, one of my favorite cards I've never found a place for. Prismatic Strands is an overwhelmingly powerful card and can be not only a fog but also can blow out your opponent if they try to trade with your creatures. there's do no damage, yours do damage. This is going to help get any extra damage you need through to your opponent without sacrificing your clerics, weakening Vile Deacon, in the process. Snuff Out is another overwhelmingly strong card that is in... most black decks in the meta and with infinite life is literally just a free kill spell and I think you should find a place for it mainboard. I think this deck can be very viable despite having a niche design and that's awesome. If anything, to go up against the strongest of strong pauper decks maybe cut Harsh Sustenance or some copies of Misery Charm for some multipurpose artifact and enchantment spot removal that can also be cast for value. White has a lot of these effects but really this is just a meta deckbuilding decision and just running specific removal sideboard like you're doing already is more than fine.

It breaks theme slightly but Battle Screech and Village Rites could help you with card draw and chump blocking, things your deck seems to really want. You would likely be more than fine cutting 1-2 lands even without card draw since your curve is just so low. But in reality the only recommendation I would say is super important is Prismatic Strands since you need as much protection for your combo and finishers as possible.

Overall though I really really love this deck it's just so well designed in terms of flavor and actual playability and is honestly one of my favorite pauper decks I've ever seen on here

Nicklaffy2302 on Raze, Rebuild, Reclaim

1 month ago

leovolt884_ I'm little embarrassed to admit I missed the Swamp part in Snuff Out, I appreciate you pointing it out! I enjoy your suggestions of Bayou Groff in place of Werebear, Utopia Sprawl, and Skyshroud Ranger. I've never been good at land base building / having an appropriate ratio, so I'm hesitant to include a third land colour.

I also have mixed feelings about Rubblebelt Maverick, but I think I want to see how he does first before replacing him.

Thank you very much for your thoughts, and I look forward to seeing your version if you do build one! :)

DadHumanPraetor on The Dark Brotherhood - Rogues & Riches

2 months ago

Snuff Out Deadly Rollick Force of Despair can start killing stuff as soon as you play your commander, so you could tap out for her t2 or t3 and immediately hit something.

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire is my favorite rogue

Faerie Macabre is free graveyard hate, or a flying rogue

Cool idea, hopefully they give us some more creatures for this commander

DadHumanPraetor on Syr Konradical, the Grimmest

1 year ago

Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip is usually better than a basic swamp. I always play Snuff Out when I am in a cabal coffers deck, I know some people dont like the 'non-black' restriction but I have always had good experiences with it. Maybe Scavenger Grounds, I know it's strip mining you, but you could disrupt the meren player or you could just like, win, the versatility seems nice.
Plumb the Forbidden is cool because you can just cycle it for 2cmc, or draw an extra card for each creature you sac, which in this deck could be a bunch.

I really like this deck, looks super fun, a lot of my favorite cards in magic are in there.

SufferFromEDHD on Sidisi 1CMC Glass Cannon

1 year ago

41.5% of this deck has CMC 0 for a reason. I'm all in on Ad Nauseam. Fantastic suggestions but I have to be very mindful of CMC total. Right now it's at 55 but maybe I'm overthinking it?

Grim Monolith had to double check my list. Was very surprised it is not in. Guessing CMC 2 scared me away but it would allow me to go off a turn earlier.

Necropotence Ad Nauseum #2. Back ups are important. Will slot in.

Snuff Out and Force of Despair I know this deck needs more removal but 7 CMC is a lot of life. Slaughter Pact is truly free. These are guaranteed sideboard cards for certain match ups.

Of your anti blue tech Mind Twist is a great suggestion. Old school power. Conqueror's Flail is a great "can't" but involves too much setup in a creature lite list.

Profet93 on Sidisi 1CMC Glass Cannon

1 year ago

SufferFromEDHD +1

Grim Monolith - Ramp

Necropotence - In case shit hits the fan and you need to dig?

Conqueror's Flail - Anti blue?

Snuff Out - Interaction

Mind Twist - Anti-blue bait. Should they exile your wincon, you can just spite them by making them discard their hand. Also deadly if ramped early game, should you wish.

Force of Despair - Interaction?

AudderPop on

1 year ago

Snuff Out and Force of Despair unfortunately work the opposite way of how we want; although they're cheap to cast in reality, their CMC is high, so they hurt us a lot to draw off Ad Nauseam. Cavern of Souls and Cabal Ritual are both solid options to proxy in for the cEDH sideboard, as they're both useful but way outside of what I'd actually spend money on. Defense Grid is in the middle sweet spot where it's not a super expensive card and I can see how it improves our combo; it probably limits the number of counterspells our opponent can hit us with while we're comboing off to two max, which is nice :)

Thank you for the suggestions!