Spawning Pit

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit.

(1), Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Put a 2/2 Spawn artifact creature token into play.

Combos

• Reef Worm + Spawning Pit
• Ashnod the Uncaring + Pitiless Plunderer + Spawning Pit

Tokens

• 2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn

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
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

king-saproling on Omelette du Fromage

4 months ago

(cont.) Being able to sacrifice creatures at no cost is vital for setting up and running the combo. Any one of these works as a sac outlet, though some are a bit tricky to use correctly:

Betrothed of Fire
Goblin Bombardment
Spawning Pit
Altar of Dementia
Jinxed Idol
Jinxed Ring
Blasting Station
Fanatical Devotion
Grafted Wargear
Ashnod's Altar
Phyrexian Altar
Martyr's Cause
Tooth and Claw

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Answers to Massacre Wurm for …

8 months ago

Spawning Pit is what you're looking for ;)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge

11 months ago

Swarm and Slam {G}{W}

Sorcery

Choose one:

• Create two 1/1 green Insect creature token.

• Sacrifice a creature. If you do, destroy target artifact or creature.

Entwine {1}

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The Swarm and Slam theme deck from Darksteel was the first deck I owned. Looking back, it was a GW aristocrats deck. I still do own that Spawning Pit.

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Create a beaver.

magicbike on blood for the blood god

1 year ago

Ayara, First of Locthwain ------ Bone Shredder Blood Artist---Dutiful Attendant

Ashnod's Altar -----Desecrated Tomb Skullclamp ---- Undying Malice Spawning Pit-----Commander's Sphere Open the Graves Vampiric Rites

Priest of Forgotten Gods Grim Haruspex

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Nature's Raw Beauty | Savra, Queen of the Golgari

1 year ago

Looking good! As you're already running Plagiecrafter and Fleshbag Marauder, Merciless Executioner and Revel in Riches would be perfect additions. Spawning Pit is another great sac-outlet. Pest Infestation is a match made in heaven with Savra. In that regard, Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip is very fitting, as well.

Ardees on It's Just a Flesh Wound (Budget Meren)

1 year ago

Suggestions from someone who started from a total junk Meren deck in 2015, and through the years made it to a cEDH (check the playlist here if you want: Meren Surgical Toolbox [2K22]:

• Way too many lands. Never seen any budget deck running almost half the deck on lands only. Consider adding cheap staple cards like Kodama's Reach, Cultivate, or something like Emergent Sequence, Greenseeker (it also discards you a creature that you can pick up with meren at the end of turn), Primal Growth (good sac outlet too), Dawntreader Elk, Deathsprout, Diligent Farmhand, Rampant Growth, and notable Yavimaya Elder. Consider also adding all the 1-mana elves, all of which sit around 0.10$. If you include all these changes you can easily remove 10 lands, and sit at 35 lands total.

• Some cards you included are just downright bad, even for a budget deck. You can not only find cheaper but also better replacements for cards like Reprocess, Spider Spawning, Evincar's Justice, Zendikar's Roil. Some cards you have in your maybeboard, like Skullclamp or Buried Alive are much better options. Most definitely include Village Rites and Midnight Reaper for card draw, and Spore Frog for protection. Also Reclamation Sage

• Include Carrion Feeder as a sac outlet. You can also consider Spawning Pit and Culling Dais.

• Your deck has a very high CMC, 4.05. For a golgari deck this is way too high, considering reaching at least 3.00.

• Jarad's Orders and Diabolic Tutor are the cheapest tutors you can get. Definitely run them both.

More generally, have a look at EDHREC.com to see what cards best fit a budget Meren deck. No offense, but even as a budget your deck certainly needs much improvement. That is, assuming you don't run cards for their flavor or because you just like them. Then that's totally up to you.

x12721 on First EDH deck: Naya Cheat in Updated

1 year ago

I've found a few cards that may interest you, based on your description. There are a number of enchantments in your colors that function as good sac outlets: Weaponize the Monsters, Barrage of Expendables, and Goblin Bombardment all sacrifice creatures for direct damage, while Fanatical Devotion and Martyr's Cause both provide some sort of protection. If you'd like to stay in green, Evolutionary Leap is about as close as you'll get to Greater Good. As far as other good sac outlets, High Market is an excellent way to crack your eggs, and Spawning Pit is a decent budget Altar effect (as Ashnod's Altar may be a bit expensive. As far as other suggestions, I can't recommend Skullclamp enough (if your budget allows). Changelings are also something to look out for, as they also count as Eggs for your commander. Notably, Maskwood Nexus and Birthing Boughs are both sources of eggs (and the Nexus combos VERY well with your commander) and Mirror Entity is another combo piece for you.

Foster_I_Am on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

1 year ago

Hey Masterful QQ - You mentioned Ophiomancer can make 3+ tokens every round. That only works if you have a sac outlet or way to kill the Snake token before your turn ends correct? Otherwise, Ophiomancer's ability won't resolve when your opponent's turn starts (i.e. their upkeep).

I often find myself usually only making one Snake token, as it's not that common actually to have a sac outlet on the board in this deck - which is why I'm definitely keeping Spawning Pit in. However, a death touch token is awesome - and if it's killed I can just make another one on my opponent's next upkeep. Either way, great card!