Stifle

Instant

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	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 (46)

Neotrup on Copying Omnath, Locus of Creation …

1 month ago

If a player casts Stifle in response to Strionic Resonator's activation targeting the same ability as the Resonator it will counter that ability removing it from the stack. That will cause the activation to no longer have a legal target when it tries to resolve, effectively countering both the original trigger and the activation.

As a note, Strionic Resonator would copy the landfall ability as a whole. When Omnath, Locus of Creation's ability resolves, it checks how many times the ability has resolved, not how many times it triggered, or which trigger it was. Copying the second trigger will make the copy add {R}{G}{W}{U} and make the actual trigger deal 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control, even though it was the second trigger, as it is now the third time the ability is resolving.

builderboy7 on Copying Omnath, Locus of Creation …

1 month ago

If player A controls an Omnath, Locus of Creation and plays their second land for turn, holds priority, and copies Omnath's triggered ability to add 4 mana to their mana pool with a Strionic Resonator. If then player B elects to cast Stifle on the Omnath ability, what happens to the copy of the ability on the stack?

Coward_Token on How Are Red, Black, and …

4 months ago

Green getting Stifle-type effects is actually a pet peeve of mine. It's too subtle and I feel it doesn't really fill a necessary role in the color's strength the same way Fog effects do. Really should go to white as a secondary ability, the non-lethal flavor is fitting and its similar to the color's existing mechanical ability of tapping things down

fluffyeel on Bruvac's Millibuster

5 months ago

Mill is fun. Mill was one of my first loves (and still is!) for any sort of MTG deck. However, I see some options to further Traumatize your opponents:

• Fractured Sanity is fun for all opponents. Or more fun for you. Brain Freeze is another fun instant mill that I highly recommend.
• A big concern I have seeing this is that people use graveyards as much as other resources, so being prepared for that may help you out in the long run. You mention graveyard hate is meta-dependent... but, in my experience, graveyard shenanigans are everywhere. My recommendations are Grafdigger's Cage, Tale's End, Stifle, Trickbind, Time Stop, and Discontinuity as stops to things like, for example, Eldrazi graveyard triggers.
• If you want a classic monocolor strategy and if you have enough of them, it's not uncommon to replace all the basics with snow-covered basics and use Extraplanar Lens as an acceleration engine. For you, I think that may not be a bad idea.
• Other fun toys that synergize with one or more of your toys: Windfall, Memory Jar, Isochron Scepter, Forbid, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip, Commandeer, Sunder, Teferi's Puzzle Box...

ThassaUpYo@ssa on Davy Jones Locker

6 months ago

Profet93

Solid suggestions...what would be reasonable to swap out in favor of Helm of Obedience, Praetor's Grasp, Stifle, and Tale's End?

Profet93 on Davy Jones Locker

6 months ago

ThassaUpYo@ssa

Stifle

Tale's End

Disallow

Although not exactly friendly to your average cmc, a Leyline of the Void/Dauthi Voidwalker. Adding in a Helm of Obedience for theme but more importantly combo

At the risk of "wasting" your spell on it, Praetor's Grasp. Luckily you can just take their sol ring, mana crypt or important combo piece should they not run eldrazi.

Hope this helps!

Coward_Token on

8 months ago

Stifle & friends? Lets you save Melek from being killed by a random Bojuka Bog

Ammonzy on Magic Rhino

9 months ago

Fun trick with Roon of the Hidden Realm as he's 1 if the not the only commander capable of this, although this would require some deckbuilding changes.

Roon has the ability to permanently exile another person's commander. What you do is have a counter-trigger ability card in hand like Stifle or Tale's End. You then activate Roon's ability to blink someone's commander; now the opponent has 2 choices

1. Allow your blink to resolves
2. Place their commander in the CZ, essentially accepting death

Now the fun part is if they choose to allow the blink to resolve, you counter your own ability. And since the opponent didnt choose to move the commander into the CZ, it's now stuck in limbo forever.