Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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 Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Tsukimi on Card creation challenge

2 days ago

Swords to Plowshares the Dominaria Remastered art specifically.

Renault, Steward of the Farm {W}{W}

Legendary Creature - Farmer

Whenever a creature you controls attacks, create a 2/2 ox creature token tapped and attacking. Then, target attacking creature gains your choice of first strike or flying until end of turn.

2/2

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Repeat!

gzusvictory on Halvar, Divine Voltron

1 week ago

Would you take Swords to Plowshares out for Parting Gust? I wonder if the extra white mana and “nontoken” factor makes a difference.

mrweaselman on Stompy Boys (EDH)

2 weeks ago

Since you're in green, you have some pretty good options for ramp for two mana. Oketra's Monument, Rhonas's Monument, Invasion of Ixalan  ^Flip and Thought Vessel seem to be the weakest. Three Visits, Nature's Lore, and Skyshroud Claim are all very solid options that are much harder to remove. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds can also make a ton of mana and draw you cards.

Cards that seem weaker:
Wayward Swordtooth: You only run 33 lands, I am not sure how often this is going to trigger. With a lower land count you have a lesser chance of having multiple lands in hand.
Akroma's Will: This may be overkill. A better option may be Return of the Wildspeaker because it can also draw you a lot of cards.
Bite Down and Ram Through: Requires you to have a creature of the board. Something either cheaper or more flexible like Swords to Plowshares or Touch the Spirit Realm can be beneficial.
Boros Charm: Unless you play in a token heavy meta, there may better options like Flawless Maneuver or Tyvar's Stand. Both can protect your commander the turn you get it out for cheap.
Virtue of Strength: This card does say basic land and you do only run 18 in the whole deck. Take a look at Mirari's Wake, or you could run Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip and another ramp spell for basically the same slots.
Kinjalli's Caller, Knight of the Stampede, Marauding Raptor, Otepec Huntmaster, and Atzocan Seer: These cards are definitely thematic, but I'm not sure if they're all better than Delighted Halfling, Birds of Paradise, Avacyn's Pilgrim, Bloom Tender, and Sylvan Caryatid. Especially if you're only casting one big dinosaur a turn. Same for Commune with Dinosaurs < Once Upon a Time

Mortlocke on The Glorious Hive

4 weeks ago

Looking at these comments I can only feel nostalgic. My dear Paradox Engine will likely be forever banned. Sure, it goes infinite with a ham sandwich, but still I love it. This deck feels very much like "the usual suspects" when it comes to Sliver decks in EDH but with the notable exclusion of Mana Echoes - why is that? Also, I wouldn't recommend the inclusion of Wild Pair, it's a very inefficient card. Might I suggest the inclusion of some interaction? Outside of a select few slivers you don't really have much in the way of board interaction. Spot removal stuff like Swords to Plowshares, Beast Within, Get Lost, or Strix Serenade just to name a few. You're in all 5 colors so i'd like to know what your color preference is as a player - that would help guide future suggestions.

Always happy to see a Sliver deck. +1 from me.

Mortlocke on The Queen's Egg

1 month ago

Flodes,

Long story so buckle up - I took this deck to a tournament over the weekend. It was advertised as a Commander tournament with prizes and no restrictions outside of the normal banlist. Also, once you used a deck you had to stick with it throughout the whole tournament. Unbeknownst to me, a herd of cEDH players showed up and were crushing tables on turns 2 to 3 with regular consistency. This almost happened to me, but between me and the rest of the table we had enough interaction to stop it. Then I realized - while this deck is decidedly not a cEDH archetype, it could at least hang at the table and leave an impact on the game - but I need more interaction.

Hibernation Sliver is a deterrent. It boasts to my opponents that their removal is useless as said sliver will simply show up again. This ability I've never used once while owning this deck. I've never used it as a go-to because there are simply better options in the form of Crystalline Sliver or just a good ol' fashioned Counterspell. Besides, i've had full art foil Deadly Rollick (featuring Judith), and am trying to find a nice deck for it to call home. It's evocative of the earlier days in magic where the art was more evocative of something dark, sinister, and forbidden. Also, Judith is hot.

tl;dr - I need more interaction and I found Hibernation Sliver to not be as useful as I thought.

Additionally, MH3 introduced a gorgeous buy a box promo - a foil old border Flusterstorm. I got a copy and am definitely going to try and make a spot for it in the deck. Unfortunately, I have no idea what to cut. Maybe Swords to Plowshares?

Longer discussion note - I think that cEDH is a wonderful deck building meta, but it is something completely separate from your standard Commander or EDH meta. It was unfortunate that I and a portion of other players were very much caught off guard by the cEDH crowd and have to say that the planners need to make things clear when deciding on what the meta for the tournament will be. My personal thoughts are create a cEDH meta (which strictly uses cEDH deck archetypes) and a Commander meta (which explicitly does not use cEDH deck archetypes, and has games that are expected to end from turn 5 and beyond). I very much dislike weird and arbitrary bans on things like infinite combos or certain cards. Random rant, but I had those thoughts on my mind. Thanks for commenting again Flodes!

TheForsakenOne on You Shall Not Pass

1 month ago

What I'd cut:

Pilgrim's Eye: Not a very good rate, and it doesn't even ramp

Eldrazi Displacer: You don't have enough colorless mana producers to make this consistent, and there are better flicker effects you have acess to

Eight-and-a-Half-Tails: Clunky protection when it isn't really needed

Avacyn, Angel of Hope: Sadly just a win-more card in this case. If it sticks around sure you're probably going to win but you'll be enemy #1 and you're likely not going to survive that

Sword of Feast and Famine: Probably the most overpriced of the swords, and the most likely to draw hate. It looks good on paper but without a way to capitalize on it you're going to bite off more than you can chew.

The Wanderer: Not worth the 4 mana. There are just better cards that could be run.

Ephemeral Shields is kind of a weird addition. Its just not very good.

2-3 Plains: 38 is just a bit high for a deck that peaks at 3 cmc cards. Maybe add more ramp instead

Suggestions to add

The MDFC's are just great to have due to their flexibility: https://scryfall.com/search?as=gridℴ=name&q=type%3Aland+commander%3AW+%28game%3Apaper%29+is%3Amdfc

You don't have that many ways to sacrifice artifacts despite having several triggers off of. The standards are Trading Post, Arcbound Ravager and for this deck Oswald Fiddlebender is great because it tutors out another artifact for free. Kuldotha Forgemaster is a must because it can turn some of your dud artifacts into a portal or blighsteel, and at instant speed too.

Metalwork Colossus is just fun, plus with all your expendable artifacts it can be quite persistent

Wurmcoil Engine is just great, and doubling that death trigger is fantastic. Can't play its new little brother, because he's black, but the original is still a classic

Threefold Thunderhulk has two ETB's that can be copied, and he's a sacrifice outlet. I would also recommend Hangarback Walker since you can double the death trigger

If you put in enough Artifact sacrifices cards like Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever, and Loran, Disciple of History to recur them back to your hand. Also consider Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender for payoffs to all that sacrificing.

Its a dead horse, but Swords to Plowshares and Path to Exile are never bad choices.

Taida on Orzhov Tokens

1 month ago

The deck looks nice. You can make more use of the colors you chose, so adding something like Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim or Blood Artist, so you can both gain life when your tokens enter the battlefield and make them more annoying when they die. You could also include one or two copies of Blade Historian for closing the game. I would recommend changing Swords to Plowshares by Path to Exile, Get Lost or Fateful Absence, as it is not legal in Modern. You could also include more anthem effects, like Honor of the Pure, but I think the ones you have already included are very nice. Another plainswalker you could consider is Basri Ket, as you will be attacking with a lot of creatures, and you could create even more of them. Finally, I would recommend adding some copies of Isolated Chapel, but it comes to personal preference regarding la

CoryDean on Wyleth

1 month ago

Added: Astor, Bearer of Blades, Swords to Plowshares, Arid Mesa, Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip, Clever Concealment

Removed: Keeper of the Accord, Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip (because it is black), Condemn, Plains, Mountain,