Tithe Taker

Creature — Human Soldier

During your turn, spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast and abilities your opponents activate cost {1} more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

Afterlife 1 (When this creature is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

Tokens

• Spirit 1/1 WB

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	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
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

9-lives on Azorius Aggro-Control deck

9 months ago

Alright! So, Detention Sphere is in! No offense, but I'm going to keep Ethersworn Canonist since I'm already having counterspells, and this card really makes my deck. I know I'm not running a total prison deck, which would be nice but a lot of the prison cards are impacting both sides of the battle, and I'm using the counterspells costing mana. Hmmm. Should I try to make a prison deck instead with these counterspells? Like Tithe Taker?

Rhadamanthus on Is there a room from …

1 year ago

You have the right idea. Once Nim Deathmantle's trigger starts resolving, people have to wait until it's completely finished resolving before making responses. The mana payment happens as part of the resolution of the ability. If someone wants to exile Tithe Taker from the graveyard in your example, they have to do it before Deathmantle's trigger starts resolving.

pedroedmarcos on Is there a room from …

1 year ago

Hey there,

So, I was playing this weekend, and a player was comboing off with Nim Deathmantle and Ashnod's Altar, and a player wanted to interact after the player payed for the trigger and before the reanimation happened exiliing the creature. At least for me there's no room for interaction at this point, but I'll ask just to make sure. Let's say that the player has a Tithe Taker, with afterlife and ashnod's altar on the field and nim death mantle. He sacrifices the tithe taker, creating a trigger for the death mantle and the afterlife trigger. He resolves the afterlife first, and then sacrifice the token. So now he has 4 colorless mana to infinite loop. He let the ability of deathmantle resolves paying 4 mana and reanimating tithe taker. This is how it was played out. Once he payed 4 mana for the trigger, you can't exile the creature cause the ability already resolved and the creature now is on the battlefield, and if you exile the creature before he payed for the trigger, he'll still have 4 colorless mana cause he didn't payed for it yet right?

Masterful on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

2 years ago

Foster_I_Am Just released the update, sorry for the lateness! I got caught up in school and work.

• Hidden Stockpile is slow for token generation, but it does a good impression of Bitterblossom. As a sac outlet, it's inefficient since you have to pay mana. The real strength of the card is that it does both. Personally, I like my token-makers as death-triggers, and my sac-outlets as cheap creatures or artifacts that grant me mana. It's not a bad card though, so play it if you like it!
• Tithe Taker: I'm more a fan of the mana utility provided by Carrier Thrall than the Grand Abolisher-lite effect from taker. If you find your playgroup constantly disrupting you on your turn, it could be worth it.
• Bennie Bracks, Zoologist: He's great at 1-mana, but I think our current draw suite is stronger with a higher ceiling than 1-card per turn. And while we have token makers in the deck, we're not all in on a token strategy, so other decks have more to gain from his effect than we do.

Let me know what you think of the update and thanks for the suggestions!

kirbysan Black Market Connections is a super interesting card. It's definitely better than Phyrexian Arena which is its closest comparison at the moment. The versatility is strong since we can generate fodder, mana, or cards whenever we're lacking them. Making all 3 is a crazy strong option that can pull us ahead in the early game for 6-life per turn, which isn't the most when we have lots of lifegain potential in the deck. I'm pretty enthusiastic about this card right now, but I'm gonna sit on it for a bit until my next update when the full Baldur's Gate commander lists are released. Thanks for the suggestion!

Foster_I_Am on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

2 years ago

Hey Masterful, Hope all is well! Just was wondering if you saw anything interesting or worth including in your deck with the new Capenna release?

Additionally, have you ever considered running any of the following cards:

Hidden Stockpile - Feel like it's a great card with only 2 CMC and can possibly generate a decent amount of tokens. Not to mention it can also be used as a sac outlet (though it does cost 1 colorless mana).

Tithe Taker - Can possibly slow down your opponents and can create tokens when it dies.

Bennie Bracks, Zoologist - Can be easy to cast by tapping tokens and then can also draw cards from the tokens we sac. Might be interesting to test.

Not sure if you've tried any of those but they caught my eye recently. Just wanted to hear your thoughts first :)

Thanks! -Cory

9-lives on

2 years ago

My most mana intensive cards are 4 MV. The rest are 3 or below. The only one that really matters for mana is Ugin's Conjurant. Why do I have to be fast or timely with mana? I have tons of counterspells. Especially Mana Leak, Hold at Bay, and Tithe Taker. These are cards that will slow the game down for me. I don't like running too many or too little lands. Will be a nice middle that gives me a good even chance of drawing too many or too little.

zapyourtumor on Mono-White Weenies

3 years ago

Triumph of Gerrard is not that good, I'd run more creatures instead.

Adeline, Resplendent Cathar is a very strong human, I suggest at least 2 copies.

Esper Sentinel is pretty expensive so I understand if you can't afford it, but he's a really strong 1 drop that gets stronger as it gets buffed by Aspirant or Lieutenant.

Fiend Hunter for some more removal.

If you need to cut any cards, I'd suggest cutting Ollenbock Escort first. Then probably Tithe Taker. Taker doesn't seem too good because the Afterlife ability creates a spirit, not a human, and it only taxes on your turn.

I don't know if you plan to have a sideboard, but Sanctifier en-Vec and Sanctum Prelate are strong sideboard options in mono white for humans.

libraryjoy on Balancing my 2 decks against …

3 years ago

So two new options for you as well:

Sephara's Flock of Doves

Mono-white Budget Allies

Also some options to add to your anti-control suite is Judge's Familiar and Tithe Taker.