To the Slaughter

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead that player sacrifices a creature and a planeswalker.

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
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

FauxFaux on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

Shepard the Lost {2}{U}{W}

Sorcery

Exile target permanent you control. You may choose a card you own in exile and put it onto the battlefield.

"Go, little Gossamer; I cannot follow you everywhere in body, but I will always be with you in spirit." - Thaniel, Gatstaf Shepard

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For those who may be unaware, in the card To the Slaughter, there is a little lamb called Gossamer. It is presumed that he is a lamb with a spark, and he only planeswalks away from these same situations and not by any other will or method.

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Continue!

MLS91 on Crippling Fear

3 years ago

Profet93

1. I don't understand? please fill me in on how this works?

2. Homeward Path vs. Nightmare Shepherd - i know exactly what your talking about, it does because the interaction with Skullclamp , i'm more understanding and valuing the slot at what it is im trying to accomplish. In my mind Nightmare Shepherd is a symmetrical effect, where as Homeward Path makes the possibility of an asymmetrical effect.

3. I'm actually thinking of cutting To the Slaughter for Feed the Swarm i'd rather have the choice and the answer rather then present my opponent with a choice, secondly Slaughter has a restriction. this way I can keep Dismember or replace Dismember with Executioner's Capsule

Omniscience_is_life

Looking back at your suggestion of Kaervek, the Spiteful here is why it didn't make the cut. put simply it turns of Skullclamp and effects the board compared to Massacre Wurm which eats peoples life totals and has no effect on my own board. Great thought though, ill keep him in mind for decks in the future

PhotogenicParasympathetic on What was your favorite play …

3 years ago

Also, once while playing my Toshiro Umezawa deck, my friend was playing Lord Windgrace, and cast their commander.

Now, Windgrace is pretty hard to deal with, because he often fuels the next time you've got to cast him, so removal isn't very effective.

My opponent goes to activate him, and I helpfully point out that he has a Strip Mine in play, and shouldn't he use the mine first, so he can get it back with his commander? My opponent agrees, activates strip mine before activating Windgrace, and since he's now passed priority, I respond with a non-delirium To the Slaughter, offering to let him choose aaaaaaaaaany one of his planeswalkers or creatures to sacrifice. Any one at all. Didn't matter to me one bit.

It's not MY fault he only had the one walker in play.

Emyron5 on 10-Rack

3 years ago

Funkydiscogod, first off, damn that's a good name! As for the recommendation of Preypiercer, my discord has looked at it and a few lists have subbed in To the Slaughter over Pox. However, I really like Pox, and, let's be honest, the companions are, more likely than not, getting banned within the next few months, so... I see no reason to rework my deck to fit one card that will no doubt be gone come September.

I_Want_To_PlayAllTheDecks on Pioneer Pirate Aggro

3 years ago

So I’ve been checking out more lists like this and I think a good sideboard could look something like this: 2x Fry 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet 3x Leyline of the Void 3x Pithing Needle 1x Golden Demise 1x To the Slaughter 3x Kolaghan's Command 1x March of the Drowned I also like how you had Collective Brutality but I just couldn’t find a place for it. I dunno- it might be really good, but either way it’s out of my budget range lol.

SynergyBuild on Looking for graveyard payoffs that …

4 years ago

Given no context I found these in under 30 minutes

Izoni, Thousand-Eyed , Hatchery Spider , Mausoleum Secrets , Molderhulk , Alesha, Who Smiles at Death , Apprentice Necromancer , Mindwrack Demon , Manic Scribe , Inexorable Blob , To the Slaughter , Epicenter , Kirtar's Wrath , Putrid Imp , Stitch Together , Shower of Coals , Repentant Vampire , Wayward Angel , Bloodbond March , Blood for Bones , Brawn , Charnelhoard Wurm , Charnel Troll , Circular Logic , Corrupted Grafstone , Corpseweft , Countervailing Winds , Crackling Drake , Crop Sigil , Dance of the Manse , Disciple of the Ring , Tasigur's Cruelty , Tasigur, the Golden Fang , Treasure Cruise , Sibsig Muckdraggers , Rite of Undoing , Empty the Pits , Magmatic Sinkhole , Murderous Cut , Logic Knot , Necropolis Fiend

danielwile on 8 Rack

4 years ago

Have you thought about Deathrite Shaman ? I am also brewing a similar deck and I am running four. DRS turns your spells in gy into fuel to deal addition 2 to their face, or exiles lands to generate extra mana. Also you aren't running any number of Vicious Rumors . I am running 4. It is the only 1 mana 'opponent discards a card' spell in the format which helps get the last couple cards out of their hand (Upside it also pings them for one). Also I like to run Plaguecrafter over To the Slaughter . I am not sure how frequently you turn on delirium, but plaguecrafter has its own little upside that when your opponent doesn't have a creature or PW down, it acts as another discard spell. Finally the last card I am going to mention is Tasigur's Cruelty . If we are going to have cards in our graveyards in Pioneer, I feel we might as well delve them. Let me know your thoughts on these couple cards I'd love to discuss the deck.

StopShot on Pure Control with Mogis, God …

5 years ago

This is a brainstorm thread as I don't have a deck list, rather I wanted to float the idea around and gauge the reactions and suggestions to this potential deck concept. That concept being lockdown control with Mogis, God of Slaughter as the win condition.

Why Mogis, God of Slaughter? We won't be giving Mogis any devotion so he'll be an indestructible enchantment which is near impossible to remove in the Modern environment. Because he can stick on the field and has the capability to consistently deal non-targeted damage we're likely going to be focused on using all other cards in our deck to drag out the game as long as possible if not indefinitely. This way Mogis will eventually deal 20 damage to our opponent and there's nothing they can do about it.

1-2-3 ~ Dies to Me: As you can presume the rest of the deck will consist entirely of removal. As it stands Mogis can only deal damage if our opponent doesn't have any creatures to sacrifice and our opponent will try to win by using creatures to attack us. Therefore the more creatures we can remove the longer we live and the easier our opponent loses. Lightning Bolt won't be good enough as our removal package must be able to remove any kind of creature, so exile effects, sacrifice effects, and boardwipe effects are crucial for always keeping the battlefield clear. Other cards to consider: Declaration in Stone , Crackling Doom , Dreadbore , To the Slaughter .

Lands? Other than color-fixing this deck will want to run a full play set of Cavern of Souls as it will make Mogis, God of Slaughter unable to be countered which is helpful against blue control decks.

Bad Match-Ups and Deck Weaknesses? All deck archetypes have bad match-ups, and this deck concept is far from perfect either. While most decks will lack the resources needed to answer this deck other ones can still bypass this strategy easily. Burn is a hyper aggressive deck and even if we remove all their creature threats swiftly, their array of burn spells will eventually out-damage our Mogis. Tron is another problem for different reasons as cards like Karn Liberated , Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and All Is Dust can all remove Mogis, God of Slaughter easily which can result in a long stalemate between the two decks due to our abundant removal. Lastly non-creature combo decks like Scapeshift and/or Ad Nauseam are mostly unfazed by our onslaught of creature/planeswalker removal spells and just like the burn deck they will be able to out-race us with little to no problem as well.

Sideboard and Answers: While sideboards are to be tailored to any given player's meta the above cards listed might help when dealing with the earlier described bad match-ups. For Collective Brutality all modes are relevant when dealing with burn and it can help remove cards like All Is Dust or Scapeshift . Leyline of Sanctity is probably the best card you can use against burn decks while also protecting Mogis, God of Slaughter from being removed by Thoughtseize or Dromoka's Command . Lost Legacy can also remove key cards from problem decks like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon or Scapeshift which can give a very considerable edge when playing up against them.

So what do you think? As mentioned before this post is to brainstorm ideas and create a discussion on the viability of this strategy. If you were to homebrew this deck what cards would you include in it? Would you use blue or green instead of white or leave it as just black and red? Would a deck like this thrive in your local meta or would it fail horribly? Have you ever made a deck that has played similar to this one? I'd like to hear from you about it.