Tooth and Nail

Sorcery

Choose one —

• Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.
• Put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

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
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

capwner on One-card wins

2 weeks ago

So here's an idea you may be familiar with...a one-card win: That is, a card that wins the game or initiates a winning line by itself without needing any other pieces. Just cast that one card and boom, you're in a position to win. This seems very OP because a 1 card combo is of course easier to assemble than 2-or-more card combos, and besides being easy to assemble I think it improves your resilience because it's easy to recur or topdeck a single card, and initial card investment is lower so you have more potential space in hand for interaction or a backup plan. The downside would be a lot of these either cost a lot of mana or require a lot of build around, or both. So some obvious examples of this would be cards like Tooth and Nail that tutor up multiple parts of a 2-part combo. Shared Summons is another card that, given enough mana, can win by itself say by assembling Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista. These double tutor cards are especially sweet because they can also find protection if you already have part of the combo or other tutors. I think Hoarding Broodlord is similar because it tutors for Saw in Half to find more combo pieces, so this wins by itself too. By extension, in the decks that have these, regular Demonic TutorGC or Solve the Equation become a 1-card wins as well! Next there are some weirder ones...there's straight up Enter the Infinite which if resolved should certainly give you the ability to win on the spot with a million counterspell backups. On the opposite end of the curve, Doomsday initiates a combo line by itself but is slower; you either need to pass the turn or have a means of drawing a card to continue comboing. Similarly, Selective Memory in an all-spells deck can exile your whole deck besides Thoracle, then draw her and win next turn. Of course in the all-spells camp there's also Balustrade Spy, Undercity Informer and Goblin Charbelcher which can win on the spot, these are probably the best and actually competitively played archetypes, and Hermit Druid combos similarly. Hmm.... what else, I guess there are tons of 1-card combos with commanders, like Etali + Food Chain, Niv Mizzet + Curiosity, and so on. Those are pretty close to 1-card wins but I would say a different genre of combo than the ones I am discussing. Another card I think fits is Timesifter, with the right build this card can very likely result in a win by itself, though it is totally non-deterministic! I think as a 5 drop artifact, compared with the mana demands of some of the other cards mentioned, this is a very competitive option for a potentially game-ending effect on a single card. I love Timesifter lol. What else? Other tutors like IntuitionGC and Gifts UngivenGC can assemble breach combo by themselves in Jeskai decks with Sevinne's Reclamation. Ad NauseamGC and other mass-draw effects scoop up huge portions of the deck and win from there. Anything that can tutor multiple times like Increasing Ambition or Razaketh, the Foulblooded can win by itself. Goblin Recruiter I'm pretty sure sets up Conspicuous Snoop combo by itself, maybe that's a win next turn one. Approach of the Second Sun but that's REALLY slow by itself. This far down the line I'm tempted to even say Stoneforge Mystic and/or Stonehewer Giant because you can play a line where you get Sword of Hearth and Home to flicker her, get Kaldra Compleat then get Worldslayer and that's baaasically a win 2 turns later from just a Stoneforge. On that topic, MLD spells in general come pretty close to being 1-card wins IMO by relying more on overall deck construction to out-recover opponents, so similar to a Timesifter resolving a Jokulhaups should usually win it for the MLD player if they built their deck right, and if nobody has Tef Pro <- another 1 card win here lol.

I feel like I've blabbed enough, I'd like to know which cards I've missed and what your favorite 1-card wins are? Or even cool Commander + 1 wins if you know of some lesser-known ones. Hey I guess Magda, Brazen Outlaw and Godo, Bandit Wardlord both win by themselves too, right? But kind of slowly, Godo needs haste and Magda needs dwarves/treasures. Also for commanders, I think both Captain Sisay and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can assemble wins by themselves, slowly. Also Yisan, Wanderer Bard.

Anyways thanks for reading if you did, hopefully you got something useful out of this wincon rant. One-card wins are a big principle I try to use in my deckbuilding especially at higher powers and I think trying to enable the wackier ones provides some fun deckbuilding challenge and is really rewarding when you can pull it off.

wrightri on Dream Theater [Intet]

5 months ago

Hey, thanks. Glad you enjoyed my silly pile of cards. There's actually a convoluted combo with Tooth and Nail where you fetch Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip and Bloodwater Entity, have BE put TaN back on top for Etali to flip, then go get Displacer Kitten and either Flaming Tyrannosaurus or Keeper of Secrets to burn the table and maybe keep blinking Etali off your opponents spells. It's not deterministic, but it's a flashy and fun Rube Goldberg machine.

Profet93 on NevisCF's Mono-Green Mana Ramp

5 months ago

NevisCF

Lands

You have a bit too many lands. I hate missing land drops but in a mono green ramp deck, you are more than okay with cutting some lands. I usually go for 37 myself depending on the deck. I would suggest to go to 38 and then add more if you consistently are getting mana screwed. Removing those 4 lands will provide you with crucial additional slots. In those slots, I recommend you add in more draw since draw will enable you to establish more land drops which should mitigate any potential concern.

Ancient TombGC/Castle Garenbrig - Ramp

Gaea's CradleGC - Super ramp (not within budget but worth proxying)

Deserted Temple - Untap nykthos, cradle or use as a political tool. Not needed but worth mentioning.

Mirrorpool - A pet card of mine thats fun, not necessary but enjoyable. Would require some additional non basics which I can recommend. Given you are playing mono green ramp, you have a lot of room for non-basics. Nothing too crazy given all ur green 1 drops but definitely more.

Turntimber, Serpentine Wood  ^Flip - Land if you need it, creature if you dont

Misc

Beast Within and Song of the Dryads - Removal. I know you are mono green ramp but if an opponent is stopping you from advancing, you need an answer. The latter is extremely powerful on Black or Red commanders that have a difficulty with enchantment removal.

Momentous Fall - Used in response to removal, beware of the blue player.

Greater Good - SUPER powerful card you should definitely add. Acts similar to the above and also fills ur GY for creeping renaissance.

Sylvan Library - Draw/Filter

Tooth and Nail - Wincon

Rishkar's Expertise - Draw + tempo that can "bypass" targeted removal.

Harmonize - Simple draw, not ideal but worth mentioning

Regal Force - Tooth and Nail --> Avenger + Regal = Mass Draw. Regal can be powerful if you are set up right as well.

Bane of Progress - Meta dependent. Affects 10% of ur deck, worth considering.

Eternal Witness - Recursion.

Skullclamp - Makes ur 1/1s into draw, punishes removal.

Balaam__ on Spaghetti and Beatdowns

6 months ago

Thanks artcwolf22. I find Tooth and Nail works great in a more traditional (i.e. ‘better’ lol) shell full of mana dorks, but not so well here. The cheaper Eladamri's Call and Fauna Shaman each cost 2, and while they can only search for one creature, one is likely all we’ll need. By the time the combo is up we have infinite mana so casting another tutor isn’t a problem, and Tooth and Nail is way too mana intensive to cast pre-combo without all the usual elves to feed the cost. In other words, when it’s most useful we can’t afford it and when we can it isn’t that useful anymore.

artcwolf22 on Spaghetti and Beatdowns

6 months ago

Love the title. Hate the lock.

Any reason you don't run Tooth and Nail? A lot of tier 2 elf tron decks run it with the classic Xenagos + big creature/spaghetti monster for game.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss 7 or …

6 months ago

Looking through the list of possible creatures with MV7 or greater, there are some real haymakers. As that's not what you asked for, just let me drop Nyxbloom Ancient. This should definitely be in here if you can afford it.

Regarding instant and sorceries, scryfall spit out at least some cool ones:

Decree of Savagery is fine, if not turbo broken.

Explosive Welcome is nice because it basically costs 4 instead of 7.

Scour from Existence is a great removal spell for permanents your colours can't handle.

Alpha Brawl punishes one opponent with one big monster and many small creatures. I fear the day someone casts this against my Ygra, Eater of All.

Apex of Power: Now, we're getting splashy. What's better that one Raggadragga trigger? How bout two?

Crush of Wurms: 36 points of stats should be worth 9 mana. It's quite nice here.

Ezuri's Predation: I'm assuming you already had this? Great boardwipe.

Last March of the Ents: What was that about flashy stuff?

Praetor's Counsel: As I just said...

Rise of the Eldrazi: Well...

Tooth and Nail: classic.

To finish, Vivien's Invocation.

Rhadamanthus on Dreadhorde, Etwine and Overload

7 months ago

1) Dreadhorde Arcanist's power only needs to be 7, since that's the mana value of Tooth and Nail. You do need to pay the additional entwine cost separately if you want to make use of it. A spell's "mana cost" is specifically the symbols printed up in the corner, and when an effect tells you to cast something "without paying its mana cost", that's the only part of the cost you get for free. Anything else still needs to be paid for.

2) You can't overload Vandalblast this way. "Overload" is an alternate cost, and "without paying its mana cost" is also an alternate cost. Only one alternate cost can be applied to casting a spell, and Dreadhorde Arcanist's ability only gives you permission to cast the spell from your graveyard with its own alternate cost, not any other.

MLS91 on Dreadhorde, Etwine and Overload

7 months ago

Dreadhorde Arcanist castings

After reading some rulings on gatherer I wanted to ask for further clarification:

1) Does dreadhorde's power need to be 7 and i can alternatively at the time of cast spend mana otherwise(land or artifact, or floating) for the entwine cost seeing as it is an "additional" cost or does it need to be 9 to entwine a Tooth and Nail off of Arcanist?

2) In the case of "overload" in the subject matter of Vandalblast, dreadhorde's power MUST be 5 to choose the overload casting cost of vandalblast?