Tortured Existence

Enchantment

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

FormOverFunction on

2 months ago

Tortured Existence is a fun token generator for creature-heavy decks… also helpful with creature/graveyard management. Also - a sleeper discard card is Murderer's Axe. You’ve got to have two or more creatures if you want to discard a lot, but it can be clutch. Be sure to cycle this deck as your work, otherwise I won’t remember to check it out!!

capwner on Rooftop Experiments (Zombie Tribal)

2 months ago

Have you seen Overcharged Amalgam? Might be a cool zomb to consider, esp if you can get it back from yard via some effect like Tortured Existence. Looks like a nice balance of budget, flavor, and still being pretty robust, which I suppose is a nice upside of playing dirt cheap tribal cards :)

jonjonhholt on The Rock legacy

4 months ago

Spore Frog might be interesting to mix in alongside Children of Korlis. While Children of Korlis are obviously way better versus burn, creature decks will be able to build a critical mass of creatures where they can take you out in a single attack which doesn't allow for Children of Korlis to heal you before you die, Spore Frog does however allow you to repeatedly fog out your opponent with Tortured Existence. Cool list!

FormOverFunction on Making a halloween deck. Need …

1 year ago

I have a Haunted House! deck that might have some spooky stuff in it you like! As far as actual functional combos, I think it’d probably just be Tortured Existence and Desecrated Tomb for lots of bats. Some of my favorites are Boarded Window, Cellar Door, and Stuffed Bear… all artifacts, now that I look at them.

Goldberserkerdragon on a milli

1 year ago

Seems really awesome. Seeing some good things! Seeing some odd choices, but I know the struggle of having what you have to work with. Budget, etc are factors. Anyway, been playing Syr Konrad since his release in 2019, have had many different builds and i cant stress enough: ramp. The deck can do things on its own but for the most part Konrad needs to be out asap. I would recommend cutting a few lands to thin it out and directly add ramp pieces. Play test and see where you need to go either less or more or for personal preference, but mana is Konrad's best friend. Even if you cant do anything but Konrad is out, you can dump all you got into his secondary.

Mesmeric Orb, Mindcrank, and Tortured Existence are golden here. Glad to see them! Hard to really play Konrad without them. Fun fact, Basalt Monolith combos with Mesmeric Orb. You just pay into itself to untap, tap it again, pay, untap... with the orb you got as much mill as you want.

Butcher's Cleaver, Collective Brutality, and Cruel Grimnarch seem a touch odd here, but again maybe it's the best you can do! And nothing wrong with that. Konrad really just cares about moving those bodies around however you can so abilities are secondary.

The last thing I would add is to focus more on mill that mills multiple or everyone instead of just yourself. I can't tell you how many times i've milled myself for a cool 3, hoping for mad creatures, and milled my vampiric tutor and mind crank itself and maybe that land I was really needing next draw... ha.

Anyway, hope this helps

• Cheers!

Poly_raptor on The Scarab's Fist (Bracket 4)

1 year ago

capwner thank you for the feedback. I will tweak the deck today. I think you are right, just because I don’t know the meta doesn’t mean this deck isn’t competitive.

The issue with the brackets at the moment is that each pod will have slight differences, I’ve played games where I’ve had many a spell forced trying to disrupt a win con. So I don’t class that type of interaction as CEDH. On the other hand, I have been playtesting this deck to tutor up creatures for Hashaton, but on reflection you could just tutor the combo and win.

I think I will cut Thassa's OracleGC for Laboratory Maniac, that way the deck HAS to deck itself first. Demonic Consultation can be swapped for another draw/ discard outlet. Tortured Existence looks quite good for the same CMC.

I’ll update the primer and add a section to upgrade to CEDH if people want to build the list differently.

SlangNTrees13 on Embers of Queen Disa (Best Win Pyro EDH Primer)

1 year ago

Survival of the Fittest should definitely be in and now is. I've done a straight substitute for Tortured Existence, but both are so good im going to see what else we could afford to lose in order to keep them both.

jonjonhholt on pauper Dredge Wombo

1 year ago

I dont know if i just misunderstood you but i dont think that Tortured Existence can trigger dredge. Dredge only triggers when you DRAW a card, torex just adds the card to your hand which is mechanically different.