Worst Fears

Sorcery

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile this. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

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
Freeform	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
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Profet93 on This Deck Owes You An Unpleasant Death

2 months ago

GutterbonesMan - I'm a bit lethargic at the moment so I hope these suggestions make sense.

Forbidden Orchard - Can be used politically or can be used with your commander. Could work well or bad with your curse of death hold

Contamination - Synergy with bitter blossom/opthiomancer, not an entirely serious suggestion. I heard you like enchantments so this might be easier to maintain for a turn or 2, Infernal Darkness. It also doesn't turn off ur mass mana producing lands.

Cruel entertainment is a super fun card. If you're looking for something more reliable, Worst Fears is a great potential wincon all on it's own. Moreover, with lethal vapors, one of two things happen in response to worst fears being cast.....

1. They don't respond, you take their turn, activate vapors, hold priority, activate it a bunch of times and then they have no more turns.
2. They respond by sacing vapors, they skip their next turn and the turn they finally get will be controlled by you.

Either way, you come out ahead.

Spreading plague is huge, really depends on ur amount of black cards in the meta.

Deserted Temple - Untap coffers, lake, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, thawing glaciers and be used as a political tool.

The Meathook Massacre - Enchantment boardwipe which gives you life which you need.

Profet93 on Favorite EDH Cards

1 year ago

FormOverFunction

Anyone who has seen me comment on their deck will know I love using people's cards against them. Whether it's Worst Fears (the mythic I got in my first pack coming back into MTG), Mindslaver (flashbacks to academy ruins lock) or Emrakul, the Promised End, their hand is my hand. And with that hand I say why are you hitting yourself? LOL

As such, my 3 favorite cards are Deflecting Swat, Misdirection and Imp's Mischief. The first 2 can be cast for free which is great as you can bluff interaction. The latter is usually unexpected, until your playgroup asks why are you holding 2 mana after casting a large Torment of Hailfire and then they learn that with 2 mana open, you too can be the blue player!

Made_Compleat on Free Money! No Strings Attached!

1 year ago

Worst Fears.

Put this bad boy under Magar and you can do some pretty silly things.

You have to discard it to have it be in your graveyard, but that's not too hard for your deck.

Arthursb on MonoBlack - Devotion Control

1 year ago

Hello SufferFromEDHD and Profet93, thank you for the comments!

I have tried some of suggested cards, maybe it's worth to share the insights:

• Black has limited lifegain sources that don't depend on sacrifice (eg.: Zulaport Cutthroat), so I compensate it by adding many tutors that search for Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Making Gary the backbone of the deck is, of course, risky;

• Speaking of tutors, Insidious Dreams is horrible for X=1, great for X=2, and usually means "I WIN" for X=3, as it fetches Bolas's Citadel, Sensei's Divining Top and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, plus acts as a discard outlet when needed;

• I don't focus on sacrifice-based strategies as they naturally decrease devotion, which makes Erebos and Gary less effective. It is also the reason I don't add colorless mass destruction to deal with enchantments: I need my own enchantments to stay;

• Gravestorm is great for devotion and has potential for an extra draw, but it usually backfires, as the opponents remove their best creatures from their graveyard, thus I lose targets for Animate Dead and others;

• I avoid adding combos where the pieces are bad individually. For example, Rings of Brighthearth makes infinite mana, but is a dead card when the other pieces are not already there. Similarly, I have never had success with Contamination in practice;

• Worst Fears is super fun but matchup dependent, I think it's risky to add cards with CMC > 6 that don't 100% help me win the game;

• Profane Transfusion, Mirror Universe, Magus of the Mirror and Soul Conduit are all on my "to test" list, and some "gotcha" cards like Imp's Mischief, Darkness, Sudden Spoiling and Hellish Rebuke too.

Having said all that, in the next update I'll add more creatures and Whip of Erebos in this deck to have more blockers and lifegain. I'm having issues to deal with voltron decks where the commanders reaches high power before I'm able to turn Erebos into a creature.

Profet93 on MonoBlack - Devotion Control

1 year ago

Arthursb +1

Overall nice deck. You don't have enough lifegain to balance out your lifeloss. You might want to consider adding more to offset it. Perhaps something as simple as a basilisk color?

Imp's Mischief - Speaking of lifeloss, this card is my favorite. Redirect targeted removal, draw and extra turns. Not to mention it can "counter" counterspells. Highly versatile card with the ability to bluff with 2 open mana is strong.

Insidious dreams is one of the worst black tutors and is prime for cutting. You don't get the cards in hand, they are susceptible to mill, and most importantly, discarding cards is additional cost to cast. With all of blacks amazing tutors, this should be swapped IMO.

Given you're basically playing mono black suicide, have you considered Profane Transfusion? It works quite well with your strategy, not to mention great synergy with Necropotence.

Another card that might be worth considering is Rings of Brighthearth. Coffers + Deserted temple + rings + swamps/urborg = infinite black mana. On it's own, it synergizes with your commander, top and villis to draw additional card exchanging mana in place of life. Moreover with top, it allows you to draw based purely on mana. Furthermore, with top and fetchlands you can set up your draws.

What is your answer to artifacts and enchantments? You might want to consider an Oblivion Stone or nev disk. I understand 20% of your deck are enchantments but sometimes the board just needs to go boom. With your commander you should be able to break parity and rebuild more easily.

Another way to potentially answer pesky problems is Worst Fears. It's another pet card of mine but it has huge potential. Make them keep their commander in exile, use their removal on themselves (or another opponent), provide you info of their hand + deck. If its 1v1 after 2 others have died, then you effectively skip their turn by making them tap out and then you can securely go for the win. It's expensive mana wise but it packs quite a punch. The higher cmc also works well with Twilight Prophet

TTT60 on Belbe's Big Mana Spells, Fog, & Magecraft Combos

2 years ago

I think the deck would do better with a bit more board interation. Maybe replace Worst Fears with In Garruk's Wake?

And maybe Sadistic Sacrament, Utopia Sprawl, and Well of Lost Dreams with cards like Mortality Spear or Maelstrom Pulse or World Breaker (a personal favorite of mine as well as theme-fitting for you)

Kron on Your Opponents Compleated

2 years ago

Massive round of updates (probably some both added and removed in the same update but it's down to 100 now XD)

Added:

• Arvinox, the Mind Flail
• Anoint with Affliction
• Drown in Ichor
• Huatli's Raptor
• Park Heights Maverick
• Whisper of the Dross
• Flensing Raptor
• Skrelv, Defector Mite
• Whispering Specter
• Plaguemaw Beast

Removed:

• Ajani, Sleeper Agent
• Champion of Lambholt
• Core Prowler
• Expand the Sphere
• Glissa's Retriever
• Golgari Signet
• Grafted Exoskeleton
• Mentor of the Meek
• Necrogen Rotpriest
• Norn's Annex
• Scavenging Ooze
• Venomous Brutalizer
• Vraska's Fall
• Welcoming Vampire
• Windborn Muse
• Worst Fears
• Viridian Corrupter
• Noxious Revival
• Fellwar Stone
• Nature's Lore
• Rampant Growth
• Farseek
• Phyrexian Swarmlord
• Cankerbloom
• Weatherlight Compleated
• Blight Mamba
• Merciless Eviction
• Planewide Celebration
• Tablet of Compleation
• Mindslaver

Profet93 on EDH - Kill 1 opponent …

2 years ago

SaberTech

Telepath is cool, but you wanna know some other cool tech?

Worst Fears , Mindslaver , Emrakul, the Promised End - Why should I politic my opponent when we can play MTG, "together." With Emrakrul, I ask, "who wants an extra turn!?" and then just smile with a sadistic glee. Most people shy away from attacking you when you can just easily tutor for and cast a mindslaver effect and ruin them. Whether its exiling their own commander, or using their own necropotence for suicide, most people don't risk it. It's an all or nothing approach that has a 50/50 success rate.

But on a serious note, I think a lot of politics boils down to the carrot and the stick mentality, a lot like real life politics.Consequences for every action, determining how to navigate threats and advocate for yourself in the face of the adversity of others.