They are a great team. Pack Rat, Aether Vial, and Dark Confidant are natural complements. I sold off all my valuable cards at some point, and I only have these cards because I thought it would be a good idea to autograph my entire deck as a cocky 15-year-old before my first Grand Prix. To sell cards to us you will need to trade one of our buy bots within Magic Online. And the game ends right then. Disclaimer • Modern Masters 2015. If you’re looking to get an edge this PTQ season, I recommend Aether Vial… HIGHLY. Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players. You may reveal a land card from among them and put that card into your hand. Of course, Dark Confidant is a staple in BGx decks and can be an excellent source of card advantage when left unchecked. Do you. This card is great to have on turn 1 with a full hand of black spells. Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.). Dark Confidant Triggers "Drawing a Card?" They are a great team. When Kitesail Freebooter enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand. Swamp is ALWAYS a good draw. When Malakir Blood-Priest enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of creatures in your party. Login. That player discards that card. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.). ... and promotional printings released by Wizards of the Coast. Pack Rat is an EXTREME variance smoother. Many vintage decks run 0-2 cmc cards with few that cost more. The problem in Modern has been, mostly, that people are slow to catch on. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card. In every zone except the stack, the characteristics of a split card are those of its two halves combined. There’s no card like it, that just turns random bad draws into “Rat you.” It is SO consistent. Maybe you remember that Shouta Yasooka took 2nd at the PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP with Aether Vial when no one else was playing it? No mana cost? Dark Tutelage. It’s kinda like a Howling Mine except that your opponents don’t draw any extra cards! Boot Nipper enters the battlefield with your choice of a deathtouch counter or a lifelink counter on it. Magic: the Gathering is trademark and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. I would think so, but it doesn't say "draw" on Dark Confidant. First thing I’ll say is Pack Rat is too good. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of counters removed this way. 4-CC has a many sources of raw card advantage like Dark Confidant … In the late game we can discard unnecessary copies, solving a traditional weakness of discard decks. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf, Realm Eater. Aether Vial is going from mythic to rare. To make the most of Vial we need 4-drop creatures to curve into. It’s predictable. One thing that no one else has pointed out yet is that if you draw a card that has X in the converted cost, X counts as 0, so Dark Confidant wouldn't hurt much at all on some pretty powerful cards. You’d think it would be obvious what the right choice is. Just tap and regenerate? We need to play it. Card Text: At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. IDK about that. I'd consider some more competitive cards like Mana Vault , Mox Diamond , Dark Confidant , Imperial Seal , Ad Nauseam , Opposition Agent etc. We haven’t even gotten to the lands yet, and that’s the best part. See cards from the most recent sets and discover what players just like you are saying about them. Here’s the Vial Pack Rat deck that I recorded videos with, coming this week: It doesn’t take a number scientist to see that this deck is good. People might ask why Dark Confidant is played when things like [[Phyrexian Arena]] aren't. Yeah, Swarmyard OP. He doesn’t hit as hard or as fast as some of his tribespeople, but in a deck otherwise bereft of card advantage engines, the miser’s Confidant can … At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Dark Confidant is one of my favorite things about Magic, but not just for the incredible opportunity to be on a Magic card, which is amazing in its own right. ... and promotional printings released by Wizards of the Coast. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. The downside is that you’ll lose life equal to the converted mana cost of the card … Since this is a creature, you can sacrifice it for other effects like Ashnod's Altar. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way. $0.33 (R) Commander: 135 Cards Like Dark Confidant in Modern. We look at their hand, and can just do the math that they’re dead in 4 turns regardless of what we draw. You could pair it with Pack Rat, like in this article, but there are lots of other options too. I like Restoration Angel for the Rat synergy, and because I want to open up access to white sideboard cards, although I think Phyrexian Obliterator would be pretty awesome too. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. The beautiful thing about Aether Vial is while it is $20 IRL it is only 4 tix Online. When Deathknell Berserker dies, if its power was 3 or greater, create a 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature token. We have instant speed discard. Types: Creature — Human Wizard. The maindeck [card]Spell Pierce [/card]s are a house, and [card]Dark Confidant [/card] can run away with a game with little prodding. 4-CC is capable of handling tribal decks because it has so much removal whereas Dreadstill will trump the opponent’s strategy by putting a Phyrexian Dreadnought into play in the first few turns. If we curve out with a turn 1 Aether Vial, it has produced TEN EXTRA MANA by turn 5. One-mana investment. The answer is that I will lose a total of 8 life. Restoration Angel is preparation for games 2 and 3. This link tells you all you need to know about the card. So maybe it’s not good? Legendary Enchantment Creature — Harpy (2/1). Typically you're never going to run a card that's 7CMC in a deck with Dark Confidant in it (barring maybe EDH and some Storm variants). And Pack Rat solves it. Obviously enough, they don't play Dark Confidant. At this point the rest of our deck is going to have to be majority up-curve creatures so that we can best take advantage of Aether Vial. These are going to give us the ability to use spare mana on 1 and 3, as well as clear the coast for Pack Rat. Commander: Legal Duel: Legal Legacy: Legal Modern: Legal Vintage: Legal. Magic The Gathering, magic cards, singles, decks, card lists, deck ideas, wizard of the coast, all of the cards you need at great prices are available at Cardkingdom. This is a change from previous rules. Here are cards like Dark Confidant in Standard format: View More / Advanced Search Options. Doing nothing in Modern. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.). They’re the same people who like pineapple on their pizza. A split card’s colors and converted mana cost are determined from its combined mana cost. It’s hard to kill our Pack Rats and we can trade up or soak up damage through our Mutavault, Ravenous Rats, and Chittering Rats. I have a Dark Confidant on the battlefield, and I reveal Boom // Bust to my Confidant trigger. If you are using a card like Dark Confidant then you will lose 5 life, however a card like Venarian Glimmer needs only be set to the smaller converted mana cost. Sol Ring produces ten extra mana by turn 5 and it’s banneranannaanaders. The deck has a very low synergy with itself. Three years later it took me to Pro Tour Hollywood. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site. Browse through cards from Magic's entire history. It’s a choose-your-own adventure out here. Cards like Liliana of the Veil have shot up from $70 to $130 and Dark Confidants have gone from $40 to $80. Gatherer is the Magic Card Database. Let’s take an inconsistent card like the basic Swamp. Electrolyze and Cryptic Command are sources of card advantage, much like Divination. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Fourteen mana produced. Let’s get creative. Because EVERY draw is Pack Rat. However, with the printing of Wrenn and Six and the prominence of cards like Lava Dart ; Dark Confidant has lost much of its luster. Since we’re in black, we ought to play the best black cards available: Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, and Liliana of the Veil. I won that tournament because I was playing Aether Vial and no one else seemed to be. , Sacrifice an artifact or another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Malevolent Noble. We have bomb rares and mythics. Wut more u want from me??? MTGAssist.com is not affiliated with the mobile app "MTG Assist" or Kiiwi Up. Here’s the big one that seems to confuse a lot of people. Swarmyard adds an absurd protection and grind factor to this deck. Regardless of the art and likeness to Maher, most still call the Modern Master’s Dark Confidant “Bob.” It seems we’ll never be able to separate the “The Great One” from Dark Confidant and the two will live on synonymously forever. Jund has been seeing more and more play due to the popularity of Deathrite. A million ways to break Aether Vial. Italic bot name: the bot currently doesn't have enough tixs to buy the card. Chevill, Bane of Monsters. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.). Pack Rat, Aether Vial, and Dark Confidant are natural complements. Enemy of Enlightenment gets -1/-1 for each card in your opponents' hands. I would show you guys a picture here, but the cards are back in Seattle The Pro Tour took me out to Europe, and I’ve been staying out here playing and writing about it. Dark Confidant | Double Masters | Card … They’re barely human. 708.4. Aether Vial. These are going to give us the ability to use spare mana on 1 and 3, as well as clear the coast for Pack Rat. Travis Woo is one of the premier deckbuilders in Magic. Rashmi, Eternities Crafter. Every draw is awesome. I mean, sure, we have Merfolk and we have GW Love Bears. This is good for getting a free card on your second turn. Yeah, it’s good enough in Modern, people just don’t know it yet. What the hell. Afterall, it plays white. If there is a heavy representation of tribal decks (such as Goblins, Merfolk, Elves, Affinity), Burn, and Zoo, I’d recommend playing It’s The Fear, 4-CC, or Dreadstill. A deck like this has tons of options for sideboarding. Chances are you're not going to run anything over 3CMC when you're playing Bob. Like others have said, it's card advantage every turn for only 2CMC. It’s not a direct port, and, after all, Pack Rat has the same speed everywhere, but Modern is way faster than Standard. Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. That’s right, I’m calling it CHEAP at $20. Ravenous Rats and Chittering Rats can come in during our opponent’s draw step off Aether Vial and Restoration Angel. At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Dark Confidant allows you to get 2 cards instead of 1 each turn. Win one of these things, and you never know, you might just end up traveling the world. Whenever you foretell a card, Dream Devourer gets +2/+0 until end of turn. However, I’m seeing major holes in these decks skimping on cards like Diabolic Edict as the decks are more built for card advantage. Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod (2/0), Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. The second new hotness in the Legacy metagame I will group together as multi-color Wrenn and Six decks. Blue bot names with plus: Chain bots with sharing credit (click to open). That doesn't sound like much, but over the course of the game it's quite a lot. Rat tokens are littering Standard and it won’t be long before Modern is the same way. It offers absurd card selection. Split Cards and Dark Confidant. In order for your strategy to overcome his, you have to push through enough damage to … I’ve been there before. Again when no one else was playing it. I don't understand why you're saying that UWR control doesn't need Dark Confidant. When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up. Rarity, #: M, 75 Card Type: Creature Human Wizard P / T: 2 / 1 Description: At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. , Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. This is an inconsistent card. I find it much more satisfying to win by making good play or deck-building decisions around a card like Dark Confidant and figuring out how to maximize the unknown quantities it adds to the game on the board than just getting extra resources from a much stronger card. This is a competitive deck. $0.31 (M) Commander: 294 MTGO Cubes: M Aid from the Cowl. You choose one of those cards. It’s got creature removal, it’s got discard, it’s got draw smoothers in Raven’s Crime and Pack Rat, it’s got mana sinks in Tectonic Edge. The Confidant asks what the converted mana cost of Boom // Bust is. Very rarely does it happen that I like the old art of a new art reprint better, but it has happened here. When Spirit of Malevolence dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. White has a lot of nice hate creatures, and creatures work well with Aether Vial. P.S. Constellation — Whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, look at the top three cards of your library. I'd like to see this in a blue/black/red deck with tons of X spells like Psychic Drain, … Asked by B a u h o m 7 years ago You have Psychosis Crawler and Dark Confidant on the battlefield. This way we can keep the opponent off topdecks, solving another conventional problem of discard decks. Somewhere in my closet back home I have a completely intact Aether Vial/Chrome Mox/Patriarch’s Bidding Goblin tribal deck that I signed in 2005 and won a Pro Tour Qualifier with in 2008. Since we’re in black, we ought to play the best black cards available: Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, and Liliana of the Veil. ChannelFireball - Magic: The Gathering Strategy, Singles, Cards, Decks, Yet Another Greenzard Revival — How To Play the Deck & More. TEN extra mana. But Dark Confidant is a recurring source of card advantage. You lose life equal to its mana value. Dark Confidant lets you trade Life Points (a resource worth relatively less to you as the aggressor) for cards in hand, which you need to counteract your opponent's (usually) more individually powerful cards. Aether Vial has NO Modern GP Top 8s… NONE. Dark Confidant. Cards like [[dark confidant]] are pretty cool, because they prevent you from seeing the same cards over and over if you don’t want to pay life, and you won’t lose much life if any because you can stack the cards you put back to have a land on top very often : Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. People, this card is busted. “But Trav, it’s just not that good in Modern.”. This $20 uncommon is a $20 uncommon for a reason, and that’s only because people haven’t figured out they can play it in Modern yet. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by . There are Jund players who play the Ravnica Dark Confidant art, and there are those who are wrong. At the beginning of your end step, you may exile an enchantment card from your graveyard. When you "put that card in your hand" thanks to Dark Confidant, does the Psychosis Crawler's triggered ability trigger? Aether Vial’s advantage is that it offers you vast amounts of creature mana—obviously good with cards like Silvergill Adept and Goblin Ringleader that keep cards flowing through your hand. Mana Cost: Converted Mana Cost: 2. His Through the Breach/Cloudpost deck reached the Top 8 of PT Philadelphia 2011 in the hands of Jesse Hampton, while his most well-known contribution, Living End, earned him a Top 8 at Grand Prix Oakland 2010. Search Results for dark confidant Sort by: Items ... Buy Price: Sell Us Your Cards. With Bloodbraid Elf’s unbanning and the resurgence of Jund, almost every staple has doubled in price. Keep in mind that this deck only has the 9 white sources in the main plus Aether Vial, so creatures are going to be a lot easier to cast. Also keep in mind that this deck has tons of hand disruption, so we’re probably good with or without a sideboard. Some of them aren’t even running [card]Wasteland [/card]s or [card]Hymn to Tourach [/card]s, which I feel is a mistake. New art for iconic cards doesn’t erase their legacy or make them any less iconic. Card Text: At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Dark Confidant. . , Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. It’s just as good, but not as obviously, with creatures that demand lots of mana for activated abilities like Siege-Gang Commander, Voidmage Prodigy, or Coralhelm Commander. And then we get to turn 6… 14 mana. Broken? You lose life equal to its mana value. Types: Creature — Human Wizard. As for [card]Tarmogoyf[/card], the most efficient answer in these colors is Relic of Progenitus, but that’s a nonbo with Deathrite. Dark Confidant. What on Earth. In the old art, he has those evil eyes and that very cold feel of dark ambition, really looking like he is ready to sacrifice the whole world for his ambition, really cool stuff, fitting to both effect and flavourtext.
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