Dang, I wanted this to not exile so I could finally have a better win-con than Seismic Assault for my Modern Gitrog brew. Infinite dredging Dakmor Salvage and milling my library with an original Eldrazi Titan and one of these. That would have been fun
Totally solid, imo. With all the easy surveil abilities in the set I feel like you're pretty much always getting a free Lightning Helix, which sounds stronk.
I like it. I'll probably hard cast it more often than not unless I really fill up the deck with Surveil or mill cards. So I might stay with Sovereign's Bite for being cheaper. We'll have to see how the meta shake out.
I've played a lot of games where I reached a stalemate on the creatures and whomever pulls out more direct damage + lifelink spells ends up winning. Vraska's Contempt is immensely useful but there were plenty of times I wished I drew Sovereign's Bite instead.
So in a 2HG game, this does 6 and gain 3? Seems like that could be a blowout if you get multiples.
Good payoff for Surveil and Standard has Gaea's blessing now, so "mill Creeping Chill, Creeping Chill, Blessing trigger, Chill trigger, reshuffle" could be really annoying for someone, haha.
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I've never like blue/black but this and surveil make me wanna deck build.
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Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery often equals "pay 2 life: exile the top 2 cards of your library"; adding Creeping Chill only turns it into "exile the top 2 cards of your library: deal 3 damage to each opponent". Doom Whisperer + Mark of the Vampire, however, equates to "surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2" without any drawback.
Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery often equals "pay 2 life: exile the top 2 cards of your library"; adding Creeping Chill only turns it into "exile the top 2 cards of your library: deal 3 damage to each opponent". Doom Whisperer + Mark of the Vampire, however, equates to "surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2" without any drawback.
As long as you have 2 or 3 other cards in your graveyard at the start of the loop (which shouldn't be too hard with good support cards like Lazav, Search, and whatever other Surveil cards show up, you can make sure the Chills get exiled with the trigger and you get to draw 3 + deal 3 damage to an opponent.
Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery often equals "pay 2 life: exile the top 2 cards of your library"; adding Creeping Chill only turns it into "exile the top 2 cards of your library: deal 3 damage to each opponent". Doom Whisperer + Mark of the Vampire, however, equates to "surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2" without any drawback.
As long as you have 2 or 3 other cards in your graveyard at the start of the loop (which shouldn't be too hard with good support cards like Lazav, Search, and whatever other Surveil cards show up, you can make sure the Chills get exiled with the trigger and you get to draw 3 + deal 3 damage to an opponent.
Good for a basically guaranteed 12 damage draw 12. Definitely could win the game in certain situations.
Doom Whisperer + Lich's Mastery often equals "pay 2 life: exile the top 2 cards of your library"; adding Creeping Chill only turns it into "exile the top 2 cards of your library: deal 3 damage to each opponent". Doom Whisperer + Mark of the Vampire, however, equates to "surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2, then surveil 2" without any drawback.
As long as you have 2 or 3 other cards in your graveyard at the start of the loop (which shouldn't be too hard with good support cards like Lazav, Search, and whatever other Surveil cards show up, you can make sure the Chills get exiled with the trigger and you get to draw 3 + deal 3 damage to an opponent.
Good for a basically guaranteed 12 damage draw 12. Definitely could win the game in certain situations.
You can't pay life you don't have. This is unchanged by being unable to lose the game.
A reasonably cool if not high-powered surveil payoff!
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Sultai Surveil, here we come.
I've played a lot of games where I reached a stalemate on the creatures and whomever pulls out more direct damage + lifelink spells ends up winning. Vraska's Contempt is immensely useful but there were plenty of times I wished I drew Sovereign's Bite instead.
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Good payoff for Surveil and Standard has Gaea's blessing now, so "mill Creeping Chill, Creeping Chill, Blessing trigger, Chill trigger, reshuffle" could be really annoying for someone, haha.
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Nah, life paymant is not damage, you still pay 2 life and get nothing.
As long as you have 2 or 3 other cards in your graveyard at the start of the loop (which shouldn't be too hard with good support cards like Lazav, Search, and whatever other Surveil cards show up, you can make sure the Chills get exiled with the trigger and you get to draw 3 + deal 3 damage to an opponent.
Good for a basically guaranteed 12 damage draw 12. Definitely could win the game in certain situations.
hrm... okay, I can see that.
You can't pay life you don't have. This is unchanged by being unable to lose the game.
Include 4-of of the 1 mana 2/2, 4 narcoembas, and 2 copies of Doom Whisperer amd you are solid.
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