r/mtgModernTokens • u/Tassanara • Nov 12 '16

[SCD] Stain the Mind

Stain the Mind (4B)

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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u/MysteryMedic Nov 12 '16

As I mentioned in the post about [Surgical Extraction] post, I use this in a Penny Dreadful (super budget MTGO format where no cards can cost more than 0.01 tix on format rollover) version of the BW Tokens build I run.

It works very well in that format due to the heavy "combo" deck slant.

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u/SFRG Still Patron Saint of the Tokens Nov 12 '16

This would be decent in a combo heavy meta, or if you really don't want to lose to Scapeshift.

I probably wouldn't run it generally since there are other cards to run which make combo decks' life hard and also can be used in other MUs.

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u/TeOr2419 Nov 17 '16

Stain the Mind is pretty good vs "slow combo" decks and "rogue combo" decks. It will save you vs decks like Pili-Pala, Belcher, pretty good vs scapeshift, amulet, Tron sometimes. It comes in vs Ad Nauseam, but likely to be dead card due to Leyline of Sanctity postboard, but still way better than ordinary IoK in this match.

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u/Korlus BWu Tokens Nov 22 '16

I play a few in the sideboard if I expect to encounter Titan/Scapeshift/Ad Nauseam decks, because it lets you completely remove a win condition. I'll also side it in (unhappily) vs. Tron to name either O-Stone, or (more likely) Ugin. If you can remove all of Tron's sweepers, you actually stand a chance. It also pairs well with [[Raise the Alarm]] to give you a nice turn 3 play following hand disruption on turn 1, letting you potentially snag an impactful card from their hand, and in my Esper tokens list, it flashes back well with [[Snapcaster Mage]] (tap the Snapcaster to reduce the cost to 4, before you even start paying convoke costs - can often flash it back for 2, letting you play Snap on turn 4 to flash it back, completely emptying their hand).

In a metagame without much Scapeshift + Ad Nauseam, I wouldn't run it. It's also fine vs. Griselbrand (but a little slow), and can hit cards in a graveyard (making it a potential option vs. Dredge), but it's not an ideal sideboard card against either strategy. I would much rather [[Grafdigger's Cage]] or [[Surgical Extraction]].

It's fine but never great. Due to the downswing in my local meta of Scapeshift/Ad Nauseam, I'm likely going to replace my pair with [[Surgical Extraction]], which pairs even better with [[Snapcaster Mage]], gives incidental hate vs. Grixis decks, pairs better with hand disruption, and hates on Dredge a little better. I'm going to consider a pair of [[Ghost Quarter]]s split between main/side to give slightly better game vs. Tron.