This card fits almost any deck that includes black as its main colors!
But the deck i like it the most is probably Dimir > Cypher + extort card + enough mana to extort spells; Crypt Ghast + Mind Grind is just not pleasant to your oponent.
Posted By:
VoidLord
(4/1/2013 6:03:36 PM)
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth anyone? Why, yes I would like all my lands tapping for double.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(4/14/2013 4:26:01 AM)
Perfect for my mono-Black Cipher/Extort. I already have a playset of Tormented Soul, Shadow Slice, and Basilica Screecher. I just need two more of Crypt Ghast for a playset, and I need a set of Undercity Plague
Posted By:
XSignia
(4/18/2013 4:56:17 PM)
Ohhhhhhhh. With the new Pontiff of Blight...
Posted By:
Totema
(4/23/2013 11:36:53 PM)
@adrian.malacoda: That makes sense. I was just confused because it specific when a SWAMP was tapped. I also wasn't sure how the painlands counted as lands. As far as I knew;
- the land-typing was relatively new and up until recently, lands were not specified to be any specific color. I believe that changed in 2010 or 2011.
- all cards that search for a land-color are merely looking for the color to exist in the rules text of the card, which would act as a qualifier. So, hence my confusion in regards to tapping a Cave of Koilos for a colorless to activate.
If I'm wrong, cool.
Posted By:
L00fah
(4/29/2013 7:45:41 PM)
Has anyone mentioned yet that it's a triggered ability and therefore stacks with multiple copies? I feel like that's important.
Posted By:
VirusVescichetta
(6/24/2013 12:26:09 PM)
Guys. GUYS. Crypt Ghast stacks with Crypt Ghast.
So let's run 4, make it B/U with a lot of clone cards and see how much mana we can get out of a single swamp.
The answer? Perhaps the answer is Infinite Reflection. Which is TOTALLY splashable, by the way.
Posted By:
SUPERC0W
(10/10/2013 9:23:09 PM)
FUN FACT TIME
Extort is a dual ability that appears equally in both black and white, like first strike is dual colored ability that appears equally in both white and red. (see boros recruit, Tundra Wolves, Striking Sliver) In fact there's no reason at all it should say "pay w/b", since only white and black cards have the cost... It should have just been printed as "pay an extra 1,..." Except for one reason:
Mark Rosewater specifically requested the design team to make Extort have the hybrid w/b cost in it so that extort cards could only be used in white AND black EDH decks, not one or the other.
Or, more accurately, he designed it so that the people in charge of the EDH format would remove the ridiculous (in his mind) rule that hybrid cards can't be played in mono colored EDH decks. In Magic Design, Hybrids are cards that can fit into either of the colors it is (for example, Merfolk of th... (see all)
Posted By:
RAV0004
(10/24/2013 4:08:35 PM)
Between Crypt Ghast and Pontiff of Blight, they make the Odd Couple.
So I guess Crypt is Cee Lo Green, he's great even without PoB
Posted By:
thePROJECTION
(12/4/2013 10:45:58 AM)
Hullo guys - I've got a question regarding this card, it's probably really obvious to everybody here but my friend and I only play casually and we're not completely sure about this..
Say I have a Crypt Ghast out, and four basic Swamps out - now I want to play an 8cmc card, let's say Griselbrand. - Am I able to do this? it's hard to explain why we're confused, but I'll try and be clear...
Do I have four mana, then when I tap those - I have ANOTHER four mana - So I have two sets of four mana? (in which case I wouldn't be able to cast Griselbrand, I'd only be able to cast a 4cmc, then another 4cmc.)
Or, do each of my lands 'count as' two mana? (In which case I'd effectively have 8 mana, so I would be able to cast Griselbrand.)
In both situations I would have spent 8 mana, but there's a difference between 8 all at once, or 4 and then another 4...
Again, I understand it probably is a stupid question and we're missing something very obvious.. but we're really not sure - any help would be... (see all)
Posted By:
Uncumber
(3/18/2014 12:21:20 PM)