First printed in Scourge (2003)

All 10 prints

Eternal Weekend (PEWK) #2025a, 2025
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2004, 2025
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2023, 2025
Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #50, 2024
Strixhaven Mystical Archive (STA) #34, 2021
Strixhaven Mystical Archive (STA) #97, 2021
Vintage Masters (VMA) #142, 2014 (digital)
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #31433, 2013 (digital)
Friday Night Magic 2008 (F08) #4, 2008
Scourge (SCG) #75, 2003

Tendrils of Agony

Sorcery

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

In the last 30 days 3.0% of Legacy decks played it (8 of 264). Most played in Storm. In the last 30 days 11.1% of Duel Commander decks played it (1 of 9). Most played in BRG (unclassified).

Staple

Legacy staples: main deck, 5% of decks (#133)
Black, Sorceries, Lifegain

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Not legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Dreadful Legal
Premodern Banned
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Legal
Tiny Leaders Not legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Legacy Other periods →

In 8 of 264 decks (3.0%).

Share of decks

4.8%

vs previous 30 days

Decks

5 main, 2 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.0

in the main deck

Win rate

50%

0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Storm	3.0%	100%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Dark Ritual	100%	6.5
Lotus Petal	100%	2.7
Beseech the Mirror	80%	20.8
Chrome Mox	80%	13.9
Mox Opal	80%	8.3
Lion's Eye Diamond	80%	5.9
Urza's Saga	80%	5.2
Wishclaw Talisman	60%	20.8
Gaea's Will	60%	20.8
Cabal Ritual	60%	12.5

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Storm Aaron Shaffer in BCDL 29 - Texas	4-1 80%
Storm Unlif3 in Legacy Challenge 32	3-3 50%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Storm Calambity, 28 Oct	1 main 1 side	5-0
Storm Ftz, 28 Oct	1 main 1 side	5-0
Storm Unlif3, 27 Oct	1 main	#24 3-3
Storm OIegBaranov, 27 Oct	1 main	5-0
Storm Prophet-m66, 27 Oct	1 main	5-0
Storm Aaron Shaffer, 24 Oct	1 main 1 side	#9 4-1
Storm gwen durell, 24 Oct	1 main 1 side	#30 0-1
Storm Nicholas Walker, 3 Oct	1 main 1 side	#24 1-2

Duel Commander Other periods →

In 1 of 9 decks (11.1%).