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Stern Scolding 
Instant
Oracle Text
Counter target creature spell with power or toughness 2 or less.
Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Stern Scolding, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duel Commander | 12 | 1 | 589 | 1 |
| Modern | 11 | 1.8 | 267 | 1.8 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.3 |
| Vintage | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Details
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 522
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Stern Scolding
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (25)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (26)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (23)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
- 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
- 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
- 1 Faerie Mastermind
- 1 Ledger Shredder
- 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
- 1 Brazen Borrower
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
- 1 Svyelun of Sea and Sky
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
- 1 Vendilion Clique
- 1 Magus of the Moon
- 1 Abhorrent Oculus
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Murktide Regent
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
Sorceries (5)
Instants (33)
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Remand
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Ghostfire Slice
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Pyrokinesis
- 1 Burst Lightning
- 1 Galvanic Blast
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Play with Fire
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Wild Slash
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Mental Note
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Thought Scour
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Invert Polarity
- 1 Mental Misstep
Enchantments (2)
Lands (37)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Den of the Bugbear
- 1 Fiery Islet
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 11 Island
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 5 Mountain
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Riverglide Pathway
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shivan Reef
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Spirebluff Canal
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- 1 Faerie Mastermind
- 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
- 1 Brazen Borrower
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
- 1 Vendilion Clique
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- 1 Archivist of Oghma
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Spell Queller
- 1 Aven Interrupter
- 1 Bonecrusher Giant
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Hullbreacher
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 White Plume Adventurer
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Murktide Regent
- 1 Giver of Runes
- 1 Mother of Runes
Sorceries (5)
Instants (27)
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Invert Polarity
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tithe
- 1 No More Lies
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (38)
- 1 Adarkar Wastes
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Elegant Parlor
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Mystic Gate
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Restless Anchorage
- 1 Riverglide Pathway
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Spirebluff Canal
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
- 1 Aragorn, King of Gondor
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
- 1 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Subtlety
- 1 White Plume Adventurer
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Fury
- 1 Solitude
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Territorial Kavu
- 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
- 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
- 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Giver of Runes
- 1 Mother of Runes
- 1 Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
- 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
Sorceries (5)
Instants (23)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Daze
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (38)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
