This card is amazing, and I have yet to have problems with the two I have in my deck. You only need five creatures in the graveyard for it to be effective, and that shouldn't be hard if you have say... 18 creatures, in the deck. People who don't play creature based decks will of course think the card sucks, but that is usually how it goes.
Posted By:
Ballynock
(10/11/2009 6:28:08 PM)
...I dunno. From the look and flavor of it (and how it echoes Cabal Coffers), one would think this might be directed towards accelerating mono-black aggro (more specifically vampires, considering the block), but once you contemplate it a bit, mono-black aggro wants creatures in play beating face, not in the graveyard. If anything, it wants to pull creatures out of the graveyard and into the battlefield, since it's all about blasting through the opponent before he or she stabilizes and you run out of steam.
Thus, this leaves this card as more of a combo piece, but then combo decks already have a lot of good acceleration to run over this. It could also function in mill (i.e. mill yourself, then use the accel to mill your opponent for a bajillion more), but mill is already a precarious enough strategy without wasting valuable offensive/protection slots on conditional mana accel, particularly one that comes into play tapped. Overall, whatever this card was tryi... (see all)
Posted By:
Azazyel
(6/19/2010 1:02:55 PM)
I've made a really decent legacy deck with this and songs of the damned. I use Tortured Existence with Street Wraith and Dredge. I can generally get about 12 black creatures in my graveyard around turn 3. Then I can pull back my lost street wraith life with double Golgari Brownscale and finish off my opponent with a card like Soul Shriek or just some huge Consume Spirit.
The fact its not legendary means I can use one to power another one to get even more mana.
The fact it taps for Black means even if I don't have the required 4 creatures in my graveyard or two extra mana open, I can still use it to power cards like Tortured Existence or to play a Putrid Imp to get my Stinkweed Imp or other Dredge cards into my graveyard faster.
Its not a tier-1 or even competitive deck type though. Its not "kitchen table" though, ... (see all)
Posted By:
kitsunewarlock
(10/3/2009 2:44:25 PM)
Sideboarded against mill...
Posted By:
Enigma
(10/1/2009 9:01:35 PM)
Are you guys kidding? This is an awesome card!
Just mind funeral yourself and set off a Consume Spirit!
Or that 4 cost critter with haste and swampbreathing.
In fact, you could use this with fireball.
There is a TON of stuff you can do with this land.
Posted By:
UltimaCenturion
(10/2/2009 4:32:29 PM)
cable coffers wannabe
Posted By:
Ajani_is_da_man
(11/25/2009 11:27:13 AM)
The deck built around this is great, but its ability should only cost {B}.
Posted By:
Demonic_Angel13
(12/22/2009 6:46:22 PM)
Odd. the effect on Cabal Coffers would have fit this set more flavorfully, and the effect on this would have fit Torment more flavorfully. Oh well. Also, this thing sucks.
It'd be still a somewhat weak card if it counted all creatures in your graveyard, but at least then it'd be playable.
The biggest problem with this card is, if you want it to work, you have to play too many creatures for it to get off smoothly. It's not worth the effort you'd have to put in to get it to work well.
Posted By:
Designer_Genes
(10/4/2009 8:39:08 AM)
Hello little mill deck, I've been waiting...
Posted By:
bram-s-wallace
(10/2/2009 8:31:58 PM)
it coulda been better i thought. coulda made it like gaea's cradle but for the GY.
Living Death/cycling would use this. still, it probably wont see much tourney play.
Posted By:
Ruins
(11/9/2009 12:55:42 PM)