The flavor is awesome, sure, and this has lots of combo potential - but it costs six mana. That's insanely high for any deck seeking to combo off with it in a competitive format like Modern. And most Zombies are less than 6 mana to cast; doing a gatherer search for it, there's only 7 Zombies that cost more!
Yes, it could be used to dump a ton of Zombies on the field at once, but in order to do that you have to have a hand full of them when you land this guy. By turn 6, if you have a full hand of Zombies, you're probably doing it wrong. Or have a ton of card draw in the deck, which doesn't work great with it since this thing wants a deck full of Zombies and basically nothing else......
Hm, maybe a casual deck centered around this, a bit of early mana accel, and Blue Sun's Zenith to refill the hand and get Zombies into it once it lands? Or Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. Or Damia, Sage of Stone.
Posted By:
Magnor_Criol
(9/25/2011 6:50:13 PM)
Normally, someone would suggest something like Conspiracy to break this in half. Not I. For something as cool as this, I'd run a full four Graveborn Muse.
Also, in commander, this plus two Gravedigger effects (Entomber Exarch, Cadaver Imp, Pit Keeper), a Deathgreeter or a Dross Harvester, and commander Lord of Tresserhorn is an automatic mill win.
Posted By:
En_Sigma
(9/27/2011 7:10:38 PM)
I win the game. Phage the Untouchable
Posted By:
Thesilverknight
(10/4/2011 9:12:20 PM)
My biggest concern is that by the time this hits the field, you're about as well off hard-casting all your zombies.
On the other hand, if you're doing a lot of unearthing, as you ought to be in a zombie deck, then this lets you do so as much as you please.
Posted By:
NoobOfLore
(10/5/2011 4:22:19 PM)
Put this in a Commander deck with Thraximundar. Enough said. ;-)
Posted By:
Jedijoe
(10/5/2011 7:15:01 PM)
Rooftop Storm + Selhoff Occultist + 2 Ghoulraiser + Disciple of Griselbrand or Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (to sacrifice Ghoulraisers) = automatic mill win.
Posted By:
WheresMyLand
(10/12/2011 1:43:07 PM)
Poor Oglor, awlays getting bossed around. Hope he manages to get it back on his master next set.
Oh, yeah... And this card is freaking insane if you manage to get it out, given the amount of Disentomb effects in Innistrad (Ghoulcaller's Chant, Ghoulraiser).
Other than the pure zombie deck, this card kind of inspires me to make a Zombie Knight deck with Haakon, stromgald scourge. Getting this and Haakon together means you've just begun a zombie apocalypse.
Posted By:
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
(10/13/2011 6:55:04 PM)
Artificial Evolution, pick your favorite creature type (Eldrazi springs to mind), go mad with power and break out cackling.
Posted By:
Atali
(10/14/2011 12:40:35 AM)
"GIVE MY CREATURE LIFE!!!"
"But Oglor has no Soul Warden in play."
"Shut up, Oglor."
Posted By:
RJDroid
(12/28/2011 12:01:16 PM)