Apprentice Necromancer
Play his ability to get Flayer out of the graveyard, he deals 4 dmg, he has haste until end of turn, another 4 dmg, he then dies because of Apprentice Necromancer's effect, undying ticks and he comes back as a 5/3, dealing another 5 dmg for total of 13 damage during turn 3-4 (4 if you don't have enough money for entombed and you play with Buried alive instead... like me)
If you use buried alive, you could always put a second Flayer in your graveyard and use Undying Evil on Apprentice Necromancer so he won't die the first time you use his abiliy, in order to summon a second Flayer the next turn and overkill your opponent...
Posted By:
SurTails
(10/18/2012 5:20:07 PM)
Not as good as Mikaeus the Unhallowed. But since we get Mikaeus TOO, I'm sure this guy will end up making the various Undying decks 'win more.'
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(1/27/2012 11:29:17 AM)
If you can pump you're creatures, they do more damage. Play this, it deals 4 damage to a the opponent. Next turn, play Falkenrath Aristocrat and a Mutagenic Growth in response to the Flayers ability. The aristrocrat deals 6 damage. That's 10. Swing for 6 in the air. That's 16. Sacrifice the Flayer for the aristocrat's ability. it has undying and comes back and deals 5 damage. that's 21.
Posted By:
SarpNasty
(1/27/2012 1:15:21 PM)
You could win the game in one swoop with this card in a Reanimator deck. Push him along with Artisan of Kozilek and anything with over +10 Power into your graveyard. Then you pay 3 mana to cast Victimize, and then sacrifice a creature (doesn't what the creature is because you've won the game anyway). Then you bring back Flayer, that deals 4 damage to your opponent right there due to his ability, then you bring back Artisan of Kozilek who in turn (because of his ability) brings back the creature with +10 power. That's 20 damage right there plus the 4 damage Flayer did by himself. And if you're opponent is still standing because he has like 30 life he's pretty much dead next turn anyway. GG.
Posted By:
nygrzg25
(5/17/2012 2:39:53 PM)
The ability stacks, treehead.
Posted By:
Atali
(2/17/2012 12:09:42 AM)
@ nygyrzg25:
Artisan of Kozilek must be cast to trigger his recursion ability. Using another spell or ability to pit him in play does not trigger him, but Flayer of the Hatebound only triggers on reanimations from *your* graveyard, whether or not you control the creature. Even if you cast a creature from your graveyard, it will not trigger the Flayer as that card entered play from the stack, not the graveyard.
Combos with Deathtouch.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(6/4/2012 11:30:22 AM)
Commander Review: fun in a reanimation deck, like bladewing the risen. But since recursion and reanimation is popular in Commander, this can also backfire, so I'd only include the guy in decks which reanimate a lot.
3/5
Posted By:
majinara
(1/30/2012 12:30:35 AM)
This guy is pure evil in casual reanimation decks.
Discard him early and Rise from the Grave/Unburial Rites him turn 4-5 for some damage, a hard-to-kil critter and a Warstorm Surge.
Yes, a Warstorm Surge. Because you aren't putting creatures into play from anywhere else then the grave in a reanimation deck, are you?
Posted By:
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
(7/31/2012 7:26:23 PM)
Why even go there... No need for "Devil" creature type. Already pushing it with demons, why do you want to fuel the fire? Make something else up instead.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(9/6/2012 4:54:26 PM)