Back in the day this was commonly used with Carnophage in a Suicide Black deck. Then Dark Confidant came along and speed things up. Now, we have Gravecrawler, Geralf's Messenger, and Bloodghast joining the Black Aggro team. We may see a Zombie deck being viable these days in Legacy, and ol' Carnophage and Sarcomancy may be seeing a come back.
Posted By:
KerosAohco
(5/21/2012 9:34:10 PM)
Could use a reprint.
Posted By:
LordOfTheFlies87
(7/19/2012 7:00:29 PM)
{(w/b)} and {(u/b)} can flicker this. I'd recommend ghostly flicker while doing something else for what is essentially card advantage. Drake Familiar or similar are also good with it.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(4/19/2013 2:02:36 PM)
Better than Diregraf Ghoul or Carnophage because in a deck of all zombies, the only drawback is that it's a token (which is fine, because neither of those are really prime reanimation targets). Worse than Gravecrawler because most things just are. But I play a deck loaded to the brim with zombie lords and Shepherd of Rot, so who says I only want one 1-drop? My ideal play is:
Swamp, 2-power zombie.
Swamp, swing for 2, 2-power zombie, 2-power zombie.
Swamp, Death Baron, swing for 9, putting you at 9.
I sure would benefit from having all the 1-mana 2-power zombies I can. I'm also curious whether it's viable to build a deck with this and Cloudstone Curio. That and 2 of these reads "
: Put a 2/2 black zombie creature token onto the battlefield."
Posted By:
MisterAction
(5/14/2013 3:26:53 PM)
This card is super sick with the newer token boosting cards, especially Leyline of the Meek and Intangible Virtue, both of which give you a 3/3 attacker on turn two, and in the latter case a 3/3 with vigilance.
Posted By:
EGarrett01
(5/24/2013 2:33:36 AM)
Use with Phyrexian Negator so when you sac, you sac this and keep the token. Smokestack too
Posted By:
Combofriend
(1/6/2014 5:38:54 AM)
With populate and other token multipliers it's actually better than it's nontoken counterparts. With Parallel Lives this card stays effective throughtout the game.
Posted By:
Dankirk
(3/31/2014 1:16:58 AM)