Awesome card
Posted By:
AngelxLegna
(7/5/2009 12:44:20 AM)
Mediocre card, but has fantastic art.
Posted By:
Nagoragama
(7/12/2011 6:09:52 PM)
I'd rather use a Raven's Crime.
Posted By:
Wusanderz
(10/18/2009 2:32:53 PM)
Ok so turn 1 play this turn two play doom blade. So on turn 2 they had to discard two cards and a lost say birds of paradise. Sounds pretty good to me
Posted By:
Writofassistance
(1/9/2013 9:49:39 PM)
This would easily be one of my favorite cards ever, if it didn't require you to have a creature on the board to use it to the fullest. You're going to want to cast a 1-cost discard spell ASAP, not wait until they've emptied their hand anyway.
Maybe allowing you to exile it, then if/when a creature comes onto the battlefield, you can haunt the creature, would have been better. I don't think a conditional 2-card discard with no other effects for 1 is overpowered, when cards like Raven's Crime and Thoughtseize exist. You're not really going to get a better secondary effect than what these two offer.
Still 5/5 for the name, picture, and idea, even if not perfectly executed.
Posted By:
Bobth
(1/17/2013 9:42:00 PM)
seems like nobody wants to haunt opponent's creature and then kill it on turn 2 with doom blade, smother or anything.
Posted By:
don_miguel
(2/18/2013 2:37:54 PM)
Feels dirtily incredible to haunt your opponent's only creature and follow up with a Smallpox. As {B} as it gets.
On a more serious note, this is a great example of a card that either 1) works like a charm in your deck with no more than a minor tweak or two or 2) won't be more than "violently unimpressive" with the exception of exceptional circumstances.
It's usually worth a try in aggressive {B/R} decks that aim to quickly deny the opponent his hand to win within the 1-3 turns provided by a topdecking opponent.
Posted By:
Falgorn
(3/26/2013 1:03:21 PM)
@Paleopaladin you've got it all wrong, it's: Augur of Skulls + Cry of Contrition.
Posted By:
BrianTumah
(10/6/2013 10:17:02 PM)
Just imagine if this card were legal in Standard along with the Aristocrats deck.
Posted By:
absreim
(1/3/2014 7:09:26 AM)
May be a dumb question here, but if i was going to cast this haunting Gravecrawler, could I continue to trigger the haunt ability every time the zombie went into the graveyard?
I would assume not, but the rules look like this:
502.51b Cards that are in the removed-from-the-game zone as the result of a haunt ability “haunt” the creature targeted by that ability. The phrase “creature it haunts” refers to the object targeted by the haunt ability, regardless of whether or not that object is still a creature.
When gravecrawler crawls into the grave, is it still the same object, though no longer a creature?
Am I being too optimistic? This would make haunt a MUCH more valuable ability for me
Posted By:
hudsonmohawke
(2/4/2014 9:29:09 AM)