I personally love this guy. He fills the opponents graveyard, giving you either reanimation targets or zombie fodder for Cemetery Reaper. Use Bloodchief Ascension with it and it deals double the damage.
My only problem with it is that it fills the 3 mana slot reserved for Blightning.
Posted By:
Serev
(10/9/2011 2:10:54 AM)
This is *** hilarious with a Zombie Master and an Undead Alchemist.
Posted By:
sl33tbl1nd
(11/6/2011 3:11:14 PM)
Devestating synergy with Undead Alchemist. With this and Death Baron, I'm actually looking forward to Innistrad rotating out so I can make my zombie mill deck ridiculous.
Posted By:
SnackyNorph
(1/13/2012 9:32:46 PM)
@Jannissary
Well yeah it's a little expensive to be much use in a 60 card deck but that's not exactly where I'd be putting that. He's not a small scale guy so don't think of him in the context of such. EDH is where you'd pull this guy and that about counts for the community rating of this card, not to mention its flavorful...zombie wizard! ALAKA....BRAAAAAIINNNSSS!
Posted By:
ArtifactFreak
(4/7/2012 6:39:50 PM)
A friend of mine once had a deck with this as the centerpiece.
The strategy was slivers, turn slivers to zombies, then drop this guy, and mill for 20+ every activation.
I did not like that deck very much at the time.
Looking back though, I realize how frail that combo is.
Posted By:
SquirePath
(5/7/2012 7:24:55 AM)
This guy is just begging to be an EDH general. If only he was legendary..
Posted By:
N3wtn
(6/5/2012 11:50:26 PM)
Use a Mind Funeral or Truamatize followed by Necromancer's Covenant for a bunch of Zombies then major milling with him.
Posted By:
Rikiaz
(9/12/2012 7:58:40 PM)
The milling is secondary. This fella just found his way into my EDH.
Posted By:
Mage_Of_Artifice
(8/16/2013 3:18:38 AM)
Instant silliness! Just add Grave Betrayal!
Posted By:
SirLibraryEater
(10/18/2013 2:21:07 PM)
Works best in a control heavy deck.
Of course you could just hold on to him until you've got enough zombies and mana to cast him and use the second ability right away. What I mean is that this is not what you want for your third turn.
Posted By:
Dankirk
(10/25/2013 10:03:14 AM)