His usefulness in EDH depends first on how many of your opponents are smart enough to run graveyard recursion, and second upon whether or not your deck can make more use of your opponent's graveyard than your opponent can.
The downside is that with the choice in your opponent's hands you can get into a lose/lose situation against a clever player. If they know you want the mill they won't attack, and if they know you don't want to be attacked they won't care so much about the mill. Still, not everyone is a tactical genius. I've had people I considered good players swing at me for pitiful amounts and just take the mill, only to turn it around on them when I dropped a Lord of Extinction. No one ever went broke underestimating, etc.
Posted By:
Pinto331
(2/28/2012 4:00:25 PM)
A decent deterrent, even if some strategies will benefit from the mill.Combine him with other deterrents (Windborn Muse, anyone?) and he gets a bit better. Plus, he can really keep token-based strategies in check; attacking with twenty creatures seems really bad in multiplayer when you run the risk of decking yourself.
Posted By:
ParishInquisitor
(2/14/2013 11:01:22 AM)
It comes in the Precon with The Mimeoplasm. Seen from that light, this card is perfect - It's a minor deterrent, sure, but every time it happens you get a chance of getting more creatures to exile with your commander. It's no Geth, Lord of the Vault when it comes to stocking up graveyards for your ooze, but it'll do.
Posted By:
sarroth
(6/19/2011 8:29:09 PM)
@metalevolence:
And what's so wrong with that? Commander should be about politics more than anything else. This card lets you and that recursion player agree to letting him attack you with his 2/2, because you can just block it with your 1/4; he gets 2 cards in his GY, and you've started to build an alliance. It's the same reason that Zedruu is such an inspiring card to me - the political ramifications make for great and memorable games.
Posted By:
Morgrath
(7/10/2011 6:43:46 PM)
I like it, but not in EDH. I'm seeing it in a casual mill deck, or a bizarre creature-based mill strategy.
Posted By:
Atali
(6/18/2011 10:35:34 PM)
Rite Of Replication turns this into a Glimpse The Unthinkable for every attack... or more likely, just a flippin' useful deterrent.
Posted By:
Splizer
(6/16/2011 3:41:47 PM)
Not a GREAT effect, but has some staying power to see it in use.
Posted By:
Manspider
(6/16/2011 3:23:57 PM)
The trick here is to be playing more graveyard shenanigans than your opponents.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(6/16/2011 3:24:15 PM)
Man o Man do I want to see this in a real set. Please reprint Wizards.
Posted By:
Vedalken_Arbiter
(6/21/2011 5:23:00 PM)
This is so ridiculously terrible in EDH. Playing this will ENCOURAGE many players to attack you to stock their graveyards.
Posted By:
metalevolence
(7/1/2011 11:52:10 AM)