sure it's amazing in any deck that consistently fills it's graveyard but this card has easily found a home in my Dmir mill alongside Nightveil Spectre. You are going to be exiling cards out of color anyways so deathrite ramps/mana fixes into casting them. Besides milling into lands is kinda Dmirs "thing" now so don't ever expect this slick little guy to sit idle.
And if Chromatic Lantern has taught me anything, it's than foreign mana color is just another tool at the Dmir's disposal.
Posted By:
Osprey_93
(4/7/2013 10:05:28 PM)
P1: "You have to target a card first before it gains flashback, right?"
P2: "Yeah..."
P1: "K, then that one" *points*
I feel that this is really gonna anger some Snapcaster players XD
Posted By:
ThisisSakon
(9/25/2012 11:58:44 PM)
Mother of Runes has nothing on Deathrite. His second ability goes right past her!
This card bears all the markings of a modern-day creature: cheap, versatile, and completely one-sided. His abilities dig into all graveyards, yet he only heals you and only hurts the opponent. They don't make 'fair' cards anymore (just an example: Exile target instant or sorcery from a graveyard. The controller of that graveyard loses 2 life.).
Overpowered is underselling it; he appears in decks in ALL formats: standard, modern, legacy, vintage, commander, 100-card pickup, Yu-Gi-Oh... you name it, he's there.
Posted By:
DoorDie
(12/8/2013 3:15:17 AM)
Deserved to be banned. It ramps, nerfs graveyard strategies, pressures the opponent, gain you life for 1 mana, castable via black and green.
Honestly though, the most absurd thing about it in my opinion is the 2 thoughness. WHY IS IT A 1/2????
Posted By:
Fenix.
(2/3/2014 3:47:08 AM)
Good riddance, you latest example of how poorly balanced the "answer" cards are to the "problem" cards. The card it apparently was supposed to fight was Snapcaster Mage and instead of fighting this legitimate villain it ended up being a monster in its own right while failing to actually effect Tiago all that much. Sounds like some sort of super hero comic to me. Wasn't there another overpowered answer in recent memory? That also didn't have an effect on the card it was made to contain? Remember Thragtusk?
Posted By:
casualhorror
(2/3/2014 2:51:54 PM)
Wait a minute... exiling a land, creature, or instant/sorcery isn't part of the cost. Am I not recalling the rules correctly, or can you use his abilities without removing something from a graveyard if it's not there?
Anyone have clarification on this? If there are no spells in any graveyard, can you just 
: Deal 2 damage to a target?
Posted By:
darkrai88
(9/25/2012 8:45:08 PM)
This card has great synergy with a Dimir/Simic mill theme. Mill the opponents deck and then feed off their graveyard! :D
Posted By:
Pocko
(10/10/2012 3:41:02 PM)
It's a lesser version of Scavenging Ooze for Ravnica standard. Still very efficient.
Posted By:
bfellow
(10/12/2012 1:16:36 PM)
This makes Black cards more splashable, wierdly.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(11/12/2012 5:43:39 PM)
Iz in ur decks
Warping ur formatz
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(9/4/2013 10:43:23 AM)