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Cruel Revival

Multiverse ID: 10720

Cruel Revival

Comments (9)

sweetestsadist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great combination to put on cards. Adds great flavor.
pibblz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I agree accept the mana cost can be a little much, especialy for a zombie deck with millions of ways to get zombies back.
UltimateSquirrel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
is this considered as a zombie spell?
Test-Subject_217601
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@UltimateSquirrel: No. This card predates tribal spells.
ObsessedAddict
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Great flavor, but I wish the "revival" on the card referred to bringing the creature back to play. Guess not.
hippononymous
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cost is too high to be viable in any competitive play. There are more efficient ways of getting creatures back.
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That fellow on the right looks pretty pleased with himself.
PastProphet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
now that is the kind of sorcery that I like in EDH..
oh, wait...
instant?
Bbone37
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ok, so I'm reading these comments about how high the CMC on this is. First off its 4B, very splashable. Secondly, its an instant. Third, it is REMOVAL first of all, and recusion tacked on. considering disentomb/raise dead is a B sorc, and most instant black kill is 1B, this is very well-costed, imo.

Also, it can kill black creatures, as long as they arent zombies, which is something that many other black kill spells cannot do. For 2 more colorless mana (and being able to only spend B and not BB), i think getting both effects on 1 card is some real good value.

IF it were to return the creature to play, then we are talking zombify which is a 3B sorc. So What do you people want? A 5cmc INSTANT, that returns a zombie to play AND kills a non zombie would probably cost 7 or 8 CMC (4cmc zombify, lets even say 3cmc murder, maybe an extra mana for it to be on 1 card and not 2?)

Highly doubt it would ever be used in vintage, very good in EDH if you have zombies to bring back, obviously good in limited.

oh PS: its a common!

EDIT: ok, in all fairness pibblz said in a zombie deck there are more effiectient ways of getting dudes back, which is true, but i think you are missing the added value of being able to kill something in the process. And hippononymous did say "competative". I may have been a bit harsh. But still its a very fair-costed card, I think.