Are you able to play his ability immediately after Lim-dul necromancer is put into play ? Paying swamp and one of any color to bring back creatures from the grave ?? I know he has summoning sickness.. can't attack or defend. Thanks for the help
Splenivore
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(8 votes)
His first ability is a triggered ability, so it is unaffected by the “summoning sickness” rule. His second ability is an activated ability, but it doesn’t contain or in its activation cost, so you can activate it immediately.
_felagund
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
probably the best necromancer of the game.. respects..
Panpl
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
A wicked fella but a little expensive, no problemo - just get him into the graveyard and bring him back for cheaper as a zombie. That'll get him some bonuses too.
EnV
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(5 votes)
You kidding? A little expensive? In a black deck you will be killing a crapload of creatures plus mulitplayer matches. If you run dark rituals you can get this devious card out 2 turns earlier. Black isn't really big on buffing creatures so, make sure he lives. Or if you have 2 dark rituals in hand strap that black regenerating enchantment on him.
Guest1524274415
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
works well with rise from the grave, and rise will get him out 2 turns sooner, of course you will need to discard him first for rise, but playing him like that also means he can self regen
gotta love the zombie maddness, and so many zombie lords out there that it isnt even funny
faisjdas
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(10 votes)
I gave him a 5 just for the Facial Hair.
Arthindole
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
well if u want him in play early just T1 discard Him, then play a swamp, Darkritual, Animate Dead.
Omenchild
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Good job, you discovered reanimation everyone. Not very useful in Edh though, rather expensive, and can't take Generals.
RafiqTheMiststalker
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
7 is a little steep for this guy. But he's still cool aND good.
InternetNinjacy
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Ironically, doesn't combo well with Call to the Grave, unless you Zombify him first. While there are ways to do it, it kind of runs counter intuitive to spend your card advantage making creature advantage. I'd rather just play my Severed Legion, Doom Blade any potential blockers and kill my opponent before he has creatures worth stealing.
Course, that's just me.
Sumai4444
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Okay, a Necromancer, and the most prolific of flavor texts in his home set Ice Age. Jaya Ballard take's the cake for most popular, but Lim-Dul has so many awesome things to say all through Ice Age, especially with his Dark lord and Master, Leshrac. Lim-Dul also spans into blue and red, both with named cards and flavor text. With the emergence of this card finally being printed , like all the big name Planeswalkers, it makes for the fun task of building a theme deck, trying to make all the flavor text and named cards work:) In addition, Lim-Dul actually is a very playable card when you stop and realize what all his flavor text cards do, and the SHEER number of zombie cards out there! You really don't NEED to worry about making a creature a zombie when you have greats like Haakon, Stromgald Scourge paired with Buried Alive and Stromgald Crusader. Plus coming out of Coldsnap, fits the original theme of the Frozen Necro Lim-Dul is. I could bore you with other idea's, but the fact remains, Lim-Dul gives birth to a very effective theme deck, along with his other Ice-Age counter-part, Zur the Enchanter. That alone should give any Magic Player worth his weight in mana the ideas needed for theme decks, that are effective!
Tiggurix
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
5/5 because IT'S FREAKIN' LIM-DÛL! He's like the Urza of Ice Age block!
ROBRAM89
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I always assumed Lim-Dul was the skeleton guy from Necropotence.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
It's LIM-DÛL!!!
Sorry, I can't say more...
I played back when Ice Age came out, this almost makes me weep with joy.
I do miss Leshrac though. But wasn't he actually a planeswalker?
QuietK
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
He makes quite a good general in EDH. Used with things like Avatar of Woe, Butcher of Malakir, Grave Pact, etc.
metalevolence
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Would have been perfectly reasonable at !
BegleOne
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
So how do you pronounce it with that little doodely on top of the U?
BlackKWYte
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a serious question concerning this card. I was wondering if Lim-Dûl's abilityies worked on creature cards that are discarded by cards like Inquisition of Kozilek or Thoughtseize. If it does work that way it would be AWESOME!
Alsebra
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
My first thought was 'Wait...when is a creature not a creature?' I then remembered the 'sleeping' enchantments...whoops.
Ferlord
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I suppose Lim Dul finally got the power he deserved (look at Ice Age's Dark Ritual's flavour text), and now he can resurrect your enemies creatures for only 2 CMC!
But man, Demon Lords? It took you 11 years to give him that power? (Ice Age Printed in 1995, Timespiral in 2006
A little slow, Demon Lords.
raptorman333
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
May we see this get more play with all the new zombies from Innistrad?!
Atali
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Lim-Dûl is undeniably cool, but I wish they had given us General Varchild to defeat him.
cgermain
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I was going to point out that he must have been plucked out of the time stream before he got his horns, but then I noticed that you can definitely see one of them in the upper left part of his head.
For those of y'all that don't know, Lim was given horns by Leshrac for plotting against him (or for not finding something Leshrac was looking for, I forget which reason it was, though Lim did both). You can see the horns in the art for the Ice Age Dark Ritual.
imsully2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@BlackKWYte: No it doesn't work like that, it's because it must enter the graveyard from Play
MadManny
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is a real person with his name scrambled. I'm sorry I just don't remember what his name was. It sounded like Dullim I think. He came into our Oakland CA card shop and told me he was the card (he looked just like it) and asked me to find it. He said Richard was a friend. Sad part was we didn't have it in stock. Fail, coulda made a dollar.
I'm trying this bad boy out in my zombie horde deck. If you don't kill him, he makes all the zombies have infinite regeneration, and if one your creatures died, it's now part of the horde, and it will regenerate forever too.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Nearly every single card in Time Spiral was a throwback to at least one previously printed card.
This card represents the villainous wizard from Magic's Ice Age; Lim-Dûl raised armies of rime-encrusted zombies in an attempt to help his demonic masters, Leshrac the Nightwalker and Tevesh Szat, shatter the protective spell over Dominaria, the setting for the bulk of Magic's early sets.
Lim-Dûl was untimately defeated by Jaya Ballard and sent into exile on the plane of Shandalar (the setting of most modern Core Sets, like M13.
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gotta love the zombie maddness, and so many zombie lords out there that it isnt even funny
Course, that's just me.
Sorry, I can't say more...
I played back when Ice Age came out, this almost makes me weep with joy.
I do miss Leshrac though. But wasn't he actually a planeswalker?
But man, Demon Lords? It took you 11 years to give him that power? (Ice Age Printed in 1995, Timespiral in 2006
A little slow, Demon Lords.
For those of y'all that don't know, Lim was given horns by Leshrac for plotting against him (or for not finding something Leshrac was looking for, I forget which reason it was, though Lim did both). You can see the horns in the art for the Ice Age Dark Ritual.
This card represents the villainous wizard from Magic's Ice Age; Lim-Dûl raised armies of rime-encrusted zombies in an attempt to help his demonic masters, Leshrac the Nightwalker and Tevesh Szat, shatter the protective spell over Dominaria, the setting for the bulk of Magic's early sets.
Lim-Dûl was untimately defeated by Jaya Ballard and sent into exile on the plane of Shandalar (the setting of most modern Core Sets, like M13.