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No matter how I look at it, this card is better than most cheap kill spells in nearly every way.

This card is excellent, but I can never love it. It reminds me too much of Vindicate.

An easier-to-find Vindicate which lost a bit of steam due to the printing of Path to Exile. Killing recurring creatures dead is important when dealing with things like Demigod of Revenge.

This card is amazing, but has obviously been over-shadowed by Path to Exile. Actually, this card might see less time in standard usually because most white-black decks are token decks that need as many cheap spells as possible thus limiting the over-all effectiveness of this card.

Terror is good. Dark Banishing is great. Vindicate is excellent. But this...this is just the genuine article. Easy to find, cheap, and hybrid? Can I give this thing anything less than 5?

RATING: 5/5

Simple, elegant, powerful and it's a common to boot. I love it!

I Got The Textless Unmakes And There *** Killer Love Unmake Easy To Use And Fun To Use Sorta Like Drugs LOL

i love this card, i wish i had more then 1 copy... because in a black/white deck it is basically a 3 colorless no downside swords.

how is this card not a better option then path to exile obviously it's the cost even with the hybrid symbols but in the right deck and right situation it's far superior to even StP in my opinion based entirely upon the no drawback clause

although this does'nt allow for a 1st turn removal wich could potentialy devastate you in certain tournament circles where players can have some pretty deadly stuff on the board in thier first turns sometimes with haste smashing you right in the face right from the get go
and that one mana exile can be the difference between winning and losing

but around the kitchen table you cant find better targeted creature removal then this

I prefer this card to path to exile for two reasons, first its dual colored and as such can be tutored, used, or comboed with things that require multi colored. Second, it doesn't let your opponent find a land when its used, and it's still only 3 mana. Since zendikar, letting your opponent find a land now potentially means activating a land fall card they have. Even better, unmake is probably a lot cheaper now that path to exile is in the mix, so you can pick up a set more easily.

LULZ

I can't believe such a power, nasty, gnarley & just plain awesome card is COMMON!!

I got attacked by 2 Flyers and this card was really freaking sweet! I played it to exile one of them, and turned my Nightsky Mimic into a 4/4 Flyer who was able to block and kill the other attacker!

Such a great removal card. I prefer my removal to be no-strings attached, and hence prefer this to Path. Nifty art too. 5/5

3 mana for only creature hosing is rather expensive when you have cards like path to exile and doom blade.

Still, path is on the expensive side (at least 5 dollars for one, and will only increase in price. This is like 1-2 dollars for a playset) and doom blade can't hit black creatures and won't phase regenerators or darksteel colossus, and also nuke persist/unearth creatures, so this has its uses. It certainly saw a lot of play when lorwyn was in standard, but now it's pretty much stuck to being a cheap alternative for casual decks. White has no reason to run this with path around, and black probably wants to save 1-2 mana by running cheaper removal spells and accept the drawbacks of nuking a smaller selection of creatures.

Yeah first time I saw this card I was like "whaaaaaaaaat" & I still pretty much do that every time since.

No strings attached hybrid removal at common?

YES PLEASE.

I just won 4 copies of the textless version on eBay & my day has been made.

Yup.

I love thorough answers like this. It's somewhat expensive and is virtually unplayable in almost any multicolored deck that isn't Orzhov-colored, but protection and shroud are the only ways to survive this, which no single-target removal spell can get around. Path to Exile is largely the better card, but I feel much more secure with my Unmake in my hand than I do with my Path to Exile, since you don't have to be quite as judicious with it. There is also the point in the game where you have three lands out but it's too early to let your opponent get an extra land without suffering a noticeable disadvantage, where Unmake is unquestionably the better card. Sure, that point doesn't last long, but you can't expect everything to be as good as the second-best single-creature removal spell ever made, can you?

Love this card, what is there not to like? Especially when your friends play cards like Demigod's.

i miss those days in which graveyard was used

fantastic ability, love the hybrid cost that makes it easier to play, and the art is off the hook. 5 stars please.
This is what 'REMOVAL' should look like.

I hate Kithkin.
Strictly worse than Kuon, Ogre Ascendant or Jihad.

Best creature removal spell ever!

No longer "Strictly Better" than Terminate. Due to Misthollow Griffin

I dont understand this card... How is it black at all??? And this card can be played in a mono black deck..

Love to play this and Path to Exile in the same deck. "Oh, so you target my creature with something nasty? Nah, I'll have a land instead, thank you very much."
In the land of people with a single gun, the one with two, is king.

@Kruggles: that's like saying "haha" with a reviver deck and Pull from Eternity
strictly indicates a whole list of conditions--rarity, versatility, efficiency (usually having to do with effect vs. mana cost). To be strictly, it would have to do the same exact thing as printed on another card (like Time Walk vs. Temporal Manipulation--but not Time Warp because that targets a player and can be either Swerved or target a teammate).
To be strictly better, it would have to do any one or combination of the following:

the exact same thing as another card, but either give you more options along with it at the same mana cost and/or just simply cost less mana and/or require less restrictive mana (versatility; efficiency).

reduce rarity to lower resale costs or move into common rarity for use in pauper decks. (rarity)

No one stated that this was strictly better than Terminate other than you because it isn't. The mana costs despite one being lower than the other are restrictive--I can only play terminate in a deck that has a mana base for red and black and i can only play unmake in a deck that has a mana base for either white or black. The option to have unmake in a mono white or a mono black deck does not offset for the increase in mana.
Strike 1 against "strictly"

The cards don't do the same thing--one puts the creature into the graveyard while the other removes it from the game. If i wanted to steal my opponent's creature from the graveyard--something frequently seen in black (e.g. lilianna vess, rise from the grave, etc.) I now can't with unmake. However, unmake has a larger range of creatures that it can remove, like 6cmc elementals from Lorwyn and eldrazi that leave the graveyard or indestructible creatures that can't be destroyed.
Strike 2 against "strictly"

you and a load of others on this database egregiously through around the word "strictly" and you're wrong and should stop. no wonder you have half a star on your comment--the lowest possible rating.

I still prefer Swords to Plowshares, but this is very good, and EDH loves removal that removes even the Oneshot Robot and Ulamog without colossal Drawback. The only notable downside is that this costs a whopping three mana, as opposed to one.

3.5/5 Stars