Pointed Discussion

Boring and obsolete. No one is going to pay 5 mana for a 3/3 creature ever.

it can be rather helpful when you're deep into a game with tons of mana, you can just keep retracing it to get multiple 3/3 creatures on the field.

Wow that is overcosted.

Not as good as Bestial Menace.

I really don't understand how you could say this card is somehow inferior to Bestial Menace. This one has built in recursion, whereas Menace does not. I'm inclined to agree with Wasp228.

This is basically a Beast Attack you can replay at any time by discarding a land. Turn all the spare lands you draw late game in to 3/3 tokens, how can you not love that?

@lorendorky
with retrace you have to pay the normal mana cost too...

The hanging turd gardens of Babylonia

combo with garruk's packleader

Edit: Synergize with Garruck's Packleader ;) you essentially pay 3GG to cycle a land and get a 3/3 token.

The real use for this card works in Commander and Singleton builds. The retrace serves a good purpose there to make use of unneeded lands in the hand.

Turns those land topdecks late game into 3/3 beat sticks...that said if you are running this it's probably for the face that it is reusable, I personally think this is a bit overcosted, now if this was an instant i would say the {3}{G}{G} casting cost would be justified, because then you could cast it as a combat trick, then continue to use it late-game at the end of your opponents turns...and if they counter it, so what? It goes back into your graveyard unless they counter it with something like Assert Authority

And these days we have Call of the Conclave.

Sure it's a flashback type ability stacked on it, but it's already overcosted to begin with, and I don't know if discarding a card makes it worth it.

My beast-token deck may get use out of this. I already recur my lands as needed, and such. Pulse of the Tangle really puts this to shame most of the time though. If you're behind, you get 3/3 beasts much easier. If you're ahead, well.. why do you need 3/3 beasts?

I imagine this as a 1-2 of may be quite workable though. Retrace cards are always a little weird to go more than that anyway because they have anti-synergy with themselves.

That said, in almost any circumstance Worm Harvest absolutely slaughters this card. It recurs, it gets bigger, and if you were already cycling, sacing, or somehow abusing lands going to the graveyard, it will get you *at least* three power.