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Versatile!

Such an awesome art by rk post on a rather uninteresting creature ... what a shame :(

The art is awesome, and lovely, but she's not uninteresting. She's a 2/2 flyer for 3. In black. And she can remove 2 cards from a graveyard for free if Channeled. Yep, her ability is Channel with a cost of 0. Outside of Kamigawa.

not uninteresting. it is a kind of "graveyard advantage" for free. reanimator against reanimator she may be a key.

Yay good black flier, you rarely get these without an disadisfactory drawback.

Flying grey ogre in black! With an upside ability! what's not to love?

Maybe I'm spoiled by other card but this one has never really impressed me. I know it's purpose in limited, anti-persist. But is the king of kill spells. Why waste a slot when you can just run more direct kills spells which would be more versatile than "Counter target persist ability." As a creature, yeah, it's not bad for french vanilla, but playing it completely negates it's purpose in your deck. Once on the field, you can't pay it's cost. An added sac clause would have been better in my opinion.

I like the surprise effect of zero cost abilities from your hand. Also, it's nigh uncounter-ability. But it's effect seems limited at best. By that I mean playable in limited, where all forms of removal shine, no matter how bad. But not a first draft pick by any means.

Edit: Completely forgot Retrace in limited. Still, I stand by my opinion.

2/2 for {3} at common is pretty good in my books, add in flying and an ability that can have potentially devastating effects on spells that target cards in the graveyard (such as reanimator effects like Rise from the Grave, or Eternal Witness) and you have a pretty decent card, also the creature subtypes are relevant as well!

Screw U Emrakul!

Good enough to be Modern sideboard tech? Free spells are always worth a look. And hey, if you're playing Living End, you have a free hate spell that later gives you a 2/2 flyer.

She is sick in a living death or living end deck. Get a creature in the grave for free while making sure they get nothing back when you drop the sweeper.

In a deck, good enough to be maindecked. In any other deck, good enough to be sideboard.

Free, nearly uncounterable, instant speed grave-hate that doubles as a beater with evasion? Yes please.

There is scarcely something more satisfying in the world of Magic than using Faerie Macabre in response to Exhume.

As others have mentioned, the graveyard hate is an activated ability rather than a spell, so it cannot be counter spelled. Another thing that is really nice about this form of graveyard hate is that it cannot be hit by Duress. The other nice things is that graveyard based decks often sideboard into non-graveyard based and this still has value in those cases. For example, Oops often sideboards into Belcher and Reanimator often sideboards into Show and Tell.