I like the fact that you can remove your opponent's creature cards as well. ;) Therefore, if you're not going to play reanimate spells anyways, this ability comes handy to turn your opponent's victims into 1/1 Saprolings as well.
Can you use this effect on persist creatures? When the persist creature is put into the graveyard, can you activate this enchantment before the creatures comes back?
Wusanderz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Douchette, yes you can, because Persist is a triggered ability, which goes onto the stack like a spell or an activated ability. If you use Necrogenesis in response, when the Persist ability resolves, it won't have a legal target.
Donovan_Fabian
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
What I really like about this card is it's not 2 mana and tap, it's only 2 mana anytime, so if you play this late game you can remove everything in your opponents graveyard in a few turns and snag a lot of saprolings. Having played against creatures that pump out multiple tokens every turn that can add up pretty fast if for no reason than to give you other blockers. It's very similiar to golgari germination except you can use it on command to net many saprolings in one turn. You could potentially use both cards together, netting you 2 saprolings for every card that goes to the graveyard, turning them all into psuedo sprouting thrinax.
Meant to be played alongside the morbid bloom, lord of extinction combo, thereby netting you more saprolings than you can shake a stick at, especially when paired with the aforementioned mycoloth, golgari guildmage, golgari brownscale, and others. Rakka mar and creakwood liege also being very convienient here, as is madrush cyclops, because you can attack with the saprolings immediately allowing instant over runs, garruk wildspeaker, or titanic ultimatum combos.
Can you remove one of the 3 eldrazi's to counter their "return everything in graveyard back to deck" effect?
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ iSlapTrees:
Once Emrakul, Ulamog, or Kozilek puts their final ability on the stack, you can respond, having this resolve first, exiling the targeted card, and then their abilities still resolve and they get the rest of their graveyard back. So, you can't counter the ability this way, but you can just make the Elrazi go away once they've been sent to the graveyard.
Seems like a good plan, but don't know if I want to put one in my Glissa, the Traitor EDH...It likes tokens.
blurrymadness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Not bad, I think I prefer Night Soil, but the req of 1 creature vs. two is beneficial when you have persist, undying, or other creatures that are a problem when they're unlikely to have a second creature in the grave.
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Meant to be played alongside the morbid bloom, lord of extinction combo, thereby netting you more saprolings than you can shake a stick at, especially when paired with the aforementioned mycoloth, golgari guildmage, golgari brownscale, and others. Rakka mar and creakwood liege also being very convienient here, as is madrush cyclops, because you can attack with the saprolings immediately allowing instant over runs, garruk wildspeaker, or titanic ultimatum combos.
Once Emrakul, Ulamog, or Kozilek puts their final ability on the stack, you can respond, having this resolve first, exiling the targeted card, and then their abilities still resolve and they get the rest of their graveyard back. So, you can't counter the ability this way, but you can just make the Elrazi go away once they've been sent to the graveyard.
Oh wait.