Awesome card, might as well be 3 damage on turn 3 and draw a card!
B1indFremen
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
only somewhat useful in draft now that conflux and alara reborn are out...there are just so many better 4-drops and cyclers. heck, this could be a 2 star card
TheNoblefool
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Hard played, this card is trash. 3/3 for 4 is pretty worthless, but the beauty of this card is it's a place holder - For every one of these cards you run, it's only purpose is to be cycled into the graveyard. . . Where it sits until you need some extra offense. 3/3 for a turn for 2? Sounds pretty good to me. 6/3 lifelink trample for a turn for 5, provided you have a loxodon warhammer? Tremendous staying power, and a force that the opponent has a tendency to neglect.
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(14 votes)
Cycling and Unearth, you gotta love that combination on a single card.
OutlawD1
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
cycling and unearth...i know... you can over look it easy
Panpl
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is a killer card. Struggling early on with mana? Hit this baby boy up the cycle. And when the opponent least expects it, this bad boy comes back with a punch for just 2 mana.
Kenji18
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
While several people have already discussed the merits of his cycling and unearth synergy, it is also important that his cycling ability is and not or . It is useful if you don't have the colored mana to cycle an architect, and you still get to unearth him later.
kittyspit
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
this guy and Grixis Slavedriver are what started my unearth deck
cycle then unearth with cemetery reaper on the field? nice :D
Velex
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great card for a zombie deck. You can just cycle it which buffs cards like soulless one, then get it back later with an aphetto dredging or gravedigger. And worst comes to worst, you can always unearth it for an attack.
Guntz1092
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i love this card in my zombie deck. i can cycle it early and once i get boosters like Cemetary Reapers and Death Barons out, i can really wreck shtuff...then sac it wit Bone Splinters
iSlapTrees
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This can go side by side with Sedraxis Specter. unearth this when they have no blocker/card in hand and unearth sedraxis when they have blocker/card in hand :)
Chamale
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
My favourite play with this card was when my opponent cast Jace, the Mind Sculptor (neither of us had creatures out), and I killed Jace on my next turn by cycling and unearthing Viscera Dragger.
Polychromatic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So so SO good in draft or sealed.
Demiajor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i love Ogres, Zombies, and Warriors ♥ ^-^ and this card have all, for 4 manas a 3/3 (plus 2 cool abilitys :)
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's odd. There is almost no incentive to pay its mana cost, as its cycling+unearth cost is the same plus you get a card. The only downsides are that you lose the creature at the end of turn (it's a 3/3 without evasion or protection though so who cares?) and possible problems with graveyard-exiling effects. I find this... strange but cool.
Shiizu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is the glue that holds some of my decks together. He's never great, but he's always useful. Cycle and unearth for a burn spell to the face, play him if you just need another body, cycle him if you need to draw some more gas.
I love this card because it's a good litmus test for how much someone is in trouble. You play him out when you're under pressure and ditch him when you're ahead.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Damn, that is some intimidating art. His entrails are spilling out. Damn.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome tech for certain decks. I use it in my pauper zombie EDH deck because it has about 20 disentomb effects (though it doesn't even run disentomb lol) and allows me to draw cards off of him. He's also a good emergency attacker to finish a player off.
My friend uses him in his Balthor the defiled zombie tribal EDH deck and he's essentially a free creature (since you just cycle him) and can kill planeswalkers when people don't suspect it.
He's maybe not a super strong card, but he has epic utility. The combination of abilities is awesome.
Can trip + haste and exile at end of turn? Or just cast him normally? Or just cycle him for now and see what I draw, then unearth later? So many cool options.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
OMG, ZOMBIE OGRE WARRIOR, RUN FOR YOUR FREAKING LIVES.
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cycle then unearth with cemetery reaper on the field? nice :D
and this card have all, for 4 manas a 3/3 (plus 2 cool abilitys :)
I love this card because it's a good litmus test for how much someone is in trouble. You play him out when you're under pressure and ditch him when you're ahead.
His entrails are spilling out.
Damn.
My friend uses him in his Balthor the defiled zombie tribal EDH deck and he's essentially a free creature (since you just cycle him) and can kill planeswalkers when people don't suspect it.
He's maybe not a super strong card, but he has epic utility. The combination of abilities is awesome.
Can trip + haste and exile at end of turn? Or just cast him normally? Or just cycle him for now and see what I draw, then unearth later? So many cool options.