Nice. Free graveyard removal. And a 2/2 flyer for 3 in black is good, too.
Frost_Pheonix
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Tech against Reanimator :)
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Massive thicket of pubic hair.
Trubuliva
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Yep, Reanimator is toast against this. You never saw it coming.
Tanaka348
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I wonder what the heck it's doing in this deck, though. There doesn't seem to be any reason for Liliana to exile from graveyards, basically making it a 2/2 flying for 3. Which isn't horrible, at least.
OmegaSerris
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
There was one reason and one reason alone that this was in the Vess Deck: Rancor. Black has ZERO Enchantment hate unless you go the destroy/sac target permanent route, which is pretty rare out of multicolor. Even then, it still would come back for anything short of a counterspell (would Dash Hopes have been too OP for her deck? I know Death Grip is out of the question, but not Hopes?). So the only way Vess' deck can handle it is with 1) Discard or 2) Instant-speed GY hate. It doesn't get more instant than this unless you added splitsecond because of the lack of mana cost.
I guess she could also hit Beast Attack, but I never saw that card as much of a threat. Other than those two cards, Garruk's deck doesn't card about graveyards. She can also hit your own graveyard before setting off Vess' final with Phyrexian Rager and Howling Banshee (if you're low on life) or Keening Banshee (if only you have creatures) but again, that's pretty narrow. I never really liked this card, I would have been happier with even Shadowfeed.
HuntingDrake
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This appears to be the only card with a "Discard this" activated ability not labeled Cycling, Transmute, Reinforce, or Channel.
zenitramleirdag
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
you're right frost_phoenix and trubuliva, and this card proved it in tournaments..ever heard of the deck "gate".. this can stop dredge and reanimator completely in its tracks.. At worst, he's a 2/2 flyer for three mana. Highly abusable and underused.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
"This appears to be the only card with a "Discard this" activated ability not labeled Cycling, Transmute, Reinforce, or Channel." @HuntingDrake It's rare, but there's a card with an even rarer variant - Circling Vultures has a static ability that allows it to discard itself!
Also is it just me, or does this printing feel like the original card came from Urza Block? There is a similarly dark atmosphere of various black phyrexian cards with purplish background. I know it's originally from Lorwyn, i guess it's just the slight change in brightness compared to the original print that somehow made it seem like rk post's artwork was older and originally from a card that uses the old frame.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Also... this works with Ichorid and friends. If you see a problem card in their graveyard you can kill it while feeding yours. If the go to Extirpate or similar you can lose just the cards in the grave and not everywhere else. Interesting and worth trying
Also, low enough mana cost to be a non-dead card.
Ligerman30
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Best card gy hate card against Living End and in Living End imo. Leyline, Bojuka Bog, and Rest in Peace are all gravy but there are a few things that give this chick the edge. 1)Almost never a dead draw (It can always just be a wind drake) 2)Instant Speed gives you more flexibility to curve naturally and allows you to use it like a "counterspell" 3)No mana investment 4)You don't have to play 4 of them in your sideboard or aggressively mulligan for it to have an impact, though it certainly helps. (I'm looking at you leyline of the void) 5)You get a dude after living end resolves.
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I guess she could also hit Beast Attack, but I never saw that card as much of a threat. Other than those two cards, Garruk's deck doesn't card about graveyards. She can also hit your own graveyard before setting off Vess' final with Phyrexian Rager and Howling Banshee (if you're low on life) or Keening Banshee (if only you have creatures) but again, that's pretty narrow. I never really liked this card, I would have been happier with even Shadowfeed.
this can stop dredge and reanimator completely in its tracks..
At worst, he's a 2/2 flyer for three mana. Highly abusable and underused.
@HuntingDrake It's rare, but there's a card with an even rarer variant - Circling Vultures has a static ability that allows it to discard itself!
Also is it just me, or does this printing feel like the original card came from Urza Block?
There is a similarly dark atmosphere of various black phyrexian cards with purplish background.
I know it's originally from Lorwyn, i guess it's just the slight change in brightness compared to the original print that somehow made it seem like rk post's artwork was older and originally from a card that uses the old frame.
Also, low enough mana cost to be a non-dead card.
1)Almost never a dead draw (It can always just be a wind drake)
2)Instant Speed gives you more flexibility to curve naturally and allows you to use it like a "counterspell"
3)No mana investment
4)You don't have to play 4 of them in your sideboard or aggressively mulligan for it to have an impact, though it certainly helps. (I'm looking at you leyline of the void)
5)You get a dude after living end resolves.