Decent token generator when used alongside Diminish.
Still, a little less satisfying.
Shiizu
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Backbreaking in if played with rite of passage and any pestilence effect. Probably also solid in a zombie deck with enough lords. If only this guy's P/T was reversed.
Anubisisking
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Tried to be Myr Sire and failed horribly... If you can boost his toughness and then let loose with a pyroclasm, he's good though I guess.
chinkeeyong
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I couldn't stop laughing when i pulled this guy from a booster pack. That is flavor.
Totobean
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Pretty good in limited, but there are definitely better 5 drops to play in standard. 3.5/5
MoeRapples
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
Make it indestructible. Keep damaging it. It's a zombie clown car.
Looks like he'd fit in with pingers really nicely.
Shame that you need extra cards to get more than 1 2/2 Zombie a turn without killing him, but overall he looks pretty good.
RobinHood3000
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
After the zombie apocalypse, these will be mass-produced in Russia as a tourist item.
This is fantastic in limited. You can ping it with Embersmith and Mortarpod. It really shines when you can get a ghoul token with mortarpod on it. Chump block, sac ghoul to ping Nested Zombie, rinse, repeat.
This card has lots of flavor and combo potential. 4/5
Looks good with all the potential zombie pump. Give it 3-4 toughness, make big zombies.
Progle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Pratically a winning card.
AssKickingBoots
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@Appleseed000: Actually, this card says "Whenever a source deals damage" to it put a zombie token into play, not "for each damage dealt". Shivan Meteor would put in 1 token because it is just one source. I am looking forward to Innistrad though.
I'm trying to take this card a different direction though. Maybe Zombie Clerics. Use Shaman en-Kor to direct damage to it. I dunno.
EDIT: @AssKickingBoots Thank you! Wow I can't believe I misinterpreted it like that. If it worked like I had originally misread though, the fun that could be had! :P My bubble really deflated there. Well I'm sure I'll come up with something fun for him.
What? A "when it takes damage" ability and it has more power than toughness? Its like they printed the p/t backwards. Reaper of Sheoldred did not have this issue. Not saying it was very good, mind you, but it's the same idea
Amorgan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would rather have a 2BB 2/3 with that ability. Still a good card when used with any pump or indestructibility. Also, be sure to use with Nin, the Pain Artist
krauser-gogetthegirl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
mortarpod,diregraf captain. equip zombie tokens and ping the nested ghoul to put out another token and drain 1 life.
killin em slowly. ridiculous standard style.
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The mana cost is too high to be taken seriously in standard format. Even if you can get Skeletal Grimace or Undying Evil on him, that is still two for one. And don't forget, while you are paying 5 mana for a nested ghoul, your opponent will be paying a similar amount for mythic beater cards.
I really wanted this to be good, but nested ghoul can't keep up with the mana curve where power is concerned =/
DoragonShinzui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
A touch expensive, but when combo-ed right can make for some interesting shenanigans.
Plus, it's a hilarious phyrexian parody of russian nesting dolls. How can you not love that?
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Feels like the 2 and the 4 have been switched... Would have been an excellent defender if it had been 2/4, would have made enemies think twice before attacking. As it is you'll be lucky if it goes off more than once.
With his tribe he will likely get pumped a bit to help him pump out more zombies. May I recommend plague spitter as a way to keep plopping them out each turn without killing him?
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All I could think about when I read it.
Still, a little less satisfying.
Keep damaging it.
It's a zombie clown car.
Yeah. I like this! It's just damn fun!
Fill it with more useless meat!"
--Gyed "Xzibit," Vault Priest.
Shame that you need extra cards to get more than 1 2/2 Zombie a turn without killing him, but overall he looks pretty good.
Creatures
4 Grave titans
4 Nested Ghouls
4 Cemetery Reapers
4 Grixis Slavedrivers
1 Archdemon of Unx
Spells
2 Necromancer's Covenant
3 Midnight Ritual
4 Quest for the Gravelord
4 Zombie Infestation
2 Nature's spiral
Artifacts
4 Coat of arms
1 Unscythe, Killer of Kings
Lands
32 Swamps
4 Terramorphic expanse
2 Mountains
5 Plains
This card has lots of flavor and combo potential. 4/5
A 2/4 with this ability would have been more desireable.
I'm trying to take this card a different direction though. Maybe Zombie Clerics. Use Shaman en-Kor to direct damage to it. I dunno.
EDIT: @AssKickingBoots
Thank you! Wow I can't believe I misinterpreted it like that. If it worked like I had originally misread though, the fun that could be had! :P My bubble really deflated there. Well I'm sure I'll come up with something fun for him.
Still a good card when used with any pump or indestructibility. Also, be sure to use with Nin, the Pain Artist
killin em slowly. ridiculous standard style.
I really wanted this to be good, but nested ghoul can't keep up with the mana curve where power is concerned =/
Plus, it's a hilarious phyrexian parody of russian nesting dolls. How can you not love that?
Comboes with Pestilence Demon for zombies every turn though.