At random? So he doesn't know who is in which grave?
Hayw00d0909
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
THANK YOU Wizards! This is an excellent tribal twist to Gravedigger.
ThisisSakon
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
I need this! *grab*
Whoops, got gravediggers instead... Oh well
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(11 votes)
Card advantage is still card advantage. And of course he doesn't know who is in which grave, he can't read headstones. Gravedigger can though, because he has an actual job while this guy it is more as a hobby.
DarthParallax
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(8 votes)
how the hell did MasterofEtherium get a FIVE STARRED COMMENT on Gatherer?!?!
I will feel....inadequate, somehow, if none of my comments on Innistrad get 5 stars now. :/
PS- love the card. I always wanted a cheaper Gravedigger, don't mind the drawback. :)
NoobOfLore
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Cheap tribal gravedigger is nice, I just like the greatly improved versatility of Gravedigger more. The speed advantage granted by being one mana cheaper doesn't really offset the two-color difficulty and the zombie only at-random clause, in my opinion.
There is, doubtless, a deck that benefits greatly from the marginally improved speed of this card, but frankly, I don't enjoy playing at that speed.
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card kind of does the job Corpse Cur does, just a little bit less efficiently.
Although it doesn't have Infect and doesn't allow you to choose your card, this is stil a great card to draft when playing black in Drafts.
blindthrall
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
@DarthParallax: Try sprinkling "jew" in where it doesn't belong, and you'll get jew 5-star comments too. It would have been at least understandable if the card was a golem.
HeartbreakerStudios
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
As long as it's a random creature and it must be a Zombie, it would be considerably more balanced at 2B or even better at 1B for a 1/2 or 2/1.
That aside, I love the art. The concept of zombies rising from the ground, grabbing a shovel and altruistically helping their buddies up and out of the ground is a pretty cool image.
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ugh, *** MasterOfEtherium. Whatever, this thing is nice in draft but too bad even for Casual MBZ.
poprockmonster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Outside of zombie tribal, forget Gravedigger, I'd prefer to play Cadaver Imp. The loss of one point of power for flying and making it return any creature card instead of just a random zombie totally makes it better than Ghoulraiser in my book. Although in my zombie tribal deck Ghoulraiser is really fun in those earlier turns to keep recycling my Gempalm Polluters :D
Wraique
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Does this card's ability trigger if there are no zombies in your yard? I know I've seen someone use this and a Stitcher's Apprentice to get a 2/2 every turn, but I can't remember if he already had a ghoulraiser in his graveyard or not.
It went like this:
Ghoulraiser enters the battlefield > Activate apprentice in response > sacrifice Ghoulraiser > Ghoulraiser's own ability resolves and returns it to your hand. Repeat.
Edit: Nevermind. Tested it out with Magic Online. Its ability triggers with zilch in the graveyard. Makes sense... Not that I figured it out on my own :P Also, I'm curious to know if that ever came up during testing.
LeakyTeacup
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dont know if you guys noticed, but MasterofEtherium's comment dissapeared
Horsethief
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I thought this guy seemed like a good creature for my zombie deck but he turned out to really suck. There are plenty of cards like goulcaller's chant and undying evil that take care of the death problem. I would just use those cards to keep my zombies going then when i really take a beating towards the end i use zombie apocalypse . Bringing out a 2/2 zombie to randomly get a zombie from my graveyard never helped me much. I just never needed him. So he proved unworthy. Although he might be useful in a non zombie deck to create a ghoulraiser loop but still i dunno about this guy. He disappointed me.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Not everything needs power creep, this is fine how it is. You can still combo with itself, granted its your only zombie.
I still don't understand what the deal is with the ghoulcallers. Why do they just want to kill everyone? They seem like Stupid Evil characters. Maybe they are zombies, but in that case how can they speak?
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Whoops, got gravediggers instead... Oh well
And of course he doesn't know who is in which grave, he can't read headstones. Gravedigger can though, because he has an actual job while this guy it is more as a hobby.
I will feel....inadequate, somehow, if none of my comments on Innistrad get 5 stars now. :/
PS- love the card. I always wanted a cheaper Gravedigger, don't mind the drawback. :)
There is, doubtless, a deck that benefits greatly from the marginally improved speed of this card, but frankly, I don't enjoy playing at that speed.
Although it doesn't have Infect and doesn't allow you to choose your card, this is stil a great card to draft when playing black in Drafts.
That aside, I love the art. The concept of zombies rising from the ground, grabbing a shovel and altruistically helping their buddies up and out of the ground is a pretty cool image.
It went like this:
Ghoulraiser enters the battlefield > Activate apprentice in response > sacrifice Ghoulraiser > Ghoulraiser's own ability resolves and returns it to your hand. Repeat.
Edit: Nevermind. Tested it out with Magic Online. Its ability triggers with zilch in the graveyard. Makes sense... Not that I figured it out on my own :P Also, I'm curious to know if that ever came up during testing.