Oglor's endearing witticisms are making it hard for me to be truly horrified by Innistrad.
Keep the faith, Oglor buddy.
JFM2796
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Obviously meant to go with Morbid. Reminds me of Puppet Conjurer.
Lyoncet
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
The most important part of this card is the colon; it's before the "sacrifice a creature" effect, so it's not a cost. That means you can create a token and then sacrifice the token. Not a stellar card on its own, but I have a feeling with the next few sets that this guy may often be treated as "{1}{U}, {Tap}: Activate Morbid." Also, he can be used to activate death triggers and get a little extra value out of an otherwise unexciting CIP creature while keeping your board presence and building up to cast a Skaab.
ThisisSakon
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
Spawning a creature just to kill another? How... Morbid
.Blaze.
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Flavor text is both funny and informative. Great way to tell players to sac the token they make to trigger the effects that go off when a creature dies.
scumbling1
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(6 votes)
I love the flavor text on this guy!
It seems that has always been the problem: some other, better god always comes along.
DaddyCerodon
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Played against this at a Launch party. Truly a disgusting way to escape removal and combat by sacking (and later reviving) creatures.
at the release party, this + Mentor of the Meek ended up being 2U: draw a card.
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
This is not only a walking morbid-factory, but lets you make a bear whenever someone targets one of your guys with removal. Just sac the target and voila, you keep the bear. This card, like a ridiculous amount of blue cards in the set, is a powerhouse in limited.
Artscrafter
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@dontmess17: There is no synergy between this card and Grimgrin, Corpse-Born. Sacrificing a creature as part of this ability doesn't cause Grimgrin's ability to become activated on its own.
Apart from the obvious applications of activating morbid or getting a replacement for a creature that's being targeted with removal, this plays well with any creatures you want to sacrifice (Perilous Myr and Viridian Emissary come to mind) as well as any triggers that look for a creature entering the battlefield (Intruder Alarm shenanigans?) or dying/being sacrificed (Grave Pact and Mortician Beetle come to mind.)
Zeofar
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
While this card's most apparent use is to activate Morbid, it also serves another purpose: putting a creature card into your graveyard without diminishing your board presence. And a stitcher certainly would like a nicely stocked graveyard, wouldn't he?
Fenizrael
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Played a booster draft and drew a Mentor of the Meek and made a UW deck. Turns out this guy is a bit of a spanner in the works when you make removal spells impossible to use.
Had a Moorland Haunt thrown in for good measure too. I pity the fools who ran Black, Red, and Green decks.
The flavor is pretty ridiculous. Take apart one of your creatures to make another one.
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I've found this incredibly useful. Even by itself, once you get a token going it can block and sacrifice over and over and over. If you run with Skaab Ruinator, you can sac 2/2 creatures with ETB/LTB effects (Solemn Simulacrum, AEther Adept, Gravedigger, etc) for no board change but extra Ruinator food. At worst, it's {1}{U} for something that can effectively block twice.
kureggu
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Surprised no one here has noticed the synergy with Mimic Vat yet. You can use it to sac the card you want to imprint (anything with an ETB effect, for instance), and then once it's imprinted you can pay 5 instead of 3 and get an extra 2/2 by sacrificing the token you were gonna have to exile anyways.
If you do this with Solemn Simulacrum you get the added bonus of drawing a card every turn because the tokens die instead of being exiled.
Findlesham
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Is it weird that I find him adorable? <3
I WANT A HOMUNCULUS.
and a pony
leomistico
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Nice card, combo enabler and there are a lot of sinergy with other cards... Nice picture, also!
3.5/5
However, I don't understand a couple of thing, about flavour: 2/2 for an Homunculus isn't a bit too much? Looking at Puppet Conjurer and other Homunculus, it seems that an Homunculus should be a 0/1 or 1/1 or the like... I think that this should make 2/2 black zombie tokens, like a lot of other cards in Innistrad set... Much more flavour!
MisterAction
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This guy gets a 5 from me, partially for the flavor and partially because he always seems to win me the game in limited. He triggers morbid, he gives me a 2/2 for the "cost" of untapping my Stormbound Geist and enlarging it, and he chumps like a boss while Murder of Crows digs up something mean to give to Invisible Stalker.
And his crowning moment of awesome: using Traitorous Blood to steal some big stupid angel that was about to kill me (no, I don't play white very often), attacking with it, and then homunculizing it.
And folks... any draft where the play of the night involves the made-up word "homunculize" is a good night.
DeFectiveDeity
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It may not seem like much, but I just made a B/U/W deck that uses this for Skirsdag High Priest's Morbid ability. Running it alongside Blood Artist and Unruly Mob makes sacking the token a constant nuisance. Not the best, but a 3/3.5 in the right deck makes this card worth it.
BigPimpin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This, and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and suddenly you're spawning 3/3s, then sacrificing them and bringing them back as 4/4s. Trust me, it works.
cotf1692
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@BigPimpin Actually it doesn't, tokens stop existing once they hit the graveyard, or any other zone except the combat zone.
@ leomistico the flavor is more of a reference to frankenstein, where frankestein's monster was created bigger then frankenstein himself, lookit the artwork, that eye is at least twice as big as the apprentice's one.
Antsache
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@dontmess17
Old comment, of course, but just so others thinking the same thing might avoid frustration:
This doesn't synergize with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born or any other card that requires a sacrifice as part of an ability. Sacrifice is not an ability that targets and then goes on the stack. The ability requiring you to sacrifice will be on the stack, but once it resolves there will be no time between your announcement of which creature you choose to sacrifice and you actually making the sac; they occur simultaneously. The same is true of Grimgrin's ability (only his sac is paid as a cost, rather than an effect, and thus never even goes on the stack at all). Regardless, he has little synergy with this card, as the Apprentice won't be able to replace the creature sac'd to Grimgrin.
OstravaBoletaria
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this is much better than it first appears. at worst, it can make itself a bear, at best its a removal deterrent (it's unlikely someone will want to use removal on a creature just to have it become a 2/2), it feeds your graveyard for Spider Spawnings, Skaab Ruinators etc., works well with Parallel Lives and triggers morbid! awesome card in draft, might be used in some casual decks as well.
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, Oglor sure doesn't die to Deicide, so I guess Oglor's not a god.
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Keep the faith, Oglor buddy.
It seems that has always been the problem: some other, better god always comes along.
Apart from the obvious applications of activating morbid or getting a replacement for a creature that's being targeted with removal, this plays well with any creatures you want to sacrifice (Perilous Myr and Viridian Emissary come to mind) as well as any triggers that look for a creature entering the battlefield (Intruder Alarm shenanigans?) or dying/being sacrificed (Grave Pact and Mortician Beetle come to mind.)
Had a Moorland Haunt thrown in for good measure too. I pity the fools who ran Black, Red, and Green decks.
What fun green-blue decks are.
If you do this with Solemn Simulacrum you get the added bonus of drawing a card every turn because the tokens die instead of being exiled.
I WANT A HOMUNCULUS.
and a pony
3.5/5
However, I don't understand a couple of thing, about flavour:
2/2 for an Homunculus isn't a bit too much? Looking at Puppet Conjurer and other Homunculus, it seems that an Homunculus should be a 0/1 or 1/1 or the like...
I think that this should make 2/2 black zombie tokens, like a lot of other cards in Innistrad set... Much more flavour!
And his crowning moment of awesome: using Traitorous Blood to steal some big stupid angel that was about to kill me (no, I don't play white very often), attacking with it, and then homunculizing it.
And folks... any draft where the play of the night involves the made-up word "homunculize" is a good night.
Actually it doesn't, tokens stop existing once they hit the graveyard, or any other zone except the combat zone.
Old comment, of course, but just so others thinking the same thing might avoid frustration:
This doesn't synergize with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born or any other card that requires a sacrifice as part of an ability. Sacrifice is not an ability that targets and then goes on the stack. The ability requiring you to sacrifice will be on the stack, but once it resolves there will be no time between your announcement of which creature you choose to sacrifice and you actually making the sac; they occur simultaneously. The same is true of Grimgrin's ability (only his sac is paid as a cost, rather than an effect, and thus never even goes on the stack at all). Regardless, he has little synergy with this card, as the Apprentice won't be able to replace the creature sac'd to Grimgrin.