This is gonna be great with Splinterfright and lotsa flashback cards
Kryptnyt
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(25 votes)
"Yeah, Garl. I know the feeling exactly." -Davvol
DarthParallax
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(16 votes)
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You must be Igor.
Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor."
Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?
Nucleon
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(11 votes)
Innistrad is a weird block, for sure. In any other situation, this would be some kind of pathetic Myr knockoff that would get 0.5 starred into oblivion. I mean, you mill yourself for one, it's 1/1, and the mana it adds is colorless. "Strictly inferior to Silver Myr" people would say.
And then Innistrad came along and made milling yourself a valid tactic.
Vedalken_Arbiter
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
Millikin in blue with a point of power for your trouble.
YETH MARTHTER!
BegleOne
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Milling yourself has been a valid tactic for a long time; reanimater decks and Accumulated Knowledge-type cards were around a long long time ago and then Odyssey block block brought around flashback and threshold and made self-mill a wonderful concept.
This card is fantastic utility deck glue, no question.
Obviously needs a mill-based strategy to work, but reasonably effective in such a deck.
I love the flavor text, though if the job market is as terrible in Innastrad as it is in our reality, poor Garl might be better off keeping his lousy job for the time being. Hey, if he's lucky, he might get made into a vampire, werewolf, or some other horror and thus prove to be more useful. I assume that's how promotions work on a plane of horror!
landboysteve
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Absolutely the funniest flavor text I have ever seen. LOL.
And not too bad a card either. Great for self mill AND getting mana to boot.
Poor Garl, i wonder what made him qiut his career as a Chasm Drake trainer to pursue lab work?
Mike-C
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Welsch boy: The fall is what I'm guessing.
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is the card that ties my deck together. Between all the graveyard recursion, and the exorbitant costs of a lot of those flashback cards, this guy does everything I need. Put stuff in my graveyard so I can nab it at my leisure, and gets me the mana I need to actually enact my recursion. If you were considering putting a mana myr in your self-mill, don't bother. This is your man, right here.
So with this card can I flip more than one from the top of my library on a single tap to mana ramp my colorless?
hawkeye137
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If an experienced magic player who is playing for 10 years use a Go for the Throat on this little guy, well it is a good card I guess. 4/5 cuz it is only logical to play this in a self mill deck.
Squashed_Elephant
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Mongoguy: If the answer to your question was yes, then it would be perfectly plausible to drop this guy turn 2 then Emrakul, The Aeons Torn on turn 3 by tapping this guy and milling the top 15 cards of your library. Does that answer your question?
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What drawback?
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
What really does the flavour for me is how erudite he sounds.
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Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor."
Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?
And then Innistrad came along and made milling yourself a valid tactic.
YETH MARTHTER!
This card is fantastic utility deck glue, no question.
I love the flavor text, though if the job market is as terrible in Innastrad as it is in our reality, poor Garl might be better off keeping his lousy job for the time being. Hey, if he's lucky, he might get made into a vampire, werewolf, or some other horror and thus prove to be more useful. I assume that's how promotions work on a plane of horror!
And not too bad a card either. Great for self mill AND getting mana to boot.
I'll take 4 please.
This is your man, right here.