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Gravecrawler

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Gravecrawler

Comments (93)

A0602
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (10 votes)
This card makes even horrible cards look good.

Demon's Horn for instance....
SgtSwaggr
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (6 votes)
Zombie Bloodghast. I'll take that.
Guest1741897132
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (8 votes)
You've got no legs!
This just a flesh wound.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
Oh, that's nice. Another Bloodghast to deal with :p BUT NICE CARD 5/5!!!!
Hanksingle
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (5 votes)
This card, at least in the sealed, was exactly as advertised. I actually think it will get better in a constructed deck that ensures support. Big, big fan.

Hilarious combo with Stitcher's Apprentice for an ever increasing army.
Hackworthy
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (7 votes)
Mindblowingly powerful, a staple of many powerful zombie decks to come.
Hayw00d0909
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (6 votes)
I've been hoping zombies will find a way to break through, and really take off. This is definetly a push in the right direction.
ZirilanoftheClaw
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
already made a deck revolving around this + Nantuko husk + Grave Pact
Okuu-chan
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (6 votes)
Not sure if I appreciate the emergence of Bloodghast clones.
Laguz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
I think it's time to rebuild my zombie deck. This guy will turn my carrion feeder into an omfg feeder, and my shepherd of rots and gempalm polluters will always have ammo. Love how simple and powerful it is.
Ouroborobelisk
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Flavor wise this guys ability should have been on the Black Cat seeing as Black Cat is a zombie anyway. You know, the whole "the Cat came back ... " nine lives thing and all.
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (4 votes)
@Ouroborobelisk, but Black Cat is on it's last life. The flavor text says so!
Rikiaz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
At last my standard Dredge deck is viable!
Totema
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (6 votes)
Grimgrin says this makes for a delicious and nutritious snack when on the go, though it is a bit crunchy.

Even without him, this is a great replacement for Reassembling Skeleton in zombie tribal. I'll take a set, please!
safalucy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
4.891? Omg this card is the best black card ever in terms of community rating. Even better than Yawgmoth's Will.
Stinga
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (6 votes)
I have to say it; straight up overpowered. What happened to green having the good creatures?
BastianQoU
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I so very much hate this card.
But with that said, it's absolutely amazing.
Radagast
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (5 votes)
Wow. This thing is basically an Elite Vanguard that can come back for another run at the opponent's life total. Sure, it can't block, but that's not the point of aggro creatures anyway. Top it off with a meaningful creature type and you have a really good card.
DarthParallax
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0) (2 votes)
FINALLY! No more of this 'Regenerate' B.S. Ever since I saw Drudge Skeletons, I have been waiting for a simple Zombie that I can play straight out of the graveyard. I don't think he's too powerful, especially since you still have to pay mana for him.

Regenerate is for starfish and trolls, not Zombies. not really. Zombies don't regenerate their limbs at all. Whatever's left of them just kind of keeps crawling at you. This card is perfect and needs to be reprinted in a Core Set at least once.

One thing though: I would like it to have more bony art, since I prefer skeletal zombies to the kind that look like they are from modern horror movies. Just my opinion. However, of all the zombies with 'normal clothers', this one is my favorite and I would be satisfied just to see it reprinted. I guess the fans of 'zombies with clothes' also should get at least one card that is more obviously not a skeleton, since Wizards designs cards for more than one type of person to enjoy. My only real regret is that this was not yet invented before they made Premium Deck Series: Graveborn, which clearly needs 4 of these...
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
For the pure aggro strategy, it puts Elite Vanguard to shame.
MANABURNWASGOOD
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (6 votes)
Broken.
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Rooftop Storm helps to assure you're always in control of a zombie!!
dingophone
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0) (3 votes)
Honestly, it's just like Bloodghast; completely and unnecessarily overpowered and completely out of black's realm of the colour pie. A life payment in addition to the mana cost would be a good place to start in terms in fixing this. That being said, its too good NOT to give a 5/5.
captain_cornpops
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This + Diregraf Captain + Phyrexian Altar = Everyone Dead

As a bonus, this combo generates infinite mana of any color if you have Rooftop Storm in play.

Such a brutal little one-drop. :D
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (9 votes)
This card combos with Skullclamp... and makes me wonder which is the better card. 5/5
MasterOfBearLore
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (14 votes)
Dies to removal.

Briefly.
iUseBreakOpen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I recommend you buy a play set before they hit $40 each. As of this post, they cost $8.
Paolino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You have:
- this
- another zombie
- Ashnod's Altar
- Initiates of the Ebon Hand.
Sacrifice this to the altar and add 2; transform into BlackBlack with the cleric; cast this from your graveyard with Black -> you have Black.
REPEAT FOR POTENTIALLY INFINITE Black!
Close the game with Drain Life or something like that. Or cast B.F.M. for real fun!
Findlesham
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I thought this was a good card when I glossed over it, thinking it was 1/1.
2/1!? I'll take four.
roguepariah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
GraveVader... when will you learn?

You don't do acrobatic stunts when you opponent has the high ground, Sheesh!

edster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Could be quite annoying with a mutavault at hand.
Kluuz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm looking to run 4 of these badasses in my mono-black zombie deck :D
firearasi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Meoh Myoh. This is one of the most frustrating card to play against in constructed standard.
JungaThunda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wish there will be a Planeswalker for Zombies soon... *crosses fingers*
(2)BB (which it is two Phyrexian Black mana)
Starts at 3
+X - X is the number of cards you decide to discard from your hand.
-2 - Return a target Zombie card from the graveyard to your hand
-10 - You get X number of 2/2 Zombie tokens, where X is the number of Zombie creatures in your graveyard.
This would be sooo unbelievable. xD
RPJesus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Okuu-chan: Nether Shadow, Nether Spirit, Nether Traitor, Ashen Ghoul, Akuta, Born of Ash, Coffin Puppets, Evershrike, Bladewing's Thrall, Ichorid, Necrosavant, Nim Devourer. Our good friend Ghasty comes from a long line of "Again!?"
Which incidentally I <3.
boneclub
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Season 1 Episode 1 of "The Walking Dead": Reminds me of that girl Rick ran into that was just the torso.
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (4 votes)
Any black mage will come buckets of toxic ichor when they pull this card out of a booster pack.
bandswithgoats
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Brainghast.
Diachronos
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (5 votes)
@MisterAction:
Actually, Gravecrawler could be one of the ultimate examples of high-level necromancy.
How can you really top a Zombie that just won't die?!
MisterAction
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Don't get me wrong, this looks like a fantastic card and I want four of them, but I'm not buying the flavor text.

Lilliana... I hate to break it to you, but if you want to show up the ghoulcallers this li'l guy isn't going to impress anyone. Did you know someone made a zombie that can make other zombies?

@Diachronos How about by making a zombie that can walk?
GlassJoetheChamp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
As a 1/1, it would've been awesome and still enabled everyone's combos.

As a 2/1, it's annoying as hell, and puts Savannah Lions in the scrap heap, especially since, in case people forgot, Black isn't supposed to have the best creatures.
Sorain
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Gravecrawler Noxious Ghoul Corpse Harvester Grave Pact Undead Warcheif

in combination, these cards are devastating. Most directly, Gravecrawler's built in recursion lets me toss him to Corpse Harvester, then bring him back, trigering Noxious Ghoul's effect to wipe creatures, along with setting off Grave Pact, and with even 1 Undead Warcheif, he hits for 4 each time. A key element is that the previous card I used for this, Festering Goblin would cost me (typically) my Lord of the Undead's tap ability to recour. With that freed up, I can bring back other cards.

Unable to block, there is no reason not to swing with him so long as 1 remains in play on my side of the field. Though I have to refrain from Vengeful Dead , lest my friends refuse to play with me anymore. Similar situation with Gempalm Polluter and Carrion Feeder.
Izzy187
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
(This plus Grimgrin, Corpse-Born and Rooftop Storm = infinite counters on Grimgrin.) @SwordOfKaldra

Thats a lie, because casting something has to be from YOUR HAND, gravecrawler has a ability which allows you to pay 1 mana to bring him back. You can however use Geralf's messengers and fume spitters. Because sac-ing a fume spitter puts a -1/-1 on any creature, so you can have crazy messengers with undying all the time.
SnackyNorph
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
@Izzy187
There is nothing in the wording of Rooftop Storm that necessitates casting from your hand. It is indeed very plausible to cast and recast Gravecrawler from the graveyard for free as many times as you like to make Grimgrin, Corpse-Born infinitely powerful.

As for the card itself, although it being a brand new rare makes it difficult to get my hands on, I'm getting two today and finding two more in the near future for my B/U Zombie deck. Fantastic zombie, makes Diregraf Ghoul look very mediocre in comparison. 5/5.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0) (8 votes)
MY NI GG ER IS HOLDIN BRICKS U KNOW HATERS GONA BE OUT FOR HIS LEGS, TRAPSTAR ZOMBIE CRACKHEAD SELLIN THEM BRICKS
Specter_Fanatic13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is an amazing, OP feeling card. I can't believe they printed this in the same set as Diregraf Ghoul!

I didn't get the flavor portion of it till recently: Liliana created a ghoul so durable, it can keep coming back no matter how many times you put it down until you kill it for good by removing the body from game. And it obviously can't block because enemy creatures can just jump over the poor guy as he feebly swipes at their legs.

Considering this guy is a rotten , semi-unkillable torso who's best attribute is his expandability, I kinda feel bad for him. ;_;
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Strangely enough, equip this mindless zombie with Skullclamp and you've got yourself a dangerous card draw engine. Also works with Grave Pact, Mind Slash making your opponent discard a card for {B}{B}....numerous other potential combos.
Ligerman30
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Might as well say, "attacks each turn if able".
j_mindfingerpainter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the few non-Knight cards without Changeling that has synergy with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge.

@ MasterOfEtherium: Honestly, why shouldn't we click 'Report Abuse'?
yuyu63
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
ok i must add another combo because we johnnies and you spikes are the people that love to see what others findout before we did,
Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Ghoul (preferred zombie)+ Deathgreater + Carnival of Souls + Phyrexian Alter
Eddie_Antilles
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A nice fast black beat stick for Zombie or Black Aggro. And is that really a drawback anyway? Hands up all those that would have been blocking with this...

4.5/5
TheAmberSpyglass
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Sold this card for a decent price. Creepy as all hell and positively brilliant for a zombie deck. Dark Ascension was one of the sets that didn't get much love but this guy is great.
marmaris74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why yes, I do like winning.
Combos amazingly with Phyrexian ghoul. It's like a looming shade, but with double mana. Throw in a scavenger drake to really break things. Of course, this takes some luck to set up, but it's a lot of fun.
MyrBattlecube
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Craaaaaaaaawling in my graaaaaaaaaaave.
This fleeeeeesh it wiiiiiiiill not heeeeeeeeeeeeeal.
...excuse me, I think I'm going to be sick now.
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why this card is amazing and should scare you.
1) Black for a 2/1 is good, even if it cannot block.
2) Being able to cast a one-mana creature from a graveyard is good.
3) Very relevant creature type.
4) Rooftop Storm and a Sack engine.
5) Dread Return.

5/5, this card is amazing
heavyterror
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I am reminded of the first episode of walking dead.

Also: LOTLETH TROLL
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't know how prominent the Bloodthrone Vampire / Bloodghast Sac engine was in standard back in the days of Zendikar, but I think Gravecrawler can be a very, very viable replacement for the ghast.

The unfortunate part is the "Zombie" part, when Bloodthrone is most definitely a vampire and not a zombie, which means that you'd need a second zombie on the field for the Zombiecraft effect (a nickname I give to crawler's Metalcraft-like effect).

I'd also suggest that Blood Artist would work wonders with them two, but that'd mean you'd need 4 pieces of this increasingly complex puzzle.

If there is going to be a reprint of Nantuko Husk or Phyrexian Ghoul in the Return to Ravnica block, then I think this will jump in price.

I'm saying this now: invest in Gravecrawlers! Who knows what Golgari's got up their sleeve!
TheGreatJman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is ridiculous....buy a set now before RTR comes out, you can still get them for $6 each online. I love using it with Mortarpod but when that rotates out in October, it looks like GB is getting some great replacements. This is going to combo very nicely with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Lotleth Troll. LOLTROLL for short.

Usually leads to a turn 4 or 5 win if you have one in your opening hand with a sac engine.
Jupenator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Golgari came out at just the right time. This will be sure to find its way into my Standard deck to work with Blood Artist and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord.
McKnuty
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Loses to Ash Zealot. This card is obsolete.
TheZombifier
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Actually my favourite Zombie card in my Blue/Black Zombie deck. I always used to growl when I get this thing onto battlefield. :)
MRK1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gravecrawler + Carrion Feeder + Bridge from Below = A lot of zombies and one fat Carrion Feeder.

Attack with small hoard of zombies, eat anything (including Carrion Feeder himself) that would kill a blocker and ice your bridges, Unearth Carrion Feeder, nom some Gravecrawlers, repeat.

Not efficient but way fun.
Shard_Fenix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
The cheapest cmc 3 creature ever printed.

Rated 5/5 from a player's standpoint, because 1 mana to draw a card is something you should never pass up.

Rated 0.5/5 from a game designer's standpoint, because 1 mana to draw a card is something you should never print.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can't wait for these to rotate out so I can actually buy some... Damn you SCG
Ancestral_Forget
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just in case this wasn't already broken enough, slap a skullclamp on it to get a reusable {1}{B}: Draw 2 cards.
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think Ash Zealot was made just to stop this becoming too dangerous... it's like the perfect counter for it.

@Mcknuty: No it's not obsolete, it's still very useful. Not every deck runs Ash Zealot plus this only costs 1 and keeps coming back. That's great for a 2/1.
Hunter06
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Would be much more balanced as a 1/1 but i'm glad they finally made a zombie that is playable turn 1.
4/5 Stars
Xineombine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Bloodghast's Zombie cousin
Westertin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Him with Grimgrin, corpse-born and everyone loses
Reishyn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo with Attrition for Terror on a stick! Add Gravepact for extra spice.

Or, you know, any of the other infinitely more broken combos out there... Damn, this card is good!
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome zombie card. It really fits the theme of zombies (keeps coming back... forever..). I want one for my horde deck because he fits the theme so well.
Vastator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Imagine four of these out on the field at once - you can run but you can't hide and these guys certainly won't be going away any time soon


5/5 for being such a terrifying one drop that sums up the essence of why many of us love mono-black
Dankirk
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
"Let me show you what someone with real power can create" -Liliana
*Casts a legless zombie*
Nasferot2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Turn 1 Swamp Dark Ritual Carrion Feeder Gravecrawler sac this guy to Feeder with your last manna play him again sac again.
Turn 2 Fedder is 3/3 play gravecrawler again an repeat throw some other shananagains inn there boom.
swagtusk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No one has noted the infinite mana and synergy with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Phyrexian Altar, sac gravecrawler to the altar and he comes right back from the undying trigger and you added one of any color to your mana pool then you sac him again and use the next mana to recast him. Once you have a ton of mana just throw in Exsanguinate for good measure.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I didn't see Carrion Feeder mentioned, which covers this guy's requirment and becomes essentially "{B}: +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder"

Consider his synergy with cards that make you and your opponent both discard, such as Delirium Skeins. Say, T1 Carrion Feeder, T2 Dark ritual, Blood Scrivener, Duress , T3 Delirium; dropping him in the grave and holding Ghoulcaller's Chant.

Now you essentially lose nothing. Say next turn cast the chant, cast gravecrawler from the grave, cycle a gempalm polluter for 3-4 to the face + the 5ish from attacking so far.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Perhaps the best 1 CMC creature ever printed.
RunedServitor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Liliana: Let me show you what someone with real power can create.

Garruk: GARRUK SMASH PUNY ZOMBIE! But. Garruk smashed. WHY NO STAY SMASHED! BAH

Jace: But. But I countered that. I countered that! OMFG UR NOT ALLOWED!

Chandra: Finally, something I can burn every day for the rest of my life! It never even stays burned! YAYZ

Karn: *exiles*

Liliana and Chandra in unison: NUUUUUUUUUU~
Ruaranicus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh good god, the flavour on this card... simply fantastic. Kudos to whoever chose that flavour text for this card rather than sticking it on some big durdly Zombie Goliath or something. Clearly Liliana knows her way around a game of Magic if this is her idea of true power...
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
10 dollars a pop because they forgot to add a 1 to the cmc. Rating .5/5 because of inflated price-tag due to intentionally broken card. Nothing comes close to the power this brings for 1 cmc.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How is this card not banned in any format?!?