Dear Johnny, I have an interesting card to show you. It looks like it can be pretty easily broken in half with stuff like Cloudstone Curio. Please go ruin modern for me. Superllama12
Up on the house top reindeer pause,
OMFG it's Sandy Claws! =O
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
All for Johnny, the other kids croi (?)
WHOA WHOA WHOA- who would've known? whoa whoa whoa- who would've known oh,
Up on the house top click click clik!
Innistrad is broken, this card's a ****.
First comes the stocking of little Nell,
Boy this deck could be from Hell,
Sandy Claws filled it a little to well,
Mr. Oogie Boogie says 'gee that's SWELL!'
Next comes the stocking of Yawgmoth's Will,
Flashback is back, it's a c. a. well,
Here is a Hammer and lots of Traps,
I think Modern is full of crap!
(not really, but I needed a rhyme and it was funny. actually, this is the greatest card ever made. :D)
(third verse is about Past in Flames in case you didn't catch it)
Cthulhu_Shin
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Dr. Víctor Frankenstein likes this
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Absolutely insannnnnneeeeeeeeeee flavor! :D
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It was a dark and stormy night...
pektusman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dear Superllama12,
Ok.
Johnny
A0602
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I can see a deck being built around this and:
huge zombies draw spells colorless mana accel
sonorhC
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Bring on the lightning We'll make a monster for fun Bring on the lightning We'll turn him loose when we're done It's very frightening See how the villagers run Pull that switch and catch the lightning Before the storm is done
(with credit to Claymore J. Flapdoodle)
Ryuuken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Does this card work with Back from the Brink like I want it to? As far as all zombies I cast cost zero to cast and Back from the brink says exile target creature card in your graveyard and pay its mana cost to put a token copy of it onto the battlefield. Is that the same as casting?
Magnor_Criol
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The flavor is awesome, sure, and this has lots of combo potential - but it costs six mana. That's insanely high for any deck seeking to combo off with it in a competitive format like Modern. And most Zombies are less than 6 mana to cast; doing a gatherer search for it, there's only 7 Zombies that cost more!
Yes, it could be used to dump a ton of Zombies on the field at once, but in order to do that you have to have a hand full of them when you land this guy. By turn 6, if you have a full hand of Zombies, you're probably doing it wrong. Or have a ton of card draw in the deck, which doesn't work great with it since this thing wants a deck full of Zombies and basically nothing else......
Normally, someone would suggest something like Conspiracy to break this in half. Not I. For something as cool as this, I'd run a full four Graveborn Muse.
@magnor criol, you can use this card to combo with Creeping Renaissance. And with all they ways to mill yourself in this set, that would get out a ton of zombies in one turn.
My biggest concern is that by the time this hits the field, you're about as well off hard-casting all your zombies. On the other hand, if you're doing a lot of unearthing, as you ought to be in a zombie deck, then this lets you do so as much as you please.
Jedijoe
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Put this in a Commander deck with Thraximundar. Enough said. ;-)
Zerof89
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Suddenly, Gravediggers and Ghoulraisers everywhere.
Poor Oglor, awlays getting bossed around. Hope he manages to get it back on his master next set.
Oh, yeah... And this card is freaking insane if you manage to get it out, given the amount of Disentomb effects in Innistrad (Ghoulcaller's Chant, Ghoulraiser).
Other than the pure zombie deck, this card kind of inspires me to make a Zombie Knight deck with Haakon, stromgald scourge. Getting this and Haakon together means you've just begun a zombie apocalypse.
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Artificial Evolution, pick your favorite creature type (Eldrazi springs to mind), go mad with power and break out cackling.
Quibbleflux
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Hey, look, one of the few reasons to actually play Vengeful Pharaoh.
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Keep in mind that this card interacts well with cards of the shapeshifter subtype, casting things like Quicksilver Gargantuan for {0} sounds pretty nifty.
Wraique
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
You're thinking of changeling there tcollins.
For a moment I was super excited about this and Back from the Brink, but that doesn't work :(
RJDroid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"GIVE MY CREATURE LIFE!!!" "But Oglor has no Soul Warden in play." "Shut up, Oglor."
RedJaron
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Atemu - Given the skeleton isn't a zombie, no.
@WheresMyLand - Nice combo, but you still have to pay to use the Disciple's sac ability and paying to mill one card is not terribly efficient. However, using Carrion Feeder in place of the disciple . . .
@languill - Splashing a card into what likely is already a deck adds a lot of complexity and/or mana fixing. Not saying it can't be pulled off, but definitely not regularly or reliably.
I've got to agree with Magnor Criol. The 6 CMC really slows this down almost to the point where it's negligibly useful. I can see it being a nice game finisher, allowing you to drop a massive fatty late game, but I don't see it being a reliable saving grace if you're already in trouble. You either need massive card draw or unearthing, both of which add complexity to the deck and take space from the loads of zombies you'd otherwise want to throw in.
gotthembarrels
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This + Altar of Dementia+2 of the upcoming Gravecrawlers= infinite mill. Problem?
Carless
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is amazing, if use a zombie mana color maker, but really for me I'm bored about zombies because really there are a lot, then I think they don't need this, even is a great card
GlassJoetheChamp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm digging the synergy with Gravedigger here, you get two free zombies at once instead of one. B)
With infinite combo-ability with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born and Gravecrawler, I wouldn't be surprised if the price for this card... (puts on sunglasses) goes through the roof.
YYYYYYYEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
skormeus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I want to run this with Future Sight. It would let you play through chunks of zombies at a time and unlike Null Profusion you don't have to worry about locking yourself out of your library.
Findlesham
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Geralf and his sister Gisa really need to get their own cards. They're hilarious characters, and the cards they're assosciated with are awesome.
KnexWiz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just had a brilliant idea. if you play modern, wich i would if the place i play mtg at did modern tournaments, use this with Soulquake. This will be perfect if you playing blue black zombie tribal because tipicaly you trying to get cards in your grave yard then you return every thing to your hand and dump them back dow . i guess you could use just about any other card to return all cards to hand, but so far Soulquake is the only one i know that dose grave yards too.
3/5 if your using alone, 5/5 if you use it with combos.
btw the flavor on this card is awesome this is preaty much every thing innistrad zombies are about, Mad Scientists creating f****d up zombies under the stormy night, kind of reminds me of frankestien. wink, wink.
Artificial Evolution makes this card pump out creatures like there's no tomorrow. My sliver deck just got a whole lot faster
TherealphatMatt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
combos with zombies.
ziggefranz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this combos with Soulquake SO well in a U/B zombie deck.
"lol hay guys, pick up all your creatures, yeah? grab allllllll those cards outta your graveyard, too. you need thirty cards in your hand. sorry about those tokens, man."
*does same*
"alrighty, I'm gonna go ahead and drop every zombie i've played or had killed this game for 0. You're up."
see if you ever get invited to play with those kids again.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Stupid card. Obviously designed to be used with the Blue zombies of Innistrad, who had costs other than mana, but as usual Wizards seems to have no comprehension of how expansive or limited their tribes are.
replace selfhoff occultist with diregraf captain and were talkin...
adrian.malacoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Mike-C: Frankenstein's Monster won't work with Rooftop Storm. If you cast Frankenstein's Monster using Rooftop Storm, X will be zero.
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
THAT'S INTERESTING! "Rooftop Storms" were a very common occurrence in horror stories/films about mad scientists. The primary source for this is the 1931 film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in which Dr. Frankenstein uses the power of lightning, harvested through a lightning rod mounted on the roof of his laboratory, to animate his monster. Frankenstein's Monster is a Zombie from The Dark expansion and might actually make for a fun combo with this card!
Edit: @Adrian.Malacoda re-Frankensteins Monster combo not working: Ahh.. right you are! Forgot that X actually had to be PAID in mana (as in, not just graveyard removal) on top of the (S)(S) :(
doitpow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
cast Bladewing, Phage or thraximunder fo free? Also remember changelings, ALWAYS REMEMBER CHANGELINGS.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@averyk Actually, no. That only changes it once it's on the field. It doesn't affect the cards in your hand, where they are referred to specifically as cards. If it refers to cards, it refers to cards not in play. If it applies to creatures, enchantments, or any other kind of spell, they refer to in play abilities.
MysticSoldier5
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Laboratory of Dr. Weird South Jersey Shore
VandalHeartX
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Alright, who gave the necromancer SCIENCE!?
zzxyyzx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I once had this out with a Pawn of Ulamog, Gravecrawler, Carrion Feeder and Mortician Beetle against a White Myr deck. Next turn I drew a Diregraf Captain... I keep all of them together :P
you may pay 0 rather than pay the mana cost for kobold creature spells you cast
JaFaR_Ironclad
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
"Gentlemen... BEHOOOOOOOLD!!!!"
Lumppu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If my commander is zombie, can i cast him for free with this from commander zone?
NARFNra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, that makes Gravecrawler an infinite sac/storm count engine. Damn.
@Lumppu Almost. The first time you cast them with Rooftop Storm, they'll cost {0}. However, as Commander 'tax' is a cost modifier, it's applied AFTER the base cost. In other words, you'll just pay {0}+(X*{2}), where X is the number of times you've cast it before. So think of it as though your commander cast 0 and you'll be fine.
Mirrordin_Pure
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All the other guys had their eyes on Lilly, but I always knew you were special.
Kontrah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Doesn't this work? Get Rooftop Storm out, play Phyrexian Ghoul. Either have two Gravediggers in hand, or have one in hand and the other in the graveyard. Play Gravedigger for 0, get your other Gravedigger back, sacrifice to the ghoul. Then do it as many times as you want.
I hope it does, because I put it in my friend's "sideboard" for the B/U zombies deck I made him. More like...extra cards to have fun with, not so much a functional sideboard. I couldn't afford buying any more cards, so no Gravecrawlers.
TheMentalProdigy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Did anyone else notice how this combos with Havengul Lich? Any zombie, from any graveyard, for just 1 mana.
Dizziy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This plus Black lotus x 4 plus Conspiracy = free storm crows too OP
Comments (67)
"Golem! Rearm the Doom Citadel!"
I have an interesting card to show you. It looks like it can be pretty easily broken in half with stuff like Cloudstone Curio. Please go ruin modern for me.
Superllama12
Yes.
I use Thraximundar as my commander. Could I get him from the command zone to the battlefield for
Also, in Addition to Thraximundar:
Dralnu, Lich Lord
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
Lord of Tresserhorn
Sedris, the Traitor King
OMFG it's Sandy Claws! =O
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
All for Johnny, the other kids croi (?)
WHOA WHOA WHOA- who would've known? whoa whoa whoa- who would've known oh,
Up on the house top click click clik!
Innistrad is broken, this card's a ****.
First comes the stocking of little Nell,
Boy this deck could be from Hell,
Sandy Claws filled it a little to well,
Mr. Oogie Boogie says 'gee that's SWELL!'
Next comes the stocking of Yawgmoth's Will,
Flashback is back, it's a c. a. well,
Here is a Hammer and lots of Traps,
I think Modern is full of crap!
(not really, but I needed a rhyme and it was funny. actually, this is the greatest card ever made. :D)
(third verse is about Past in Flames in case you didn't catch it)
Ok.
Johnny
huge zombies
draw spells
colorless mana accel
We'll make a monster for fun
Bring on the lightning
We'll turn him loose when we're done
It's very frightening
See how the villagers run
Pull that switch and catch the lightning
Before the storm is done
(with credit to Claymore J. Flapdoodle)
Yes, it could be used to dump a ton of Zombies on the field at once, but in order to do that you have to have a hand full of them when you land this guy. By turn 6, if you have a full hand of Zombies, you're probably doing it wrong. Or have a ton of card draw in the deck, which doesn't work great with it since this thing wants a deck full of Zombies and basically nothing else......
Hm, maybe a casual deck centered around this, a bit of early mana accel, and Blue Sun's Zenith to refill the hand and get Zombies into it once it lands? Or Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. Or Damia, Sage of Stone.
Also, in commander, this plus two Gravedigger effects (Entomber Exarch, Cadaver Imp, Pit Keeper), a Deathgreeter or a Dross Harvester, and commander Lord of Tresserhorn is an automatic mill win.
On the other hand, if you're doing a lot of unearthing, as you ought to be in a zombie deck, then this lets you do so as much as you please.
Oh, yeah... And this card is freaking insane if you manage to get it out, given the amount of Disentomb effects in Innistrad (Ghoulcaller's Chant, Ghoulraiser).
Other than the pure zombie deck, this card kind of inspires me to make a Zombie Knight deck with Haakon, stromgald scourge. Getting this and Haakon together means you've just begun a zombie apocalypse.
For a moment I was super excited about this and Back from the Brink, but that doesn't work :(
"But Oglor has no Soul Warden in play."
"Shut up, Oglor."
@WheresMyLand - Nice combo, but you still have to pay to use the Disciple's sac ability and paying
@languill - Splashing a
I've got to agree with Magnor Criol. The 6 CMC really slows this down almost to the point where it's negligibly useful. I can see it being a nice game finisher, allowing you to drop a massive fatty late game, but I don't see it being a reliable saving grace if you're already in trouble. You either need massive card draw or unearthing, both of which add complexity to the deck and take space from the loads of zombies you'd otherwise want to throw in.
YYYYYYYEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
3/5 if your using alone, 5/5 if you use it with combos.
btw the flavor on this card is awesome this is preaty much every thing innistrad zombies are about, Mad Scientists creating f****d up zombies under the stormy night, kind of reminds me of frankestien. wink, wink.
So many ways to vary this combo... So much like!
5/5
"lol hay guys, pick up all your creatures, yeah? grab allllllll those cards outta your graveyard, too. you need thirty cards in your hand. sorry about those tokens, man."
*does same*
"alrighty, I'm gonna go ahead and drop every zombie i've played or had killed this game for 0. You're up."
see if you ever get invited to play with those kids again.
replace selfhoff occultist with diregraf captain and were talkin...
Edit: @Adrian.Malacoda re-Frankensteins Monster combo not working: Ahh.. right you are! Forgot that X actually had to be PAID in mana (as in, not just graveyard removal) on top of the (S)(S) :(
Also remember changelings, ALWAYS REMEMBER CHANGELINGS.
South Jersey Shore
Noob: Dies to naturalize soo 1/5
@Lumppu
Almost. The first time you cast them with Rooftop Storm, they'll cost {0}. However, as Commander 'tax' is a cost modifier, it's applied AFTER the base cost. In other words, you'll just pay {0}+(X*{2}), where X is the number of times you've cast it before. So think of it as though your commander cast 0 and you'll be fine.
Get Rooftop Storm out, play Phyrexian Ghoul.
Either have two Gravediggers in hand, or have one in hand and the other in the graveyard. Play Gravedigger for 0, get your other Gravedigger back, sacrifice to the ghoul.
Then do it as many times as you want.
I hope it does, because I put it in my friend's "sideboard" for the B/U zombies deck I made him. More like...extra cards to have fun with, not so much a functional sideboard. I couldn't afford buying any more cards, so no Gravecrawlers.
Edit: Well, not any more. Her reprint in Conspiracy makes her an Avatar.