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Vodalian Zombie

Multiverse ID: 23159

Vodalian Zombie

Comments (9)

MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
They Reprinted This Card? Huh
Urbar
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (5 votes)
Well, they did. In Conflux. Zombie Outlander
Ichorix
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (4 votes)
The game's one and only merfolk zombie.
sarroth
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (4 votes)
Zombie Scout types for the outlander make so much more sense than Zombie Merfolk. Then again, in a game I played the other day my friend stole a Pelakka Wurm with a Captivating Vampire and thus had a Vampire Wurm, so stranger creature types have existed (how about Weird?).

Protection from Green always makes me laugh, though. Not the most common protection thrown onto creatures.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
"It's a shame you won't live to see the irony."
Gotta love double entendres where the punnier meaning is more obvious.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Vodalian Zombie was important, though, for letting U/B control stave off Blastoderm all day. She had an important niche at the time.
SgtPepperjack
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All hail the dead fish.
Equinox523
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Part of Invasion's cycle of 2-mana friendly color gold common creatures, all of which had protection from their shared enemy color:

Galina's Knight - WhiteBlue (Merfolk Knight)
Llanowar Knight - GreenWhite (Elf Knight)
Shivan Zombie - BlackRed (Barbarian Zombie)
Vodalian Zombie - BlueBlack (Merfolk Zombie)
Yavimaya Barbarian - RedGreen (Elf Barbarian)

Apocalypse, two sets later, released an interesting cycle of 2-mana enemy color gold common creatures, all of which had different abilities:

Gaea's Skyfolk - GreenBlue (Elf Merfolk)
Goblin Legionnaire - RedWhite (Goblin Soldier)
Llanowar Dead - BlackGreen (Zombie Elf)
Putrid Warrior - BlackWhite (Zombie Soldier - later Warrior was added)
Razorfin Hunter - BlueRed (Merfolk Goblin)

As for this card itself, it's somewhere near the middle to bottom of the usefulness chart. Protection from green mostly helps it block green fatties, but this does not mitigate trample. Since green lacks many removal spells, it is not nearly as valuable to protect against as other colors. However, it does have two relevant creature types and can benefit from cards like Lord of the Undead and Lord of Atlantis.
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pretty attractive for a dead fish....... try not to think about the smell.