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I love the art, the subtlety of the fog and her knife and cloak.
She's not that bad either, unlike M12 you can casually play mill with Innistrad and not have to worry about your stuff being useless.

Perfect for all that killing you'll be doing in a mill deck!


Oh wait...

It's not meant to kill people with milling. It is meant to give incremental gains in a skaab deck. Where plenty of creatures will be dieing. And its 2/3 body means it will be doing some attacking as well. In addition to all of that, it is a human so it can use all the neat equipment that get a bonus when a human uses it.

Go Go aggro blue.

Self mill for skaab or goyf based decks.

Armored Skaab performs almost the same role but is quite a bit better at it. Maybe she's a tad better in limited (and being a human might be relevent).

In Innistrad, beatdown mill is a legitimate strategy, between Undead Alchemist and his collection of beefy pals.

Great in a blue/black deck focusing on morbid. I use it with Reaper of the Abyss, Reassembling Skeleton and either Stitcher's Apprentice or Disciple of Griselbrand. If you throw in Falenkirth Noble, 3 mana kills your skeleton, gets you 2 life, pings your opponent for 1, kills a non-Demon creature, and gives you back your skeleton. It's like a super Doom Blade at that point.

This + 2 Heartless summon + Corpse Cur for infinite mill in standard.

Building a deck for fun around that combo.

I see this card as having a lot of potential. As mentioned in Skaab decks, she'll help you get cards into your graveyard, as well as providing you with a body to fuel your Skaabs. In mill decks, I see her as a defensive creature with decent power and toughness to prevent you from being hit by weenies. She also doubles as a chump blocker for any big hits coming your way, while still managing to mill your opponent as she goes. Maybe not the most cost-effective creature, but a lot of potential for decks that need a little splash of defense against hordes of rampaging creatures.

For casual: This+Living Plane+Goblin Sharpshooter

Bon Appétit.

Awesome flavor text, if nothing else.

"The mist whispers..."

Anyone else thinking of Fran from FFXII?

@Half-dead

Made the deck after reading your idea, and am amazed how incredibly powerful and easy the combo is to pull off. Threw in Auramancer and Sun Titan to recur the Heartless Summoning, and Unburial Rites and Buried Ruin to recur the Corpse Cur.

There's always an element of the combo already in play, and other parts of the combo cost, at the most, maybe 1 or 2 colored mana tops. If was someone seriously tinkered with this, it could be a force in standard. Just so many ways (and quick ways at that) to pull it off. And in classic, there is an artifact creature that does exactly what Corpse Cur does for 2 colorless instead of 4, which means that, if you have Heartless Summoning in your hand already, the combo would take a grand total of one black mana and one colorless to cast the first Heartless Summoning, one blue to then cast the Selhoff Occultist, and then the 2 colorless mana artifact creature is free and self-recurring.

That's 3 total mana to mill an opponent's entire deck.

use with vengeful pharoah

2/3 with a relevant ability for 3 in Blue isn't too shabby. She won't win games on her own, but she'll help keep the pressure on.