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Not a GREAT effect, but has some staying power to see it in use.

The trick here is to be playing more graveyard shenanigans than your opponents.

Rite Of Replication turns this into a Glimpse The Unthinkable for every attack... or more likely, just a flippin' useful deterrent.

I like it, but not in EDH. I'm seeing it in a casual mill deck, or a bizarre creature-based mill strategy.

It comes in the Precon with The Mimeoplasm. Seen from that light, this card is perfect - It's a minor deterrent, sure, but every time it happens you get a chance of getting more creatures to exile with your commander. It's no Geth, Lord of the Vault when it comes to stocking up graveyards for your ooze, but it'll do.

Man o Man do I want to see this in a real set. Please reprint Wizards.

Does this thing trigger each time an attacker is declared?

It triggers on each creature attacking you or your planeswalker. You can rest safely that that token player won't be attacking you anytime soon. And those others won't like that kind of mill either.

At the same color and cost as Propaganda, it's hard to see this card in a positive light.

Love the MTG homunculi design. This guy and Bonded Fetch just look so awesome.

This is so ridiculously terrible in EDH. Playing this will ENCOURAGE many players to attack you to stock their graveyards.

@metalevolence:
And what's so wrong with that? Commander should be about politics more than anything else. This card lets you and that recursion player agree to letting him attack you with his 2/2, because you can just block it with your 1/4; he gets 2 cards in his GY, and you've started to build an alliance. It's the same reason that Zedruu is such an inspiring card to me - the political ramifications make for great and memorable games.

His usefulness in EDH depends first on how many of your opponents are smart enough to run graveyard recursion, and second upon whether or not your deck can make more use of your opponent's graveyard than your opponent can.

The downside is that with the choice in your opponent's hands you can get into a lose/lose situation against a clever player. If they know you want the mill they won't attack, and if they know you don't want to be attacked they won't care so much about the mill. Still, not everyone is a tactical genius. I've had people I considered good players swing at me for pitiful amounts and just take the mill, only to turn it around on them when I dropped a Lord of Extinction. No one ever went broke underestimating, etc.

When I first saw this card, I was ***ed off it didn't have flying because I thought those branches behind it were wings.

A decent deterrent, even if some strategies will benefit from the mill.Combine him with other deterrents (Windborn Muse, anyone?) and he gets a bit better. Plus, he can really keep token-based strategies in check; attacking with twenty creatures seems really bad in multiplayer when you run the risk of decking yourself.

Should be ridiculous against tokens.
1. Run in grixis next to Volcanic fallout.
2. Wait for giant token attack against you
3. ??
4. Profit

Hmmmh, seems like defender-mill will be getting some boosts with the new {U}{B} god from Born of the Gods set, Phenax, God of Deception.