For just 1 more mana, you can have Flayer of Hatebound instead. This guy is just way too vanilla to be worth it when a bunch of far cheaper Undying zombies are totally ready to start doing their Power in damage to the opponent when you decide to play Flayer instead. Also the art sucks.
jsttu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
consider him a delayed removal spell:
target player sacrifices a creatures with toughness less than or equal to 4 and the during your next turn sacrifices a creature with toughness less than or equal to five.
If your opponent doesn't block you get 4 or 5 damage in, which is good. Additionally if something blocks this then that is one less blocker for your vampires that grow. It may not be stellar, but it gives card advantage, which is never something to ignore. I would draft it later on if it filled a niche.
ichorNet777
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I predict Undying will be severely underrated...if you add the P/T of the original with the reborn version, it's a 9/2 for 5 mana which...honestly, isn't that bad really. I can think of worse things anyway.
Paladin85
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
"Shhh! Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting humans!"
SkaerKrow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Has some potential in sealed, but it won't see serious constructed play. Like a lot of red Vampires, he's overpriced by about mana (or under-powered by one Toughness).
ttt3142
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Is that background what I think it is? And when you put that together with the flavor text...
Fenix.
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
You thought right, ttt3142, this gentleman right here is a vampire necrophiliac.
ZEvilMustache
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like to think those aren't corpses in the background. Hold on, does that make it worse???
CastleOrange
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Generally gets to kill two dudes and/or hit for pretty high damage. Solid limited value. Undying is great.
Teotanek
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
this vampire is a mistake, his ability does not work well within his tribe, let's say you have rakish heir in play, now if you get and additional 1+/1+ you loose his undying.
thebeardedshuffler
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Undying makes this guy go from terribad to maybegood. In Limited he's highly useful. In Constructed? Well.. you'd have to make sure you were putting him in the right place. But 4 power is rare among Innistrad's vamps so you might decide that having him around was worth it.
kuro-usagi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
its not terrible. puts pressure on the board. theyre gonna have to block it or use a kill spell (twice) eventually
There are a bunch of muscled naked men hanging upside down in the background.
I nearly missed that because of the "meh" of the actual card.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I got one of this in foil. Looking at it closely, you notice that every part of the card is shiny, EXCEPT THE VAMPIRE'S SKIN AND HAIR. To the person who puts cards in foil, whoever you are, know that I am forever grateful to you for not doing a shiny vampire. Now, let's just hope you did the same to Sorin, Lord of Innistrad.
steinburger1109
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with Stromkirk Noble. Makes it a serious force. For it's potential, 3/5
Same rarity, converted mana cost, and essentially the same ability and stats depending on what kind of +/- counters you care about. Add Trample, option for green mana, and you get the big version up front.
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target player sacrifices a creatures with toughness less than or equal to 4 and the during your next turn sacrifices a creature with toughness less than or equal to five.
If your opponent doesn't block you get 4 or 5 damage in, which is good. Additionally if something blocks this then that is one less blocker for your vampires that grow. It may not be stellar, but it gives card advantage, which is never something to ignore. I would draft it later on if it filled a niche.
I nearly missed that because of the "meh" of the actual card.
To the person who puts cards in foil, whoever you are, know that I am forever grateful to you for not doing a shiny vampire. Now, let's just hope you did the same to Sorin, Lord of Innistrad.
Same rarity, converted mana cost, and essentially the same ability and stats depending on what kind of +/- counters you care about. Add Trample, option for green mana, and you get the big version up front.