On first look, I thought it sucked. Second glance, I realized something. His abillity occurs at the beginning of your upkeep, so you can return ANY card from your graveyard before you draw to the bottom of your library. As long as you have cards in your graveyard, you can never mill yourself on your draw. His other abillity gives this 6/8 unblockable damage (C'mon Wizards! NAME THIS ABILLTY!) for 2 green and discard a card, helping activate his upkeep condition. Combo this with a beast deck using wirewood savage, ravenous baloth and rampaging baloth; you get an infinite supply of sac beast: gain 4 life for your graveyard that go back into your deck while you're drawing buttloads of cards with wirewood savage beast combo. Thats a green win condition if I've ever heard one.
4/5
Laguz
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
6/8 for 5 should really be 'nuff said', but he also ensures you can never be milled while he's on the table, and 6 unblockable damage? Killer in a mongrel deck, although those have usually won by turn 5 which explains why this guy never saw any play.
TDL
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Remember kids, discarding cards was good in the Odyssey block!
Ava_Adore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
tough card, cheap and not too hard to build around, I can see why people like this, and I can see why peopole would hate this...
I see the first effect as really really good in most cases, especially fighting off a mill condition, hell you could even mill yourself and rearrange your deck. make a draw and discard deck or something
I do really like this card
Hoonster
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Poor man's Thorn Elemental? This is 6/8 for 5 cmc. This can beat BANESLAYER for all the noobs that comment dies to Bullsh#t to all creature cards. This card has decent discard ability which helped with madness, and putting 2 cards to bottom of the library from graveyard is not huge cost especially if you are running madness deck. Unfortunately, Wild Mongrel was faster than this guy and therefore more favored. 4/5
cathode01
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This, as well as Battlefield Scrounger, are absolutely amazing cards in EDH. You can burn through spells as fast as you want and keep putting them back into your library. Especially handy when you have a reliable source of shuffling such as Journeyer's Kite.
seems ok with splinterfright. Put youre milled lands on the bottom of your library but keep creatures.
Dienomite807
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ClockworkSwordfish If anything this guy is better than Thorn Elemental, although limited somewhat to specific decks. He costs two less and can attack two turns before thorn elemental while feeding his own drawback, which is really benificial. You win a full turn earlier with just sheer unblockable damage, not to mention he's harder to kill than Thorn Elemental with 8 toughness. Did I mention he only costs 5?
Overall somewhat limited, but provides great offense and combo potential. And yes, the art is terrible. 4/5
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4/5
I see the first effect as really really good in most cases, especially fighting off a mill condition, hell you could even mill yourself and rearrange your deck. make a draw and discard deck or something
I do really like this card
This is 6/8 for 5 cmc. This can beat BANESLAYER for all the noobs that comment dies to Bullsh#t to all creature cards. This card has decent discard ability which helped with madness, and putting 2 cards to bottom of the library from graveyard is not huge cost especially if you are running madness deck. Unfortunately, Wild Mongrel was faster than this guy and therefore more favored.
4/5
I see you've been working out.
I got as far as the name, and then I stopped reading. 5/5.
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/20747_Whats_In_A_Name.html
If anything this guy is better than Thorn Elemental, although limited somewhat to specific decks. He costs two less and can attack two turns before thorn elemental while feeding his own drawback, which is really benificial. You win a full turn earlier with just sheer unblockable damage, not to mention he's harder to kill than Thorn Elemental with 8 toughness. Did I mention he only costs 5?
Overall somewhat limited, but provides great offense and combo potential. And yes, the art is terrible.
4/5