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Oversold Cemetery

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Oversold Cemetery

Comments (20)

A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Splashable in non-black decks. An ability any deck with creatures will like. Cheep.
Cyberium
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (3 votes)
Dredge is a nice way to put creatures into your graveyard, then pick the ones you like to return to you.
Hayw00d0909
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (5 votes)
Mill yourself, zombify the fatties, and keep recurring chump blockers and zombie lords.

Sounds like a win to me. I'd own one of these if they weren't so expensive.
Deadpyrowalking
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (13 votes)
5 bucks is expensive?
tantallum99
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
useful in and against so many decks and CHEAP (to cast).
nemokara
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (5 votes)
@Deadpyrowalking

Yes, to many casual players 5 dollars for one card IS expensive.
Mourning-Thrull
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (1 vote)
5 bucks? i got mine for $1.50 each
KikiJikiTiki
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0) (3 votes)
Reprint in Innistrad. I'm calling it right now.
Crag-Hack
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (3 votes)
Sounds amazing in EDH
JFM2796
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (8 votes)
Combo with Odyssey block.
NoobOfLore
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)
Oh SNAP.
If you're running the right deck (dredge, Innistrad Self-mill) this basically reads
"At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a creature card."

Moronic wording, but you get my idea.
sarroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hawyood0909: "I'd own one of these if they weren't so expensive." I used to get anxious about buying cards that were just $2, but I found that you need a real special playgroup to survive long enough to have fun with such a low budget. Unfortunately it's an aspect of the game I don't enjoy, but Magic is a trading card game at its roots, and it'll stay that way. I can tell you that I have no regrets buying this card, as it makes my games enjoyable every time I cast it.

This card is always at the top of my list of criminally underplayed cards in Commander. You don't need to run self-mill or dredge; if your opponents are playing multiplayer right, the number of Wrath of God effects they'll use to calm the board state down will put the 4 cards in your graveyard for you. Of course, if you're also running sacrifice effects, this thing just becomes a beast. I doubt it'd get reprinted, though; I think it's just slightly overpowered at only 2 CMC to make the cut into Standard.
GrimjawxRULES
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Works with self-mill if you're willing to go tri-color. If you do, you'll be able to retrieve those Splinterfrights and Boneyard Wurms that you've accidentally milled, and you'll gain access to powerhouse Lord of Extinction and Sewer Nemesis, not to mention more efficient removal spells. Best part of the card is definitely the "may" clause, with which you don't necessarily have to net a card from your graveyard and thus not lowering your creatures' power & toughness :3
fibonacci112358
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A 2-mana investment that becomes card neutral after one turn (or immediately, if countered or destroyed), and thereafter pulls you ahead by +1 card advantage every single subsequent turn for no additional mana cost whatsoever.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Begging for a reprint
Mode
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card has the potential to provide constant card advantage at a very low price.

The condition however takes some time to be met.
But you can also reduce this time with the right cards.

Dredge or stuff like Hedron Crab is one way to mill yourself enough creatures.
I also thought Squadron Hawk could somehow get involved into this.
Street Wraith is a nice pick for thinning the deck all while getting closer to triggering the cemetry's effect.
Cycling creatures with this seems like a good idea in general. Krosan Tusker even gets you a basic land and another card this way.

I feel like this could be really cool with AEther Rift as well - maybe throw this in a creature-heavy hellbent deck, and eventually you'll get to reanimate your creature of choice each turn unless your opponent pays 5 life.

But you could also simply rely on creatures that you'll want to sacrifice, or those that will go to the graveyard automatically (e.g. those with Vanishing (Keldon Marauders), Fading (Blastoderm), Echo (Keldon Champion) or even Cumulative Upkeep (Vexing Sphinx)).
Altar of Dementia can basically mill you for free by saccing them right before you'd have to either way. Smallpox should be awesome as well for a similar reason, additionally you can discard a creature card.
Deminic Taskmaster should also fit in there nicely if you just play creatures that stay for one turn.
Maybe even better is Mortician Beetle, who seems like the perfect one-drop in this deck.
Vexing Devil blends in just perfectly as well.
Civilized Scholar should fit in there if you play blue as well.

This should be very interesting with those red 'burnout' creatures with haste and trample that you sacrifice at the end of turn. (Spark Elemental, Ball Lightning, Blistering Firecat, Skizzik, maybe also Hellspark Elemental and Lightning Serpent. I'd also count Hell's Thunder for that purpose.)
They'll fill your graveyard automatically and are cheap for what they do.
Ball Lightning doesn't want you to splash other colors, but being able to recast it (or just about any other creature) each turn seems pretty awesome.

And then there's also Incandescent Soulstoke, in case you want to cast any elemental for 1Red and sacrifice it at end of turn. Oh yeah, and he also gives them all a +1/+1 boost.
Rockslide Elemental and particularly Lightning Coils, which trigger on creatures hitting the graveyard, also go really well with the whole deck then.
Nova Chaser is always good with the Soulstoke and also synergizes with an unearthed Hellspark Elemental. Flamekin Bladewhirl and Flamekin Harbinger also go nicely then, although we''d be making quite a tribal deck out of this issue then...in fact, forget about that whole paragraph.)

Or maybe try something with Buried Alive, Anger and Cosmic Larvae? Nah, there are far more efficient Buried Alive combos...

You could also try a similar thing in green with Groundbreaker, Fauna Shaman (who works incredible with the Cemetry), Sakura-Tribe Elder, Birthing Pod (which you can also put in any deck), and maybe Skyshroud Ridgeback or Uktabi Drake.
Fecundity is another nice enchantment for even more card advantage.
Tracker's Instincts should work nicely as well if you have many creatures in your deck.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Sounds awesome with buried alive, getting a fleshbag marauder in the yard for some repeatable removal.
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This has to be one of the greatest black cards of all time.

Free creature recursion? And it powers up Persist and Undying creatures? And it can be used with Corpse Connoisseur/Buried Alive shenanigans? And can be splashed because it is not limited to what color those creatures are? Totally awesome!

And those are just features I thought of off the top of my head. I'm sure you can do much better if you sit down and think about just how much of an enabler this card can be =)
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Using with Fleshbag Marauder and Shriekmaw is a good start.
Pretty dang good with Korlash :D