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Unholy Grotto

Multiverse ID: 40541

Unholy Grotto

Comments (12)

Silverware
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
Ideal in a mono black zombie deck.
Ogrillion
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (6 votes)
Its like Volrath's Stronghold, only tribal. I have tingles! :O
a7141988
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
You can use this to repeatedly cast Crib Swap or Nameless Inversion. I would put 1 in a Mercenary or Rebel Deck so that each turn, you can remove an opponent's creature and still get another creature on the board using a Rebel or Mercenary.
redhaiku
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Nice combo with Crib Swap! Decent with Fleshbag Marauder as well.
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is actually a surprisingly good card, despite how narrow it seems.

As has been mentioned, Nameless Inversion and Fleshbag Marauder give you 2 ways to force yourself to draw into spot removal.

One that I've really been enjoy though has been putting Korlash, Heir to Blackbade back on top of my library, turn after turn after turn. It's massive deck thinning and card advantage, and if you've got creatures that can use the extra mana (like Plaguebearer - another zombie), then it's not like you're drawing into land anyway.

All in all, a great land.
metalevolence
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)
gempalm polluter is a decent thing to draw every turn.

yeah, a land version of lord of the undead is pretty slick.
wstonefi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you want a land that can recur any creature, see Volrath's Stronghold. This is better in Zombie tribal, though.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lands should not be able to win you the game like this IMO. The most expensive part of deck construction is the lands
MacBizzle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You don't just gempalm pollute every turn, you do it for every one of these guys and every three mana you have every turn.

You pay the BB, discard the gempalm polluter as the cost. While the effect of drawing a card (from cycling) is on the stack, activate this so this goes off first. Gempalm polluter is on top of your library, then the draw effect from cycling triggers. You effectively give gempalm polluter's cycling a buyback.
gatherer132
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Unholy Grotto is a good way to bring your cards back from the graveyard if you use a Zombie library.
novanaut
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Those weapons are identical to a Spawn toy from 1997 called manga ninja spawn, seriously look it up.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Extremely good; mostly because you can do this:
-Nameless Inversion or Fleshbag Marauder every turn
-Cast a threat every turn

Basically you force the opponent to topdeck a threat or answer every turn. Eventually they will draw lands or utility cards and you will keep going forward; grinding them down.