Someone, please, tell me the specialized circumstances in which this card would be useful. The only thing I see is a 2/2 for 2 mana, which is good for blue, but the drawbacks are too great.
mythryn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Well, you could combine it with liliana vess. By the time you're able to pull off her final, you'll have placed at least 9 cards in your graveyard to fuel it. Or, living death.
Tanaka348
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Blue: our Grizzly Bears mill you to death!
kitsunewarlock
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Actually, you do not mill 3 cards when this guy phases out. You mill 3 when he leaves the battlefield. Phasing does not have you leave the battlefield. If it did, there'd be some nutty combos with Phasing and Evoke creatures...
Omenchild
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Who thought grizzly bear was broken?
Uril
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
its been erratad so it does mill for 3 when it phases out.
TheGluttony
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Ok, so a 2/2 for creature for 2 mana that keeps making you mill cards unless you pay mana?
Kind of a around the bush way to mill yourself.. ( assuming you want to )
It's a lot easier to just throw a Tome Scour on yourself.
Ok, it gives you a creature to block with but then you have the Phasing to work around.
Crappy Rare, i give it a 1 out of 5. =\
SleetFox
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is the problem with older Magic cards. They can be so interesting, but so weak you have to cripple yourself to use them.
uberwolf
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I always had a lot of fun with this card. It has a handful of benefits. First of which is its a blue 2/2 for 2 which is acceptable. But, in some decks where filling your graveyard is good or important this card is a god send :) You'll dump creatures into your yard left and right for Living Death style effects... You'll hit threshold quickly and with unearth being a thing, well...
very poorly rated here and I dont know why. Its just plain fun and in the right deck, potent too :)
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@Kitsunewarlock Always check the errata, especially on cards that have mechanics that have undergone massive refurbishing, such as this one. The wording on the card used to work with phasing. Now it doesn't, so its been errataed to include phasing out as well as leaving play.
Darriius
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
3 Shadow Gulidmage 3 Circling Vultures 4 Skulking Ghost 4 Ertai's Familiar 4 Fallen Askari 3 Fledgling Djinn 3 Barrow Ghoul 3 Hidden Horror 3 Necratog 4 Man O' War
Spells
3 Song of Blood
Land
3 Bad River 3 Rocky Tar Pit 3 Undiscovered Paradise 3 Gemstone Mine 2 Island 2 Mountain 7 Swamp
This was why it was good!
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This isn't a card for getting you a creature, but with the drawbacks of phasing and self-mill. This is a card for getting a bunch of cards into your graveyard, with the added advantage of giving you a part-time creature. Cards in your graveyard may be useless in many decks, but cards in your library are useless in almost all decks. Provided you're playing the right deck for it, getting cards out of your library (no matter where they end up) is generally a good thing.
Some of the strangest art I've seen in Magic, but the card itself is very, very cool. I love the way it's both a drawback and a benefit depending on the way you build your deck.
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Kind of a around the bush way to mill yourself.. ( assuming you want to )
It's a lot easier to just throw a Tome Scour on yourself.
Ok, it gives you a creature to block with but then you have the Phasing to work around.
Crappy Rare, i give it a 1 out of 5. =\
very poorly rated here and I dont know why. Its just plain fun and in the right deck, potent too :)
Always check the errata, especially on cards that have mechanics that have undergone massive refurbishing, such as this one.
The wording on the card used to work with phasing. Now it doesn't, so its been errataed to include phasing out as well as leaving play.
3 Circling Vultures
4 Skulking Ghost
4 Ertai's Familiar
4 Fallen Askari
3 Fledgling Djinn
3 Barrow Ghoul
3 Hidden Horror
3 Necratog
4 Man O' War
Spells
3 Song of Blood
Land
3 Bad River
3 Rocky Tar Pit
3 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Gemstone Mine
2 Island
2 Mountain
7 Swamp
This was why it was good!