Actually it's a pretty cool card, with transmute AND this ability - but still...it IS kinda expensive! ;-)
Better to use an Infiltrator's Magemark to make a creature more or less unblockable I'd say...
hiloster12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i wish they had made this card better, the only really good use is transmute for a CMC of 6
DarkSunWolf
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(3 votes)
dam hive mind combo decks =/
skew
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A pity the card isn't better, 'cause the art is great!
And transmute is good, but with a cmc 6 it has very limited use (tough it can probably bring you your end gamers...)
I really can't see a downside with this card; either you pay 3 and tutor for the engine in your deck (Forced Fruition, Mass Polymorph, Guile, Consecrated Sphinx, Hive Mind... and that's mono blue), or late game your (insert giant creature here) smashes the opponent's face unopposed.
Trent_Almighty
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I play this in my Modern Hive Mind deck for weeks now. Only now just thought to look at what the card actually does! Gotta love transmute!!
Sk8er_Boi_1999
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
One of my favorite cards. Transmutes for the best CMC
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
did you know that Diregraf Captain's CMC was exactly 3? Now you do. You're welcome. :)
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@DarthParallax: sooooo? Read the card again, you can search for a card with a CMC equal to Usher's CMC, not to its Transmute cost. So you can get any 6 CMC card from your library, not 3. If you want to transmute for Diregraf Captain, use Drift of Phantasms, Perplex or Dimir Machinations.
People always ask me why this card is in my Thraximundar EDH deck.
There are a few reasosn, Rooftop Storm being the chief of them. Oh look, my relatively useless, overcosted creature suddenly turned into a spell ensuring my general keeps coming back.
An EDH deck can never have enough tutoring.
Alsebra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@_Silence_ - How would this search out the Hulk?
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
After being friend zoned by the girl he loved, Usher decided to pay the ultimate price to have what he desired.
Seems grossly overpriced. But you can use this to find a 6 mana combo piece, like knowledge pool.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Excellent synergy with Titans: Either tutors one or unblockables it so it can trigger safely regardless of your opponent's board.
Layk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Probably gonna use this solely for transmute
cotf1692
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Darthparallax it's like you didn't even read how transmute works before you went to like every Dimir spirit autocarding the wrong Innistrad tribal lord
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Better to use an Infiltrator's Magemark to make a creature more or less unblockable I'd say...
And transmute is good, but with a cmc 6 it has very limited use (tough it can probably bring you your end gamers...)
Protean Hulk
Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar
Sphinx of Jwar Isle
Simic Basilisk
... and so so many more... cmc 6 is common for things that tend to be big buff creatures (other then eldrazi of course)
If you want to transmute for Diregraf Captain, use Drift of Phantasms, Perplex or Dimir Machinations.
There are a few reasosn, Rooftop Storm being the chief of them. Oh look, my relatively useless, overcosted creature suddenly turned into a spell ensuring my general keeps coming back.
An EDH deck can never have enough tutoring.
it's like you didn't even read how transmute works before you went to like every Dimir spirit autocarding the wrong Innistrad tribal lord