The Scarab God - 3UB (Mythic)
Legendary Creature - God
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you Scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. 2UB: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next upkeep.
5/5
I want a copy of it for my UB part-Zombie, part-clone EDH deck. It technically does both and since it recurs itself, I think it's better off in the 99 then being the Commander.
Oh man that is some reach for zombies. Even if you just scry 2 and your opponent loses 2 life. That's pretty decent. His second ability is pretty sweet. Could see some play.
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It's very good in EDH. It is blue, so it can be protected quite easily. You can easily fill the board with zombies, and then just sit back and drain the entire board while you scry towards better answers and win conditions.
That is actually very good. 5/5 for 5 mana is already decent, but that activated ability which basically clones a creature and makes it zombie is so awesome by itself. But they also had to give it that triggered ability? Its actually the coolest god, to me, from Amonkhet. As it feels like more of a god to me than the others.
Why do I have this odd feeling we are going to see zombies as one of the tribes in Commander 2017. That or Zombie Vampires...
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I want a copy of it for my UB part-Zombie, part-clone EDH deck. It technically does both and since it recurs itself, I think it's better off in the 99 then being the Commander.
Huh? It's a commander that you can continously recast without having to pay extra mana. How's that not a great reason to play this as the commamder? (Side note: I might be terrible at logic...)
Yes, it does have that advantage, but at the same time that also means the only advantage the Command Zone provides is to make it absolutely available at the start. Beyond that point, it's almost always available (barring some gravehate) whether it is in the 99 or the Commander.
Should have clarified, I'm not saying it's bad as a Commander, but the way I see it, it's just "great utility" as a card (for me at least) and that doesn't warrant it the Commander spot, especially when it has a built-in recursion ability, which frees up the Commander-recursion spot for another card (UB has no shortage of Zombie-Commanders), even if you have to pay more mana for it.
The more I think about it, it's an allstar in EDH as a general.
It curves perfectly with Rooftop Storm which means if it goes to your graveyard, you don't even have to pay for it. Even if you just control 3 additional zombies, a very easy thing to do in a tribal EDH zombie deck, at the beginning of your upkeep you can scry 4. That's pretty nuts. Plus make all opponents lose 4 life.
Man, Pharika got trumped. Can we agree that this is the best of the trio? Although the Locust God does give it some good competition.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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The activated ability would be good with any small creatures with abilities that can scale based on power (or toughness). They would benefit from eternalize in the same way that Dreamstealer does.
As some have mentioned on the MtG Reddit, these three gods have story implications, in that each one exists to fulfill a different part of Nicol Bolas's plan for Amonkhet, and this plan informs their ability design. The Scorpion God, as shown in the most recent story article, exists to kill the current gods of Amonkhet: thus its effect pertains to -1/-1 counters, which can kill indestructible creatures. The Locust God is meant to destroy the Hekma (maintained by Kefnet): thus its effect pertains to drawing cards. Lastly, the Scarab God is meant to turn to people and corpses of Nakhtamun into Eternaals: thus its effect basically Eternalizes things without specifically having the keyword.
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Legendary Creature - God
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you Scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
2UB: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next upkeep.
5/5
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It's a great EDH card and will probably see play in Standard. Doubt it sees play in Modern or Eternal.
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It's just another zombie commander
But cans till be part of the 99 in other decks though.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Yes, it does have that advantage, but at the same time that also means the only advantage the Command Zone provides is to make it absolutely available at the start. Beyond that point, it's almost always available (barring some gravehate) whether it is in the 99 or the Commander.
Should have clarified, I'm not saying it's bad as a Commander, but the way I see it, it's just "great utility" as a card (for me at least) and that doesn't warrant it the Commander spot, especially when it has a built-in recursion ability, which frees up the Commander-recursion spot for another card (UB has no shortage of Zombie-Commanders), even if you have to pay more mana for it.
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It curves perfectly with Rooftop Storm which means if it goes to your graveyard, you don't even have to pay for it. Even if you just control 3 additional zombies, a very easy thing to do in a tribal EDH zombie deck, at the beginning of your upkeep you can scry 4. That's pretty nuts. Plus make all opponents lose 4 life.
UBRKess, Dissident MageUBR - Controlling Dissidents
GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
I want to make a 4/4 black zombie Ulamog
Granted, it's possible to make a 1/1 spirit Ulamog already, but you get a 10/10 zombie with it. And I just want an itty bitty Uli by itself.