roughly translated Graveyard MarshalBB Creature — Zombie Soldier (Rare) 2B, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. "Time to wake up my dears. There's much to do."
—Isareth the Awakener
3/2
I've always been sad at how slow many of the zombie card advantage riffs have been like Cryptbreaker, Cemetery Reaper, Corpseweft, Graf Harvest, etc. Wizards decided to really leapfrog the power curve and make this check every box as an on/above power curve beater, efficient cost, fast and powerful to come down with buckets of mana. Makes it both something you'd love to see in your opening hand and topdeck on turn 10. I had been really underwhelmed with how Josu Vess and Dread Shade were supposed to be black's 'pushed' creatures, a siege rhino that is not. But for a slot as aggressively costed early game as scrapheap, you could topdeck this with 8 mana open and poop 7 power onto the board, 10 power with a lord or anthem.
I thought this was a lame Cemetery Reaper and was wondering why people thought it was good, until I noticed it was 2 mana and now it's definitely good. Modern Zombies will appreciate this.
Kind of a shame it doesn't exile from any players' graveyards (like Cemetery Reaper or Withered Wretch), but I guess the repeatability (and lower cmc) makes up for it. I imagine I would use this as a 2-drop beater more than anything else (a la Sangrophage), but still prefer the likes of Relentless Dead and Stromgald Crusader, among others, in other formats.
Why do zombies always have to enter tapped? Would have been great if the card was abusable like virtuoso or legion's landing.
Flavor... Coming into play tapped is them rising from the grave, according to Rosewater, back when the original Innistrad came out.
Also, the zombie apocalypse slowly, inexorably spreading over the world.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Graveyard Marshal BB
Creature — Zombie Soldier (Rare)
2B, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
"Time to wake up my dears. There's much to do."
—Isareth the Awakener
3/2
One thing to note is that it´s not a tap ability, so you can play this with five lands in play and activate it immediately for guaranteed value.
Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
Doomsdayin'
Modern: WUBRG Humans - GBW Traverse - GWU Knightfall - GRW
Flavor... Coming into play tapped is them rising from the grave, according to Rosewater, back when the original Innistrad came out.
none
Modern
UBG B/U/G control
BBB MBC
WUR Control
WWW Prison
RRR Goblins
Legacy
BBB Pox
UBG B/U/G Control
UWU StoneBlade
UW Miracle Control
Also, the zombie apocalypse slowly, inexorably spreading over the world.
On phasing: