Old Stickfingers XBG
Legendary Creature - Horror (Rare)
When you cast this spell, reveal the top cards of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all the creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest at the bottom of your library in a random order.
Old Stickfingers' power and toughness are equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
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This is only the third BG legendary creature (the other two being Sultai khans Tasigur and Sidisi), and the first one in only those two colors, that actually stocks your graveyard instead of just pulling from it. You can run less than X creatures of course, dumping all of them into your graveyard for whatever Golgari graveyard shenanigans you need.
Sure, there is a chance of spending $4 on a booster and getting the Mythic Rare $30 super card. There is also a chance of surviving putting your tongue in a light socket.
Kinda feeling like there's some combo potential in creature-light decks to cast him as an Entomb on a stick.
This was my initial read, too, but I can't help but think of this having the Tibalt's Trickery problem. You might cast it X = 2, but only flip more copies of it; but at least that's still something unlike Trickery into Trickery.
Yeah, I'm still not entirely sure how but this will be a combo enabler Commander for sure. In other Constructed formats it's still a good card, if you're already deep on graveyard shenanigans it's a huge beater for just GB that can also be a mana sink to help your other synergies, but in Commander this definitely feels problematic.
Kinda feeling like there's some combo potential in creature-light decks to cast him as an Entomb on a stick.
This was my initial read, too, but I can't help but think of this having the Tibalt's Trickery problem. You might cast it X = 2, but only flip more copies of it; but at least that's still something unlike Trickery into Trickery.
The trick may be not running many copies of this. Maybe just one or two as Unmarked Grave or Entomb 5-6.
Yeah, I'm still not entirely sure how but this will be a combo enabler Commander for sure. In other Constructed formats it's still a good card, if you're already deep on graveyard shenanigans it's a huge beater for just GB that can also be a mana sink to help your other synergies, but in Commander this definitely feels problematic.
Yeah - if you build your deck to just have, say, Mike n Trike as your only creatures, then Ol' Sticky can get both into your graveyard on turn 4 (or earlier with ramp). You would need to then reanimate both but that is certainly possible. It seems very useful for a glass cannon combo strategy.
Are there fun, non-awful fair (or fair-ish) uses of the card? The art and name are sweet and I'd like to do something interesting with it.
In what universe? If you build a deck like that, and ever draw that hand, I will personally come to wherever you live, perform complicated acts of awestruck ********, then disembowel myself to escape the world that allowed something like this to occur and validate you.
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Old Stickfingers XBG
Legendary Creature - Horror (Rare)
When you cast this spell, reveal the top cards of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all the creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest at the bottom of your library in a random order.
Old Stickfingers' power and toughness are equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
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This is only the third BG legendary creature (the other two being Sultai khans Tasigur and Sidisi), and the first one in only those two colors, that actually stocks your graveyard instead of just pulling from it. You can run less than X creatures of course, dumping all of them into your graveyard for whatever Golgari graveyard shenanigans you need.
Source: Lotus Game Bar
big creature without keyword are trash
This was my initial read, too, but I can't help but think of this having the Tibalt's Trickery problem. You might cast it X = 2, but only flip more copies of it; but at least that's still something unlike Trickery into Trickery.
The trick may be not running many copies of this. Maybe just one or two as Unmarked Grave or Entomb 5-6.
for One a small amount of spells can do sultai laboratory maniac/thassa's oracle
Yeah - if you build your deck to just have, say, Mike n Trike as your only creatures, then Ol' Sticky can get both into your graveyard on turn 4 (or earlier with ramp). You would need to then reanimate both but that is certainly possible. It seems very useful for a glass cannon combo strategy.
Are there fun, non-awful fair (or fair-ish) uses of the card? The art and name are sweet and I'd like to do something interesting with it.