I gotta say, I am starting to REALLY love this card. If you don't know what it is:
Rune-Scarred Demon
5BB
Flying
When " comes into play, search your library for a card, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library.
6/6
Reasons I love it:
1- It appeases everyone.
2- It's a fatty beater
3- it's great in MBC
4- it's part of a 2 card legacy/Vintage combo, (buried alive and living death. I'll explain in a sec)
5- it's flavorful
6- playable in many formats.
7- It can be played like an expensive squadron hawk, or it can tutor up a consume spirit for the win.
8- It's the perfect balance of power and simplicity.
The two card legacy combo is Buried Alive, and Living Death. You stick 3 of these in your graveyard, and next turn living death. You search for Rite of Flame, Lotus petal, and a goblin Bushwhacker. Play petal, play rite of flame, play kickered bushwhacker for 3 7/6 flying and a 2/1 hasted beaters. If you have spare mana, you can always tutor up a protection spell, (force of will, discard, etc).
I do hate to inform you that the combo you mentioned has too many high CMC components to ever be viable in legacy. A better combo would be entomb/exhume, honestly.
Living death didn't really need this card to win w/ buried alive. Iona, Akroma and Inkwell leviathan will kill your opponent with a similar level of certainty.
Rune-Scarred Demon
5BB
Flying
When " comes into play, search your library for a card, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library.
6/6
Reasons I love it:
1- It appeases everyone.
2- It's a fatty beater
3- it's great in MBC
4- it's part of a 2 card legacy/Vintage combo, (buried alive and living death. I'll explain in a sec)
5- it's flavorful
6- playable in many formats.
7- It can be played like an expensive squadron hawk, or it can tutor up a consume spirit for the win.
8- It's the perfect balance of power and simplicity.
The two card legacy combo is Buried Alive, and Living Death. You stick 3 of these in your graveyard, and next turn living death. You search for Rite of Flame, Lotus petal, and a goblin Bushwhacker. Play petal, play rite of flame, play kickered bushwhacker for 3 7/6 flying and a 2/1 hasted beaters. If you have spare mana, you can always tutor up a protection spell, (force of will, discard, etc).
Copyright ME! 2011!
Seems good in Hypergenesis too, no? Grab that Beast Within/O-Ring to deal with anything your opponent throws out if they haven't won already.
Good against Hypergenesis too.
Living death didn't really need this card to win w/ buried alive. Iona, Akroma and Inkwell leviathan will kill your opponent with a similar level of certainty.
Currently playing:
T2
BW Aggro-Midrange BW