Hello all, sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere, but I'm curious about Embalmer's Tools and if it may be abusable or not in Modern. The obvious avenue looks like Zombie tribal but its first ability could also be used/abused as well if there are a lot of 1 generic mana color activations of creatures out of the graveyard. The second ability reminds me a lot of Springleaf Drum and Heritage Druid although not as good as it isn't stapled to a creature and is creature specific. Didn't know if anyone has any thoughts. Could just be for a fun non-competitive Zombie tribal Mill deck but it seems like there could be more to the card than first meets the eye. Anything positive or interesting would be welcome. Thoughts?
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The issue that comes up is zombies just want to be straight up attacking. Being able to mill yourself with the zombies you have the ETB that turn for incidental value just isn't enough. The activated abilities costing less is the more abusable avenue, but at least at the moment there isn't anything to really abuse with it. Unearth creatures like Scourge Devil cost less or Scrapheap Scrounger, but in general GY activated abilities are one and done effects that don't really benefit from the multiple usage of -1 mana cost. Now if Glory or their ilk come back to modern we might have some real usage.
Yes, I've been looking and searching and I just can't find anything out there that seems to synergize with the card right now. Liliana, Death's Majesty could be an avenue down the road with this card and heavy Zombie tribal. Maybe milling yourself and reanimating something big but I don't think it will be as good or as quick as other archetypes out there in the meta. Unless Hour of Devastation holds something that will work with this, it might just have to wait for the day some card has a 1: activation cost from the graveyard or some other interaction not available yet. Who knows.
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If you want to go 1000% jank you can have 4 Embalmer's Tools in play, a sac outlet, and Kuldotha Phoenix for infinite sacrifices (during your upkeep). Wow what a combo!
Realistically I can't see thins being used right now. I'd have to search pretty deep through the card pool and spend more time to think of a use for it.
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Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Zombie plus Mill.
Anything, but nothing at the moment...
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Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
If you want to go 1000% jank you can have 4 Embalmer's Tools in play, a sac outlet, and Kuldotha Phoenix for infinite sacrifices (during your upkeep). Wow what a combo!
Realistically I can't see thins being used right now. I'd have to search pretty deep through the card pool and spend more time to think of a use for it.
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