Vile Entomber
2BB - Creature - Zombie Warlock
Deathtouch
When Vile Entomber enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
2/2
I'm going to make a couple threads for cards that I have a positive gut reaction to, but I assume others are not as high as me since a thread has not yet been created. (By the way I hate making SCD threads because I always do something wrong! haha)
This card is expensive for a hard Reanimator Entomb, but in our Cube Reanimator decks aren't always trying to maximize speed. Vile Entomber can grab your Griselbrand but can also get Bloodghast and Gravecrawler in black aggro/devotion/engine combo plus a variety of other cool GY synergy cards like Life from the Loam. As a 2/2 creature you can Recruiter for it, Survival, Recurring Nightmare, etc. Deathtouch is great on a card like this. For us the slot is this vs Gonti, and I'd like to give it a spin.
This beats Buried Alive in the sense that it can hit any card instead of just creatures. I think this has some legs if you're really pushing Loam / Crucible type strategies.
The more I think about this guy the more i like it. If you're holding Recurring Nightmare he is a one-man enabler no matter what the rest of your hand looks like.
The more I think about this guy the more i like it. If you're holding Recurring Nightmare he is a one-man enabler no matter what the rest of your hand looks like.
Yeah I really like this guy in a recurring nightmare shell too. He's basically a slower survival in that deck. 4 is too much for traditional reanimator, but for grindy GY value decks he might be good enough.
Outside of cool interactions here and there, this card is kind of... terrible value. I guess if you are really that desperate for another entomb option in a large cube, then sure. By itself, this card is incredibly boring for a sub par effect on a cost comparative analysis.
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I prefer Gravebreaker Lamia. For one mana more, you get a series of upsides, and I don't mind swapping deathtouch for lifelink. One mana is a big difference, but I think most people forgot Lamia ever existed.
I prefer Gravebreaker Lamia. For one mana more, you get a series of upsides, and I don't mind swapping deathtouch for lifelink. One mana is a big difference, but I think most people forgot Lamia ever existed.
I actually disagree - being a 2/2 matters for Reveillark, both Recruiters, Alesha, and others that I'm forgetting. It plays more nicely with Birthing Pod (generally 4->5 is a really important part of the chain) and 4 mana + deathtouch matters significantly.
Since this card is too expensive for a fast reanimator combo, I think the best way to analyse the value is a comparison to Gonti, Lord of Luxury. Is your best card from your deck put into your graveyard worth more than the exile effect of Gonti? Getting Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath into your grave from your deck might be.
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Vile Entomber
2BB - Creature - Zombie Warlock
Deathtouch
When Vile Entomber enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
2/2
I'm going to make a couple threads for cards that I have a positive gut reaction to, but I assume others are not as high as me since a thread has not yet been created. (By the way I hate making SCD threads because I always do something wrong! haha)
This card is expensive for a hard Reanimator Entomb, but in our Cube Reanimator decks aren't always trying to maximize speed. Vile Entomber can grab your Griselbrand but can also get Bloodghast and Gravecrawler in black aggro/devotion/engine combo plus a variety of other cool GY synergy cards like Life from the Loam. As a 2/2 creature you can Recruiter for it, Survival, Recurring Nightmare, etc. Deathtouch is great on a card like this. For us the slot is this vs Gonti, and I'd like to give it a spin.
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Yeah I really like this guy in a recurring nightmare shell too. He's basically a slower survival in that deck. 4 is too much for traditional reanimator, but for grindy GY value decks he might be good enough.
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I actually disagree - being a 2/2 matters for Reveillark, both Recruiters, Alesha, and others that I'm forgetting. It plays more nicely with Birthing Pod (generally 4->5 is a really important part of the chain) and 4 mana + deathtouch matters significantly.