One mana instant speed tutor in a set made to exploit the graveyard as a resource. Was banned while Reanimate was legal and there was never really a reason to look back.
why is/was entomb banned in the first place? was there a specific degenerate combo it was fueling? if so, what?
In addition to the WAY too easy reanimation combos...it was left banned after the last rotation because Dredge decks (or Dredge-a-tog, etc.) didn't need an even easier way to dump Golgari Grave-Troll
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entomb + Worldgorger Dragon + animate dead = "infinite mana"
now lets say you had a Underground sea in play, thats U/B any amount you want. Stroke of Genius draw your deck and stop the combo and throw something nasty at them.
The interesting thing about us legacy players is that we consider Force of Will, Dark Ritual, Blood Moon, Tarmogoyf and Swords to Plowshare to be fair.
entomb + Worldgorger Dragon + animate dead = "infinite mana"
now lets say you had a Underground sea in play, thats U/B any amount you want. Stroke of Genius draw your deck and stop the combo and throw something nasty at them.
Except that Animate Dead and Underground Sea both left the format before Entomb was banned.
At any rate, as was mentioned before: it's an instant speed tutoring effect that costs one mana. Not the sort of thing that any non-Eternal format really needs.
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Turn 2: Exhume or Reanimate just SOUNDS dirty.
In addition to the WAY too easy reanimation combos...it was left banned after the last rotation because Dredge decks (or Dredge-a-tog, etc.) didn't need an even easier way to dump Golgari Grave-Troll
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now lets say you had a Underground sea in play, thats U/B any amount you want. Stroke of Genius draw your deck and stop the combo and throw something nasty at them.
This. Read no further. The card is broken, just like any other 1 mana instant speed tutors.
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Except that Animate Dead and Underground Sea both left the format before Entomb was banned.
At any rate, as was mentioned before: it's an instant speed tutoring effect that costs one mana. Not the sort of thing that any non-Eternal format really needs.
Is Stroke of Genius coming back in a new set?...right now its NOT EXTENDED LEGAL.
The deck is Vintage legal.... not even legacy, and when u talk about Worldgorger.deck u are talking about the vintage one...