MTG Salvation

Geralf's Masterpiece 3UU
Creature - Zombie Horror (M)
Flying
Geralf's Masterpiece gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.
3U, Discard three cards: Return Geralf's Masterpiece from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
7/7



Source:
https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/705739573515657216

That's a Madness enabler if I've ever seen one.

Wonder if it's related to the Colonel's KC Masterpiece?

5 mana reverse Nyxathid with flying and the possibility to return from the grave... I'm not that impressed actually: discarding 3 cards is hard in the late game.

Definitely more graveyard friendly thanSkaab Ruinator and Hella more playable. I like it.

Quote from Ramanujan »

Or you could self-mill/discard it early and play a flying 7/7 with flash for four mana.

Point taken. Now it seems quite good.

Definitely more mythic than Skaab Ruinator was, I still chuckle over those that bought it for $20+. I guess we'll have to see how useful this will be, but after dragons leave this could easily be a control finisher.

Quote from Juan993 »

It takes -1/-1 for each card in the graveyard, it will be a 2/2 or 3/3 , never a 7/7

It says hand, not graveyard.

I don`t quite get how this could be utilized. The idea must be that you dump it with one of the discard outlets that you`re bound to run in a madness deck, then dump your hand and cheat this into play by discarding three cards with madness... but I can`t imagine that the sum of 3U plus the madness cost of three cards will be cheap enough. Will we see something with madness 0 that synergizes with this? Casting it for 3UU with, say, two cards in hand is going to be underwhelming, and casting it with zero cards in hand afterwards just means that it`s going to be near impossible to revive it. Am I missing something?

It`s a cool card though, no doubt about that.

It looks pretty janky. That return cost is steep and expensive, and anything less than 4/4 flying looks pretty unimpressive. It's also kinda vanillaish so meh.

Quote from Havrekjex »

I don`t quite get how this could be utilized. The idea must be that you dump it with one of the discard outlets that you`re bound to run in a madness deck, then dump your hand and cheat this into play by discarding three cards with madness... but I can`t imagine that the sum of 3U plus the madness cost of three cards will be cheap enough. Will we see something with madness 0 that synergizes with this? Casting it for 3UU with, say, two cards in hand is going to be underwhelming, and casting it with zero cards in hand afterwards just means that it`s going to be near impossible to revive it. Am I missing something?

It`s a cool card though, no doubt about that.

No, you aren't missing anything. It's cool but not good. How are you going to pay 4 mana to discard 3 cards, and still have mana left for the madness costs of those cards? How often are you going to have 3 cards to discard?

This is certainly a Masterpiece to Madness.

This is excellent. Mill it early, and then you have Instant big flyer + Madness trigger in your graveyard.

That's... hard to overestimate.

Life from the Loam puts three cards in your hand...

I think it's cool that self-discard could be a combat trick with this guy.

I can't tell if this is good or bulk, but I won't be surprised by either. Very context dependent.

Definitely a cool design. The more I think about it the better it seems too. It is a fantastic top deck when hellbent- 7 power is a fast clock, and even if you are holding 1 or 2 cards, it is still a good rate. At 3+ cards in hand the efficiency wears off, but I feel confident that there will be plenty of ways to enable one to dump cards. We've already seen the excellent Heir of Falkenrath, there might just be a U/B skies deck ready to go.

The self reanimation looked pretty awful at first too as it is hard to imagine this guy being worth more than 3 random cards, but having him in the yard makes getting below 8 life a dangerous proposition for your opponent, and with enough incremental damage or a fairly aggressive curve I can imagine scenarios where this guy turns out to be the real deal. Add in the fact that the reanimation also enables madness and you can engineer some truly frightening states where you kill your opponent out of nowhere from 10 or even 13 life because of Fiery Temper.

WELP. Guess I'm playing a Madness deck next Standard.

I might use him on Sidisi EDH.I want things in the graveyard and this thing helps with that

He plays Geralf's Masterpiece. I play Day's Undoing, killing it: "Haha! Now all you have left is 7 cards in hand... Uh... I didn't think this through."

Quote from Dontrike »

Definitely more mythic than Skaab Ruinator was, I still chuckle over those that bought it for $20+. I guess we'll have to see how useful this will be, but after dragons leave this could easily be a control finisher.

It doesn't seem very good in that role. It's recursive, but it also dislikes you having cards in hand. Linvala and that OGW Sphinx are probably better for the role than this (and I'm not sure those are particularly good at it either). Best control finisher right now is probably Chandra?

Quote from mlad_jiraf »

Unless they print some busted synergies, this guy is gonna be just a casual card.

this is a set with madness mechanic and graveyard matters theme...
do you need more synergy?

Amazing art for the card. This obviusly confirms emrakul in the set

Eh....

I wanted the Blue mythic to be Jenrik. With Jace as the other Blue mythic, he's either a rare or not in this set.

Also, not really feeling this. It doesn't even feel mythic. Rare at best. What happened to cool, alluring, story-related mythics? Sick of these basic creatures with boring effects being mythics.

Isn't this type of recursion unusual for Blue?
I'm not complaining, as it's quite flavorful,
but Blue doesn't usually put permanents from the graveyard into play, does it?