The front face is a bad looter (because the cards do not go to the graveyard). What makes me interested in this, is that your opponent cannot let you untap with it and 6 mana. Otherwise, you get to activate it, and if your opponent doesn't kill it in response to the trigger, there is no time window between you paying to flip it and casting a card for free for your opponent to respond.
You can loot bad cards away every turn until the turn you reach 6 mana. To that loot trigger, you discard your Eldrazi and cast it for free. You don't need to cast an Eldrazi either, dropping a wrath leaves the board clear and you with an enchantment that draws one free card every turn.
I think this is comparable to Arcane Artisan as a looter that cheats stuff out. This is slower as you need 6 mana to cheat anything out, but the mana investment you can lose to removal with Arcane Artisan is higher. Casting a card for free is more powerful than making a token copy of a creature too.
Looters are also just good cards, so if you don't need to get something specific to your graveyard (like in a reanimator deck), this is probably the second best variant after Jace, Vryn's Prodigy (and perhaps Enclave Cryptologist).
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The front face is a bad looter (because the cards do not go to the graveyard). What makes me interested in this, is that your opponent cannot let you untap with it and 6 mana. Otherwise, you get to activate it, and if your opponent doesn't kill it in response to the trigger, there is no time window between you paying to flip it and casting a card for free for your opponent to respond.
You can loot bad cards away every turn until the turn you reach 6 mana. To that loot trigger, you discard your Eldrazi and cast it for free. You don't need to cast an Eldrazi either, dropping a wrath leaves the board clear and you with an enchantment that draws one free card every turn.
I think this is comparable to Arcane Artisan as a looter that cheats stuff out. This is slower as you need 6 mana to cheat anything out, but the mana investment you can lose to removal with Arcane Artisan is higher. Casting a card for free is more powerful than making a token copy of a creature too.
Looters are also just good cards, so if you don't need to get something specific to your graveyard (like in a reanimator deck), this is probably the second best variant after Jace, Vryn's Prodigy (and perhaps Enclave Cryptologist).