Woohoo! This is just what my unpowered cube has been looking for. Too bad about non-legendary, probably won’t be worth it for a lot of cubes already running animate dead. For us it only misses Elesh, Atarka, and Emrakul
This definitely has some misses, but I think it's still worth running for density. Excited to add this alongside Unmarked Grave for some more redundancy.
I don't mind the non-legendary clause, but I think only hitting the owner's graveyard is what makes this a miss for me. If this could hit any graveyard, it'd be a slam-dunk for me.
I think this is a miss for me, but I really like the theme so far of just naming cards after mechanics and then having them do basically what the mechanic does - this and suspend. Hope we see more!
As someone who has played a bunch of pauper reanimator, I think that you can still get It that Betrays or Ulamog's Pathraiser out of the yard with this is damn good. Splash in some stuff to give it haste and it is hard to lose if you swing in that early.
I think this is closer to Dance of the Dead / Shallow Grave / Corpse Dance than it is to Reanimate / Animate Dead / Exhume / Necromancy / Life // Death. Having all the downsides of Unmarked Grave AND severely nerfing Woodfall Primus is a huge bummer. That being said, redundancy is always a good thing for combo decks and this is a good option for larger cubes. This is nowhere near as important as Unmarked Grave though since Entomb effects are much rarer than reanimation effects.
Hopefully we'll get a card called Undying in Modern Horizons 3, although it'll probably cost more mana : /
Yeah, this is definitely closer to those effects, but I run Dance of the Dead already, and I'm happy to have another low-cost reanimation spell, even with some hoops, so it'll make it into the cube for me. Agreed on your comparison, though.
I’m actually excited about two non-legendary reanimator cards because it means I can justify tweaking the list slightly around them. In my opinion this is the nail in the coffin for Sheoldred which was already mediocre in our list. It also increases the stock of some of the artifact fatties.
The more I think about it, the more I don't like it. Unless we get an abundance of Entomb / Unmarked Grave effects, you're rolling the dice on looting and hoping you have a non-legendary creature to pair with this. The odds aren't great when a good chunk of your targets will probably be legendary. Unmarked Grave gets around this since it's a tutor (so you only need 1-2 non-legendaries) and the fact that all the other reanimation spells don't care if the creature is legendary or not.
Persist - 1B
Sorcery
Return target non legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
Matches up well with the recently spoiled Unmarked Grave for a lower-powered reanimator archetype. Misses Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Griselbrand, Dragonlord Atarka, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and (sort of) Woodfall Primus in my own cube.
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Hopefully we'll get a card called Undying in Modern Horizons 3, although it'll probably cost more mana : /
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Yeah I was never a fan of Sheoldred. This does go nicely with pretty much every artifact fattie though.
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