Goes infinite with Karmic Guide and a sacrifice outlet (you get infinite Connives). It can also set up its own reanimation: if another creature dies, you can discard something like a Hornet Queen to bring back after the Launderer dies. This also seems cool in pod decks, especially black/green ones with sacrifice synergy.
Even when played in a fair manner, this is a 2-for-1 against anything but exiling removal and gives you protection from wraths (you still get the connives even if it is no longer on the board). With sacrifice outlets and recursive creatures this can grow quick and loot you to your best cards to finish the game. It is weak in aggressive decks, as it offers very little pressure, and when answered on curve your graveyard might not have anything to bring back. In control decks, you might not have creatures to bring back. Thus, it's mostly a midrange card, but in black aristocrats-style midrange decks, it seems to offer fantastic value.
I don't love that this card does basically nothing on its own. Sure, if you have a 3/3 or a 2/2 in the yard in a fair deck, it's a hill giant that dies into another likely low-impact creature. As wrath protection it's fine, I guess, you get a bunch of loots if you have a decent board and get one 3-power creature back, which is fine.
Where I find it interesting though is in grindy, recurring nightmare reanimator decks. Now you're much more likely to have a good target when this dies, and if you get to sac it to nightmare you get to get two creatures back, and if it's just in play while looping 2 other creatures the loots are great.
My gut says this probably isn't good enough, but I'll keep an eye on it.
Kind of Reveillark-ish with its death trigger since it can recur token generators like squirrel hermits / Pia and Kiran Nalaar / etc. Definitely has aristocrats applications, although I'm not sure I like it more than something like Nightmare Shepherd.
No reminder text for connive. I hate that every time they do it, and the more mechanics they print, the worse it gets.
I do like this guy a lot better than I tend to like mythic creatures. Odd that it's a reanimate for small creatures though, since that tends to be white's shtick.
Goes infinite with Karmic Guide and a sacrifice outlet (you get infinite Connives). It can also set up its own reanimation: if another creature dies, you can discard something like a Hornet Queen to bring back after the Launderer dies. This also seems cool in pod decks, especially black/green ones with sacrifice synergy.
Even when played in a fair manner, this is a 2-for-1 against anything but exiling removal and gives you protection from wraths (you still get the connives even if it is no longer on the board). With sacrifice outlets and recursive creatures this can grow quick and loot you to your best cards to finish the game. It is weak in aggressive decks, as it offers very little pressure, and when answered on curve your graveyard might not have anything to bring back. In control decks, you might not have creatures to bring back. Thus, it's mostly a midrange card, but in black aristocrats-style midrange decks, it seems to offer fantastic value.
I think I'll be trying this over Henrika Domnathi.
Where I find it interesting though is in grindy, recurring nightmare reanimator decks. Now you're much more likely to have a good target when this dies, and if you get to sac it to nightmare you get to get two creatures back, and if it's just in play while looping 2 other creatures the loots are great.
My gut says this probably isn't good enough, but I'll keep an eye on it.
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I do like this guy a lot better than I tend to like mythic creatures. Odd that it's a reanimate for small creatures though, since that tends to be white's shtick.
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Couldn’t agree more. They need to print Secret Lair “Small Reminder Text on Wordy Mythics”