Ashen Ghoul

Creature — Zombie

Haste

{B}: Return Ashen Ghoul from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only if three or more creature cards are above Ashen Ghoul.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

Neotrup on ashen ghoul

4 years ago

In order to rearrange your graveyard, you need an effect that specifically states you can, such as Fossil Find. As mentioned, in tournaments that don't use older cards (like Modern, Pioneer, or Standard), you are generally allowed to rearrange your graveyard as the formats don't allow cards like Ashen Ghoul.

Pyrra on ashen ghoul

4 years ago

if players could just rearrange graveyards whenever they wanted, the restriction on Ashen Ghoul would be pointless the way its currently worded. if players could arrange their grave, it would be no different than if the restriction said "activate only if there are 3 or more creatures cards in your grave."

Tylord2894 on ashen ghoul

4 years ago

By the letter of the CR, you can't reorganize the order of your graveyard (rule below); however, at a tournament, you can reorder your graveyard provided that there are no cards from before Urza's Saga (also, rule below).

Since Ashen Ghoul is from Ice Age, which is before Urza's Saga, you can't ever reorder your graveyard in a game where you can play Ashen Ghoul.

Hope this helps!!

CR 400.5. The order of objects in a library, in a graveyard, or on the stack can’t be changed except when effects or rules allow it. The same is true for objects arranged in face-down piles in other zones. Other objects in other zones can be arranged however their owners wish, although who controls those objects, whether they’re tapped or flipped, and what other objects are attached to them must remain clear to all players.

MTR 3.14 In formats involving only cards from Urza’s SagaTM and later, players may change the order of their graveyard at any time. A player may not change the order of an opponent’s graveyard.

IAMtheBW on A Journey of Self Exploration

6 years ago

Hey man! There are a lot of good choices for recursion, and you've hit a lot of them. Just gonna make a few more suggestions.

Shallow Grave, Stitch Together, Diabolic Servitude

Also consider Tortured Existence to not only fill your graveyard, but get key creatures back on the off chance they get milled.

Other good creatures are things that can recur by themselves like Bloodghast, Nether Spirit, and Ashen Ghoul

consider a few Delve spells like Temporal Trespass, Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise to thin your graveyard and make it easier to find stuff you need.

Hope this helps!

Eljudnir on

6 years ago

Have you considered any of these? Nether Shadow, Narcomoeba, Golgari Thug, Phantasmagorian, Stinkweed Imp, Dread Return, Ashen Ghoul, Bloodghast, Hell's Caretaker, Liliana, Defiant Necromancer  ^Flip, Sheoldred, Whispering One, Dakmor Salvage, Stitch Together

MsSysbit on Dodgy Ninjas

7 years ago

My friend had a deck like this and never liked it as it never won. It looks like you took the planechase anthology deck and rolled with it. 1 damage to each upon a bounce is not enough. You should look to utilize that more. Think cards like Evacuation. You get all the benefit of time/wipe at the opportune moment and they get burned by Vela. Secondly you want Haste. If you need unblocked creatures to swing for Ninjutsu then you want them swinging without hoping to survive a round at the twble. Swiftfoot Boots and Lightning Greaves will let you do that. Now you'll want to be unblockable; Filth is a great start. Wonder and Archetype of Imagination are more. Try to look at Haste creatures as well; Yahenni, Undying Partisan and Ashen Ghoul are examples. Black has limited doses of Haste so maybe look for options. One that may be within your budget is Nether Traitor. It self resummons, has Haste, and I bet no one in your meta can block Shadow. A couple of Blue's unblockable weaklings might serve you well too so you can trigger Ninjutsu. Those are just some assorted ideas that I hope help you along in your covert attacks under the night's shadow.

JonnyG21 on

8 years ago

Ashen Ghoul, Ashcoat Bear, Ashes to Ashes (good card), Ashes of the Fallen, Bog-Strider Ash, Crumbling Ashes, Unstoppable Ash

All Is Dust, Dust Bowl, Consign to Dust, Flesh to Dust, Turn to Dust, Giant Dustwasp