Undead Butler

Creature — Zombie

When this enters the battlefield, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

When this dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield), you may exile this. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (6)

mrweaselman on Stumbly Boys (EDH)

4 months ago

Starting with mana, you only have 44 sources. I would recommend going around 47. Sapphire Medallion and Jet Medallion are a lot better than the monuments, although more expensive. You want to avoid 3 mana rocks like Dimir Locket and Commander's Sphere, you have better options in two mana ones. Add Coldsteel Heart, Fellwar Stone, Dimir Signet, Talisman of Dominance and at least one land.

For interaction, you could add enchantment removal like Feed the Swarm. Bitter Triumph is new and may be better than Infernal Grasp here.

Since mill and discard can basically act as card draw, you can run cards like Mire Triton, Stitcher's Supplier, Undead Butler, Palantir of Orthanc, and Fact or Fiction, as well as sacrifice based card draw like Corrupted Conviction, Village Rites, and Deadly Dispute. There's also always all-stars Black Market Connections, Phyrexian Arena, and Rhystic Study if you want to go that direction.

Some card to protect your commander like Netherborn Altar, Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip, Zombie Master or Lightning Greaves / Swiftfoot Boots may be helpful if you rely on Gisa and it keeps getting removed.

There are certain cards I am not a fan of in this deck including Master of Death, Prized Amalgam, Scourge of Nel Toth, Tomebound Lich, Dead Revels, and Syphon Flesh.

Some other cards to consider include Cryptbreaker, Geralf, Visionary Stitcher, Ghoulcaller Gisa, Lord of the Undead, Noxious Ghoul, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, The Scarab God, Distant Melody, Buried Alive, Diabolic Intent, Liliana, Dreadhorde General. You could probably replace similar cards with these if they are better.

Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm + Sac Outlet is infinite. I don't think you run many sac outlets. You could add Acererak the Archlich to go infinite with just Rooftop Storm.

Rhadamanthus on Interaction between Araumi of the …

6 months ago

You're right. When it's time to decide whether to exile the Undead Butler tokens from the graveyard, they aren't there anymore, so you can't do it.

CamraMaan on Interaction between Araumi of the …

6 months ago

Sorry, I think I know the answer to this one, but I have to make sure, as it would be handy to include. When Araumi of the Dead Tide encores Undead Butler, and the tokens are sacrificed at the end of the turn, will they trigger the second portion of Undead Butler? My guess is that they have to be in the graveyard in order to be exiled afterward, and the tokens disappear upon hitting the grave, so it's a no-go, correct?

And I apologize about asking so many questions about Araumi... I'm building an Artisan (common and uncommon only) deck, so I have to get a little creative and also make sure I'm not running on false assumptions, as Araumi presents some interesting scenarios. But I appreciate the help as always!

legendofa on I'm gonna cleave you

1 year ago

Maybe some more big mana enhancements, like Crypt Ghast, High Tide, Dark Ritual, or Burnt Offering. You have a lot of 5-7 mana spells, and Rise of the Dark Realms is up at 9 mana. TheJerryCan's suggestion of Ashnod's Altar is solid.

Right now, this deck has only nine permanents below 3 mana. This might be contributing to the feeling of having no board presence; I would expect this deck to start establishing a solid board at turn 4 at the earliest. Gravecrawler, Champion of the Perished, Bladestitched Skaab, Nightscape Familiar, Stitcher's Supplier, Mire Triton, and Undead Butler are all low-mana options, and the last three help kickstart your milling.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Looking for a good card …

2 years ago

Looking at the selection of cards you mentioned, I'm assuming you're talking commander?

Phyrexian Delver is a great reanimator creature.

A black creature that reanimates something on death seems hard to find. If tokens are fine, there's always Doomed Dissenter. Other cards that roughly meet your criteria are Nether Traitor, Nullpriest of Oblivion, Order of Midnight, Pitkeeper, Silversmote Ghoul, Undead Butler and Veinwitch Coven.

keizerbuns on A Very Disturbing Deck

2 years ago

Thanks mdf64! My bad, I’m gonna change this to Historic haha.

I did actually have Geistlight Snare in the deck before but I took them out to add more Malevolent Hermit  ^Flip cards, but maybe I should try cutting a few things and adding some back in again. I did also think about adding Skyclave Apparition but ran out of room. I’ll definitely experiment with skyclave and Shipwreck Sifters and see how it goes!

I think you’re right about the Undead Butlers, I had them in there as fodder for Rite of Oblivion but the disturb cards themselves already kinda work for that.

What are your thoughts on Otherworldly Gaze? Do you think I should cut it or keep it?

Thanks for the suggestions! I guess I’m gonna have to rework this a bit.