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Undead Gladiator
Creature — Zombie Barbarian
, Discard a card: Return Undead Gladiator from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
seshiro_of_the_orochi on More cards like Phyrexian Reclamation
2 years ago
Working with Syrix, Carrier of the Flame?
Champion of Stray Souls has something similar going, although a lot more expensive. I'm also trying to include a little dredge to get creature cards out of the graveyard. Gravewaker is bullshit-expensive to activate, but is another possibility. Another useful card might be Undead Gladiator.
Epicurus on
An Actual Ninja Phoenix Deck
2 years ago
Looks very interesting.
Consider Mortuary Mire to add to the land base. And maybe Bog Witch for ramp.
Also:
And surely a lot of other stuff, but I wouldn't want you to detract from your theme to fit them all in.
Also, though, you accidentally put plains on the list instead of swamps.
SteelBlood2 on Looking for a good card …
2 years ago
TLDR: Hoping to find a 3 or less black creature card that when it's sacrificed lets me either put a card from my deck into my graveyard or from the graveyard onto the battlefield.
Here's how I want the deck to play: Instead of waiting for a sorcery or enchantment card to pop up to get cards out of my graveyard, I am trying to make it where I nearly always have a creature that can get cards out of the graveyard, or summon a creature that can.
For example if I don't draw any Doomed Necromancer, There's a very good chance I'd still at least draw a Fiend Artisan so that I can get a Doomed Necromancer out. Note these aren't the only cards I have for this purpose, just using the combo as an example.
My problem is I am having trouble finding good cards to sacrifice for Fiend Artisan or other cards I have like Victimize that fit well towards the goal of the deck. I've found plenty of good cards to sacrifice like Archfiend's Vessel or other cards that give life or create tokens when they die, but none of them feel like they contribute towards the goal I am working towards: Getting cards out of my deck into my graveyard, or cards from my graveyard onto the battlefield.
Something that lets me draw a card when it dies would probably be the next most useful thing.
If it helps, here's some other cards I'm planning on putting in the deck to give you a better idea of what I'm going for: Sheoldred, Whispering One, Shalai, Voice of Plenty, Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Hell's Caretaker, Oriq Loremage, Undead Gladiator
The only color mana I'm currently planning on using is black, though I am considering adding some white.
ClockworkSwordfish on What are some ways to …
2 years ago
Three mana to bring a guy back is a little hefty, but if you're really looking for options you can run guys with Cycling (or Landcycling) to redirect your card advantage into something else. Deadshot Minotaur is a soft piece of removal and is easy to cycle at one hybrid mana. Undead Gladiator improves your card filtering by letting you trade other cards for him while you're at it. (Anger, anyone?) Igneous Pouncer and Valley Rannet let you grab shocklands or other nonbasics like Dryad Arbor or Witch's Cottage. Some critters tack an extra ability onto their being cycled, such as Jund Sojourners, Sanctuary Smasher and Void Beckoner - giving you a mana-intensive but reliable option each turn if you have nothing else to bring back.
Perhaps the best example is Krosan Tusker, who grabs you another card and a land when you cycle him, putting you up another card each time. Shefet Monitor requires even more mana but puts the land right into play untapped, giving you a reliable way to ramp and draw cards during a standstill.
Metroplex_Grimlock on
Quintessons
2 years ago
The cast of the deck and who they're playing:
QUINTESSONS
Karona, False God- Quintessa(TLK)
Sliver Hivelord- Alpha Quintesson
Sliver Overlord- Quintesson Judge
The sharks, including Shark Typhoon- Sharkticons
Crocodiles- the Allicons( yes I know)
Thran Golem- Baliff
Gyruda, Doom of Depths Gigan- Quintesson Executioner
Cephalid Constable- Quintesson Prosecutor
Autobots
Barrin, Tolarian Archmage- Kup
Crosis's Attendant- Hot Rod
Tajic, Blade of the Legion- Optimus Prime
Arvad the Cursed- Bumblebee
Deceptions
Undead Gladiator-Megatron/Galvatron
Miscellaneous
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger- Unicron, the world Eater.
Titanoth Rex Godzilla- Godzilla
Dinobots
Grimlock is himself
Kalamax, the Stormsire- Snarl
Pyroceratops-Slag/Slug (depending on what you grew up with. It's the same guy no matter what)
Cloudpiercer- Sludge
Etali, Primal Storm- Scorn(AoE)
Zetalpa, Primal Dawn-Swoop(G1)/ Strafe(AoE)
BrassLord on
Sheoldred's plebs
2 years ago
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmothpairs well with your commander, as you make your commander unblockable! Also any Strip Mine lands or even fetch lands can help when paired with crucible for longer, grindier games.Dauthi Voidwalker also has synergy with you milling things, which can be useful in mirror matches against fellow reanimate commander decks. I'm sure there's a bandwagon somewhere, but the ability to destroy enchantments in black is few and far between, making Feed the Swarm a weird but useful card outside of the usual flavor of black.
Silversmote Ghoul pairs really well with Gravebreaker Lamia, creating an interesting draw engine, as you can get the Ghoul back with Lamia's lifelink.
Another interesting card is Undead Gladiator. While a little underwhelming stat wise, being able to repeatedly cycle and set up your own graveyard for reanimation plays is pretty fun!
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Help with Voltron protection and …
2 years ago
You're welcome. There should be an old print of Undead Gladiator btw. That could be a nice repeatable pump for Volrath in case you run out of bigger creatures to discard.
multimedia on
Venture Forth
2 years ago
Hey, you're welcome.
Containment Priest seems out of place since it's actually a card you don't an opponent to play because it's excellent hate against you. Priest shuts down Serfis Create Undead ability of reanimation which you can trigger even on an opponents turn if you complete a dungeon from venturing that turn. If you control Priest when you trigger Create Undead it will exile the creature you reanimated which you don't want. You also don't cast Reassembling Skeleton when it's in your graveyard. You're paying a cost to return Skeleton to the battlefield, but this cost isn't casting Skeleton. In this case Priest will exile Skeleton.
Undead Gladiator is another budget creature who can trigger Serfis to venture different ways on your turn or opponents if you cycle. When it's in you hand you can cycle it to discard it and draw a card. When it's in your graveyard at your upkeep you can discard a card to return to your hand and repeat.