Exhume

Sorcery

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Combos

• Exhume + Quicken
• Burnt Offering + Exhume

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (42)

Murrow on Balaam__

3 months ago

@Balaam__ that is definitely something i'd like to know! Haha thanks for that little trick. Okay lemme try...

That pauper reanimator card thing ahaha that works! Thanks so much for this tip, very much appreciated. Exhumes

Lol, had to experiment right here lol, now to put this puppy to use haha.

Balaam__ on Balaam__

3 months ago

@Murrow I noticed in your Junk deck description you wrote Exhumes. If you’re interested, you can create card links and rename them to anything you want. Just type the card name (and expansion abbreviation if you care to), followed by the vertical up and down line thing (this thing “|”, idk what it’s called), then followed by what you want the link to be called. Then enclose all that inside double square brackets like normal.

Exhumes becomes exhumes or even that pauper-legal reanimate card etc.

Murrow on The Library (4c Pauper Domain, Original Brew)

3 months ago

jonjonhholt Thanks man! I appreciate the comment and the tips for sure and it's nice to hear that you love the deck. It's definitely been a labor of love. And you may be on to something with the Wandering Stream my thinking was to borrow from some tron builds on this one, since I have a slow early game I am beat down to 10-12 life by the time I can turn on (around turn 4-5) in a lot of matches so far. So with them they give me that second chance to finish the game. But I agree that in some matchups they are certainly underwhelming. I'll keep it in mind as I test!

And I have a love hate relationship with Exhume actually when I built the first version of this it was a Living End/Domain style deck, about what you see now but with Violent Outburst and it ran fairly well that way, and had those explosive starts that you mentioned, but between all of the graveyard hate, Sac removal and others running the ____cycling cards, it started to just dissapoint me. But! It's always in the back of my mind, and something I could try again in the future. Honestly I think I just need to learn how to use Exhume better in higher skill games.

Anyways thanks again for the comments, tips and hype, man! tata for now.

jonjonhholt on The Library (4c Pauper Domain, Original Brew)

3 months ago

This deck is super fun! I love the domain cards paired with all the great ____cycling cards we have now. I agree that Magic Damper and You See a Guard Approach stand out as potential flex spots, though i also think a copy or two of Wandering Stream could move to the sideboard as while they absolutely rip vs aggro, they are underwhelming against a control or combo deck. If youre already running all the lotr 1-mana landcyclers, a playset of Exhume allows you to get off to some crazy fast starts. Love the deck!

leovolt884_ on Dead Metal II: Rage

8 months ago

You can lean hard into Kuldotha Rebirth + Dread Return. I think it's a way more interesting combo than just using Exhume like most reanimator decks. Generally I find pauper reanimator a boring archetype but this could be really cool. Churn through your deck with Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion, etc. Play setup cards like Gold Pan to give you an artifact plus more mana and lategame potential equipment. Crashing Drawbridge is a board wide haste enabler, and an artifact if needed. If you want to lean harder into reanimating artifact creatures, Argivian Restoration is a neat reanimator spell. Notably it also ramps you if you target an artifact land which is funny. Cleansing Wildfire can target your indestructible artifact duals to ramp you a basic and draw you a card for 2 mana which is awesome interaction. I would avoid using Exhume if possible because by giving the opponent a blocker, even if you trample through it, it will make you take longer to kill the opponent and give them more time to remove your threats and disable your deck. It also works against your removal by giving them their scariest cards you already spent resources removing back for free.

Overall I would focus on having fewer but stronger reanimator targets and just using Dread Return + Kuldotha Rebirth. Play some madness cards like Dark Withering, Brain Gorgers, Kitchen Imp, Terminal Agony, Hell Mongrel, Reckless Wurm, etc. That way you're playing cheap aggressive threats with your Dark Ritual's and Lotus Petal's while filling your graveyard with your hyper efficient discard. Less worrying about casting as many reanimation spells and more focus on being aggressive while you set up will get you the damage you need early on to deal with blockers and close the game quicker.

leovolt884_ on Zubera Zubera ずべら

8 months ago

So since you asked, here's my stupid idea: Mill yourself. a ton. I know, that doesnt really work with the zubera's but there's more. Once you have 6 or more creatures in your graveyard you can profit. With Archaeomancer, Ardent Elementalist, any mana filterer like Prismite and any sac outlet like Makeshift Munitions in play you can win with the red zubera. Cast Ghostly Flicker and return the flicker + Songs of the Damned to your hand. Cast songs, filter 2 black into a blue, cast flicker, repeat. accrue infinite mana. Cast Exhume or some reanimation spell to return Ember-Fist Zubera to play, sac it, and cast flicker again this time returning the flicker and exhume to hand. Repeat. The zubera don't care how many are in your graveyard, just how many went there this turn. It's like going to an arcade and just pushing a baskteball in and out of the hoop to get a ton of points. This is stupid, and a horrible infinite combo, but its a thing.

These creatures are just horrendously bad. For advice otherwise I can just say play control, maybe some fogs, lots of card draw and ramp. Try to sac your board and maybe do some Songs of the Damned shenanigans to recur one or two but really don't stress about making the strategy good. It's jank, and is quite funny, and holds a special place on the more casual wincons of decks

Balaam__ on Uncouterable Reanimator

9 months ago

This is just an observation, but are you aware that the ‘this spell can’t be countered’ portion of text on many of your creatures is irrelevant if they’re being reanimated? An opponent need only counter the actual reanimation spell (Exhume or Reanimate) and your creature, say, Sphinx of the Final Word for instance, will not enter play despite that rules text on that card.

If you hardcast any of those creatures than that rules text will apply, although that’s highly improbable due to their very expensive casting costs.

Goldberserkerdragon on Should Muldrotha Eldrazi be Sac …

1 year ago

I would suggest mill personally as there are myriad sacrifice themes. And usually you dont want to be sacrificing your drazi if going that route. I built a sultai Sidisi mill reanimator deck once and it was quite fun. Doing this will eldrazi--sweew--hella good time. Any of the permanent reanimator spells are golden here. Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, etc. Personal favs (while mostly not perms) are Exhume, Restart Sequence, Zombify, Aftermath Analyst, and last but not least Rise of the Dark Realms. Also note, turning almost all your cards into permanents really boost Muldrotha's synergy and theme.

I would also add that these archetypes aren't terrific at going against higher power as they invoke a high random chance in mill synergies, etc. Eldrazi based high power--hmmm--I would say something Kinnan-y. Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator is a personal fav reanimator if you do want to keep it somewhat mid.

Hope this helps, Cheers!