how to handle undying creature?
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Posted on Feb. 13, 2012, 4:31 a.m. by HeartCruz
my deck is a U/W burning vengeance deck..
i wanna ask how to handle undying creature..
if i burn it, they gonna back to battle field n more dangerous... if i bounce it, its will never ending army..
what should i do if i meet a guy with undying deck??
OmegaSerris says... #3
In white you have Thraben Heretic and Purify the Grave which are both meant to hose Undying. Exile them in response to their Undying trigger. Any form of exile on the battlefield will handle them too. Oblivion Ring (which almost any white deck in Standard is running) will stop them. Fiend Hunter will do the same.
Blue can shuffle them into their library with Memory's Journey.
If you want a colorless option, there is Graveyard Shovel. You can hit Flashback spells as well, but the Undying creatures will net you some bonus life. Mimic Vat can stop any amount of them dying at the same time. Just stick each one under it, replacing the last. Nihil Spellbomb is the end-all for anything graveyard based. You can use Terramune's idea too, and use Surgical Extraction and eat the two life cost.
February 13, 2012 4:53 a.m.
OmegaSerris says... #4
I should add a correction I forgot to mention. The Mimic Vat trick only works on your opponent's turn. Otherwise, on your turn, the undying trigger is put on the stack on top of the vat's trigger, thus resolving before it. Also undying does not work with tokens (like the vat produces). It triggers, but the tokens aren't there when undying resolves.
February 13, 2012 4:59 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
The Q&A is reserved for rules-related questions. I have moved this to the general forum.
Nihil Spellbomb and Surgical Extraction are kind of the go-to cards right now. Purify the Grave might be a more viable, if underpowered, solution depending on the needs of your deck.
February 13, 2012 9:14 a.m.
One card that a lot of people are forgetting is Red Sun's Zenith . And it's in your color!
February 13, 2012 2:13 p.m.
thks alot guys for your answer..
think i gonna use Surgical Extraction in side board n try to put Red Sun's Zenith in deck..
red sun can be a finisher n can exile creature if i use red sun to a creature..
ty all for the idea...
Terramune says... #2
Counter them?? Also undying will cause a chain to happen so you could say Surgical Extraction
them out of the game so long as you cast it while undying is on the stack. Also isn't Burning Vengeance
red anyway??
February 13, 2012 4:38 a.m.