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Glistening Undeath

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Glistening Oil

{B}{B}

Enchantment — Aura

New Phyrexia

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Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

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Date Posted: Fri Mar/23/12 at 1:29 pm

Squillis
Posts: 424
Joined: 20-Nov-08

Swamp is ANY creature with Undying

This is more synergy with Glistening Oil and ANY undying creature.  Cast Glistening Oil on the undying creature after it comes back to life.  Each upkeep it will get a -1/-1 counter, the first of which will reset the undying!  It also has the nasty side effect of giving the creature Infect.  An Undying Infectious creature is one your opponent wants to and doesn't want to block.  Especially when you get the oil back when the creature finally does die.  What to do with that oil you ask? Why put it right back on that creature again!

Would you block a 6/6 Undying Mikaeus with Infect? I think you would!  But how many times...
Date Posted: Fri Mar/23/12 at 1:35pm

TheCaptain
Posts: 909
Joined: 13-Apr-11

This is fantastic in Standard!! I think people have forgotten about infect mostly, this might be the sort of thing that brings it back, at least in rogue decks in FNM
Date Posted: Fri Mar/23/12 at 2:22pm

Bgomez
Posts: 1
Joined: 23-Mar-12

To make it interesting for casual play you could add flourishing defenses just to add some chump blockers for the heck of it.
Date Posted: Sat Mar/24/12 at 9:57am

DalCimaius
Posts: 5
Joined: 18-Feb-12



[Edited by DalCimaius on 24/Mar/12 at 10:38AM]
Date Posted: Sat Mar/24/12 at 9:59am

DalCimaius
Posts: 5
Joined: 18-Feb-12

disregard the "enchantment falls off" part. didn't see the "returns to hand" part. lawl

edit: disregard all of it. just read the updated compRules

[Edited by DalCimaius on 24/Mar/12 at 10:37AM]
Date Posted: Sun Mar/25/12 at 12:24am

Giovan
Posts: 39
Joined: 07-Oct-11

Too bad that only works with two undying cards until now...

But, anyway, excellent combo! One of the most original in last months.
Date Posted: Mon Mar/26/12 at 7:46am

Squillis
Posts: 424
Joined: 20-Nov-08

Quote:
"Too bad that only works with two undying cards until now..."

Actually, it should work with Any undying creature.  And if you have Mikaeus out, it'll work with Any non-human creature as well.  It may not be as advantagous to use it with a 3/2 Strangleroot Geist, but that Geist will still be able to swing as a 3 powered infector.  If they block it, drop the enchantment on another creature, if they don't you've hit them for 3 poison counters and you lose a +1/+1 counter from the undying creature on your next turn!  You just need to make sure you watch out for counterspells more often when playing it on smaller creatures twice in the same turn.
Date Posted: Mon Mar/26/12 at 2:26pm

Giovan
Posts: 39
Joined: 07-Oct-11

Hum... You're right...I was looking at the wrong thing...