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3 cards, 1 spell, 20 damage

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Makeshift Mannequin

{3}{B}

Instant

Lorwyn

Read rules for Makeshift Mannequin
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

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Phyrexian Metamorph

{3}{U/P}

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter

New Phyrexia

Read rules for Phyrexian Metamorph
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

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Date Posted: Thu Mar/29/12 at 2:13 pm

Squillis
Posts: 424
Joined: 20-Nov-08

Mountain is Flayer of the Hatebound from Dark Ascension
Makeshift Mannequin is Unburial Rites from Innistrad

Found another on the rules sites :).  You can use this with another Flayer or any Clone-esque creature instead of the Metamorph, and you can use any effect that brings the creature back from the G/Y like Animate Dead.

With a Flayer on the battlefield and a Phyrexian Metamorph in the Graveyard, cast Unburial Rites on the Metamorph.  Have it enter as a Flayer and it will trigger for both itself and the existing flayer.  Have both flayers target Each Other.  One will kill the other and it will come back with a +1/+1 counter.  When it does it will trigger both flayers again, have each target the opponent for a total of 10 damage.  The flayer that hasn't come back yet dies to the trigger from the other and it undies for another 10 damage!  See the process below :)

Cast Unburial Rites on Metamorph
Metamorph comes back as a flayer and two flayer triggers go on the stack:

Flayer A targeting Flayer (clone) B
Flayer (clone) B targeting Flayer A


Flayer clone gets killed by the trigger and triggers undying from the Graveyard

Phyrexian Metamorph Undying trigger
Flayer (clone) B targeting Flayer A


Undying Trigger resolves bringing the clone back as a Flayer

Flayer A targeting the opponent to have Flayer (clone) B deal damage = power to opponent
Flayer B targeting the opponent to have Flayer (clone) B deal damage = power to opponent
Flayer (clone) B targeting Flayer A


Both triggers resolve one after the other, each dealing damage equal to the power of the clone Flayer with a +1/+1 counter to the opponent for a total of 10 damage

Flayer (clone) B targeting Flayer A


Trigger resolves killing the real Flayer

real Flayer Undying trigger


Undying Trigger resolves bringing the real flayer back

Flayer A targeting the opponent to have Flayer (clone) B deal damage = power to opponent
Flayer B targeting the opponent to have Flayer (clone) B deal damage = power to opponent


Both triggers resolve one after the other, each dealing damage equal to the power of the real Flayer with a +1/+1 counter to the opponent for a total of 10 damage and if 20 damage wasn't enough, you've got 2 5/3 creatures :).  Cast Unburial Rites again if you need to do some more.

Not bad find for a standard deck.


[Edited by Squillis on 29/Mar/12 at 2:21PM]
Date Posted: Thu Mar/29/12 at 3:25pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Nice one!
Date Posted: Thu Mar/29/12 at 6:14pm

bolobasher
Posts: 99
Joined: 28-Feb-12

very nice ....but my squash is squished
Date Posted: Thu Mar/29/12 at 8:22pm

Akinas86
Posts: 327
Joined: 16-Jun-10

quick question, how does the undying trigger keep happening? just because you kill the flayers doesn't mean the +1/+1 counter put there previously goes away.
Date Posted: Fri Mar/30/12 at 7:38am

Squillis
Posts: 424
Joined: 20-Nov-08

It only triggers once for each creature.  The first time a creature comes back from the GY it's not because of the undying, it's because of the Ritual so it won't come back with a +1/+1 counter.  When it enters as a copy of the Flayer, both the original flayer and itself will trigger and aim at each other.  When each one dies, it will undie back to the battlefield.  Because it enters the battlefield as a creature that entered from the GY you will get 2 triggers for each one for a grand total of 4 triggers.  With each trigger pinging for 5 damage that will be 20 in all :)
Date Posted: Sun Apr/01/12 at 12:57am

Academic
Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

:D I was just looking of my flayer, wondering if there was some great way to exploit it.