Lich in the Closet

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Sedris, the Traitor King

Legendary Creature — Zombie Warrior

Shards of Alara

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Each creature card in your graveyard has unearth

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: Return the card to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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Conjurer's Closet

Artifact

Commander 2013

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At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

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Date Posted: Tue Sep/09/14 at 11:30 pm

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terakhan

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While this works as presented, its intended to show this guy instead:

The thing about exile instead abilities, the ruling is that it only replaces anything BUT exile. So if the card in question is exiled by an ability that is going to return it to the field, all the original effect cared about was that it got exiled, and calls it a day.

I prefer the Lich to Sedris, in this circumstance. I may not get more than one creature a turn, but it comes back primed for combat with a small pile of new abilities to get through with.

Date Posted: Thu Sep/11/14 at 11:03am

Boyachi

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So what if you used Teferi's Veil instead of the Closet? You wouldn't have the creature during the your next opponent(')s turn(s), but would it still work in a similar method?

Date Posted: Thu Sep/11/14 at 11:31am

terakhan

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Teferi's Veil would work, unless you got backed into a corner and couldn't attack for some reason.

Just remember, phasing neither triggers entry nor exit effects, anymore. So you can't exploit any of those with it.

Brago could be interesting, since he exiles any number of things when he connects. Exile your resurrected creatures, AND get the triggers from them.

Date Posted: Tue Sep/16/14 at 5:31am

americanwerewolf

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Joined: 23-Dec-11

Venser would be nice to use as well.