Embryo Thief

Flavor of the name is great but it's probably too icky.

Thomas Baker · 2012-05-26 16:31:25

A card designed by the man who finds Triumph of Ferocity too offensive!

Kieran Symington · 2012-05-26 16:31:26

love it - who wants to do the art?

Ross Miles · 2012-05-26 16:31:27

This guy *may* be too good but he is definitely fun. Getting him out with three or four creatures in a row on top of your library with Graveshade in play is awesome. Drain you for 4, make my 1/1 into a 5/5!

Thomas Baker · 2012-05-31 12:12:33

I got the Abortionist + Graveshade combination again. Pretty awesome.

Thomas Baker · 2012-05-31 17:41:50

This guy is fairly broken in conjunction with Vital Librarian or Vigorous Study. There are infinite combos with this guy which we should remove or not down with an activation cost, possibly T. Can also jump start some of the other infinite combos by gaining the first life.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-03 20:41:06

Actually I"m not sure that any of the infinite combos involve this card exactly. I did drain Mills for about 10 while drawing my entire library at some point but that was incidental to the brokenness. Futurist is the guy with true infinite combo.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-03 22:39:14

Something about the templating of this rankles me, but I haven't got better wording yet.

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-10 12:34:20

This probably fulfils a similar role to Dalgath Castellan, so I'm retiring him in preference to this.

Kieran Symington · 2012-06-13 10:24:18

This card scares people but hasn't actually done anything broken yet. It's on the watchlist but so far I like it.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 09:36:04

Probably the third B uncommon creatures for me.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 17:22:16

I'm not sure we can fit both Abortionist and Corrupt Seer into B uncommons. They are filling very similar roles of foresight enabling and top of deck manipulation. Only Abortionist helps with B self mill and creatures in graveyard theme, so he would get my vote over Corrupt Seer.

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-15 08:48:33

Absolutely fits in everything. The name is still kind of disgusting, though.

Kieran Symington · 2012-06-15 10:31:38

Name suggestions : Nihilator Cyclopean Undertaker Unnatural Selector

Paul Hodgson · 2012-06-15 14:27:51

Like the new name!

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-15 15:39:24

the joke wore thin pretty quickly

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-15 16:51:43

I'm not sure that this guy and Corrupt Seer are all that similar. Yes, they both have Foresight. But this guy makes your draw *worse* to drain and Corrupt Seer costs you life to make it better. Corrupt Seer at Rare and 1B might work, though :)

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-16 08:19:08

I hate this name, btw. If we actually cut Corrupt Seer we could steal that. Otherwise how about Body Collector or Grave Filler (too literal!) or Corpse Reader.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-16 08:20:22

Other potential names: Primogeniture Harvester, Scourge of the Unborn, Foetal Immolater

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-25 13:54:51

Foetal Immolater is even more creepy than the original name!

Kieran Symington · 2012-06-25 14:11:07