Necronaut

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Posted on Feb. 18, 2019, 5:28 p.m. by DemonDragonJ

A Dungeons & Dragons book several years ago featured a monster known as a necronaut, and I wish to make that monster into a creature in this game.

For a better understanding of this being, a necronaut is a massive and terrifying creature that is composed of numerous corpses piled together in a haphazard and nightmarish fashion, with the ability assimilate additional corpses into itself and gain whatever abilities those creatures possessed in life. Therefore, here is my creation:

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Necronaut

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Creature - zombie horror

Power/Toughness: 2/2

Trample, menace, protection from white and from green.

As necronaut enters the battlefield, exile all creature cards from all graveyards, then put a +1/+1 counter on necronaut for each card exiled this way.

If a creature card would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, instead exile that creature and put a +1/+1 counter on necronaut.

Necronaut has all activtaed abilities of all creatures exiled by it (you may spend black mana on necronaut's activated abilities as if it were mana of any type).

What does everyone think of this card? I deliberately gave it low power and toughness because, ideally, there shall be plenty of creatures for it to exile by the time that its owner can afford to spend seven mana to summon it, so it will not be too weak when it enters the battlefield. I gave it trample and menace because its monstrous size and fearsome appearance will definitely make it very terrifying, and I gave it protection from white and green because the ability to absorb corpses and gain their abilities is as black as an ability can be in this game.

What does everyone else think of this card? Did I do well with it?

shadow63 says... #2

I like it. Seems a bit strong in edh. But not game breaking strong

February 18, 2019 9 p.m.

PlatinumOne says... #3

im not sure how having the ability to absorb corpses translates to protection from white and green. but why make a custom card to begin with? does your playgroup allow that sort of thing?

February 18, 2019 10:07 p.m.

Boza says... #4

isn't Necrotic Ooze most of this thing already? I feel like this is overdesigned - 3 keywords, 2 different exile+counter effects, activated abilities + can use any mana for those. A bit much.

Cut the keywords and the can use mana as though it was any color at least.

This will get you a combination of Ravenous Slime and Necrotic Ooze , which sounds really cool and BG might be the correct colors for this card.

February 19, 2019 5:48 a.m.