R/B Graveyard to Battlefield Creatures

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Posted on July 8, 2015, 2:39 p.m. by 2npii

I'm working on this Budget Demigod list and I'm trying to track down all the cards that can be used from the graveyard in R/B. I've got through all the flashbacks, all the dredgers and all the unearths and now I'm searching for anything else that prefers being in the graveyard than in the hand; in particular I'm after graveyard to battlefield creatures. I've got Bloodghast, Gravecrawler, Nether Traitor and Reassembling Skeleton; are there any others I'm missing? (I know Vengevine doesn't care about colours, but I'm not casting enough creatures for it to work!)

Boza says... #2

Tymaret, the Murder King is very useful with all those mentioned above.

July 8, 2015 2:59 p.m.

FTR says... #3

Bloodsoaked Champion and Flamewake Phoenix are good ones, Crypt Champion is nice

Akuta, Born of Ash if you're keeping your hand full

Nim Devourer if you have artifacts

Edit: Geralf's Messenger, Murderous Redcap and other undying/persist may be relevant

July 8, 2015 3:26 p.m. Edited.

RoarMaster says... #4

Persist creatures, Pheonixs, Bloodsoaked Champion, Veilborn Ghoul, Tenacious Dead, Nim Devourer.

July 8, 2015 3:29 p.m.

goodair says... #5

Lotleth Troll would of been awesome if u played green.

July 8, 2015 5:07 p.m.

2npii says... #6

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I forgot about Bloodsoaked Champion, and Flamewake Phoenix might work (I can't believe I missed that one). I dismissed Nim Devourer when I first saw it as I'm not running any artifacts but it might be pretty good anyway. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge might also do the trick.

Yeah, Lotleth Troll would be pretty good as a discard engine (I have Avatar of Discord instead) but it's a dead card once it's in the yard.

If anyone thinks of any other yard to battlefield creatures let me know!

July 9, 2015 6:36 a.m.

2npii says... #7

FTR - I've started testing with Flamewake Phoenix and it does exactly what I wanted; thanks for the suggestion!

July 9, 2015 3:31 p.m.

FTR says... #8

No problem! I was going to suggest Faithless Looting effects too but I saw you already have some. Looks good!

July 9, 2015 3:33 p.m.

2npii says... #9

Yeah, Faithless Looting is one of the best cards in the deck, and Tormenting Voice almost counts as copies 5 - 8 of FL. The new Magmatic Insight might work too (especially with Dakmor Salvage!).

But as I said, Flamewake Phoenix is perfect; discard two of them with Avatar of Discord and then cast them straight from the yard!

July 10, 2015 6:57 a.m.