Stitcher Geralf Spoiled
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Posted on Aug. 14, 2014, 10:48 a.m. by GoldGhost012
So Gisa focuses on making hordes of Zombies, Geralf makes one (potentially) huge dude. Thoughts?
I like how he pairs so well with Gisa herself. Make a fatty with him, sac it to Gisa for a horde of zombies. A bit of a failure on the flavor side, considering how much they hate each other, but its just so good mechanically.
August 14, 2014 11:06 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #4
It's not really a flavor fail, because they do work together very well in the lore. They nearly destroyed Thraben working together.
August 14, 2014 11:08 a.m.
beakedbard says... #5
Sweet glad they did Geralf as well as i said with Gisa i've wanted those two to have cards for ages. Hm this kinda makes me want to make a Grimgrin EDH simply so i can viably use both of them. Also shame its exile otherwise he'd have some stupid potential.
August 14, 2014 11:08 a.m.
i dont think it was that they hate each other, they just have a strong sibling rivalry. but i do agree that Gisa and Geralf have good synergy
August 14, 2014 11:10 a.m.
beakedbard says... #7
No Gisa definitely hates Geralf and Geralf seems to just see her as a pawn for his own means and fun when he's bored.
August 14, 2014 11:12 a.m.
I don't like that it only exiles cards milled by the ability. That's really narrow and relies on your opponent(s) running enough creatures to make the ability profitable.
Also, there aren't very many "sacrifice a creature: do something based on creature's P/T" available to mono-Blue. The only one I can think of it is Altar of Dementia . All he does is create a beat stick with zero evasion. Why couldn't the token at least have swampwalk?
August 14, 2014 11:16 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #9
Because shaabs don't usually have abilities except for exiling creatures from your grave as an additional cost or milling yourself when they ETB.
August 14, 2014 11:21 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #10
I like him, but it's a bit weird, cause you have to keep track of each tokens p/t...
August 14, 2014 11:27 a.m.
it is nice though bc unlike the skaabs where you have to exile from your graveyard, with Geralf its from any graveyard. as for the tokens, it'll probably be best just to extra crads and some dice
August 14, 2014 11:42 a.m.
You could put the exiled cards under the tokens to keep track of the sizes.
August 14, 2014 11:48 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #13
I personally don't like dice are used to keep track of anything except counters. It's confusing
August 14, 2014 11:51 a.m.
Holy Vorthos, Wizards! Melvin approves of sibling synergy.
Critisim: He's really bad as a tribal commader, because all the zombie support is in black.
August 14, 2014 12:11 p.m.
He also gets Rooftop Storm but yeah not the best color choice if he's a zombie tribal commander
August 14, 2014 1 p.m.
Unforgivn_II says... #18
I'm just glad they printed Geralf as a card. My favorite part is that he exiles Eldrazi Titans before their graveyard trigger resolves (without having to run Extirpate or Surgical Extraction ). So now mill has a better chance at not falling on its face
August 14, 2014 1:22 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #19
The rest of the gravy gets shuffled in when you Geralf it away still, right?
August 14, 2014 4:50 p.m.
SevenSeasAgo says... #20
People need to realize the neither Gisa, nor Geralf should be used as tribal commanders. Sure, you could try to make it work, but it would be smarter of you to use Grimgrin to get both colors, or one of the Grixis zombies if you need to.
August 14, 2014 5:45 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #21
Yes MagicalHacker, the rest of the yard will still be shuffled back.
August 14, 2014 5:51 p.m.
Stitcher Geralf... At last....
I have to say, I love the art! Geralf is being assisted by Oglor (Stitcher's Apprentice /Rooftop Storm ) to build Grimgrin, Corpse-Born ! You can see the bear trap along the neck in the artwork.
As a card, now that the mad twins have been spoiled, I am really tempted to rebuild my Grimgrin EDH deck...
August 15, 2014 2:14 a.m.
LordOfDispair says... #24
Awesome flavor. I just wish he was 1 less mana! they could make a lot of really cool cards playable by just not making them 6 or 5 drops.
August 17, 2014 1:01 a.m.
LordOfDispair says... #25
lol completely didn't notice it was a commander card. nevermind.
August 17, 2014 1:17 a.m.
Alizer313 that's my new challenge. Exile some random skaabs with strange art, and make it into a 5/5. Build your own Grimgrin. He seems to want to be your commander more, while gisa wants to be in the 99 of Grimgrin, Corpse-Born or Thrax.
cklise says... #2
I dig it. My mill EDH deck loves this.
August 14, 2014 11:02 a.m.