At first glance, it looks useless. But you soon
realize that any deck that has Zombify or
anything similar can make this work almost as
though it were a "draw three cards" spell. When
it was printed, it also had a lot of synergy
with Threshold and Flashback-- the Flashback
card especially making this feel like the word
"graveyard" was actually "hand". Now we have
Dredge, Delve, and Recover to make whatever you
Bury Alive that much easier to dig back up.
Constructed- 4.5
Casual- 4.9
Limited- 3
Aethereal
Monday - Buried
Alive
A key card in Reanimator decks, as it lets you
dump fatties into the graveyard to be returned.
It is slower than Entomb, but in the one format
that this card sees play in (Extended), Entomb
is banned. Outside of Reanimator, not a heck of
a lot of other uses. This card pretty much
speaks for itself in constructed and casual.
In limited, you need something worth
reanimating, and you need a Zombify or a Stitch
Together. In other words, no.
Believe it or not, there was a period in Magic's
history when the graveyard was not yet a place
to keep cards you wanted to use again, Animate
Dead was way wild and "out there," and this card
would have been a junk rare. As it is, you can
use this to get Genesis, Wonder, or any of
Judgment's Incarnations online, or set up a
really, really broken reanimator turn by finding
Yosei and then casting Footsteps of the Goryo.
As things stand right now, it's a little slow
for constructed decks in Extended or Legacy, but
this card has an excellent pedigree and deserves
respect, especially in casual play. I don't
think it's usually too much use in limited, but
it does get you halfway to threshold or search
for a ridiculous bomb like Genesis, Wonder, or
Glory, so it's not without use.
Constructed: 3/5
Casual: 5/5
Limited: 2/5
PsychoAnime
#1
Magic Noob in Canada since 2002
Buried Alive
Reviews are going to be shorter for me this week
as I have stuff to do, well, shorter than usual
anyway.
A combo card for sure, it allows you to dump 3
creatures to your graveyard on turn 1 with Dark
Ritual which allows for graveyard tricks to be
played quickly. It's pretty good at what it
does, and although I'm not that old of a player
to have seen it in action, this just logically
seems to be a good way to dump reanimation
targets or graveyard ability creatures into the
graveyard. Dredge is fast, but this makes sure
you get the stuff in the graveyard.
Constructed: 3/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: No idea here, so 2.5/5 to be right in
the middle
Swordmaster13
We kick off
Halloween week with Buried Alive from Odyssey.
This oldie but goldie sends three creatures in
your library to your graveyard, then allows you
to shuffle your library. I missed Odyssey block
unfortunately, but I can see this being used to
put some big creatures in the graveyard for a
reanimation strategy. If you run Wonder or any
one of the creatures that gave your monsters
effects while in the graveyard, Buried Alive
helps here to get it into your graveyard. It
could also help you get three cards closer to
Threshold as well. Not bad, but too bad it's an
Extended card.
