A new kind of Ally, for a civilized age. I know
I was pretty tough on Halimar Excavator last
week, but seeing this card makes me think the
Excavator really does have a place in Ally
decks. It doesn't do anything impressive every
time another Ally hits the table, but it
encourages you to keep your troop's numbers up,
because the more you have, the bigger the cards
this guy can steal.
Like every Ally, Agadeem Occultist requires you
to commit heavily to the tribe before you can do
anything spectacular. Once you get started,
though, it can be pretty spectacular indeed. For
the kind of opponent who think every other
creature type is better than Allies, there are
few things more humbling than attacking them
with their own creatures and proving that other
people's creatures just make Allies even better.
Today's card of the day is Agadeem Occultist
which can take control of creatures from an
opposing graveyard, but it is quite situational.
With one or two allies the choice will be fairly
limited and not being able to get an ally from
your own graveyard really lessens the impact for
a dedicated ally deck. An additional creature as
fodder every turn isn't bad for a regular Black
deck though as it can be used as a choice for
Bone Splinters or Fleshbag Marauder.
For Limited this isn't an extremely powerful
card unless you also have other allies to use
with it as the number of one mana creatures your
opponent will have in graveyard may be fairly
small if any. Even with that limitation
the potential to recycle a blocker every turn
can really stall an opponent down for no mana
cost for yourself. Absolutely worth
playing in Sealed if opened and the pool
supports the color well enough and an adequate
first pick in Booster. Try to draft other
allies as the power of Agadeem Occultist
dramatically improves once three allies are in
play.
Magic The Gathering Card of the day: Agadeem
Occultist
Welcome back readers today’s card of the day is
an interesting black ally, Agadeem Occultist.
The occultist allows you to tap and put target
creature from an opponent’s graveyard into play
under your control. This cards power depends on
the opponents deck composition, most of the time
you do not know what your opponent has in his
decks and cards revolving around conditions
opponents must meet are normally not playable.
In standard black allies have not received any
competitive love and I cant see this changing
anytime soon. This card won’t see play in any
serious constructed tournaments be they
standard, extended, or god forbid eternal. In
casual and multiplayer utilizing this in a deck
with allies could force players to sweep the
board, afterwards plop down this card and take
what goodies got sent to the graveyard. In
limited it’s too dependent on opponents and
black allies do no have much to grab in draft,
plus its rare there are more solid cards at
lower rarities. I want to like this card because
of the potential of abuse but outside of casual
it’s a no go.
