Apparently Scavenger Drake wasn't the first of
its kind! I've always enjoyed playing the Drake
in black decks, as it's an evasive creature than
can become frighteningly large if your opponents
aren't on their guard. Poultrygeist costs one
less, counterbalanced by the 1-in-6 chance of
its ability cutting its head off instead of
fattening its giblets like it should. There's
also the little problem of it being in
silver-bordered land, which means you're
probably just supplying your opponent's Giant
Fan with fodder and there's a good chance your
opponent's Cardpecker will just keep blocking
it, and eventually kill it through you rolling a
1. And it's not even a Spirit or Zombie, so you
can't get it back with Soulshift or Cruel
Revival or the like. Oh well!
According to the ancient philosopher Zeno of
Elea, motion is effectively logically
impossible, meaning that the chicken never
crosses the road, the sun didn't rise this
morning, and Innistrad wasn't released in
October. It also means that creatures never go
to the graveyard, dice never get rolled, and
Poultrygeist never flies across the battlefield
to do damage to your opponent. Of course, time
is not finite and discrete like the 40 to 60
distinct cards in a Magic deck: it's endless,
invisible, and only quantifiable by arbitrary
means, just like the fun you can have by playing
with cards like Poultrygeist. However you mark
time, and however you mark fun, Poultrygeist
will have something to offer.
AHHHHH haunted chicken! Welcome back readers
just want to wish you a happy thanksgiving. This
review is brief as it is not legal in any format
except casual and Unglued constructed or even
drafting Unglued an interesting prospect. So in
casual and multiplayer this creature has the
potential to become a huge flying creature but
on a 1 all your work goes to waste and you
sacrifice the chicken. The odds are with you and
your chicken friend allowing it to get big and
beatdown. In limited this is a solid creature
that doesn’t require anything special to be
powerful such as dancing a decent creature.
Overall this card is eggcelent and hopefully
there is nothing like this chicken on your
dinner table.
Today's card of the day is Poultrygeist from
Unglued which is a three mana Black 1/1 with
Flying that has a five out of six chance of
getting a +1/+1 counter whenever a creature is
sent to the graveyard from play and one out of
six of being sacrificed. If supported with
removal or a sacrifice engine this is playable,
but it is rare for a game where the Un cards are
legal to be available.
Welcome to our
final card in this short Holiday Week here at
Pojo.com. In honor of how many turkey’s are
being sent to the graveyard tomorrow, we look at
the one that comes back, Poultrygeist!
Poultrygeist is a common black creature-chicken
from Unglued. Poultrygeist costs two generic and
one black mana, and is a 1/1. Poultrygeist has
flying and says whenever a creature is put into
a graveyard from play, roll a d6. On a one,
sacrifice Poultrygeist. Otherwise put a +1/+1
counter on Poultrygeist.
Poultrygeist is a lot of fun using the new Morbid
ability from Innistrad. But it comes at the risk
of rolling a 1. Obviously Poultrygeist is a “for
fun only” card, but you may as well have fun
with it. Kills as much as possible, copy the
“un”-living daylights out of the Poultrygeist
using cards like Phyrexian Metamorph, or even
Clones. Why have just one Poultrygeist when you
could have many more! And splash in
Poultrygeist’s little brother, Scavenger Drake,
for even more fun!
