Premiering in Odyssey block, Zombie Infestation
was a popular way to trigger Madness, achieve
threshold, store flashback cards where they
won't count against your maximum hand size,
and... oh yeah, get a 2/2 Zombie. In Magic 2012,
its Zombie tokens are now the most attractive
thing about it, and its discard requirements are
suddenly serious downsides. Two cards for a
single 2/2 is a steep price unless you've got
some other reason to want to discard cards, or a
2/2 Zombie is of increased value to you.
Fortunately Innistrad should make both those
things happen, but it still remains to be seen
how good Zombie Infestation will be this time
around.
A classic combination card, Zombie Infestation
is sure to be as much of a hit in its second
rotation as it was at the turn of the
century. M12 has Cemetery Reaper and Vengeful
Pharaoh carrying the Zombie tribal banner;
Innistrad will add to the tribe, and also care
about the graveyard in general. It'll no doubt
be, for many people who missed the Odyssey
block, a gateway to the world of reanimation
decks. And last but not least, a whole new
generation of casual players is going to love
figuring out what crazy things they can do with
it. Doubling Season, anyone?
Welcome back readers today’s card of the day is
Zombie Infestation an interesting discard outlet
and token producer. In standard this card has
obvious applications with Treasure Hunt and a
deck filled with lands but aside from that
interesting deck it could be used in reanimation
or graveyard based decks although as of now it
is not the most powerful card but has room to
grow with the graveyard theme of Innistrad. In
modern and eternal formats the same criticisms
apply and as of now it is not getting a large
amount of play. In casual and multiplayer it
allows you to dump your hand for shenanigans and
makes a decent amount of tokens to either attack
players or play some defense. With zombie
tribal becoming more pronounced with Innistrad
making this an interesting choice for deck
builders who favor the undead. In limited its
pretty horrid although if you draft Vengeful
Pharoh it could have its uses, it is normally an
unplayable draft card. Overall an interesting
discard engine that may see some play with
graveyard cards from Innistrad.
Today's card of the day is Zombie Infestation
which is a two mana Black enchantment that
allows you to discard two cards and play a 2/2
zombie token. Both effects are useful for
Black and the low cost of the card allows it to
be played early, when cards will be readily
available.
There are a variety of themes that can benefit
from discarding, both in color and paired with
another, which allows for quite a few builds to
be based around this. Anything that has an
effect that allows it to return from the
graveyard is an opportunity and combos should be
seen in Casual and possibly a few competitive
designs.
For Limited the lack of card advantage and fewer
options for cards that combo well with this make
it a very poor choice in the format. It
can potentially turn two late game lands into a
2/2 token, but even that is slow and
inefficient. The card just isn't worth
drafting in Booster and generally not worth
playing in Sealed either as again three for one
should not be an intentional design of your deck
in the format.
