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Enchantment
LegalRank #544
At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.
KeywordsMill
Why is this card good?
Ripples of Undeath is one of the most efficient repeatable card advantage engines in black for just two mana. Every turn you mill three and effectively buy back a card for and 3 life — that's relentless selection plus graveyard fuel, all from a turn-one or turn-two enchantment.
The double-dipping is the real appeal: it powers any graveyard-centric strategy. Reanimator decks love binning fatties they can later cheat back; aristocrats and self-mill/delve/recursion builds (think Meren, Muldrotha, Chainer, Dina) want the yard filled while still digging for answers. It also feeds delirium and graveyard payoffs like Syr Konrad.
The 3-life cost is the catch — in life-drain mirrors or against aggressive tables it adds up, and you're committing to paying it most turns to get value. Skip it in decks that don't use the graveyard or that gain no benefit from milling, since you're paying real resources for marginal advantage. But in any black grindy or recursion shell, it's a quiet all-star.
and 3 life — that's relentless selection plus graveyard fuel, all from a turn-one or turn-two enchantment.
The double-dipping is the real appeal: it powers any graveyard-centric strategy. Reanimator decks love binning fatties they can later cheat back; aristocrats and self-mill/delve/recursion builds (think Meren, Muldrotha, Chainer, Dina) want the yard filled while still digging for answers. It also feeds delirium and graveyard payoffs like Syr Konrad.
The 3-life cost is the catch — in life-drain mirrors or against aggressive tables it adds up, and you're committing to paying it most turns to get value. Skip it in decks that don't use the graveyard or that gain no benefit from milling, since you're paying real resources for marginal advantage. But in any black grindy or recursion shell, it's a quiet all-star.Related cards
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