We're looking at some of Dark Ascension's
powerful mythics this week. This is quite
possibly one of the most powerful cards in the
entire set, despite deviating somewhat from the
traditional lich powers and abilities we know
of. I'm not sure which colors have the most
activated abilities on creatures per capita, but
I'm pretty sure that blue and black have some
pretty powerful ones: Azure Mage, Viscera Seer,
and Olivia Voldaren are just the easiest ones to
abuse. Even without copying its activated
abilities, getting a creature back from your
graveyard almost at will is very strong, and I
could actually see some decks playing it just
for that.
Today's card of the day is Havengul Lich which
is a five mana Blue and Black 4/4 zombie wizard
that allows you to pay one to have the option to
cast a target creature card from the graveyard
and when you cast that card the Lich also gains
any activated abilities the target has until the
end of the turn. The potential for this
card is amazing as both low cost creatures and
ones with abilities all work well with the
effect as do Black's sacrifice theme or Blue's
control. Almost any build using both
colors can find some benefit from running the
Lich and it is very likely to see a great deal
of Commander play as well as tournament slots.
For Limited this card will win games by opening
up most the graveyard as additional hand space.
A 4/4 for five is effective by itself and the
only real drawback is locking you into at least
splashing one or both colors. An easy
first pick in Booster and should be played
whenever possible in Sealed, especially with
creatures that have Undying as an opponent may
have to kill them a total of four or more times
each when combined with the Lich's effect.
Welcome to the Pojo.com card of the day
section. We are looking at Havengul Lich from
Dark Ascension today. Havengul Lich is a mythic
rare creature zombie wizard, and is a 4/4.
Havengul Lich costs three generic, one blue, and
one black mana. Havengul Lich’s ability is pay
one generic, you may cast target creature card
from a graveyard this turn. If you do, Havengul
Lich gains all activated abilities of that card
until end of turn.
Havengul Lich is one of the “generals” from Dark
Ascension, obviously for the zombies. His
ability can get really crazy, since you can
target anyone’s graveyard for the ability. But
that is still really only good in limited if you
are paired off against someone running colors
that you are as well, otherwise, it becomes more
about reanimating things from your own
graveyard. But once we get into more constructed
play, that is when this card truly shines. There
are plenty of ways to get mana that you may not
require, whether it be the multicolored lands,
or even artifacts that will produce the mana for
you, constructed formats could make this guy
insane!
