Vengeful Pharaoh is here to preside over your Zombie forces as a black rare in the Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set. The Vengeful Pharaoh enacts swift revenge on any creature seeking to damage you or your planeswalkers – from beyond the grave. Mark Rosewater previewed Vengeful Pharaoh today on the official Magic: The Gathering site.
Vengeful Pharaoh
2BBB
Creature – Zombie Rare
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if Vengeful Pharaoh is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put Vengeful Pharaoh on top of your library.
5/4
Vengeful Pharaoh comes with enough power to be real threat and can go toe to toe with almost anything. After his attacks send him packing to the graveyard, he’ll be ready for more action – after killing one of your opponent’s creatures on his way back to the top of your deck.
With three black mana in the casting cost, you’ll have to be playing a dedicated black deck in order to be able to field Vengeful Pharaoh reliably.
As a Limited pick, it may be worth making a significant commitment to black in order to play this mean mummy – most decks will be quite unable to deal with a persistent 5/4 deathtouch creature that tears through defenses on the attack and then kills attacking creatures during its own resurrection.
Vengeful Pharaoh will work nicely in a black Commander deck as well, as a solid 5 drop that will dissuade opponents from attacking you long after he’s been cleaned off the board.
It’s hard to imagine Vengeful Pharaoh making it in the constructed world with options like Phyrexian Obliterator and various titans running around, but things could change with the Standard environment poised for a massive shakeup due to recent bannings and Zendikar block’s eventual rotation.
Get your first chance to crush your foes with the pharoah’s curse with Vengeful Pharaoh at Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set prerelease events, kicking off July 9-10.
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