Squirming Emergence - Extended Art (Foil) (LCI)

Squirming Emergence

Casting Cost: {1} {b} {g}

Card type: Sorcery

Artist: Simon Dominic

Card Strengths and Weaknesses:

Strengths:

• GRAVEYARD Recursion: Allows you to return a nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield, providing value and potential advantage.
• Flexible Mana Cost: The Mana Cost is determined by the number of permanent cards in your graveyard, Allowing for Flexibility Based on the State of Your Grayard.

Weaknesses:

• Dependence on graveyard: ITS Effectiveness is Directly Tied to the Number of Permanent Cards in Your Graveyard, Making It Less Impactful in the Early Game.

Deck Utility:

GRAVEYARD-Based Strategies:

• Fits well into decks that utilize the graveyard as a resource, sacrifices or recurring valuable nonland permanents.

Midrange and control decks:

• Provides Additional Value in Midrange and Control strategies by Reusing Powerful Cards That May Have Been Deals with Earlier.

Token or tribal synergies:

• Can be used to bring back specific nonland permanents that contribute to token strategies or tribal themes.

Interactions and Combos:

Permanent Card Selection:

• Works effective with decks that can control the types of permanent cards in the graveyard, ensuring a favorable selection Upon casting.

Explore and Mill Mechanics:

• Benefits from Explore or Mill mechanics that contribute to filling the graveyard with permanent cards.

Flavor and Lore: The name "squirming emergence" suggests a dynamic and unsettling return from the depths, fitting the theme of bringing back a nonland permanent from the graveyard.

Overall impression: Squirming Emergence is a versatile sorcery that sacrifices graveyard recursion with a mana cost that adapts to the contents of the graveyard. Its strength lies in its ability to bring back nonland permanents, making it a valuable tool for decks that leverage the graveyard as a resource.