MISC - MTG Card: Zombie Apocalypse

Well first, I suppose I must say, this is a review made primarily for the purposes of getting something on this site. My job is less with the reviews and more with maintaining the site. This page will give me some fodder to mess with until other stuff is submitted.

The Magic: The Gathering trading game has recently come out with the new Innistrad block. This block has a lot of great flavor from the horror genre: zombies, vampires, werewolves, and even some mad science. There are all sorts of great references to horror call-signs such as Bump in the Night and Rooftop Storm (for animating corpses) but my favorite as of the second set (Dark Ascension) has got to be Zombie Apocalypse.

The card itself isn't really all that useful. In order to be successfully used, you need to use a lot of zombies, you have to have lost a lot of zombies in combat, and it has to be late enough in the game that 6 mana is worth all the zombies in your graveyard. What this card really has to offer is what the block offers: flavor.

First of all, the name and art is just too classic. A zombie apocalypse is possibly the most loved horror theme in existence. And the art: who doesn't love hoards of zombies? I could say more but, honestly, I think that most of it goes without saying.

The real jewel of this card is what I'm sure all Futurama fans will recognize instantly as a catchphrase from the loveable Bender: "destroy all humans." Not even in the dismissable flavor text; it's right there in the rules text. This card demands of us what Bender has for years and is a noble aspiration if ever there was one.

This is not a particularly useful card. I certainly won't use it and I have a pure zombie deck. However, it will always have a special place in my binder and will likely be a favorite for years to come.

Do your best to survive the apocalypse and remember...

...destroy all humans!