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Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake

Legendary Creature — Skeleton Horror3 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

A recursion threat that asks you to bury your own cards on purpose, then makes the opponent spend a second answer for having killed it once. The 6/4 body with vigilance and menace is already ugly to block and ugly to race, but the weight of the design lives in the return clause. Descend 8 gates the reanimation behind eight permanent cards in the yard, converting self-mill, cracked fetches, and spent artifacts from clutter into fuel, and the return runs at sorcery speed only, so there is no instant-speed rebuy waiting to blow out combat. The exile-on-death rider is the discipline that keeps the trade fair: one return, one second life, and no infinite loop back into the graveyard. That single-use ceiling is what stops a five-mana threat that reassembles itself from becoming an unkillable engine, and it changes how the opponent has to answer it: graveyard hate matters on the exact turn Uchbenbak tries to come back, not the turn after. This is a design for the deck that stocks its own yard deliberately, through mill, cheap sacrifice, cycling, or self-discard, rather than one that trips into eight cards by luck. It lands between beater and endgame: too slow to be a pure clock, too aggressive to sit back as a value piece, built for the grindy midrange plan that spends its graveyard down like a second hand of cards.

Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake (lci)
LCI · #310uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance, menace Descend 8 — 4 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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