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Undead Alchemist

Creature — Zombie3 generic manaBlue mana

Mill as a Zombie engine, not a clock. The first ability rewires what your Zombies do in combat: instead of subtracting from a life total, connecting damage shaves cards from the library, which means the whole win condition runs through the deck rather than the player. The second ability is where the deckbuilding pivot lives. Every creature card that lands in an opponent's graveyard (from any source of milling, not just combat) gets exiled and replaced with a 2/2 Zombie under your control, so the more you mill, the bigger your board grows. That feedback loop is the trick: an opponent's library becomes fuel, and their creatures convert into your attackers, which then mill more cards on the next swing. The 4/2 body is fragile enough that the card wants protection or backup rather than to win combat on its own, but the mill conversion turns even a single connection into a swing in card advantage and board presence at once. It is a design that asks you to commit fully to a single axis: lean hard into Zombie tribal and into self-reinforcing mill, and the two halves stop feeling like separate abilities and start feeding each other.

Undead Alchemist (mic)
MIC · #105rare
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Normal: $1.09
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Oracle Text

Rules text

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player mills that many cards. Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their library, exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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