Night Soil

Scavenging Ooze Trivia

Hey, finally my birthday today! Can you make me feel less old with some trivia on one of my favourite cards, Scavenging Ooze? Thanks!

I believe Scavenging Ooze was partially inspired by an old Magic card called Night Soil. It ate cards out of the graveyard to make tokens.Happy Birthday!

Birthday Caves Night Soil Ooze Scavenging Ooze The Graveyard Tokens

Fallen Empires Memory

I started playing during Fallen Empires. A grocery store had FE packs and I bought 3. With no rulebook I just shuffled all the cards up and drew a few cards off top. I decided I could play one cards a turn (although I had no idea what the object of the game was). To this day I still remember drawing Night Soil and thinking "woaaa graveyard, how do I enter that place!?!". I spent the next year searching for cards that would let me enter the graveyard (life w/o Internet ;/ ).

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Fallen Empires Night Soil The Graveyard

Pharika's Superior Tokens

The problem with Pharika is that Night Soil and Necrogenesis cost less and always give you a token. Upstaged by an uncommon and something from Fallen Empires (other than Hymn, of course) is hardly mythic material.

Night Soil and Necrogenesis both give you vanilla 1/1 creature tokens. Pharika gives you a 1/1 creature token WITH DEATHTOUCH. Killing almost anything it blocks is considerably better than chumping. It’s a huge difference. Also, because I’m now obligated to mention it, the creature tokens are also enchantments. That too very much can matter in this set.

Creatures Deathtouch Enchantments Fallen Empires Gates Necrogenesis Night Soil Tokens Uncommons Vanilla

Pharika's Token Balance

Would it really have been too much for Pharika to give you the tokens regardless of whose graveyard you're exiling from? She would've actually been playable then. :l

It was too good. Remember this isn’t Night Soil. Her 1/1 snake creature tokens have deathtouch (and are enchantments).

Creatures Deathtouch Enchantments Night Soil Snake The Graveyard Tokens

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