Presumably this is to prevent Birds of Paradise, etc, from tapping for colorless? It wasn't an issue before, but with powerful colorless-only cards becoming available to all decks, it might have made them too easy to cast and activate.
I believe this is the only card that can allow Haakon, Stromgald Scourge to be played as a commander. Move him to your hand with this, then use a discard effect...
It's not dead and gone; most of what I and my friends play is Legacy-banlist 60-card casual. I play some Commander as well, but most of my decks are 60-card.
In paper, the combo can be made a little easier by pulling all the lands to the front of the deck first. Makes it easier to keep track of how many lands you have left.
I'm contemplating trying out a non-vial version. I'll try to keep posting my results.
Please do! I'm currently working on building version of this deck and I've been avoiding the Vial for budget reasons; I'd love to see someone's recommendations on how to work around not having it.
Mashup of Bone Splinters and Animate Dead. Less broken than some things in this thread, but still pretty crazy...
Animate Bones
1B
Sorcery
As an additional cost to play Animate Bones, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature, then return it to play under your control with a -1/-0 counter on it.
I've been thinking of putting together a Knight Tribal deck that uses the combo. It's a somewhat more budget option (no cards above $15 or so) but still fun. Knight Exemplar provides another piece for protecting the Knight of the Reliquary.
To be honest, yes. It's still a silly name, but at least it makes sense grammatically...
Please do! I'm currently working on building version of this deck and I've been avoiding the Vial for budget reasons; I'd love to see someone's recommendations on how to work around not having it.
Animate Bones
1B
Sorcery
As an additional cost to play Animate Bones, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature, then return it to play under your control with a -1/-0 counter on it.
Edit: forgot card type...
4 Flooded Strand
4 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
3 Plains
1 Breeding Pool
3 Hallowed Fountain
3 Temple Garden
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Sejiri Steppe
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Knight Exemplar
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Student of Warfare
3 Knight of the White Orchid
2 Mirran Crusader
4 Collected Company
4 Path to Exile
4 Retreat to Coralhelm
This is a controversial pick, but I also think the art for Liliana of the Veil is atrocious.