"Macabre Hatchery: If you water down your wine , it is still wine."

"Macabre Hatchery: If you water down your wine , it is still wine."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

The Golgari are a bunch who really care above what they bury in the graveyard. At this point people are still speculating if any of their old mechanics like Dredge or Scavenge will make it back.

One thing that is coming back at least is a little watered down Necromancy. I say watered down because when you compare Macabre Hatchery to Living Death for the same mana it does so much less. It does bring at least 3 different creatures back to the battlefield for you though and in certain games that can be important.

So for 5 mana you get to choose a 1 mana , 2 mana and 3 mana cost creature and put it on the battlefield. It might be a very simple thing to do with Buried Alive as you will get exactly 3 creatures for you to hatch back.

I thought of zombies and then I thought of these 3 guys.

Stitcher's Assistant , Metallic Mimic , Adaptive Automaton.

So basically if you choose Zombies Stitcher's Supplier can now become a 3/3  , Metallic Mimic is 3/2 and Adaptive Automaton is also a 3/3. Not bad right? Then again it seems a little bit underwhelming for that amount of mana.

So I thought of these 3 so that you could go big.

Death's Shadow is 13/13 assuming your life is down , Tempting Wurm is 5/5 and hopefully your opponents don't have anything from their hand to put into the battlefield and of course Master of the Feasts who will give your opponents free draw next turn. Hopefully you have something that gives these 3 haste so you can take advantage of them right away. You are looking at 23 points of damage for 5 mana right there. 

For a reanimator spell Macabre Hatchery is like a lot of water in your soda. You taste less but you still know that the dark magic can help you. I'm not sure if Soda has dark magic in it but at least with Macabre Hatchery and the right circumstances you will have 3 creatures fighting by your side.