"The Cauldron of Eternity: A Necromancer's treat"

"The Cauldron of Eternity: A Necromancer's treat"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

For Magic players who play a graveyard centric EDH deck such the Golgari or Rakdos or Dimir , The Cauldron of Eternity could provide a redundancy to the Whip of Erebos among artifacts that can Reanimate creatures.

It is a 12 mana costing Artifact that cost 2 colorless mana less for each creature card in your graveyard. Most Golgari players looked at this and easily subtracted that 10 and can easily be cast at just 2 black mana. Dredge Dredge Dredge to get that body count in the graveyard.

And when you have all those treasures buried and it is time to raise them by using the The Cauldron of Eternity , pay 3 mana , tap and pay 2 life. You can now return a creature of your choice into the battlefield. While it is limited to Sorcery speed this is quite fine since you can add Haste by adding Anger in the graveyard if you are playing Rakdos colors of Black and Red.

The Cauldron of Eternity has another static ability and that when a creature you control dies put it on the the bottom of it's owners library instead. This means that you can search for this creature using cards like Once upon a time , Worldly Tutor , Sylvan Tutor , Green Sun's Zenith , Tooth and Nail or Finale of Devastation for the finish. Talk about utilizing every creature. And hopefully you are playing Golgari colors of Black and Green to use these cards.

I can see the Golgari Grave Troll smiling now. Imagine reanimating it with all those creatures in your graveyard and you have one big troll for your opponents to contend with.

Time to mix the pot. The Cauldron of Eternity waits for us.