MH2 Spoilers – Unmarked Grave

Unmarked Grave from Modern Horizons 2 does a great impression of Entomb

in a way that is Modern legal!

The most common reanimator targets in Legacy are often Legendary creatures such as Griselbrand

or Iona, Shield of Emeria

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which are out. But there are still plenty of ways we can go with Unmarked Grave to achieve a similar power level.

Footsteps of the Goryo

into Protean Hulk

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might be the easiest way to just curve into a turn 3 win. Protean Hulk finding Disciple of the Vault and a bunch of Walking Ballista and Hangarback Walker

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is a perfectly legal combo in Modern, it has just been short on enablers up until this point. Typically the biggest downside to Hulk combos is that you have to dedicate a bunch of slots in your deck to combo pieces, but these particular 0/0 artifact creatures are good cards in their own right and this combo is just incredibly easy to assemble.

Unmarked Grave can also find a large number of cards that you’d want in your graveyard besides just a fatty to reanimate. Life from the Loam

decks typically function much much better when they find their signature card. Unmarked Grave could also be a piece that completes the puzzle for a traditional style reanimator deck, letting us find Unburial Rites

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if we already have a fatty to target, or perhaps just a piece to fuel some sort of Vesperlark

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/ Body Double

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combo.

While considering cards with Flashback to try pairing with Unmarked Grave, we remembered Echo of Eons

. Could this archetype be getting just enough support to do something relevant in Modern?