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Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
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uncommon · Legendary Creature — Skeleton Horror

Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake

uncommon · Legendary Creature — Skeleton Horror · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Oracle Text

Vigilance, menace
Descend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Card Details

6/4Power / Toughness
{3}{U}{B}Mana Cost
1Prints

Character Background

Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake is a chunky, recursive threat that most naturally fits a midrange or control shell, where trading resources and stocking the graveyard are already part of the plan. A 6/4 with vigilance and menace means it attacks profitably while still holding the line, forcing awkward blocks and punishing tapped-out opponents. Its real draw is Descend 8: once you have eight or more permanent cards in the graveyard, the creature can return from the yard as a sorcery, giving you a repeatable finisher that survives removal only once thanks to finality. That makes self-mill, fetchlands, sacrificed artifacts, and disposable permanents especially valuable, and it pairs well with cards that fill the graveyard quickly without spending too many nonpermanent spells. In practice, you want to use it as an inevitability engine—trade early, fuel Descend, then redeploy Uchbenbak to keep pressure on while your opponent runs out of answers.

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Character Background

Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake is a chunky, recursive threat that most naturally fits a midrange or control shell, where trading resources and stocking the graveyard are already part of the plan. A 6/4 with vigilance and menace means it attacks profitably while still holding the line, forcing awkward blocks and punishing tapped-out opponents. Its real draw is Descend 8: once you have eight or more permanent cards in the graveyard, the creature can return from the yard as a sorcery, giving you a repeatable finisher that survives removal only once thanks to finality. That makes self-mill, fetchlands, sacrificed artifacts, and disposable permanents especially valuable, and it pairs well with cards that fill the graveyard quickly without spending too many nonpermanent spells. In practice, you want to use it as an inevitability engine—trade early, fuel Descend, then redeploy Uchbenbak to keep pressure on while your opponent runs out of answers.

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