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CardName: Void Beetle Cost: 2BB Type: Creature - Insect Pow/Tgh: 4/2 Rules Text: Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.) Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly 3 cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Time Reversal Uncommon
Void Beetle
  Evoke
 (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly 3 cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.) 4/2
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This and Living Thunder are much less exciting to me than Braidhorn Treefolk, because they don't do anything with the Evoke except use it to get to graveyard. They pretty much have "
: Discard this card. Activate this ability from your hand as a sorcery".
Cycling together with Dredge and Unearth would tickle me more.
Hmm, indeed. Originally I was going to give them ETB triggers like normal evoke cards, but that seemed like ability/text overload. I think it's necessary, though.
One alternative might be to have a notable amount (at least five commons, preferably rather more) of cards which care about creatures entering the battlefield, especially the power of creatures entering the battlefield. That makes Evoke different to just discarding it. Lorwyn did a bit with Elementals entering the battlefield, and a little sacrificing of creatures with their Evoke triggers on the stack. If you have enough bits like that in-set, then these "vanilla" evokers could become quite interesting. But that may be rather at odds with where you'd wanted your focus to be.
Ooh, I like that idea. Or things that care about creatures being put into the graveyard from the battlefield...
Death triggers seem to be in vogue at the moment! I'd lean towards ETB triggers but I think it's probably a purely personal decision.
Yeah, some death triggers would do just as well.