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CardName: Vessel Exchange Cost: 2B Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: As an additional cost to cast Vessel Exchange, sacrifice a creature you control. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put two +1/+1 counters on that creature if the sacrificed creature was a Thrull.” Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Magic 20XX Uncommon |
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Really, this is Soul Exchange without the need for a +2/+2 counter, and a little less color intensive, and sacrifice instead of exile, because early R&D was too concerned about fair combos. I have no idea why I didn't see that many people play Soul Exchange back in the day... or even why I don't see people play it in their Commander decks now. It's a solid and fun card... people just have a problem with sacrificing permanents, I suppose.
This card says both sacrifice and exile right now. I think the reason people don't play it is because casting a spell for less than its full potential seems underwhelming. How often do you have Thrulls, anyway?
Very often in 20XX, since it's the small black creature type of the set. Outside of 20XX, no, I would expect most people to play Zombify. I admit, it's cute to sacrifice things like Reassembling Skeleton with Vessel Exchange, but that's a Johnny move.
Soul Exchange, however, costs
. That's one heck of a cheap Zombify. Not only that, but Zombify didn't even exist in 1997... White was originally the color that brought creatures back straight from the graveyard, so there was no "better choice" in color back in the day.