Cyclopean Mummy

An undercosted beater with a drawback! Alright, black, let's show some of that flavor!

Wait, no. We've been over this, Legends. When you make an undercosted beater balanced by a drawback, it must a) be undercosted (2/1 for 1B was half a mana discounted, to be fair) and b) the drawback must be relevant.

Exile my 2/1 dork? Why hast thou forsaken me, Dark Gods?

Again, to be fair, this card did have a real drawback -- it was a 2/1. That meant it traded with nearly every 1-drop in the game; that's sufficient enough of a drawback to justify its 1-mana dropoff from Scathe Zombies. In fact, I'd say this is an oddly good card -- it's memorable, it's well-costed, it's playable in limited, it's playable in aggro decks. One assumes it's flavorful; Magic never really tells us much about its mummies, cyclopean or otherwise.

Of course, that doesn't mean that anyone was smart enough to like it. Cyclopean Mummy was dropped from Fourth Edition because the players hated it. You know what we got in its place? Bog Rats and Derelor. Really? Screw you too, everyone and everything.

However, I like the flavor of mummies not dying, all Boris Karloff-like. Here's what I'd do:

I know, it's the exact opposite. Who doesn't love undying bears, though?