I got a job back in October and it took me a while for my schedule to even out enough to get a proper work-life balance going
it won't save you from cards that say destroy, but it can be useful against spot removal and damage-based wraths, and in combat
Wizards of the Coast originally produced the card to be part of their Black Star Promo series, only for some of the prints to be mistakenly distributed in a few 1 st Edition Jungle booster packs
We all love the card advantage of cycling, embalm is like giving your creatures flashback, the -1/-1 counters approach is an interesting take on this concept, and exert is interesting and challenging to decide when to use
Since it's a mana cheap instant, you can do this in response to targeted or sweeping removal to get cards, as a sacrifice or it can send something to your graveyard about to get exiled by Swords to Plowshares, or to get value out of a chump blocker about to die anyway