Very pushed. I dont think I would wait for "synergies" before putting this in a Bx deck. Synergy with removal isnt really synergy, and you dont even need to wait for removal to make it good. Just attack with stuff and let creature combat do the rest. Probably above the power level that I want.
Having synergy such as.. having creatures in the deck and/or cards that can destroy creatures?
See, I think those observations are power-level dependent. Most decks are not going to be in the market for a four mana 5/2 flash flying that enters the battlefield tapped on its own merits. The recursion ability has to matter for this card to be good in most environments. The problem is, it is very expensive to re-animate this card if you have to spend additional mana in order to facilitate that line of play consistently. In addition, there might be turns when a creature died where it would be more beneficial to cast another spell, or this card's owner is tapped out. I know a lot of designers with faster Cubes aren't considering this card for that very reason: 4 mana can be a lot if you have to pay it multiple times. Now, slower Cubes, the scenarios I outlined won't be as much of an issue. In environments where players regularly get to 6 or 7 mana, it can be easier to facilitate turn cycles where casting Ebondeath is reasonably easy. The combination of more mana, more cards seen, and more time in the game makes re-casting this guy several times a legitimate game-ending threat.
My evaluation of the card is based on my current Cube project, which is somewhere between the two extremes I outlined above. I have lots of different archetypes that can use Ebondeath, such as Esper Dragons, Rakdos Aggro, Abzan Midrange, and various other Bw and Bg strategies that could definitely use a big recursive threat to help end the game. The problem is that a 4-mana creature that dies to a
Shock variant isn't good enough to be worth running on its own merit. You have to be able to re-use this thing for it to be worthwhile in the environment I'm crafting. In that case, you need to be in a shell with lots of cheap removal or sacrifice outlets or even just things to do on the opponent's turn in order to make Ebondeath worth playing over something else. You're not putting Ebondeath in your Esper deck over
Primordial Mist unless you can really abuse it for card advantage.
In short, Ebondeath's synergy requirement is speed and power-level dependent. Fast Cubes are going to need ways to make this work consistently, slow Cubes won't.
