Quote Originally Posted by sunlith42 View Post
At that time I beleive I had one left over mana after an entomb/exhume and I was at 12 life. So I could have gotten grisel and drawn 7, I think that might have been my best play.
Where does that get you though? With 5 life left reanimate is a dead card, the mana is fairly constricted without petals. If you have a land drop you go to 2 mana -> entomb tidespout -> petal + exhume -> then need petal #2 to bounce and then hold up a cantrip on his turn? Looking at your list in face of karakas, that's the only line I'm seeing that you can gristle-draw into for a win [2 petals definitely, and cantrip or unsummons via free counters pointed at petal #2].
The only creature card I can see getting you out of that situation on your initial entomb/exhume is Thrashing Wumpus and activating pestilence effect in response to inkmoth animations & attack step. It'd be going pretty deep, but it's basically a really bad version of elesh [except vs karakas], so it'd eat up a sideboard slot and only really come in if karakas is shown...would at least be an interesting meta-call.