Nameless Inversion and Crib Swap FTW! Now if only Mercenary Knight(2B for Portal Version of Hidden Horror but more splashable, i.e. Not 1BB) wasn't so high I'd have a really strong Knights' Deck

  -- By Jay from Minneapolis, MN USA on September 24, 2010

With the new knight exemplar, you play buried alive, and bury haakon and two exemplars in a knight deck with the kinsbale cavaliers... pretty awesome... pretty awesome.

  -- By Eric Cahoon from Lethbridge, AB, Canada on September 13, 2010

used with cards like nameless inversion, smallpox and oona's prowler(to easily get haakon and other knights into the grave) haakon can be pretty awesome.

  -- By erik from ft. collins, co. on January 20, 2008

this card is so cool cos u can regenerate knights and haakon is really easy to summon

  -- By Anonymous from cleveland, oh usa on May 25, 2007

While being a generic rare, meaning it isn't completely broken like cards like Umezawa's Jitte, it provides a much needed boost into future creature decks. In a W/U/B Knight Deck running Wrath of God, Haakon has a lot of potential. With his knightly brethren he provides creature recursion after devastating effects like Wrath of God, and Wildfire. I have personally made such a deck and tested it versus Solar Flare (2006 U.S. Nationals posted 4 of these decks in the Top 8, and taking 1st) and posted a 60% win percentage pre-board and 70% post-board. I must note however that my board had a lot of Solar Flare hate cards. I am looking to test versus Vore and Heartbeat-Combo even though I am preparing my deck for a post-Kamigawa environment. Overall, Haakon is not an automatic include rare into every deck, I can see him seeing a decent amount of play as Necro-type of decks try to re-emerge with the release of Coldsnap. He does two major things: 1) Comes back from the dead; and 2) Brings fellow knights back from the dead (either from being countered or killed).

  -- By Jason from Dover, DE on August 21, 2006