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Drinker of Sorrow
Reviewed January 21, 2004
Constructed: 2.2
Casual: 1.9
Limited: 1.8
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner (Shuffle and Cut Games,CA) |
The impotent
version of Phyrexian Negator. Everyone else sums
it up very well, thank you. What a great team =). The
best thing I can say about this card is that I can
use it for my "Fat Fat Fatties" auctions on eBay
that features creatures of power 5 or greater. =/
Not so good in your
limited deck, either.
Constructed:
1.5
Casual: 1
Limited: 2
Current Price:
$2
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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Remove Dark Ritual
from the environment, and you'd think you could
get good 3 casting cost black creatures,
right? Not with this puppy. Once dubbed the "new
Phyrexian Negator," it has come up short because
it is missing one very important thing: trample.
Without trample, they can just chump block until
the cows come home, forcing you to sacrifice a
permanent every time they do so. Without a way
to guarantee getting through to your opponent,
it quickly finds its way to the crap rare bin.
In casual, this
could be somewhat effective, depending on the
evasion you are able to give it.
In limited, it's ok.
The drawback of having to sac a permanent looms
even larger in the early game, when this would
be effective. No thanks.
Constructed - 2
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX)
* pro tour player
* Scrye writer since 2002 |
Drinker of Sorrow
This is another one
of those strange cards that seems like it could
be better than it is. People talked about this
card a little bit at first but couldn't make
anything work. Also, right now without a
control style element, many people have gotten
away from playing black. This doesn't help the
popularity of this card at all obviously.
This is a terrible
casual player card, since it will either die
easily, or just cause you to waste more
permanents.
I'm not sure about
how I feel regarding this guy in limited. I
think I would take it in the 3rd-5th pick in a
booster draft if I was in black, but I wouldn't
be relying on it to be a game winner.
Constructed: 1.8
Casual:1.4
Limited: 2
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Drinker of
Sorrow
Doesn't trample, doesn't block, low toughness,
plus its other drawback? Let
me know what you're supposed to do with this guy,
cuz I'll trade you a few.
Constructed 2.3
Casual 2.6
Limited 2.6
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Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer
*Game Store Owner (Gamer's Edge) |
Drinker of Sorrow
It seems like a fixed
Negator doesn’t it? 3 mana for a 5/3… Can’t block…
Sacrifice a permanent when it deals damage… All
Negator type effects. But it lacks the most
important thing that made the Phyrexian Negator an
amazing card… Dark Ritual, er I mean Trample!
Because without Dark Ritual, er I mean Trample it
just doesn’t have the speed and power it needs to
get through for an early win.
Casual: 1
Constructed: 2
Limited: 1 |
Jason
Matthews
* Level 1 DCI
Judge
*game store employee
* gaming for over 15 years |
Drinker of
Sorrow
I like cheap creatures as
much as the next guy but I just don’t like drinker
of sorrows. He is a huge creature but if your
opponent is running any kind of creature deck this
guy becomes pretty useless. Heck he cant even
block. I can say that in a current suicide black
deck he not to bad but there are better options.
Instead of this guy look for the original in the
form of Phyrexian Negator. He fairly decent in
limited but the drawbacks don’t change.
Constructed 2.5
Casual 2.5
Limited 3 |
Jonathan
Pechon
2 Grand
Prix Top 8's
Multiple Pro Tour
appearances |
Drinker of Sorrow
“Hey, Mr. Negator!
I know you’re the guy, but I wanna be the guy
too!”
“No way, man,
you’re just a kid!”
That is the short
version of what this guy is like in constructed.
His drawback is negligible, but the lack of
trample makes him pretty pathetic. The lack of
Dark Ritual is also crippling.
In limited, he’s
really no better. Early game, he’s just going to
run into someone bigger or better than he is; late
game, he’s just poop unless you happen to wander
into an ideal situation for him (an empty board).
Good luck with that.
In casual, just
play something else. I feel like playing casual is
about playing cards that are silly and fun; this
guy is neither. He doesn’t promote you doing
anything ridiculous, so don’t bother.
Constructed: 1.25
Limited: 1.5
Casual: bleh |
Jason
Chapman |
Drinker of Sorrow is
another great creature in a long line of cheap
Black beatdown. Losing a single permenant each
turn is okay with a threat like this running
around. To maximiaze the power make sure that it
can't be blocked either with creature enhancements
or with removal.
Constructed - A great
card to support many Black builds - 3.85
Limited - A strong
creature but less powerful in a format that
rewards mass ground battles - 2.85
Casual - A perfect
creature for reckless fun - 4.25 |
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Chase |
Drinker of Sorrow
If there is a viable
Suicide Black, this guy will NOT go in it. I would
go with Grinning Demon, Bane of the Living, and
maybe Soul Collector. There are many reasons that
I don’t want to play this guy which are: he can’t
block, he doesn’t trample, and he dies to small
burn. Do you really want to trade your lands for
this package? I didn’t think so.
In Casual, it’s a
little too high stakes for me. There are more
stable cards for this archetype here that I would
rather play.
In Limited, they’ll
just chump block this each turn with a pointless
morph which will be simultaneously allowing you to
set yourself back a few turns.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 2
Limited: 1.5 |
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Spooks |
Drinker of Sorrow
Apparently this card
is the little brother to an old beat stick. I
can;t remember the name o f it, but I am sure
all my fellow reviewers will have mentioned him
a billion times already, so maybe it's a good
thing I am n00b!
The fact that he is
5 power for 3 mana is very nice. THe fact that
if you play him as soon as you can, your not
gonna ahve a lot of permanents to sacrifice,
isn't. Maybe a suicide black deck, with cheap
fat creatures (Wretched Anurid, Dross Harvester,
Shepard of Rot, Festering Goblin, Carrion
Feeder) you could make it work. The synergy
between killing a blocker, saccing a festering
goblin, killing thier 1 toughness creature, all
while having the Harvester out is very very
nice. In fact, thats my FNM deck tonight, and I
only jsut realised how the Drinker fits in! So
there ya go!
Constructed rating -
3 (just to be safe, but with a gameplan like
mine...probably a 5000000!) *chuckles*
Limited rating -
*slaps you* Why are you playing with legions
anyway? *sigh* 4 I guess. Remember, in
limited, creatures are your friends. Big
creatures are even better friends, regardless of
drawbacks!
Probably gonna end
up on table 11 again tongiht rating - 100%
probablity. (Although, that's what people said
about my lethal vapours deck. an undeafeted
night later...)
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Danny Tatro |
Drinker of Sorrow
I don't like
this thing at all. It's like phyrexian negator,
but waaayyy worse. It can't take a hit being a
5/3, and you have to feed it cards constantly,
which always lands up being 2-for-1. The can't
block isn't much of a drawback, but nonetheless
it's also a drawback. The drawbacks hinder what
its actually supossed to do, and thats be an
early beater. Unfortunetly all those drawbacks
put a stop to that.
In limited it's
just as bad. Don't play this, it's not worth it
to even try.
Constructed - 1.5
Casual - 1
Limited - 1
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