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Myr
Servitor
Fifth Dawn Common
Reviewed July 21, 2004
Constructed: 1.6
Casual: 2.6
Limited: 2.2
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
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Quite an interesting
card. While I don't think it will make it in
the tournament scene, it does have quite an appeal
to Casual players. The ability to block and
recycle is pretty fun. Wouldn't this be
amazing if it were like Relentless Rats and had no
limit on the number of them in your deck?
Okay, that would be retarded, so never mind.
Anyhow, it's still a decent Casual card. How
about a Casual life gain combo with
Skullclamp and
Leonin Elder? =)
In limited, I see this
guy pop up a LOT. But I have NEVER
personally seen one recurred from the grave.
I'm not sure if they aren't seeing their second
one, or if they are just playing it to have a 1/1
for one....but I still think it could be really
fun to get multiples of these in your draft
deck...
Constructed:
2
Casual: 3
Limited: 3
Current Price:
Myr
Servitor -
Fifth Dawn - $0.30
Combos
Well With:
Leonin
Elder -
Mirrodin - $0.12
Skullclamp -
Darksteel - $5.59
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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A nice casual combo
card. Put this together with Blasting or
Grinding Station, and you will have some nice
sacrificial madness.
Unfortunately, there
are no real uses for this in constructed. It is
a 1/1 for 1, but it gets sorely outclassed by
most real 1/1s for 1 (read: Goblin Sledder,
Skirk Prospector, Llanowar Elves, etc.) It's
just not enough of an ability to justify running
it.
In 555 limited,
there is a good deck that can be built upon it.
In MD5, you typically won't get enough of these
for it to matter.
Constructed: 1.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 555:4.5, MD5: 2
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Jonathan
Pechon
2 Grand
Prix Top 8's
Multiple Pro Tour
appearances |
Myr Servitor
Cards that rely on their own numbers are
notorious for being pretty poor in play. This
really isn’t a significant exception, simply
because you don’t really have a way to abuse it
significantly. It looks fun, but you should
probably just stick to what is understandable.
That doesn’t make these guys un-fun, however.
It’s silly to have a mob of 1/1’s that just keep
coming back from the dead over and over again,
regardless of how weak they are. While they
suck in Mental, I can see people whipping out
piles of these for wacky games with their
friends. “Wanna play against my 40 Servitor-20
land deck? Come on!”
I found out in the 555 drafts this last weekend
that drafting lots of these along with some
Cranial Plating and a Grinding or Blasting
Station is a ridiculous amount of fun. It’s
hard to get enough of these (along with support
cards) in MD5 to really make an impact, it’s
definitely not out of the question. Keep an eye
open for these; if you see three or more of
these in your pile, consider including them in
your deck.
Constructed: 1.5
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 2.5
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Jeff Zandi
5 Time Pro Tour
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Myr Servitor
In limited play, this card can get out of hand and
give you a decent ground
stall advantage, but only when you can manage to
draft three or four of
these little guys. And that's when it HITS you.you
just dedicated three or
four spots in your limited deck to a 1/1 Myr. Even
when the Myr Servitor
"trick" works, it's only a decent trick at best.
In constructed, this is a
poor combo, but one that works well enough.
CONSTRUCTED: 2.5
CASUAL: 3.5
LIMITED: 2.0 |
Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer |
Myr Servitor
This card is a pretty fun idea. I really think if
they wanted to make a card you could have more
than four of, this should be the one, not the
rats. Imagine how fun that would be! But no,
instead it’s a 1/1 and only four of them can be
played, so the fun idea really ends up with no
good use. Well, unless you can draft like 8 of
them and some Echoing Courages…
Constructed: 1
Casual: 1
Limited: 2
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX) |
For some reason casual players seem to have an
obsession with this card. I get several decklists
sent to me that have this guy on the list. I want
to be clear when I say this:
He just isn't that good.
He has a few uses here and there, but overall,
he's not very useful. Anything that is this
situational can't be worth wasting deck slots on.
I think I'd pas on this guy overall in all
formats.
Constructed: 1
Casual: 1
Limited: 1 |
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Myr Servitor
One of the best one drops in mirrodin limited...
if you have 3 or more in
your deck. Good with an offensive or defensive
strategy, and made even
more optimal with things like trinket mage. It
might even see constructed
play, though I'd wager more with the squire than
with the mage.
constructed 1.5
casual 2.5
limited 3 |
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Myr Servitor
In Casual, imagine a
Wayward Angel or
Attrition or
Lord of the Pit without saccing a creature.
Or
Recurring Nightmare each turn without
worrying about running out of creatures. Then
again, you have to have 2 of these on the field,
and their toughness is 1, but still it’s really
cool if you can keep up. The other obvious
thing to do with this card is chump block with
ideally 3 and somehow keep the other
protected.
I haven’t seen this played in serious
constructed, mainly cause it’s hard to keep a 1
toughness thing on the field, and the combo
isn’t really worth it.
In limited, you can’t really combo it, and can’t
protect it, but then again, if you’re opponent
doesn’t have anything like
Barter in Blood, it could be ok, but you’re
relying on your opponent not having resources,
so I imagine this loses.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 4
Limited: 2
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Paul
Hagan |
Myr Servitor --
I truly cannot see a good reason for this creature
to be in a constructed deck right now. This
doesn't mean there isn't a fun combo deck
somewhere that will use him in the near future,
but with the current environment in Type II, I
can't see where Myr Servitor fits in. He has a
lackluster ability (OK, you have four 1/1s...now
what?), he's small, and he's an artifact in an
environment that doesn't like artifacts. Casual
decks may have a use for Myr Servitor -- perhaps
for a deck that requires creatures to continuously
go to the graveyard? In limited, Myr Servitor will
generally be of Cheerleader Status -- he sits on
the sidelines and shouts, "Go Team" to the real
players.
Constructed Rating: 1.5
Casual Rating: 2.0
Limited Rating: 1.0 |
w00t |
Myr Servitor -
Constructed - Not worth it in Serious
Constructed formats. The combo's are a tad
fragile/not strong enough to work. Servitor is
almost always a combo/Cogs like deck, and it is
always worse than ones like KCI.
Casual - This is where servitor stands out. It
works great with the uncommon stations (Blasting
and Grinding). Get some efficient tutoring
(Trinket Mage) and you've got a deck. The point
is to always find a way to get atleast 2
servitors, usually 3. Find a way to abuse
them, and get rollin!
Limited - It's too hard to pick up a good amount
of these in MD5. However, if your drafting 555
and you see them coming your way, it's easy to
make a competative deck with these. 4+
Servitors by themselves, let alone if you
managed to get some stations, are very powerful.
Get some trinket mages, and aim for cranial
platings, and you've got 7/1's that come back
when they die.
Constructed - 1.5
Casual - 2.5
Limited - 2.5
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