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Rag
Dealer
Champions of Kamigawa
Reviewed October 6, 2004
Constructed: 2
Casual: 2
Limited: 2.6
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Scott
Gerhardt
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Bleh. It's a bad
creature type with a bad ability. It has uses,
but they are slim and not generally good enough to
play this. If it were a Rat, I'd say it has
more uses. It's a human, so it doesn't.
I see this card seeing very little play in any
format until you especially NEED a way to clearing
out a graveyard.
Constructed: 2
Limited: 2.5 |
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
ShuffleAndCut |
Meh. Not very
exciting, but I believe Wizards had one purpose in
mind when making this guy. Now, I didn't say
it was a good purpose. But I think that they
wanted an answer to recurring Arcane and Spirit
spells from the grave? Or, maybe there is
some horrible recursion thing that is going to
happen in the Kamigawa subsets? Sometimes
Wizards will put out a card that makes little
sense until the card it will counter shows up
later. I dunno, man. I just work here.
Anywho, no tournament
place for it at the moment. In casual, it
has little rhyme or reason. In limited, if
your opponent tries some nasty trick with
Arcane/Spirit recursion, then this could be sided
in. At the worst, it's a 1/1 for one with a
possibly useful ability.
Constructed:
2
Casual: 1.5
Limited: 2.5
Current Price:
Rag Dealer -
Champions of Kamigawa -
$0.39
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Judge Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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Hi. You probably recognize me in a past life as
Carrion Beetles. Yep, we Magic cards get
reincarnated sometimes, to see if we can do
better in a new format.
Unfortunately, I'm not up to snuff in any
constructed format. Most decks these days don't
care about cards in the graveyard. And unwanted
food tastes horrible.
In limited, I can be quite good though. If your
opponent has lots of Soulshift in his deck, I
can feed off all of those delicious spirits and
stop your opponent from getting back his
creatures.
I really like to help you, and I hope I can do
better in a year or so, but that's the best I
can do right now. Sorry about that.
Constructed: 1.5
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 3.5
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Jeff Zandi
5
Time Pro Tour
Veteran
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Rag Dealer
Nothing too exciting here. Still, the ability to
remove three cards from a
graveyard is pretty powerful for a 1/1 creature
for one mana. Inasmuch as
Soulshift has not exactly rulled limited play so
far, my guess is that Rag
Dealer is a MAYBE card AT BEST for your limited
decks. If graveyard removal
becomes valuable for constructed, four of this guy
seems like a good way to
go.
CONSTRUCTED: 3.0
CASUAL: 3.5
LIMITED: 3.0 |
Ray "Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer |
Rag Dealer
Rag Dealer fills in
blacks limited one slot nicely for limited, and is
a nice filler card, because a lot of the cards in
the format CAN affect the graveyard. Note I say
can, not do, because its amazing how many of them
are conditional in what they do, and often this
guy will not actually have anything to do. But
still, he’s a 1/1 for one mana, and why not play
him? In constructed he’ll be a potential sideboard
card for graveyard recursion, but will likely not
see a lot of play. In casual, don’t play him, not
even in multiplayer. He’s really annoying, and
will piss off your friends who are playing FUN
graveyard recursion decks, and you will wake up
one morning hung over with the word “JERK”
tattooed on your forehead.
Constructed:
2
Casual:
1
Limited:
3
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The
Game Closet - Waco,TX) |
We had all gotten used
to playing with Withered Wretch. It's good to know
that there is a decent card to fall back on after
the rotation. I don't think casual palyers will
like this effect. Honestly, this card should be
*slightly* stronger in limited than constructed
even, but not by much. I'd expect it to see mild
tournament play, but not a lot.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 2
Limited: 2.5 |
Paul
Hagan |
Rag Dealer --
It was pointed out to me that there are number of
ways to manipulate the graveyard in Champions, but
oddly, most of it involved removing cards from the
graveyard. Rag Dealer is one of many such cards,
but he looks like one of the weaker links.
I wouldn't be so upset with the Dealer if his
ability didn't cost so much. Is pulling three
cards really worth three mana? Unless WotC is
planning on bringing Threshold and Flashback, I'm
not sure I can think of a good reason to run this
card. Even then, as long as we aren't doing it for
tournament purposes, isn't Withered Wretch ten
times better?
In limited, this guy gets to be a cheerleader:
someone stuck on the sidelines, cheering on the
cards that really make a difference.
Constructed Rating: 2.0 [unless I'm missing
something]
Casual Rating: 1.5
Limited Rating: 1.5 |
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Rag Dealer
Wee. Carrion Beetle. Not bad, but not amazing
either. He does stop
eternal witnesses in type 2, and soulshift in
kamigawa. For that, he's a
very solid 23rd card in limited.
constructed 2.5
casual 2
limited 3 |
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Rag Dealer
Two words; too slow.
Three mana to remove three cards in from a
graveyard is really slow when compared to other
cards. Of course it is a 1/1 for 1, so it might
be played simply for its cost effeciency in
limited. However this card will barely make it
into sideboards in constructed.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 2
Limited: 1.5 |
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