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Alchemist's Apprentice

Multiverse ID: 240031

Alchemist's Apprentice

Comments (23)

majinara
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (5 votes)
Just by itself it doesn't do anything useful. In a deck with gravepact for example, this can be ok. But apart from that?
HairlessThoctar
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
This is actually extremely useful when you need to block creatures that you don't want dealing combat damage.

Wurmcoil Engine for example. No damage, no lifelink.
zinliah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great little common.
Fenix.
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (4 votes)
I like the idea here, but would it be too much for this to have costed Blue? Really great flavor text, anyhow.
Halidir_Orveck
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Hello! does no one see this in a dredge deck???????? oh I have two Bridge from Below's in my graveyard. crack him get three Zombies and dredge six with a grave troll????????? am I the only one who see's this as Land Dredge's newest weapon?
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
@HalidirOrveck
I don't have a lot of experience with the deck but isn't Hapless Researcher better for that role?
RJDroid
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
@Krypnyt: Yes, Hapless Researcher would be much better for a Dredge deck, and is way better for a Madness deck (Circular Logic).

Anyway, I love the art.

"OK, just gotta be very careful to not drop too much shiny potion into-"
BOOM.
ToAsTy42o
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
jesse here is breaking bad
boneclub
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why couldn't they reprint Hapless Researcher?
DragonLord132
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oculus is a bit better.
Paleopaladin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
About to join Fume Spitter in my Tragic Slip shennanigans deck!
SyntheticDreamer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is okay as a potential combat trick or as a morbid enabler but I don't see it getting much use.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cycles itself and chump blocks, not to mention some neat tricks in standard. Not a bad card 3/5.
Enemy_Tricolor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Enable morbid cards. Chump block and draw a card. Fuel for casting skaabs or anything else that requires things to be in your graveyard. This guy may never be a constructed staple, but he's got too many moves to be sitting below a 3 star rating. 3.5/5.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo with Noxious Revival + miracle card in the graveyard. Bonus points if that miracle card happens to be Temporal Mastery.

(Obviously you'd need to discard Temporal Mastery somehow...)
ElvisPriestley
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a pretty solid 9th - 10th pick in limited.
cotf1692
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I am thinking he might work well with some Skaabs
nondualeye
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card works nice with Voidmage Prodigy.
jonrds
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think the 2 mana "1/1 sac to draw a card" slot should get a slightly more powerful card. Maybe draw when it dies and have a separate ability that allows you to sacrifice it at any time. Would be a bit more like when damage was on the stack. They've already shown that they are willing to print something more powerful than "when this creature dies, draw a card" with Floating-Dream Zubera and Surveilling Sprite.

Thinking about it, that could be a really cool starting point for a cycle of cards with "0: sacrifice this creature". Could make a new mogg fanatic (probably not a goblin to avoid being "strictly better"), new Sakura-Tribe Elder, new Blood Pet, and new... actually I can't think of anything besides Children of Korlis that would work for white. And at that point, the blue one would be way underpowered compared to the others.
Ataraxiom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with The Beatles.