Pointed Discussion

This is the darlingest-looking rat I have ever seen.

That's just...adowable.

Great lighting in this art.

The problem with this card is that it costs an extra B for the discard when it dies :/ For a 1/1 for 1 I could hope for more..

This is a pretty good rat. Pros like me could possibly make better use of this than Ravenous Rats.

With a sac outlet, he can be instant-speed discard. That alone makes me think this is breakable.

I was ready to compare this to an old favorite of mine, Insidious Bookworms, however the non-random discard really tends to hurt it. I'd still prefer my Bookworms, but this is a cute option for any Rat deck that doesn't mind setting aside a little extra mana to ensure the trigger goes through. The problem with this card over, say, Ravenous Rats, however, is that your opponent can better play around the discard and only get rid of the Drainpipe Vermin when it is least hurtful for them.

Yet another early drop that doesn't have to be a dead draw late game (if you're running sacrifice, you can use it to burn their draw before they get a chance to use it. Very potent if they're topdecking and need an answer)

Could really be excellent with a scavenge cost of some sort.

Essentially unblockable.

Thought it would be ok in Limited, but turned out it wasn't. Still the cutest rat in Magic, though, apart from Lab Rats.

A decent card, but typhoid rats was definitely a better rat than this.

Way too cute to be a 1/1 evil critter.

I have a feeling this is meant to be used with Mind Slash. for a discard of your choice and a discard of theirs?

Just use it as sacrifice fodder for Marrow-Gnawer.

Gives Pack Rat +1/+1

I'm sick of how all the rats in Magic are black and evil-looking, so this is a godsend for the owner of two adorable pet rats.

I have 20 copies of this guy. I named him püffy.

No matter what you guys (and ladies) think, but I think this is pretty adorable to you, and annoying to your opponents. And, if you are playing with recycle/reanimator deck (like me), all kinds of abillities that trigger upon death are usefull.

I don't think people get the point of this guy... he does something that mind rot doesnt do unless you have something like hypersonic dragon out... you could force the opponent to discard on their turn. At best this guy stalls the board while you get mana or draw into a kill spell for that loxodon smiter they've either been keeping in hand or waiting for. Attacking with drainpipe vermin probably plays into your opponent's game plan, unless its gotrancor on it. So keeping it on the defensive means that your opponent has to take a chance on whether you want to block with it or not.

He's a turn 1 play that the opponent will either waste removal on before you get the chance to pay for the triggered ability, in which case that pillar of flame will no longer be a threat to that deathrite shaman you were holding onto, or something your opponent won't be willing to attack into because it means he/she'll be discarding on their turn, leaving fewer options for them to react to anything you do on yours. And remember if they spent removal on it, that card was as good as discarded except they had to pay to discard it :P

For Multilplayer formats this card basically says "when i die, the person with the best hand loses a card. "

1.5/5. A 1/1 for B and generates card advantage when it dies for B. An underwhelming 1 drop for an underwhelming ability.

pauper tech:
turn 1 this guy. turn 2 cry of contrition haunting this guy. your opponent won't attack you for a while.

This is intended to empower re-animator decks: a chump blocker that lets you put monsters like Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts into your graveyard, so you can pull her out with Obzedat's Aid.

Ogre Slumlord makes this much more viable though. Suddenly it becomes a 1 drop chump block with Deathtouch that also makes them chuck a card for 1 Bk. In a Rat Tribal deck, I easily give this 4.25/5.