Gurmag Drowner

Creature — Naga Wizard

Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)

When Gurmag Drowner exploits a creature, look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (13)

miracleHat on Personal Kruphix Ramp Draw

3 years ago

1: There are many weaker card choices. Not having access (or getting over time) is obviously apart of the collection-building aspect of the game; but your decks should avoid the weak cards that are not on theme. Focus on including cards that actively help or are benefited by your theme of heavy ramp with a secondary set of heavy draw. Cards such as Fblthp, Gurmag Drowner, Silumgar Sorcerer, and jace, are primary examples.

2: Finding cards that fit both themes: draw and ramp, is relatively easy and will increase the adaptability and efficiency of the deck. Commander's Sphere is the obvious example currently in the deck. Potential additions (that you should be able to more easily acquire) include Edge of Autumn, Explore, Krosan Tusker, and Seer's Sundial. Harder to get pieces would be Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait.

3: This deck has 2 duplicates. Heir of the Wilds and Primal Empathy.

4: Having lots of mana is only useful it's spent casting scary game-winning threats. Threats you may not be aware of that might be fun for you to playtest: Soramaro, First to Dream, Prime Speaker Zegana, and Clockwork Dragon. The first and last cards specifically benefit from the amount of colorless mana you will generate with your general.

IvanS on Naban Wizard Pod

3 years ago

AEther Adept is good, tho it's usually worst than Venser and Barrin.
Champion of Wits is pretty good and can certainly work in place of Gurmag Drowner, but even tho you have to sacrifice two creatures to double his ability with Naban, i really like how many cards deep you get to dig with the Drowner.

lemonsrc on Naban Wizard Pod

3 years ago

Gurmag Drowner is an intersting inclusion. How has it been so far?

What are your thoughts on AEther Adept or Champion of Wits in this list? I didn't have a copy of Gurmag Drowner so I have been trying these in its place.

SynergyBuild on Ancestral Animar

5 years ago

Foul Emissary and Gurmag Drowner are both close to Raven Familiar.

Rzepkanut on Inalla's got your magic stick

6 years ago

Impact Tremors, Warstorm Surge, Spawnbroker, Archaeomancer, Disciple of Bolas, Gurmag Drowner

Terranlord on Sidisi reanimator

7 years ago

Since Creature combo seems to be your fancy, (as is mine) I would suggest doing a lot of milling and reanimating effects as a way to find your combo pieces, rather than as a way to drop huge bombs early on.

Generally speaking, it will be a lot harder for you to tutor for a card and cast it afterwards, than it will be for you to resurrect or reclaim a card from your yard. With that in mind here are things I would cut, and some others I might add for the same slot. Also, when playing sidisi, brood tyrant it is better to use creatures than anything else to accomplish things.

Cut these 100% imo. They are very sub-optimal for this particular deck.Stitch Together Reanimate Mulch Nature's Lore Sylvan Caryatid Diabolic Intent Animate Dead Filth Greenwarden of Murasa Earthcraft Clever Impersonator Disciple of Bolas Smothering Abomination Putrefy

Most of them are not creatures, and a couple of them are creatures but are good for a different strategy.

• River Kelpie Immediate include. It beats out any other card draw creature in a reanimater style deck. Use instead of Smothering Abomination Plus with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed HUGE COMBO PIECE with sacrifice outlet using persist with undying. Every time you sac him to Phyrexian Altar you generate 1 of any mana AND draw a card. That can get everything you need for a one turn win. ALL THE CARDS PLUS ALL THE MANA = win right? Also if you add Laboratory Maniac you can infinte sac river kelpie to win drawing that way too.

Having evasion is way more important when you are going big beats without trample. You already have Wonder in your deck, so you dont need Filth. You honestly don't need wonder either, but having one in the deck is sometimes useful (and flying for free is awesome). Just remember the more you have that doesn't support creating or protecting your combo's is just fat you can cut.

• Gurmag Drowner lets you pick what you need while sifting through your deck, which is way more efficiant for you than straight up card draw. better than Disciple of Bolas 9/10. by saccing a zombie token you pick what need out of 4 cards and probably spawn another zombie instead of drawing just 2.

A lot of the cards in your deck will end up being milled. Spells without flashback are just dead space in your grave that use valuable resources like Eternal Witness to get back. For that reason trade out the spells I listed.

I have a lot of ideas for things you can add in. Do you have Curse? or skype? it would be way easier to talk on there, because this is ending up in A LOT of typed conversation.

pauginxz on Bant Sacrifice

7 years ago

Makes sense haha.. you should think about adding Gurmag Drowner

DireLuck on

7 years ago

Well the blue lets me use Forbidden Alchemy, which is not a must (i just like the card). It also lets me use Frost Titan and Gurmag Drowner, and I think those are quite good for value and deck filtering. The black lets me use Whip of Erebos, Sidisi, Undead Vizier, and Grave Titan, so if I had to cut a color it would probably be blue. That would help make it alot more consistent.

If i cut blue, i suppose i could replace Forbidden Alchemy with Commune with the Gods (its a bit weaker but if it makes my deck more consistent it could be alright). And Drowner could be replaced with Disciple of Bolas, but sadly the disciple cant sac itself. Consistency is super important though, because as it is right now i often have trouble sticking an early Trostrani.