Withered Wretch is a hard working, but not
spectacular creature. In Extended, controlling
your opponent's graveyard is often VERY
important.
Withered Wretch is just about the most useful
card in Extended for keeping your opponent's
graveyard empty. Yeah, there are LOTS of
artifact cards and black cards that can take
cards out of a player's graveyard, but Wretch
does it as well as any of the other choices
while giving you a 2/2 Zombie Cleric at the same
time, which, by the way, makes him a good card
for Zombie and Cleric decks as well. In limited,
Withered Wretch is just as good a card, but not
necessarily as important.
I like this card a lot. It's an efficient
creature, so you can play it in any creature
based deck that is black heavy. Also, it has a
great ability. This stops a lot of crazy
recursion. In addition, the ability is extremely
cheap. And it's useable more than once per turn.
It's even more interesting when you look at the
fact that it's both a cleric and a zombie. This
makes it fit well into more theme decks.
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 3
Limited: 3
BMoor
Withered Wretch
Black has plenty of tools for removing cards in
a graveyard from the game. None of them are very
useful unless you're also playing something like
Empty the Catacombs or Patriarch's Bidding. This
one is alright if only because it's a 2/2 for
two mana, and it can fit into both Zombie decks
and Cleric decks. Mostly a Casual tool for
combos, it's also solid in Limited since it
shared a block with Flashback, Threshold, and
the Incarnations.
