Alcohol

## Summary

Alcohol is a supertype currently comprised of five different artifact tokens, namely Mead, Moonshine, Rum, Whiskey and Wine. It was first introduced in Commander: Last Tower as a part of the One Thousand Nights of Mayhem precon, and Rum was subsequently added in Dread of Ixalan.

Each of the artifacts can be sacrificed for one mana for a unique effect, which notably becomes copied once for each other alcohol token sacrificed that turn.

The Tipsy keyword, released in Dread of Ixalan, directly refers to and is impacted by the use of alcohol tokens.

## Mead

When a Mead token is sacrificed, its controller puts a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control, then a +1/+1 counter on another creature they control.

Mead tokens saw some competitive use in counters decks, abusing a counter doubler such as Doubling Season for large amounts of free counters, and in decks running Vizier of Remedies and Solemnity, allowing for pure value.

However, Mead shined most in two decks built specifically around it:

The Drunken Scarab: Using Nest of Scarabs and two creatures with high toughness, Mead tokens could "bounce" between two creatures, effectively evening out while creating massive amounts of tokens.

Ping Pong: This deck revolved around using both persist and undying creatures, and using the mead tokens to put -1/-1 counters on the undying creature and +1/+1 counters on the persist creature at the same time, getting maximum efficiency and causing them both to reanimate each time they died.

## Moonshine

When a Moonshine token is sacrificed, its controller loses 1 life, but creates a delayed trigger that causes them to gain 2 life at the beginning of the next upkeep, that player gains 2 life.

Moonshine tokens are inherently high-risk high-reward, promising great returns on investment in exchange for being vulnerable for a single turn. Because of this, they became a go-to early game strategy in extra turn based decks, basically guaranteeing safe passage to the next upkeep. They also see a great deal of play in Cyclonus, the Saboteur commander decks, due to the late-turn upkeep.

## Rum

When a Rum token is sacrificed, its controller exiles the top card of their library. They may play that card this turn, but only if they haven't cast another spell from exile this turn.

Rum tokens allow their controller to dig far into their library to find combo pieces, but at the risk of exiling other important pieces of your deck in the process, being limited to just casting the one. This made rum strategies a common pick for two card combo decks, effectively acting as a colorless tutor, and was often used in Thassa's Oracle decks, which typically planned to exile the rest of the library outside of the combo card anyways.

It also sees some play in Grenzo, Dungeon Warden decks, which care about the bottom of the library more than the top anyways.

## Whiskey

Whenever a Whiskey token is sacrificed, they give target creature that player controls +1/-1 until end of turn.

While initially thought of as by far the worst of the alcohol tokens, Whiskey made a shocking appearance when it led the Nasty Walls deck, an infect deck based around using high-toughness creatures to stall out until enough whiskey tokens are in play, then swinging out, only needing one or two hits for lethal poison damage with Whiskey's instant speed power boosting.

## Wine

Whenever a Wine token is sacrificed, its controller mills three cards, draws a card, then discards a card.

Wine is by far the most powerful of the alcohol tokens, being a ridiculously fast engine for any dredge deck, easily dumping half a library on a good turn. It even saw play as a wincon in Thassa's Oracle and Laboratory Maniac decks, and due to the high number of alcohol-producing cards, it would actually lead to the ban of Living End in Modern.

## Popular Cards

Night of Revelry, released in the same set as the original four alcohols, allows the caster to produce massive amounts of each alcohol.

Bar is the quintessential alcohol producer, being a staple in most relevant decks, especially those running two or fewer colors.