[3.5] Easy Bake Wimp -> Wyrm Wizard: 1 metamagic feat

[Tokuhara]

I'm designing Richard, a Grey Elf Eidetic Elf Generalist 5 who I'm aiming towards Wyrm Wizard (I know it's no Incantrix of the Sevenfold Cheese, but I want to test drive it for myself). I want 1 metamagic that will be my workhorse next 15 levels. Picking only one (I have a bunch of other feats I want to use on Richard, like Elven Spell Lore, Spell Thematics, and other "oddity" feats), what is the best "Bang for buck" Metamagic feat. And I mean one that I can take it and move on, not giving up my feat slots to become powerful. One feat, Best Use for a Wizard

[Zanos]

For buffs? Extend.
For blasting? Empower.
For battlefield control? Sculpt.

[Gildedragon]

Some good metamagics:
Sanctum Spell
Invisible Spell
City Spell

[Tokuhara]

I'm looking at battlefield control mostly, with Arcane Disciple: Healing covering self-heals to lighten the Cleric's load (he's a Human Cleric built as a healbot in a party of 7), so sculpt could be useful, considering we have a Human Rogue, a Half-Ogre Fighter, a Goliath Barbarian, and a Dwarf Monk

[Flickerdart]

Some good metamagics:
Sanctum Spell
Invisible Spell
City Spell
Sanctum is only useful for early-entry and spell level cap cheese, City Spell is vastly inferior to dedicated metamagics like Searing Spell, and Invisible Spell is so poorly written that it's practically unusable.

[Akal Saris]

My vote goes to Sculpt Spell - it's very flexible in its applications, whether it's quadrupling the area of a small AOE spell like grease, or splitting up a spell like stinking cloud to hit your enemies and leave allies untouched.

[Tokuhara]

My vote goes to Sculpt Spell - it's very flexible in its applications, whether it's quadrupling the area of a small AOE spell like grease, or splitting up a spell like stinking cloud to hit your enemies and leave allies untouched.

Doesn't Sculpt require 1 other metamagic feat?

[Zanos]

Doesn't Sculpt require 1 other metamagic feat?

Huh. So it does. My arcane casters are usually pretty loaded with metamagic so I forgot about that. You can grab a rod if you still want it, but they're fairly expensive.

Extend can still be useful for a multitude of spells.

[Tokuhara]

Huh. So it does. My arcane casters are usually pretty loaded with metamagic so I forgot about that. You can grab a rod if you still want it, but they're fairly expensive.

Extend can still be useful for a multitude of spells.

That might be the only worthwhile option

[Wings of Peace]

If you're worried about survivability I like doing the standard Easy Bake Wizard with the Dragonborn and Arctic templates for +4 con.

[Tokuhara]

If you're worried about survivability I like doing the standard Easy Bake Wizard with the Dragonborn and Arctic templates for +4 con.

That's the thing: Richard is a weakling. This was on purpose to challenge me as both a gamer and as a player