Hey hey, a legendary goblin! Here we see Slobad performing some much-needed repairs on Bosh, Iron Golem (see here for a close-up face comparison).
In the story, he gave up his chance to ascend to Planeswalker status in order to bring Glissa Sunseeker back to life. I was really disappointed when I read the lore for the Scars block and WotC Creative only gave cursory mention of his demise, saying that he "fell" to other attacking goblins to cover Glissa's retreat back into the core.
As for the card itself, it's an interesting ability. This was the first set to feature indestructibility, and until fairly recently there weren't a lot of other ways to grant it to individual permanents. You can use him in an artifact-heavy deck to cut your Shatterstorm losses in half, for a fraction of the cost of Darksteel Forge - and this is only the tip of the iceber... (see all)
Posted By:
Leshrac_Nightwalker
(11/19/2010 8:08:20 AM)
He's not slo bad, really.
Posted By:
MrPink343
(7/28/2010 10:58:07 AM)
I find his flavor text incredibly lulzy. Artifacts are now the domain of Esper predominantly, but if you're gonna be running red with some Esper colors, grab Mishra, Artificer Prodigy. He's in 2 of the 3 colors of Esper, and his remaining color is the same as Slobad's
Posted By:
Gwafa_Hazid
(1/14/2010 4:28:20 PM)
Wow, he has the same P/T and mana cost as Goblin Tinkerer. That can't have been unintentional.
Posted By:
Gelzo
(1/11/2011 6:13:55 PM)
He dies in the storyline after he and Glissa defeat Memnarch. :(
Posted By:
SolidSoldier
(1/14/2011 12:58:06 AM)
He probably doesn't laugh because you called his people morons, you hateful bigot.
Posted By:
kajillion
(5/2/2011 12:12:28 AM)
effectively, you can redirect any destruction effect to another artifact you control. not that bad for a 1/2 goblin for 1R.
Posted By:
Mode
(1/2/2009 6:59:00 AM)
I agree, i should use 1 of my 4 mishra's with this guy,
and with master transmuter, who needs white?
just put in a couple of pentad prisms etc, you can play rour few white creatures you want from esper
Posted By:
Ava_Adore
(1/23/2010 6:10:54 PM)
Makes every one of your artifacts into an impromptu Welding Jar, just in case you wanted to pay more than 
to get that Welding Jar effect. Unless you're running some weirdly fragile and convoluted artifact interaction deck, you should probably just mainboard the Jars.
Posted By:
Salient
(5/25/2012 11:50:50 PM)
Mmm I love some Spine of Ish Sah
Posted By:
Qazior
(7/28/2011 4:07:26 AM)