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@ Mode: Unfortunately, Echoing Ruin doesn't work as a basic land hoser with Liquimetal Coating. Since Ruin says "Destroy target artifact and all other artifacts with the same name as target artifact." Unless you find a way to turn all of the basic lands you're trying to destroy into artifacts, Ruin will blow up one then scan the board for other artifacts named "Swamp" or whatever, find none, and resolve.

However, putting Revoke Existence or even just a Shatter on Isochron Scepter with a coating or two on the field (or imprinted on Prototype Portal) gives you a nightmarish version of Vindicate every turn until they deal with the scepter. Which will be difficult when you're exiling a land every turn.

In the sense that "broken" is a card that requires you to play it, or else you're hopelessly outmatched by everyone else who's playing it, the Coating/Shat... (see all)

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Posted By: PhyrexianAdvocate (12/7/2010 10:52:40 AM)

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If building a deck around this card, the best search card seems to be ancient stirrings as, best case scenario it gets you this for 1 mana, worst case, it gets you 5 cards closer and puts a land in your hand for 1 mana.
it is also green, which leads you to a bunch of good artifact removal, and nature's spiral to protect your liquimetal coatings and to get back creatures that destroy artifacts.

deck plan,
4 liquimetal coatins
4 ancient stirrings
an amount of veridian revels
2 natures spiral
24 lands of your choice

26 of your favorite cards that destroy artifacts like
two for ones manic vandal, oxidda scrapmelter, relic crush, into the core, viridian corrupter
stepping out of standard ancient grudge, shattering spree

the important part to me is the ancient stirrings as tutors and natu... (see all)

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Posted By: ugotpauld (6/5/2011 5:55:13 AM)

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Turn your Planeswalker into a T-1000! "Have you seen this boy?"

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Posted By: Chrome_Coyote (9/24/2010 3:11:39 PM)

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According to MaRo, design made a big mistake with this card. To be specific, it should only have targeted creatures.

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Posted By: A3Kitsune (12/5/2010 9:46:30 PM)

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T1: Swamp, ??? (Piece of equipment maybe? Trusty Machete?)
T2: Swamp, Liquimetal Coating
T3: Swamp, Target Swamp with Liquimetal Coating, Phylactery Lich targeting the now artifact land.
T4: Equip and swing. Congradulations! You are now the proud owner of a 7/6 Indescructable beater that won't die to anything like Shatter or Revoke Existence. Enjoy.

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Posted By: thew00tninja (10/19/2010 12:12:41 PM)

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Hmm...
I'm pretty confident many friendships are lost with this and Splinter.

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Posted By: infernox10 (5/17/2011 6:59:48 AM)

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I am going to coat this entire mountain in metal. Then, I am going to have Barrage Ogre throw it at you.
I don't care about specifics, that should be a game-ender right there.

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Posted By: Aburaishi (3/6/2011 8:54:10 PM)

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@jerkoid: Simplest way to break Horseshoe Crab and Grand Architect is with Mycosynth Lattice. Gets around the pesky need for it to be blue mana to untap. Then you don't even need the coating.

Another approach to get a similar effect (with fewer cards) is to enchant Vedalken Engineer with Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura, then turn the aura into an artifact. But there are even easier ways to turn one of those auras into infinite mana, such as with Bloom Tender.

@Chamale: Better than that, March of the Machines actually turns this into " Tap

: Destroy target land or target Aura."

@ugotpauld: Magnetic Mine will trigger if you destroy something that's temporarily an artifact. Triggers that look at objects on the battlefield care about the current properties of those objects, regardless of whether th... (see all)

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Posted By: Artscrafter (2/16/2011 11:12:26 AM)

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Very reminiscent of the old artifacts with end of turn boosts instead of equip costs.

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Posted By: Polkovnik_Skyfox (5/5/2011 2:17:53 PM)

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Phyrexian Metamorph

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Posted By: nimzo (5/16/2011 9:37:53 PM)

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@ skormeus

Better yet, Revoke Existence.
2 mana: "Exile target permanent".

Alternatively, you could just use Dispatch.
1 mana: "Exile target creature".

So many possibilities, gotta love ol' liquimetal.

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Posted By: Myrs (4/29/2013 6:45:06 PM)

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Liquimetal Coating + Karn, Silver Golem (or anything similar, i can't figure out how to autocard using text) + Evil Twin = Copy any permanent as a creature and have the ability to kill it.

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Posted By: Eluem (11/27/2012 4:21:09 PM)

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Oh, you want lands? Sorry, Smelt says you can't have them.

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Posted By: bay_falconer (11/17/2012 10:26:18 AM)

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Has no one mentioned Master Thief?

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Posted By: Baal_Planeswalker (11/10/2012 12:33:31 AM)

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Phylactery Lich, anyone?

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Posted By: Emperorerror (10/24/2012 12:15:46 PM)

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@Speednat Technically Planeswalkers still count as permanents. It's just that they are valid targets for attacking with your creatures (like how you say you're attacking Player C in a multiplayer game, the planeswalker is a valid target), and "306.7. If noncombat damage would be dealt to a player by a source controlled by an opponent, that opponent may have that source deal that damage to a planeswalker the first player controls instead."

And since they are still considered a Permanent, Naturalize/Shatter will still work on them with this.

Or you could have more fun... :)
This + "target artifact becomes an artifact creature" effect at instant speed (take your pick, magic has a bunch, but I like Karn, Silver Golem for this) + Mimic Vat + Planeswalker of your Choice = Planeswalker Tokens! (Mind you they die after just one turn, but quite a few planeswalkers can still fire off their second abilities (The... (see all)

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Posted By: Mr_Hackman (9/6/2012 3:34:43 AM)

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EVIL CARD. When it works, you want to punch your opponents. But most of the time the deck just falls apart.

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Posted By: TheWrathofShane (8/19/2012 1:02:11 AM)

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This+Mizzium Transreliquat. (1)(R)(U): Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target permanent permanently, and gains this ability...

My favorite, Covetous Dragon, still my favorite dragon. Turn Covetous into an artifact, turn the Transreliquat into a copy, the new Covetous is a 6/5 Artifact Creature!

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Posted By: Jormgund (5/24/2012 11:39:49 AM)

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