Liquimetal Coating (Scars of Mirrodin) - Community - Gatherer

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I'm gonna do this with Isochron Scepter and Naturalize. then proceed to have a two mana burn any permanent spell.

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Posted By: skormeus (1/30/2012 3:03:12 PM)

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Great card to have in a mana-screwing deck. Turn 2, this, turn 3, turn an opponent's land into an artifact and Manic Vandal it, and they'd be down to 1 or 2 lands.

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Posted By: Binaro (11/30/2011 3:50:16 PM)

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When life gives you lemons turn them into artifacts.

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Posted By: Rollcaster (2/5/2011 11:41:23 AM)

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Viashino Heretic = {1}{R}, {T} Your permanents are on fire
March of the Machines = {T} Your lands are suddenly disappering
Splinter = {T} A great way to ensure you'll never play magic with that person again.

I've found LC most useful as a support card/subtheme. Like you can add a liquimetal to a red Eldrazi deck and add in things like Manic Vandal, and go with Lightning Bolt AND Galvanic Blast for fun.

I've also seen a deck that used this to coat Indomitable Archangel for laughs.

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Posted By: SeiberTross (5/6/2011 7:56:06 AM)

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YES!

"Target permanent becomes a combo."

or

"Destroy target permanent."

Too bad I can only run four of this card.......

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Posted By: Enchantment_Removal (12/27/2010 5:41:31 PM)

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Target Basic land... Cast Splinter

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Posted By: stratoscythe (9/24/2010 1:38:47 AM)

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I have this picture in my head of manic vandal, oxidda scrapmelter, and hoard-smelter dragon all standing around what looks like an M&M dispenser.

Melts in your mouth, not in your hand... claw... talon...

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Posted By: roguepariah (10/11/2010 6:53:43 AM)

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Finally, Red knows how to kill enchantments: by dipping them in liquid-metal.

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Posted By: DarkerNectron (10/21/2010 12:30:36 PM)

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Liquimetal Coating + Sculpting Steel = Copy Target Permanent.

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Posted By: Rushdown (4/17/2011 11:26:19 AM)

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As a part-time Johnny, full-time Vorthos and almost-never Spike, my definition of a card's usefulness is based not around the power of its stats or its efficiency in getting card advantage, but rather on its abiility to contribute to some sort of plan or purpose. Therefore, while I can't claim this is the most powerful card in the set (by itself it does nothing, and a deck designed to use it with a bunch of Naturalizes has a bunch of dead cards if it fails to draw a copy - you'll notice that despite its low potency, it cannot be fetched with Trinket Mage and that was almost certainly deliberate), it is almost unuqestionably one of the most useful. As I work on my project of building 36 decks using cards from only this set, trying to make them as different as possible, this card pops up again and again. It can do little tiny tricks like getting you faster metalcraft or sacking a basic land to Ferrovore, or it can make immense plays like the nightmarish Splinter combo an... (see all)

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Posted By: willpell (10/17/2010 5:38:50 AM)

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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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