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Semblance Anvil
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Myr Superion:
Not too hard to pay {0} with mana generated by creatures!
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Posted By: Magic-Master (8/17/2011 11:55:57 PM)
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@GeronimoMartinez: This does not affect CMC, thats a characteristic of the card. It only affects how much how much you have to pay for that card. So even if I have this out, my opponent still couldn't Smother my creature with CMC 4, even if I only paid 2.
And as far as the Everflowing Chalice debate goes, use both. Kicker is part of the casting costs (as an additional but optional cost), which means if you choose to pay the Multikicker, that becomes part of its cost to cast the spell (making its casting cost 2). Semblance Anvil clearly states it costs 2 less to cast, so you get the first kicker free.
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Posted By: ZestuXIII (8/2/2011 7:29:04 PM)
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who likes playing free/dirt cheap colorless spells? everybody!
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Posted By: tantallum99 (8/21/2011 4:57:08 AM)
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@Kirasword001
Goblin is a creature type, and not a card type. So your goblin creature spells will not be discounted.

This card is alright. Makes for some nice redundancy in a Heartless Summoning deck that needs it.
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Posted By: Kryptnyt (4/5/2012 7:28:39 PM)
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This card works with tribal, artifact, and combo deck. Highly versatile.
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Posted By: Cyberium (9/23/2010 5:54:00 PM)
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@ CeremonialBathory, some clarification: It does reduce ALL Artifact AND all Creature spells by 2, but it does not reduce all Artifact Creatures by 4. As is clearly stated in the rules, it can only affect one type.

This card is basically Mana Matrix, Planar Gate, and a better version of Stone Calendar for only 3 mana.
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Posted By: endersblade (6/17/2011 11:46:10 AM)
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The reason to use this over Everflowing Chalice, and the reason that this is better than an Everflowing Chalice for 4 is: this REDUCES THE COST of ALL spells you cast of the imprinted type(s). You can cast 2 mana or less artifacts for free, if you cast only one spell of the type, you may as well have just used the chalice, if you cast two, your mana savings is 100% more than using the chalice, if you cast three its 200% more. If all I wanted was two extra mana, I'd play Palladium Myr, but if I want to play a large number of spells in one turn, the Anvil is vastly superior.
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Posted By: Atali (2/27/2011 7:21:23 PM)
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@Bandswithother - An artifact creature shares a type with both creatures and artifacts. If you exile an artifact creature like a Myr with this card, it will reduce all Artifact costs by 2 and all Creature costs by 2. So, you're assumption is correct.
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Posted By: CeremonialBathory (9/24/2010 12:25:14 AM)
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If I've got two of these on the field, both exiling one type, that reduces costs by 4, correct?
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Posted By: kor6sic6 (10/14/2011 8:42:32 AM)
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I guess a ruling will have to be made for this card, because I read it as only lowering a cost by {2} no matter how manner types the spell shares with the imprinted card. Otherwise I'd expect it to read "spells you cast cost {2} less to cast for each type it shares with the exiled card" and not have flavor text to make up for the extra wordiness.
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Posted By: sarroth (9/30/2010 12:57:35 PM)
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This with the affinity mechanic? blark!
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Posted By: Froenx (1/17/2011 4:56:42 PM)
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Free Necropede
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Posted By: Megax3 (12/27/2010 7:00:52 AM)
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Why not just use Everflowing Chalice? For just 1 more mana, it works for every single card type, abilities, can be cast to reduce the cost more, and doesn't suffer from probable card disadvantage.

@Razbot- but the thing is, chalice works on all types of cards, not just sorceries or creatures or whatever. Chalice is a much better card realistically because it's more flexible, not prone to having to make only certain spells cost less. I mean, if you have 3 Time Warps in your hand, sure the anvil is amazing. But if I have a Naturalize in my hand, it means I just 2 for 1'ed you.
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Posted By: Gomorrah (12/5/2010 4:53:42 PM)
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@Gomorrah Because you can only use Everflowing chalice once per turn? Semblance Anvil a sorcery, blast off 1 mana act of treasons, 3 mana Time Reversal, rinse/repeat?
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Posted By: Razbot (11/30/2010 8:55:41 AM)
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How about using it with Yawgmoth's Will? Yawg's Will is pretty much game anyways, bu if you choose sorcery, Yawg's Will costs a measly Black!
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Posted By: Rumblin-Slumm (10/31/2010 1:33:44 PM)
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I love this card. I replaced my Urza's Incubators with these and never looked back.
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Posted By: emmori (10/30/2010 10:32:16 PM)
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Just to clarify, this will only work on card types, not creature types or anything of the sort. So any artifact, creature, enchantment, sorcery, instant, legendary, planeswalker, snow, tribal, etc.

I like the idea of potentially making cheap artifacts and artifact creatures 0 to cast. Overpowered? Not at all. Overbalanced? Maybe, lol. It's a decent card at best, imo. 3.5/5
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Posted By: SolidSoldier (10/22/2010 3:42:40 PM)
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This card's value is extremely underrated. Turn 3, and you can pretty much drop your had in a Myr tribal deck. With a deck that has some card draw integrated, the loss of card advantage shouldn't even be a problem. I have seen this card do some crazy things. 5/5
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Posted By: mindguru (10/22/2010 2:22:35 PM)
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Leaves you vulnerable, but good for combos.
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Posted By: iondragonx (10/21/2010 3:11:46 PM)
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to the person saying its not good in an aggro deck, I would disagree, this is pretty much good in almost any deck unless you went out of your way to make a deck crap with this card.

I think it would be cool with tribal, although I'm not sure how much application you would get from that. unless you used changling tribal cards and tribal artifact equipment for near free tribal cards, maybe throw in overbeing of myth as well. but im sure there are way better applications then that
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