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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

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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

). Semblance Anvil clearly states it costs

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

and all Creature costs by

. 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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It's card type, not creature type. And it discounts if it shares a type, sharing both don't make it happen twice.

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Posted By: Luke_BPC (9/26/2010 2:52:59 PM)

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Those Eldrazis just got a whole lot quicker.

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Posted By: Richard_Hawk (9/26/2010 2:27:35 PM)

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This is not a good card to run in an aggro deck. This is a combo card, not an aggro card.

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Posted By: faisjdas (9/26/2010 10:31:58 AM)

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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

and all Creature costs by

. So, you're assumption is correct.

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Posted By: CeremonialBathory (9/24/2010 12:25:14 AM)

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This would also work amazing with Planeswalkers :D

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Posted By: henz90 (9/23/2010 10:32:54 PM)

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Just to make things clear; what happens if I exile an artifact creature?
Would I:

Have to name one or the other? As in only artifacts or only creatures.

Get the discount for only artifact creatures?

Or get the discount for both artifacts and creatures?

I assume the latter because both share a card type with the exiled card.

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Posted By: Bandswithother (9/23/2010 9:54:36 PM)

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If they deal with it you're behind in tempo. If they don't deal with it they lose. Yey for free artifacts under 2 CMC!

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Posted By: dudecow (9/23/2010 5:58:21 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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Gotta love tempo accelerators. Especially artifact and creature accelerators in a block with artifact creatures.

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Posted By: StoicChampion (9/23/2010 5:41:17 PM)

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Yeah, pretty amazing . . .

Turn 1: Seat of Synod, Memnite, Mox Opal, Etherium Sculptor
Turn 2: Vault of Whispers, Semblance Anvil (Artifact|Razor Boomerang or whatever you want to imprint)
Turn 3: Wurmcoil Engine

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Posted By: zarakstan (9/23/2010 5:00:04 PM)

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