BANNED!!!
Posted By:
Alex343
(6/19/2011 10:53:48 PM)
So underrated. The first ability is really, really good. 1W for a 1/2 that gives you card advantage through a TUTOR and can play equipment cards for 1W at instant speed? Just very good.
Posted By:
Sidek
(2/17/2010 7:35:37 AM)
ding dong the witch is banned
Posted By:
rinoh20
(8/27/2011 3:38:45 PM)
wasn't there another guy that did something similar to this? well in either case i like the card and i have seen many an equipment deck that will love this card.
Posted By:
wolfv
(1/29/2010 4:35:39 PM)
wow wizards can go to hell. just because people can't beat caw blade they ban a card. if you keep loosing to caw blade then you suck... i got my mystics when they first came out for some fun with a kor deck. when i got more serious i ran naya with vengevines. after alara rotated out i added the full see set of mystics and swords to the deck list. It beat up on caw blade... honestly rotation was just a few months away. wizards go to helllllllllllllllllllllllll..... there were some decks that beat up on caw blade.... boros, the new RDW, a lot of decks with black ruined UW because of the hand control and vengevine decks did work... anyone ever think that its win % was so high because so many people at major tourney's play the deck?
Posted By:
Rhunic_32
(6/20/2011 5:35:16 PM)
To all the people who complain about this card:
There's something called "removal", maybe you've heard of it? If not, then don't expect to win any games anyway. Seriously, if you don't play Lightning Bolt, Swords to Plowshares, Smother, or Dismember, among many other options, then your deck is either very bad or a combo deck that doesn't care what its opponent does. If your deck is very bad, then YOUR DECK IS VERY BAD. It isn't going to win anyway. If you're playing a combo deck, then you should be much more worried about their Force of Will than their Stoneforge. Let them have a Batterskull, you are just going to hit them for 30 with a Tendrils of Agony or make them draw 60 cards with a Blue Sun's Zenith.
In addition to removal, there is also Spell Snare, Thoughtseize, Inquisitio... (see all)
Posted By:
buddy2
(3/20/2012 9:36:59 PM)
Shouldn't be rare. Damn it, better not get this as a rare in one of my boosters!
Posted By:
AXER
(1/31/2010 6:34:58 PM)
I think wotc should re-instate Stoneforge Mystic. I miss playing my Caw-Blade Deck without it.
Posted By:
paintchips
(7/21/2011 11:24:33 AM)
@buddy2
Dude you're an idiot. Being someone who has some experience using her as well as Elbrus, let me tell you EXACTLY how scary she gets.
It doesn't matter what the hell happens to her after she's been dropped. Tutoring is all she's needed for as she's usually tutoring is a sword that can be dropped the turn after. If I don't think she'll be killed immediately, I'll tutor Batterskull or Elbrus so I can cheat it out next turn. By turn 3, I can drop and equip Elbrus on a Birds of Paradise and hit you for the transformation, or drop a Batterskull and have a 4/4 vigilance lifelink beatstick that, by experience, ALWAYS eats up the removal before Stoneforge Mystic does. She dies? I'm OVERJOYED because I can trigger the EtB again with Sun Titan in a couple turns and tutor more things out.
Wanna kill Elbrus' Transformation? Karakas the creature and re-drop Elbrus and try again. Swords to Plowshares in response to gain 13+ life.
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Posted By:
WarioMan
(2/15/2012 10:08:27 PM)
Increasing the casting cost by 
would have lead to a much better standard enviorment. This card is just beyond broken. Its a tutor which also threatens making powerful equipment flash, uncounterable, and cheap cost. Its also ping resistant.
They really need to test their cards more. This along with Jace warped the standard environment and led a lot of people away from magic.
Of course nobody got fired for doing such a terrible job at balancing, (even though they probably should have). Hopefully they playtest cards out more in the future, and go beyond there inner circle which obviously is terrible at balancing, or else they wouldnt approve of such a broken card.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(2/26/2014 10:25:09 PM)