True, it is hard to cast, but there is plenty of ways to get it out there without actually casting it. Shape Anew, Polymorph, andMass Polymorph in an extreme case.
4x Blightsteel Colossus
4x Glint-Hawk Idol
4x Chimeric Mass
4x Pandemonium
4x Polymorph
2x Mass Polymorph
4x Inkmoth Nexus
4x Blinkmoth Nexus
1x Dryad Arbor
4x Hallowed Fountain
4x Steam Vents
2x Island
2x Mountain
It isn't complete, I know, but the idea is to use the artifacts/lands that become creatures to polymorph into BC. Pandemonium is self explanatory. I guess it's a good thing there isn't a burn spell that is infect. *shudder*
Posted By:
mascot742
(1/29/2011 4:37:22 AM)
You know, I hear a lot of people screaming out:
" SUCKS BECAUSE IT CAN JUST BE EXILED OR BLOWN UP NOW WITH THE NEW MATERIAL IN THIS SET AND PREVIOUS STUFF"
'Kay, cool, waste your deck/side-deck slots with artifact burn like I tried to do for a deck. See how it works out for you.
That being said, two words (even though I expect to be yelled at for this): Prototype Portal.
Posted By:
feeltherawk
(1/29/2011 9:32:01 AM)
An incredibly uninteresting card, as though we're being told "KILL THEM WITH POISON!"
Posted By:
Nukeleo
(9/19/2011 1:33:08 AM)
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments directed at R&D for this card. My personal opinion is that R&D makes cards that are cool, look scary, and are not OP more than the next mythic. There are TONS of other giant creatures that have "I kill you in one hit" written all over them. Cruel Ultimatum, Phage, Myr Battlesphere, and Emrakul are all examples of these, but should they not have been printed? OF COURSE NOT. Any format that can reliably abuse this already has a billion other things that can be abused. I'm looking at you, vintage.
Posted By:
Xaxas
(2/9/2011 3:09:06 PM)
Let me tell you how this works.
Open up your Mirrodin Besieged pack.
Remove Blightsteel Colossus from said pack.
Take your Blightsteel Colossus home.
Put it in the toilet.
Enough said.
Posted By:
persecutor
(5/7/2011 11:58:49 PM)
The new and improved Darksteel Colossus
Posted By:
made4ipod
(2/2/2011 6:50:16 AM)
TIMMY!
Posted By:
steelpommel
(2/10/2011 6:03:19 AM)
Today at FNM, I played against a version of the deck using:
4 Master's Call
4 Shape Anew
4 Blightsteel Colossus
I lost game 1, but fortunately I had some Condemn (massive lifegain for my opponent!) in the sideboard and managed to win game 2-3. His deck also includes two Karn Liberated planeswalker. So if he fails to win by cheating it into play with Shape Anew, Karn can exile it from his hand and restart the game with the Colossus on the field turn one... aouch.
I don't think there is summoning sickness in that case, so it's GG.
Posted By:
Diab0l0
(6/4/2011 1:16:41 AM)
I don't get why people hate this thing so much.
I understand and somewhat agree with the "powercreep" argument.
However, this thing oozes flavor.
Wizards took one of the most iconic cards from MIrrodin and turned it Phyrexian.
If that doesn't scream out to my inner Vorthos, I just can't understand what will.
Posted By:
infernox10
(2/18/2013 10:03:08 AM)
Contrary to popular belief this is probably what Happened to the Darksteel Colossi.
Pesky Phyrexians
Posted By:
BloodDragon
(1/30/2011 6:26:03 PM)