This fellow has a home in my Mirrorweave/"General Cloning Shenanigans" deck. If you are sufficiently daring, you can permanently transform your creatures with Mirrorweave, provided you have a means to trigger all of your copies' heroic abilities before the turn ends. The other fun combo with him is that clone tokening cipher card. While nothing crazy, it's a nice way to trigger heroic, since the Artisan will have changed shape before the spell resolves, plus you have a recurring source for triggering heroic if you manage to hit a player.
Posted By:
GingerGiant
(10/8/2013 11:30:57 AM)
So, yesterday, I played this and it was targeted by a Doom Blade. I responded by playing Boon of Erebos, and changed it to a black creature my opponent had. I was under the pretense this was legal since it follows stack. But both my opponent and a nearby judge declared that since Doom Blade was played first, I can't change it after the play.
Which was right?
Posted By:
Dalent
(10/14/2013 8:19:00 AM)
let's say I activate her heroic changing her to a creature with an unactivated monstrous ability, then activate her newly acquired monstrous ability, then activate her heroic ability changing her to a creature with the monstrous ability. Is she still monstrous? i.e. can i put more monstrous counters on her?
Posted By:
robox
(10/15/2013 9:41:54 AM)
This card is incredibly fun. I have copied someones monstrous creature, in turn using the monstrous ability and beating them. My favorite trick I have pulled off, though, was against a black deck. They used a big creature with intimidate, my little Artisan of Forms was +1/+1 due to putting a counter on him from Phalanx Leader. I used a Doom Blade on Artisan, proc'd the Heroic trigger, copied the big creature he was swinging with, causing Doom Blade to dissipate. That was a block he didn't quite enjoy. :)
Posted By:
BnHRogerz
(10/20/2013 4:51:11 AM)
Recently, me and some friends played a sealed team event. A guy on my team got TWO Shipbreaker Krakens for his Dimir deck (built around Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver).
In the final 2HG match, one Kraken had already been played, made monstrous, killed...
Then the next came, was made monstrous, and shortly afterward, the opposing team was ready to fold.
But my teammate says: "No, don't give up, please let me make the following play!"
He plays Aqueous Form on his Artisan of Forms. Heroic triggers.
"I copy my Kraken... I tap a lot of mana... I make it monstrous. I tap down the last of you blockers... and attack with two 10/10s, one unblockable. Oh, and Scry 1."
I think they had three life left beforehand anyway... :D
Posted By:
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
(10/21/2013 7:51:19 PM)
hunt the weak
Posted By:
ActualCannibal
(11/27/2013 3:03:56 AM)
Used this with at the prerelease to copy inspired creatures, worked amazingly well. I can't wait for the comboes that'll come out of this.
Posted By:
larkeith
(2/4/2014 5:27:47 PM)
probably my most favorite, least used card from theros, imo. now that I think about it though, I'm immediately sideboarding 3 of these in my Spellheart Chimera deck to deal with the Fleecemane Lions that seem to be breathing down my neck every time i play a game of standard lately.
Posted By:
Tommy2Hands
(2/6/2014 5:26:53 PM)
this has been one of the scariest cards i have put into my bruna deck, this makes sure my opponent knows that their field is now MY field. trust me, you will understand after you copy an eldrazi god for just 3 mana, this girl being 2, aqueous form. short version of the story. i won.
Posted By:
Quotations
(3/26/2014 11:14:49 AM)
A Human Wizard Shapeshifter !
and a combo lover's dream in standard.
Dream on, I know
but say I have two of these out early game, each enchanted with a Gift of Immortality, and
I've protected Elite Arcanist brandishing Triton Tactics long enough for Medomai the Ageless to enter play and
land his attack damage with the help of Hidden Strings....
Posted By:
radshire
(4/2/2014 6:31:52 PM)