"F**k it." -- Wizards of the Coast
Posted By:
surewhynot
(2/3/2011 1:49:04 PM)
This card is terrible design.
It is obviously intended to appeal to players' nostalgia about Darksteel Colossus... And then it turns out to just be a better Darksteel Colossus, completely obsoleting the original and trampling (Heh) all over players' memories of the robot.
Would it have been too hard to make this an 11 mana 9/9? It would have occupied its own niche instead of being an almost-always superior card, and it would have added more tension by not making it a one-hit kill.
Also, the art is worse-looking. :-P
Posted By:
Fireballmage
(5/3/2012 9:38:59 PM)
Yet another member of the BS family, along with his angel of a sister.
Posted By:
NoobOfLore
(2/6/2011 6:23:10 PM)
I nominate the following methods of dealing with Blightsteel Colossus for special honors:
MOST GAME-CHANGING: Backlash/Delirium
MOST AMUSING: Kiku's Shadow
MOST INSULTING: Block with Storm Crow, survive at nine poison, then Humble it to death
Posted By:
Ragamander
(11/29/2011 4:16:35 AM)
It's a little sad that this completely overshadows Darksteel Colossus. For that reason, I kind of hate it.
Posted By:
Vinifera7
(5/30/2011 8:41:05 AM)
If they were going to create a creature with these stats at all, 
was the right cost for it. If you're hardcasting, this takes one turn longer than Darksteel Colossus to cast (probably more than one turn longer, actually, since you probably don't get a mana each turn), but once it's cast, takes one turn less to win. So both colossi give you the win on the same turn.
And if you're cheating creatures into play, the mana cost is irrelevant, and there's no mana cost they could have given this to balance it.
Of course, that still leaves the question of whether they should have printed a creature with these stats at all. But there are enough other big expensive creatures which almost guarantee the win, that I don't think now is really the right time to start complaining.
Posted By:
sonorhC
(11/5/2011 10:54:31 AM)
I like nothing about this card. Darksteel Colossus is a fantastic card - very clever idea, brilliantly realized, with beautiful art to boot. This card makes that wonderful creation obsolete and, on top of that, is incredibly boring to play with. Unmake it, please!+
Posted By:
blisterine
(9/20/2011 6:30:17 PM)
Instantly kill the player who plays the BS with Backlash
Posted By:
BonniePrinceCharlie
(5/10/2011 4:33:02 PM)
what a tragic slip!
Posted By:
ericksee
(4/5/2012 3:09:55 PM)
I like to imagine that this thing is a Phyrexian attempt to build their own Colossus rather than a corrupted original. The original presumably died in a suitably heroic way.
"Superman..."
Posted By:
Nucleon
(9/23/2011 7:14:24 PM)