Because stone forge mystic just wasn't being played enough in standard...
Posted By:
Sironos
(6/2/2011 9:29:11 AM)
It doesn't seem like a Mythic Rare in terms of flavor, but I'm glad they didn't make it a Rare. This is the kind of card you really, REALLY don't want to face in Limited.
Posted By:
Dulocracy
(5/4/2011 11:56:35 AM)
Thanks for gunking up Legacy for the summer of 2011.
It won't surprise me when Stoneforge Mystic receives a Legacy banhammer. There are Top 16 Legacy tournament placements now consisting almost entirely of (a) "Stoneblade" Stoneforge Mystic + Batterskull + Sword of X and Y combos and (b) Natural Order race decks that are hyper-specifically designed to pound Stoneblade with Progenitus.
Posted By:
Salient
(8/26/2011 1:38:01 AM)
zomg it's grond!! where are the trolls?
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(9/11/2011 10:39:30 AM)
So many comments about how this card makes no flavour sense. You're not trying hard enough. So, for starters, I like to imagine the Germ creatures that hold living weapons are like gormless balls of flesh built into the equipment. When they die, they burst and rot leaving space for something else to climb in and activate the exoskeleton. The batter skull I imagine would be ridden from its brain cavity, making the creature equipped with it look a bit like Sheoldred (who is apparently able to detach from her body BTW). Ok, now look at its long body with all those legs. Someone else commented 'what, is it knocking their door down and running back to defend again?' Well maybe it is. You can't see it all on the card. It must be enormous, easily the largest Equipment in the game. I bet it can twist around like a centipede and defend as well as attack. Now, the lifelink. Hmm. Well, being phyrexian, maybe when it smashes things it absorbs and consumes their bodies to make energy. Oh I don't kn... (see all)
Posted By:
Lordocean
(11/23/2012 10:38:37 AM)
Lets put it this way, if it was a creature for 
that had 4/4 vigilance and lifelink, it would be good.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(4/30/2012 5:26:46 PM)
Gatherer, I'm ashamed of you. Somebody else should have said this by now:
GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(8/7/2011 12:25:59 AM)
A mythic, whist being powerful, should be flavourful and well designed as well. A mythic should have the "woah" factor. Think Progenitus or Lorthos, the Tidemaker. Extremely flavourful without being flat out broken.
Batterskull is just a stupid (yes, stupid) vigilant bouncing battering ram that gains life which is also an wearable equipment. HUH. how is a battering ram so nimble it can return to your hand at a whim? how does it gain you health exactly? how....I give up. This card looks like someone in R&D just vomited out a whole bunch of keywords on a random artifact.
Also, Stoneforge Mystic was still in standard when this card was printed. Seriously, did Wizards not realise what they had done? For a while FNMs was so blatantly pay2win, you have all these people running around with $500 decks (!) with their Jaces and flying birds that held swords and wearable heali... (see all)
Posted By:
immelmann
(8/28/2012 2:57:42 PM)
Sigh. Even with some planeswalker hate printed in NPH, next 5 months in Standard seem to look like an exercise in frustration. There's Torpor Orb, but still...
Posted By:
BarryOgg
(4/28/2011 4:17:40 PM)
WAY TOO MANY ABILITIES ON AN EQUIPMENT.
Posted By:
scorpiolegend
(5/5/2011 10:07:45 PM)