Your right cascade won't trigger cuz with Meddling Mage even if you named Sphinx of the Steel Wind Transmutter can still get it into play cuz your not playing the spell. With cascade it say's "When YOU PLAY this spell...".
Posted By:
johnjohndowdle
(5/17/2009 2:33:20 PM)
Not sure why it is you can't use master transmuter on it, or at least elvish piper, since you are still playing the spell even if your doing it with help from a creature, but anyways it doesn't really matter. Even with the slightly prohibitive mana cost there isn't anything else about it that makes you want to try to get it out super early, a 5/4 is equivalent to a 3 mana thoctar except that it has flying. The only really interesting thing about this card is the cascade, the only issue being it's not easy to mass a deck of things that it can cascade into, in the sense that it's completely random. Anything under 7 mana is almost everything in the game. It could be completely awesome when that happens, or it could get you a strix, hard to say. The sphinx of the steel wind is probably a better finisher simply for it's consistency.
Also, unless I'm very mistaken, grab the reigns does not put it in the persons graveyard who took control of it with the spell, when it dies it goes back ... (see all)
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(11/28/2009 4:11:57 PM)
some comboabilty potential here for lots of free spells. but not sure if its strong enough for constructed play at its cost.
Posted By:
davidhuman
(4/26/2009 1:04:42 PM)
I like that it costs 4 colorless, gives a cost potentially as low as 3 mana (with Etherium Sculptor), but the fact that cascade does not trigger when it is brought into play with the Master Transmuter takes away a lot of its usefulness, at the end of the day it's kind of...meh.
Posted By:
Shukakun
(8/14/2009 5:25:37 AM)
Shouldn't the oracle text use the "dies" template?
Posted By:
JFM2796
(9/16/2011 5:23:15 PM)
I had Salvage Titan in an artifact deck, then I realized that this does a much better job of coming back. Plus as others have mentioned, with Etherium Sculptors, he becomes unfairly playable. Add to that the ability to play artifacts and other nice and nasty cards without paying for them, and it's nigh on perfect.
Only real problem is the random draw, but you don't have to play the card if you don't want to. It would be nice if you play it multiple times, to assist in retrieving something from the bottom of your library that found its way there earlier.
Posted By:
Sericule
(9/19/2011 9:37:45 PM)
The art is spectacular. And as for playing him never had a chance i wish i did though because he looked awesome in reborn limited plus that is an extreme cascade. and he's not too phased by terminate either.
Posted By:
MasterOfEtherium
(2/3/2011 10:36:46 AM)
It's female. And now you can't un-see it
Posted By:
metalevolence
(10/26/2011 1:31:44 AM)
What happens if an opponent "Grabs the Reins" on this creature? Whose library will it go third from the top?
Posted By:
MikalP
(6/2/2009 1:14:20 PM)
That's a really good point, MikalP. It does say "your library"...I guess that means if an opponent gains control of it, it gets put into their library. Peculiar.
Wait! No! It says the ability triggers when it is put into YOUR graveyard. Since you don't own Enigma Sphinx, it goes not to yours, but to its OWNER's graveyard, and the ability won't trigger because they didn't control it when it was in play. So that would actually stop it for good.
Posted By:
ratchet1215
(10/1/2009 11:06:55 AM)