Why is this card rated so low?
She is a 1/2 two-drop who has a Steelshaper's Gift cip/etb effect, that makes this card already really powerful - compare her to Elvish Visionary, she's not even just a 1/2 cantrip, she can get your equipment of choice! Tutor cards for two mana are awesome, those which provide a creature at the same time are insane!
But that's still not everything, you can even use her as an Elvish Piper for equipents to put an expensive one on the battlefield with her second ability - possibly the one you just put into your hand with her.
And still, despite all that she just requires a single white mana - what more could you ask for?
Aside from Stonehewer Giant, Steelshaper Apprentice got once more overshadowed, this time by a cheaper alternative.
Oh, and you can of course flicker her to get more equipments.
Seriously guys, this card has great p... (see all)
Posted By:
Mode
(1/30/2010 10:26:18 AM)
lol, I was drafting worldwake, and i was almost able to draft caw blade, getting a jace, the mind sculptor AND a stoneforge mystic
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(8/17/2011 1:04:06 PM)
Card comments a few months ago - "Come on, guys, it's not that useless..."
Card comments now - "BAN IN VINTAGE IMMEDIATELY"
Posted By:
Templar314
(10/16/2011 6:30:10 PM)
Oh hey there, centrepiece of the most hated deck in my play circle.
CAW Blade needs to die. Seriously. And this card along with it.
"Hey guys, lets print a card that searches for equipment and lets you play them for 2!"
"Sweet, love it!"
few months later...
"Hey guys, I was looking over Scars block, and I noticed that we have a lot of powerful equipments planned. What about that Stoneforge thing we printed in Worldwake?"
"nah, forget about it. Players are too silly to remember that piece of crap."
Why, Wizards, why would you make a block with powerful equipment after printing something like this?
/rant
EDIT: Wootwoot. Turns out she was good enough to save WoTC finding the banhammer by doing it herself xD
Posted By:
WateryMind
(6/20/2011 1:47:45 AM)
BANNED!!! wow...lol. Honestly never expected that to happen in standard. Thanks a lot Batterskull and the swords.
Posted By:
Evil_Tactics
(6/19/2011 10:30:56 PM)
This plus Basilisk Collar is just the kick in the pants Kor equipment decks needed. I WILL make that decktype work, dammit!
Posted By:
MrPink343
(1/30/2010 11:44:32 PM)
BAN HAMMER
Posted By:
CJM2
(6/20/2011 5:25:43 PM)
Hey look- they printed a Tinker-belle.
(I'm kind of shocked noone else seems to have thought of that yet, lol.)
But seriously, far more obviously and blatantly broken than Jace, who was merely obviously and blatantly great, but difficult to fully break with the genious way that Wizards has (up til now) executed on making the whole Planeswalker card-type inherently powerful, yet also inherently fair.
Tinkerbelle, on the other hand, should have destroyed Standard right out of the gates. Her story is really a hell of a lot more like old scary cards that we look back and think 'Wizards did WHAT?!' and then we read Tournament Reports from the Era and think 'wait, it took them HOW LONG to stop calling that card crap?' Just shows that for a while there definitely was a completely valid complain of power-creep in the game, from Faeries to Jund to Valakut and that Stoneforge was, at first, 'leveling the playing field.' It almost pains to me to even think that sentence,... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(8/5/2011 1:24:52 PM)
WOTC likes printing awesome rare 2-drop creatures.
Stoneforge Mystic
Snapcaster Mage
Dark Confidant
Tarmogoyf
I guess Red doesn't get any great 2-drops. Only 1-drops.
Posted By:
bfellow
(10/28/2011 11:58:37 AM)
@bfellow: Goblin Piledriver
Posted By:
Superllama12
(5/16/2012 7:43:02 PM)