Where artifact creatures are concerned, this is identical to Soul Foundry. Epic.
Technically, Lotus Bloom has an unpayable mana cost, which {0} by default.
So, you could imprint this on the portal, tap the portal for no mana, and get a token Lotus Bloom that turn. Then you could Voltaic Key it, and then use Tezzeret the Seeker's first ability to untap them both, and crank out 2 more bloom tokens. Geez, now you just need to find something to spend the 12 mana on something that blue artifacts can't already get out by turn 5.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(12/3/2010 11:42:46 PM)
I use this with Myr Galvanizer.
I win.
Posted By:
darkrai88
(11/5/2010 10:45:15 PM)
Oh god.... this is horrible... Broken horrible. 5/5
Posted By:
VoidedNote
(1/27/2011 6:55:25 PM)
So many awesome ways to use this. I plan on trying to make a combo with Throne of Geth and either Ichor Wellspring or Arcbound Worker. The former would let you draw two and proliferate every turn for {2}, the latter would give an artifact creature a +1/+1 counter and proliferate every turn for {1}.
Also, Sculpting Steel would be awesome. You could pump one out every turn starting on turn 4. If you pull that off, your opponent probably won't be playing their Blightsteel Colossus.
@tcollins
706.2 says a token copy has all the same characteristics of the card it's copying, including converted mana cost.
Posted By:
SwordOfKaldra
(2/24/2011 11:56:06 PM)
Pump out voltaic keys with it then the turn after (or if you find an infinite mana generation source, the same turn) pump a bunch of counters into Grindclock. Likely to win. You will just need to use it in a deck with Memoricide to get rid of those pesky Eldrazi.
Posted By:
Johnald
(9/24/2010 4:43:09 PM)
AT Johnald:
No need for Memoricide. Just play 4 Leyline of the Void...
Posted By:
MagicNovice
(10/2/2010 5:13:39 AM)
If there's going to be a real deck featuring the portal, it will be imprinting cards with cmc of 0 or 1. Pipe dreams of replicating mind slaver or other astronomically high costed cards are just doomed to fail, miserably.
Posted By:
Zenzei
(10/6/2010 9:44:01 AM)
Now where did I leave those keys...
Posted By:
Stray_Dog
(10/11/2010 7:37:24 AM)
@Luke_BPC - That is just straight-up the superior combo. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just to make sure, Lotus Bloom has no CVC, so does that prevent you from tapping X and putting out a card with X as the CVC?
i.e. Does a card need a CVC for Portal's second ability to work on said card?
Any help is much appreciated, particularly if it helps me replicate Lotus Power.
Posted By:
Thaumanaut
(11/2/2010 5:21:28 PM)
Vault of wispers
Posted By:
Balatr0
(2/11/2011 11:30:27 PM)