Is it ridiculously effective at cheating things into play? Yes.
Should R&D have reconsidered this card? Yes.
Is it still a very fun and flavorful card? Oh hells yes.
Posted By:
DoragonShinzui
(5/14/2012 6:38:31 AM)
@Watery Mind: this IS a balanced Tinker-
1) Tinker shared the environment with Sol Ring. YEAH.
2) Mox Opal is no Sol Ring.
3) It requires you to 'sacrifice Metalcraft' rather than just one artifact, and it costs 5 mana instead of 3. This may not seem like much to you, when it is easy to find cards that reduce how relevant those numbers are, but it does mean that the card must be proactively built around, rather than 'just thrown in' to add a significant amount of power. This is the defining factor separating well-designed combo cards from cards that need to be banned. Imagine if every deck that played artifacts just automatically used this just because it was flat out that 'Top-Tier' good.
4) Scars of Mirrodin had a heavy Metalcraft theme, which has negative synergy with this card's effect. Tinker did not really have any kind of negative synergy with Urza's Saga mechanics, so the cards that go well together with T... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(12/9/2011 11:29:10 AM)
if you use some turbines this isn't that bad.
Posted By:
cvvc
(3/25/2012 12:04:07 AM)
Combo-licious.
Posted By:
StoicChampion
(9/23/2010 5:36:28 PM)
A fixed creature Tinker. I like it.
Posted By:
Paolino
(1/19/2012 5:14:33 AM)
Imagine if this was printed in the original mirrodin, rather than scars.
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Posted By:
TheKazu
(5/11/2013 12:51:25 PM)
can you sac Kuldotha to itself and still have it's ability resolve?
Posted By:
brewers7983
(1/11/2011 9:32:28 AM)
Its like they tried balancing Tinker....
They failed.
Posted By:
WateryMind
(7/16/2011 4:48:17 AM)
Thopter Assembly. Myr Battlesphere. Myr Servitor!
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(8/6/2011 1:14:19 AM)
HELLO Golem Foundry! 4 of those will have more artifacts than you can sac. Well, the foundry + Contagion Engine + A deck of 0,1,2,3 cost Artifacts. I had 35 3/3 Artifact Creatures on the feild at once. Tempered Steel made them all 5/5s. I was fighting an Emperor so he had Just as many 1/1s.
Posted By:
ForgeMaster117
(3/20/2012 6:04:25 AM)