Gorgeous artwork. Fun card mechanics.
Nine thumbs up.
Posted By:
car2n
(2/4/2014 8:07:32 AM)
Arcum Dagsson: Sydri, my dear, I hope you don't mind but I traded in your old, animated Heavy Mattock for a Darksteel Forge! Happy birthday!
Posted By:
NorseDT
(10/30/2013 11:35:07 PM)
They should have not allowed this to animate opposing artifacts. As is, it kind of craps on Karn. It's not strictly better, but for EDH, I think this will most likely be better as the commander.
Posted By:
SAUS3
(10/31/2013 11:28:44 AM)
1.put training grounds on the field.
2.animate your basalt monolith.
You now have a 3/3 vigilant giant stone pillar generating infinite colorless mana.
3.In comes mycosynth lattice, marath, doubling season, whatever else (somehow).
Proceed to terminate your opponents by bashing them with your giant stick, slowly tapping and untapping them to death (well, marath burns them, but picture the pillar doing the job).
Posted By:
Unholy_Blue_Mage
(11/2/2013 10:09:17 AM)
This does not invalidate Karn, Silver Golem as a commander, because Karn still provides the interesting deck conundrum of building a deck with only nonbasic lands that produce colorless mana (at least until WotC design's Barry's Land). And since such a colorless deck asks for almost all artifacts, I would rather push a theme under Karn than have just a random goodstuff deck with an Eldrazi legend. Sydri doesn't provide that interesting aspect.
At first I didn't like this card, because Sharuum the Hegemon already existed and is quite popular. Although if I were to create an Esper artifact deck, it wouldn't be a combo deck, so Sydri probably provides a good alternative that might tell your opponents that you aren't about to combo them out. At least until a bunch of players build combo decks with her and ruin her reputation too.
Posted By:
sarroth
(11/6/2013 5:24:44 AM)
A lot of people are just saying combos with non-creature artifacts, but she works just fine with artifact creatures
For Example
Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Volatile Rig = 50% chance of a board wipe while gaining 4 life for each other player and each creature on the battlefield.
Posted By:
IamjustnotCreative
(11/7/2013 5:54:50 PM)
My opinions of the 2013 Commanders were informed only by theory, not practice, until as of a couple hours ago.
Sydri and Oloro in my opinion are interchangeable in the Esper Artifact deck. That deck mainly wants one thing to happen and one thing only:
For Life points to be gained to trigger Stuff happening. This my opponent was able to do just fine, and Cradle of Vitality is one of the most dangerous cards in the deck when it goes up against any deck that tries to be just as/or more Tricky & Political than just Outright Violent.
I don't think Prossh or the Shatterbang Goblins would have had any of the problems my Nekusar Deck had against Sydri, but despite being in the most Control and Creature-less Friendly color combinations, this deck can probably play one of the most Badass Threats in any of the 5 Precons if you don't edit them:
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Posted By:
DarthParallax
(11/8/2013 6:33:42 PM)
Finally a way to get rid of Darksteel Citadel. Well, one you don't control, of course. :3
Posted By:
FaltonOV
(11/11/2013 8:11:37 PM)
Second ability is okay but not many people will use her for it. Think:
t3 Sydri
t4 Voltaic Construct
t5 Grim Monolith/Basalt Monolith/Thran Dynamo/Gilded Lotus turn them into a creature, get infinite mana, kill everyone with Razor Boomerang.
She also happens to have pretty much every card that can search for an artifact in her colors (Demonic Tutors in black, Fabricates and Tinkers in blue, transmuters in both of them, Enlightened Tutor in white...)
Posted By:
EvilDarkVoid
(11/24/2013 8:01:40 AM)