I definitely prefer the picture in the mirrodin version of this card. In any case this is one of my favorite artifacts ever.
Guest57443454
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This card can cause quite a few shenanigans if you can +1/+1 counters on it...
liir007
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Danger! Will Robinson, Danger!
WeAreTheFury
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(12 votes)
what? that illustration is awesome, it totally stands out from the generic crap on most of the newer cards old cards like this had real art on them not some cliche mainstream computer-generated rubbish that looks like the cover of a really bad fantasy novel
littlebeast
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Happy robot triskelion is hilarious, especially if you put a happy-robot one right next to a mirrodin one.
mkniffen
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I just saw this version of the card for the first time, and I'm buying one just because the art is so *** awesome
Tackle74
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Add Goblin Welder mix and repeat, even better with 2.
mangadan
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
@littlebeast: well said. a wide variety of quirky styles, from anson maddocks to phil and kaja foglio, made so many of the early cards memorable. unfortunately, as well as having to believe that planewalkers can be summoned for mana, wizards also no longer trusts us to appreciate anything that requires a bit of imagination.
Test-Subject_217601
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
There's a typo in the oracle's flavor text. It says "ans" it should be "and"
hid@n
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
CLASSIC
Yozuk
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
this card is great! And this art is just cute. I think I'll get one with this art.
HuntedWumpusMustDie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Holy cow! easy on the grotesque imagery wotc, children play this game you know...
scumbling1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The flavor text writer for the older printings of Trike should get an award for his efforts. What's the definition of versatile? So the flavor text essentially reads: "The brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion later proved both to have or be capable of many uses and be useful."
What a versatile use of the English language!
WilloftheLisp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All's well that ends well.
Tanaka348
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like discarding +1/+1 counters.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It lives up to the flavor text - it is versatile and packs some punch. Funny if you can do something of interest with the counters (add more, move them around, etc.)
whiteshadw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@scumbling1
Versatile means has many uses, however useful does not share that meaning. In this case useful means 'capable of being put to use; especially : serviceable for an end or purpose'. The phrase in the flavour text claims that the treskelion's uses were both many and beneficial, and leaving out either adjective would give the phrase a different de***ive character.
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy was so cute, I didn't mind losing to him. The person who was dating me at the time, also a Magic junkie, exploited that fact ruthlessly.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm not sure which is funnier. The horrendous art, or the fact that there's a typo in the oracle flavor text.
I love this card. Nowadays there's a ton of ways to break it too.
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Triskelion is still a great card today. When it attacks, it can deal up to seven damage in one turn. Or it can take out up to three creatures the turn it enters the battlefield. Not to mention it likes any flicker combos, or anything that adds more +1/+1 counters. I like the old much a lot.
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Anyone who doesn't think Triskelion is cool should get a punch in the face" to quote an old email MaRo received.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is another one of those cards that lost significant power in the M10 rules change for damage, since you can no longer pop the counters off when it's about to die to combat damage and can't pop all the counters off a heavily damaged Triskelion at all. It's still a cool card, though, since colorless artifact damage is useful to a wide variety of decks.
Lazrbeams
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Goes great with venser, the sojourner, which is weird, you wouldn't expect the daleks to have so much synergy with the doctor.
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old cards like this had real art on them not some cliche mainstream computer-generated rubbish that looks like the cover of a really bad fantasy novel
What a versatile use of the English language!
Versatile means has many uses, however useful does not share that meaning. In this case useful means 'capable of being put to use; especially : serviceable for an end or purpose'. The phrase in the flavour text claims that the treskelion's uses were both many and beneficial, and leaving out either adjective would give the phrase a different de***ive character.
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!