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Power Artifact

Multiverse ID: 1043

Power Artifact

Comments (14)

papajew
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
This card always makes me happy. Try it on a Staff of Domination for some real fun.
Guest57443454
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This card has its uses, the Staff of Domination sounds like fun with this card...The Obelisk of Alara gets slightly better as well...
Jenss
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
This card is ridiculously broken ;D
Perikles
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (7 votes)
Personally, I like this on my Mirari, so that when I Twincast my Lightning Bolt, I end up with 12 points of damage, out of 5 mana, with Mirari copying BOTH spells.

Goes amazingly on any non-tapping artifact with 3 or more activation costs, though.
SIlverSkyz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
Feel free to call me stupid if I'm wrong, but isn't Mirari's ability a triggered one and not an activated one?
Lateralis0ne
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
I do believe SliverSkyz knows what he's talking about. Everything I've seen points toward Mirari having a triggered ability, not an activated one. Perikies' trick doesn't work.
Zaneshift
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Staff of Domination makes it impossible to die from damage, since you're got yourself free untap of the staff and a tap ability for life. Add a second one, and your creatures never tap and your foe's never untap. Add a third, and you can simply play your deck. Not like you'd need more than one on the staff, but it's seriously ridiculous. Toss in a creature with a tap for mana ability... you see where this is going. Also fun, equipment shuffles (like shuffling around a pinging artifact to a bunch of weenies, or any number of tap ability equipments). Lots of interesting ideas you could use, so it deserves a 4.
Faildini
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
@Zaneshift: Your idea doesn't quite work, since this card states specifically that it can't lower activation costs to less than 1. It does go very well Staff of Domination, but you don't quite get infinite life.
Pontiac
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Place on Masticore to switch from Semi to Fully Automatic.
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
What is particularly odd about this card was that it could generate infinite combos from the beginning with stuff like Mana Vault and Basalt Monolith. I know playtesting was very hit or miss back then, but still, one would have thought they would have noticed that. As more artifacts were printed, this card became increasingly stupid-good.
Mike-C
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Time to get this one reprinted wizards. My advice, as is, this should cost 5 mana.. So either raise it 1 (U) and 1 (C) OR.. take 1 island away from the casting cost and give 1 less colorless mana as a reward point and make it a legendary global enchantment that can target 1 artifact/turn and rare. Yep yep, think we've got a winner there boys..
Travelsonic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Mikey-C

I like the idea of them reprinting it, though the much higher CMC ColorlessColorless, and the proposed limitation Variable Colorless just seems to kill why people like the card so much, but that is just my opinion.