if i could leave toidi's sense of humor a 0 rating i would. unfortunately i can only rate the comment. 1/2 a star for you sir.
Gaussgoat
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Glaze Fiend is an nice early beat-down card. He gets out of hand quickly, and can do some really unexpected late-game damage with shennanigans from the Master Transmuter.
4/5
enter_the_mill
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ tez cause u can double drop artifacts with it
RafiqTheMiststalker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Cuz Thopter Foundry can shit out infinite artifact tokens. Duh.
Play down both tops for free, tap ability of one puts it on top, tap ability of the other puts it on top and the other in your hand, which you can then play for free, repeat ad infinitum.
@Tezz: i was thinking of having a buncha artifacts out with Glaze Fiend and Thopter Foundry, then wen Glaze Fiend is able to attack safetly and unblock, i can sac all my other artifacts to the foundry and get the +2/+2 bonus
Dynamic_Reversist
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Fun card, not exciting, but useful. I use him in my quad color Mishra deck as a quick finish, flying helps get the 6+ power boost he gets from Mishra's bauble proliferation over the fence.
As for the quandary on his seemingly undeserved 0 power, remember that his creature type is Illusion. It is likely that the creature itself is a mana reflection of the actual glaze, a spectral entity, and that the presence of other artifacts increases his 'mana density', to make up terms and whatnot. Just my two cents on that matter
Artscrafter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Another thing that'll make this really silly is Prototype Portal with Voltaic Key. One artifact drop per turn for and as many more as you want after that for each.
If you put a Steel Overseer out after you've cranked out a bunch of keys then this becomes even more ridiculous.
DacenOctavio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Prototype Portal . . . make 2 of them, have one make a Sol Ring, have one make a Voltaic Key? Let's see. . . {2} to make the tokens, the ring token taps for {2} to activate the key token and untap the first portal to make another ring token. . . and it only gets more insane later on.
Turn one land, sol ring. Turn two land, portal imprinting sol ring. Turn three land, portal imprinting key, crank out a ring, crank out a key, crank out a ring. Turn four land, you have 3 sol rings and 4 land. That's enough to tap for {10} frigging mana. Broodstar? OMG he's so cheap by now. If you played only artifact lands, you have a 10/10 Broodstar. For {2}. What else do you cast!? I suppose you could just have Tezzeret make all your things swing for 50 damage. In fact, just cast any damn cmc 10 creature you damn well please. You can afford Dragon motherfricking Tyrant. Why not cast it!? Oh wait, I forgot I was commenting on Glaze Fiend XD
20 flying damage turn 3. just takes taking the draw and a perfect hand. and perfect draws. had it happen before though. ha
seriously though, good early game if you have bunch of cheap drops like that^
poop in the late game.
Hayw00d0909
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is a surprisingly deadly card! I recently built a casual mono-black artifact deck with these guys, Phylactery Lich, and Precursor Golem for obvious reasons.
EDIT: @ Hayw00d0909 You haven't named a single thing that makes +1/+1 counters.
bansheemane
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Artifact illusion? Sudden Vorthosgasm.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Kind of like a Tendrils of Agony on legs that only counts artifacts? lol You can also play with Myr Battlesphere/Myr Turbine to get like +10/+10.
Arachnos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm not getting the types of this thing? What can be more real and tangible than an artifact? How can an illusion be an artifact?
Great card otherwise.
RunedServitor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Like Vermiculos, but cheaper, more compact, and with the benefit of flying. If worst comes to worst and artifacts fail to materialize, you've only wasted 2 mana, not 5. I like.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why did they have to put the most broken card (arcbound ravager) in the rules text for a filler card?
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
PIston Sledge Bauble.dec might be fun ;) Mix in vault skirge and a few others and you should be in good shape.
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for the rest of the night I was laughing at the fact that my "Glaze Fiend is glazed"
Artifacts always have been the most broken card type.
4/5
Play down both tops for free, tap ability of one puts it on top, tap ability of the other puts it on top and the other in your hand, which you can then play for free, repeat ad infinitum.
@Tezz: i was thinking of having a buncha artifacts out with Glaze Fiend and Thopter Foundry, then wen Glaze Fiend is able to attack safetly and unblock, i can sac all my other artifacts to the foundry and get the +2/+2 bonus
As for the quandary on his seemingly undeserved 0 power, remember that his creature type is Illusion. It is likely that the creature itself is a mana reflection of the actual glaze, a spectral entity, and that the presence of other artifacts increases his 'mana density', to make up terms and whatnot. Just my two cents on that matter
If you put a Steel Overseer out after you've cranked out a bunch of keys then this becomes even more ridiculous.
Let's see. . . {2} to make the tokens, the ring token taps for {2} to activate the key token and untap the first portal to make another ring token. . . and it only gets more insane later on.
Turn one land, sol ring.
Turn two land, portal imprinting sol ring.
Turn three land, portal imprinting key, crank out a ring, crank out a key, crank out a ring.
Turn four land, you have 3 sol rings and 4 land. That's enough to tap for {10} frigging mana. Broodstar? OMG he's so cheap by now. If you played only artifact lands, you have a 10/10 Broodstar. For {2}. What else do you cast!? I suppose you could just have Tezzeret make all your things swing for 50 damage. In fact, just cast any damn cmc 10 creature you damn well please. You can afford Dragon motherfricking Tyrant. Why not cast it!? Oh wait, I forgot I was commenting on Glaze Fiend XD
T2: vault of whispers, glaze fiend
T3: vault of whispers, cranial plating, attach, ornithopter/memnite/welding jar/shield sphere/any 0 drop artifact x5
20 flying damage turn 3. just takes taking the draw and a perfect hand. and perfect draws. had it happen before though. ha
seriously though, good early game if you have bunch of cheap drops like that^
poop in the late game.
He can get out of hand really fast provided you build around him and accelerate your artifact drops. Using Howling Mine to help spit out sets of Everflowing Chalice, Brittle Effigy and Elixir of Immortality. Even threw in a Worldslayer for lols.
Also, Vault of Whispers, Darksteel Citadel and the other artifact lands can REALLY help to get those +1/+1 counters flowing!
EDIT: @ Hayw00d0909 You haven't named a single thing that makes +1/+1 counters.
You can also play with Myr Battlesphere/Myr Turbine to get like +10/+10.
Great card otherwise.