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It actually says your artifacts can not be stolen, which definitely helps when someone gets a hand in your trade binder while you're not looking.

Stupid black background, I thought it cost at first and was like WTF >_>

This card really reminds me of the better days of magic, at least in my opinion.

@EpicBroccoli So did I.

Black artifact love? Not to mention a black creature named Guardian Beast, sounds G/W to me. Anyways would probably be a nice followup to phylactery lich.

Shhh...don't tell anyone about this. It's so friggin good and very few people know about it!

I'd say this guy is due for a reprint, or at least a spiritual successor. The flavor is pretty excellent.

@EpicBroccoli: I third that statement.

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As did I.

I'm surprised there wasn't a timeshifted version of this in white or blue.

Man, black gets all the breaks, a 2/4 With a decent ability for the low cost of {B}...

or um, maybe not...

3/5 Stars

I like the flavour of using something like Gigadrowse to put him to sleep and then nicking off with his artifacts.

I'm surprised I never hear about this card. If it was a single mana less, it would be a Vintage classic. As it is, I want to see how well it works with certain kinds of Legacy decks.

Today this would ABSOLUTELY be a Sphinx.

Blue-Black, or Blue-White, that is the question? Because of the Indestructible, probably Blue-White.

Honestly that's quite a shame, because ACTUALLY what's so cool about this card is that in direct defiance of "Traditional Expectations", it's NOT Top Down Flavor, it's a BLACK BEAST. HOW CREATIVE :D

Moreover, the Magic Color Pie Mechanics of today say this is all wrong for a Black card. :P

Once again, Modern Design is just so set in it's ways it's literally outlawed itself from being Creative -_- This card would NOT be okay today FOR the reasons that it's so cool :P The Rules and Traditions are failing us :(


I don't think they'd be above giving us cards close to this at Mythic, for double the mana. I don't mind those kinds of changes, but I think the proposal to make such changes to an Updated form of this would just get Vetoed for the pessimistic reasons I listed first--- it's ''wrong color'' for Black, it 'obviously should be a Sphinx instead of something more Original' <- things like that would kill it long before it has a chance to go to Development for Mana Costing and Rarity :(

Why would they make the background of the symbol darker than the background for the symbol? I really get mad when I see poor graphical design like that.

Goes great with Batterskull and Lightning Greaves in my green black EDH deck.