This card plus Etherium Sculptor makes for some of the most insane mana acceleration blue will ever see.
Dark_Raider
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This used to be the engine of my old artifact deck. Combine with things like Etherium Sculptor or Vedalken Archmage for lots of good times :D
htmlfreak
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
seems like a no-brainer for sunburst deck. but then again sunburst....
Naffer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
5/5!!! This fuels my artifact deck along with Mycosynth Lattice and Freed From the Real. Long story short, unlimited mana combo that can be pumped into a Prodigal Sorcerer with another Freed from the Real on it. :-)
Great card but I don't know what he is working at in the art. Looks like a mechanic beetle but I never read about those in the book.
Ideatog
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(10 votes)
Vedalken Engineer IS CREDIT TO TEAM!
NARFNra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
According to Aaron Forsythe on his comment on Suntouched Myr, this was originally gonna give {2} but was changed to boost the sunburst mechanic. I guess that's nice enough, but it does make the card ludicrous in some situations, especially now that we have colored artifacts...
Aun
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Uhm, Isochron Szepter? That would be: Tap: Destroy target nonblack Creature.
Would pay or even more for this if only it were an artifact...
C0nker3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
woa woa... maybe I am missing something, please correct me if im wrong but wouldnt, Training Grounds, Plus a Crab Umbra attached to this guy mean you can tap and get 2 mana? pay one to untap leaving you with 1 man, but then just tap again for 2 more, etc etc as many times as you wanted.....? o.o hellooooooooooo Blightsteel Colossus!
ICEFANG13
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ C0nker3
That doesn't work for a two reasons:
1 Veldalken will only give mana that can be used for Artifacts, Crab Umbra is an Enchantment.
2 Training Grounds only decreases the cost of effects to creatures, Crab Umbra's ability is from the Enchantment, for instance, you can put it on an opponent's or allies' creature, they cannot untap it, but you can.
In the same idea, you can use Training Grounds to decrease the cost of Umbral Mantle because it grants the ability to the creature while it is equipped. That would give you an unlimited/unlimited Veldalken Engineer, if he was an artifact (since he has to be an artifact to use the mana for his ability that has been granted to him). You could also use Voltaic Construct in an infinite mana way, as well as Jandor's Saddlebags if it was a creature and an artifact.
If you see this in edh and don't kill it you will lose.
zzxyyzx
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ideatog
Hey look buddy, I'm a Vedalken Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like, what is beauty, because that would fall under the purviews of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve mana ramp problems.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Works in an artifact deck, but its going into my RG Ramp deck, cause who needs synergy?
seriously though, this thing is awesomesauce in almost any artifact build
4/5 Stars
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This + Pemmin's aura and Memnarch
That doesn't work for a two reasons:
1 Veldalken will only give mana that can be used for Artifacts, Crab Umbra is an Enchantment.
2 Training Grounds only decreases the cost of effects to creatures, Crab Umbra's ability is from the Enchantment, for instance, you can put it on an opponent's or allies' creature, they cannot untap it, but you can.
In the same idea, you can use Training Grounds to decrease the cost of Umbral Mantle because it grants the ability to the creature while it is equipped. That would give you an unlimited/unlimited Veldalken Engineer, if he was an artifact (since he has to be an artifact to use the mana for his ability that has been granted to him). You could also use Voltaic Construct in an infinite mana way, as well as Jandor's Saddlebags if it was a creature and an artifact.
Hey look buddy, I'm a Vedalken Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like, what is beauty, because that would fall under the purviews of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve mana ramp problems.
seriously though, this thing is awesomesauce in almost any artifact build
4/5 Stars