This card makes me so giddy. Using it with Heavy Arbalest or Splinter Twin seems like a fantastic idea.
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(8 votes)
Heavy Arbalest plus this is no good combo. Why? This is a crappy card. Heavy Arbalest is a crappy card. And if you a bunch of crappy cards on a pile, or build your deck out of crappy cards, it won't suddenly turn awesome.
If your opponent either destroys this or the arbalest, you don't even have a combo left, only crap. Nah thanks, I'll pass. 1/5
Gavrilo
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Well, arbalest combo is ok in draft, unless it's your only win condition.
Otherwise, Horseshoe Crab is better
exterion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Granted, there are better creatures that untap themselves, like Horseshoe Crab and there probably are more powerful enchantments/equipment than Heavy Arbalest that require tapping. However, if one were to build a deck around cards like that, more possible combo pieces wouldn't make it worse even if it meant including a few of the less optimal versions.
SorianSadaskan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Previously I praised this card and Heavy Arbalest.
I take it back.
This plan is just too vulnerable to be extinguished consider so many techs out there that can screw up your intentions.
Ogrillion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It has an extra appendage! I'm putting it in my Ekundu Cyclops / Earthbind "adults only" deck.
willpell
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I build mostly Block decks, and this card is one of the most important non-rares in Scars of Mirrodin, in sharp contrast to the utterly useless red representative of its cycle (Saberclaw Golem). I'm constantly tempted to add blue and black to decks of a third color so that I can run the combo of Soliton and Necrotic Ooze with any other activated ability, enabling that ability to be repeated for one mana ad infinitum. The insta-win with Bloom Tender and any blue permanent is only one of the possibilities. I'm very sad that so few cards are this relevant.
SeiberTross
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a combo with this, Necrotic Ooze & Myr Propagator in mind already...just gotta be able to discard myself.
homicidalgecko
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with Grand Architect to convert one blue mana to two colorless. Costs one additional blue initially to make Soliton blue.
my diagnosis of this cards art... well they took the arms of a covenant elite, the head from one of those robots in ironman 2, and that decided to give it a giant...
Henrietta
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't know why you would play this in a constructed deck, but this card's interaction with Heavy Arbalest is very relevant in limited, as they are both from the same set and neither are rare. It has become less relevant with the release of each subsequent set in SOM block, as you have a smaller chance of picking it up, but it's still a very powerful combo in limited formats.
MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
love the gemini engine reference, mirrodin is tha best world ever
Now to complete the cycle we need to have Stangg: The Forever Alone Version."
EKraj
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just use Experiment Kraj. I do, I made a 17/17 Soliton in one game. I do love this card. With a big mana base (or at least Somberwald Sage) you can't go wrong.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Five mana is a little tough. This is good for "tap target artifact" costs, pinging enchantments/equipments (as mentioned) and I'm sure could be used as tech for some other nifty things.
It's basically a 3/4 with conditional vigilance, which isn't terrible being devoid of color-weight. 3/5 after combo-potential.
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Costs are a little wonky but it could work.
This is a crappy card. Heavy Arbalest is a crappy card. And if you a bunch of crappy cards on a pile, or build your deck out of crappy cards, it won't suddenly turn awesome.
If your opponent either destroys this or the arbalest, you don't even have a combo left, only crap. Nah thanks, I'll pass. 1/5
Otherwise, Horseshoe Crab is better
I take it back.
This plan is just too vulnerable to be extinguished consider so many techs out there that can screw up your intentions.
well they took the arms of a covenant elite, the head from one of those robots in ironman 2, and that decided to give it a giant...
Step 2: Play Experiment Kraj.
Step 3: Put a +1/+1 counter on Soliton.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit.
(Someone please explain this meme to me!)
Underpants gnomes, mate. Underpants gnomes.
I do, I made a 17/17 Soliton in one game. I do love this card. With a big mana base (or at least Somberwald Sage) you can't go wrong.
It's basically a 3/4 with conditional vigilance, which isn't terrible being devoid of color-weight. 3/5 after combo-potential.