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Not too shabby. No naturalize in scars so I guess this is for limited mostly.

works great with mimic vat

Naturalize on legs. Costs less to activate when it counts and blocks on a semi-large tush. Great in limited, a bit slow for standard. It's good in both, regardless, but naturalize is definitly superior. 4/5

Best of the cycle, always useful, nuff said.

Reminds me of Qasali Pridemage. The Pridemage was cheaper and had Exalted but is more color-intensive. Overall I'd say Pridemage is better but this is still pretty good.

Throwing this on either Mimic Vat or Prototype Portal in limited is just sick. I got this on a portal once in the prerelease.

The advantage of the vat is you can throw the vat down and wait to get this, and the first Naturalize activation can come earlier. (T3 replica, T4 vat/pop off replica, as opposed to T4 portal, T5 crank out replica and sac.) Main advantage of the portal is that you can stock up on them if you don't need to remove something every turn.

If necessary, Nim Deathmantle can also work for this, but is a good deal more awkward than the other ones.

Step 1: Crack a Mimic Vat, Nim Deathmantle or Prototype Portal in limited.
Step 2: Get 1 or 2 Sylvok Replicas.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit.

That probably says more about the other cards than the Sylvok Replica - on its own in limited its a great card, but there are a few rares which actually make it pretty bomby for a common. ^^

At least it's a playable dude. If you're worried about drawing dead cards against a creature only deck, but don't want to have your day ruined by an opponent's Painful Quandary, this is your guy.

For some odd reason, despite being thouroughly pleased with this card, I often wish deep down inside that he were more offensive than defensive ... so as to put your opponent on a clock during an attrition battle... or maybe to trade with moderately sized creatures. I don't know....

It's like they decided to combine Tectonic Edge, Naturalize, and Maritime Guard into one convenient package.

How this cards activated ability interact with a Metal Crafted Etched Champion? Is the activated ability uncolored, because the creature is uncolored, or is it green, because of the green mana required to activate the actual ability?

Take that Sphinx of the Steel Wind!

Strictly better that Elf Replica every time except for when you need to deal 2 damage instead of one...which, I find, is not very frequent

If you're running green in your artifact deck, this guy is worth putting in. Some of the most reliable removal Artifacts have for other artifacts or enchantments when combo'd. A friend of mine runs this with Glissa the Traitor.

Pain in the butt.

An all-around great utility card in Limited. The fact that his ability is so cheap AND doesn't tap to activate makes him pretty much a rock star in his artifact-saturated Limited format. 1/3 isn't too bad in terms of a blocker, either.

As Artscrafter said, putting him in a Vat or Portal is pretty sweet.

@PlankEyeWilly - "How this cards activated ability interact with a Metal Crafted Etched Champion? Is the activated ability uncolored, because the creature is uncolored, or is it green, because of the green mana required to activate the actual ability?"

The source of the ability is this creature, which is colorless regardless of the cost of its ability; therefore, the Champion's protection would not protect it.

Artifact Creature - Shaman... the most interesting part, and the only one.

Using this guy in constructed in my Birthing Pod deck. I love this card so much. Opponents always read it, and criticize my card choice, but it does everything i need in one.

A: Works great with Glissa, the Traitor. Can retrieve him after birthing pod up to 4CMC (Solemn Simulacrum, Restoration Angel, Disciple of Bolas, Huntmaster of the Fells etc) with glissa out, 3G, destroy target artifact creature with no card disadvantage.

B: kills an artifact, but specifically Topor Orb. The topor orb neuters a large portion of my deck and Acidic Slime or Viridian Corrupter both are useless against it. This card is the tutorable answer and with 4 Green Sun's Zenith and 4 Viridian Emissary, podding to 3CMC is not hard at all.

C: 3 toughness is so relevant now. Bonfire of the Damned hardcasts cost 7 to get rid of him and he dodges Pillar of Flame, while also being able to block Snapcaster Mage, Geist of Saint Traft, and the not-yet-undead Strangleroot Geist

D: He kills swords. people bank on the colour protection so that you can't block or remove that creature. with him open, they'll have to think carefully about attacking. putting you in a very favorable position.

I loved using this guy in my Heartless summoning and Glissa, the Traitor deck. Heartless makes this guy a 1 cost 0/2... in other words a blocking naturalize, and with glissa a repeatable one at that. I used this against infect decks (go ahead, use that Inkmoth Nexus). Then of course the glissa/ perilous myr combo was great (also had birthing pod in case i didnt get heartless out, so this guy was to use there).

using said deck, i went up against an artifact deck and an enchantment deck in a FFA. Those decks cried when i got glissa on the field with this guy.

It looks like the Arbiter armor from the Halo series.