Turn your Planeswalker into a T-1000! "Have you seen this boy?"
Gomorrah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
PROTIP- Run this with Shatter in sealed and you have the best removal in the entire room.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(15 votes)
Mr.Freeze, T-1000. HaHa Their Both Arnold Nice
LimePeel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Hmmm....
I may have finally found a card to replace the soon-to-be-gone Pithing Needle. Good-bye Planewalkers. Good-bye other annoying permanents. Now I just need to find room in my sideboard for this new great card.
5.0/5
Thorn_Shade
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is hands down the best card in the set, anyone who didn't rate it 5 should not be playing magic. I'm surprised no one mentioned Revoke Existance yet.
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Liquimetal Coating + Manic Vandals. Turn 3 vindicate on a 2/2 body. Thanks to it being an ETB on a 3 CMC creature it can be recurred by Sun Titan if it goes to the graveyard, or constantly abused if imprinted on a Mimic Vat. If you have the Vat out it can even deter attacks completely for fear of it being imprinted.
Revoke Existance is a good idea; it's just a pity it's sorcery speed. Still, it combos with just so much. Heck, even in limited you could just use it with some good metalcraft cards to make activation a lot easier.
Rebus88
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This plus phylactery lich... make itself indestructible!?
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Splinter and Echoing Ruin become pretty awesome basic land hosers with this tool.
I pulled this in a draft yesterday. I was already running red/white artifact hate and when I saw this I was like "holy #@%$@#"
I had 3 shatter and 2 revoke existence in that draft deck. My best play of that tournament was on my turn Revoke Existance my opponent's Darksteel Juggernaut and then during my opponents turn, after he swung, I used Liquimetal Coating to turn his Alpha Tyrranax into an artifact and then Shattered it into a million billion tiny little pieces.
It was very satisfying.
Oh, and don't any of you dare forget just how utterly awesome this card is with Hoard-Smelter Dragon!!!
This with a splinter-twinned Tuktuk Scrapper and a voltaic key can pretty much nuke your opponents board. And ping him to death. Go allies! (even though they suck, they're fun)
dragononewing
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There are so many spells in this set (particularily red) that combo really well with this card.
Dynamic_Reversist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is the spoonful of sugar that helps my Hoard-Smelter Dragon's medicine go down! Honestly, this is such a Johnny card! I had a Mirrodin-era artifact conversion/control deck lying around that just got hit with a Zombify. Also, not amazingly powerful, but so much fun: this card also makes Tanglewalker's gold-digging heart race!
Entropic_Acolyte
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
HAHAHA! Those fools!
With this, and a Toymaker, Mono-black can now KILL enchantments and artifacts by turning them into creatures!
Of course, there are many other cards that could simply allow you to destroy such permanents, but that isn't as satisfying as KILLING an enchantment, is it?
...is it?
EDIT: Can you technically turn a Planeswalker into a creature this way? If so, then I am even happier! (Again, better ways to accomplish this, but still...)
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand... claw... talon...
willpell
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
As a part-time Johnny, full-time Vorthos and almost-never Spike, my definition of a card's usefulness is based not around the power of its stats or its efficiency in getting card advantage, but rather on its abiility to contribute to some sort of plan or purpose. Therefore, while I can't claim this is the most powerful card in the set (by itself it does nothing, and a deck designed to use it with a bunch of Naturalizes has a bunch of dead cards if it fails to draw a copy - you'll notice that despite its low potency, it cannot be fetched with Trinket Mage and that was almost certainly deliberate), it is almost unuqestionably one of the most useful. As I work on my project of building 36 decks using cards from only this set, trying to make them as different as possible, this card pops up again and again. It can do little tiny tricks like getting you faster metalcraft or sacking a basic land to Ferrovore, or it can make immense plays like the nightmarish Splinter combo another commenter mentioned, which I desperately hope I never have to face. Definitely one of the set's biggest MVPs in terms of the number of possible deck plans that it can contribute to.
thew00tninja
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(12 votes)
T1: Swamp, ??? (Piece of equipment maybe? Trusty Machete?)
T2: Swamp, Liquimetal Coating
T3: Swamp, Target Swamp with Liquimetal Coating, Phylactery Lich targeting the now artifact land.
T4: Equip and swing. Congradulations! You are now the proud owner of a 7/6 Indescructable beater that won't die to anything like Shatter or Revoke Existence. Enjoy.
DarkerNectron
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(16 votes)
Finally, Red knows how to kill enchantments: by dipping them in liquid-metal.
Frostraven
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(7 votes)
No. No, no no.
A card that turns naturalize into vindicate and revoke existance into a 100$ removal card unseen to this date (remove target permanent from the game, at 2cmc)? A card that turns Manic Vandals into Angel of Despair? ... *HOW* exactly do you turn an enchantment into an artifact?
I rate this card a 10/5 for power, but -8 for lack of flavor and asshattery:
2/5 total total.
Edit: But when will we see artifact enchantments? Obviously, they can exist, so... where are they?
Not to mention artifact planeswalkers.
Perhaps it's a planeswalker on the card, desperately clinging on to his life after being coated in liquid death, awaiting to be utterly annihilated by a cantrip?
Silverware
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
A playset of these and some shattering sprees would be a lot of fun.
SweetZombiJesus
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@MasterOfEtherium: The T-1000 was played by Robert Patrick.
Entropic_Acolyte. You can turn Planewalkers into artifacts using the Liquimetal coating, and then using a Shatter or even a Manic vandal. You can real annoy people with this card, i have a mono red deck, but B/R could work.
roguepariah
Thrown in a few Mimic Vat's and you are well on you way. When one of the Manic Vandals or Oxidda Scrapmelters dies, just Vat is and really annoy people. LMAO
Stray_Dog
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
"Oh my God, it even has a watermark."
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
According to MaRo, design made a big mistake with this card. To be specific, it should only have targeted creatures.
PhyrexianAdvocate
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@ Mode: Unfortunately, Echoing Ruin doesn't work as a basic land hoser with Liquimetal Coating. Since Ruin says "Destroy target artifact and all other artifacts with the same name as target artifact." Unless you find a way to turn all of the basic lands you're trying to destroy into artifacts, Ruin will blow up one then scan the board for other artifacts named "Swamp" or whatever, find none, and resolve.
However, putting Revoke Existence or even just a Shatter on Isochron Scepter with a coating or two on the field (or imprinted on Prototype Portal) gives you a nightmarish version of Vindicate every turn until they deal with the scepter. Which will be difficult when you're exiling a land every turn.
In the sense that "broken" is a card that requires you to play it, or else you're hopelessly outmatched by everyone else who's playing it, the Coating/Shatter/Revoke combo isn't broken. It's definitely busted, in that it's exceedingly good for the cost and probably shouldn't have been allowed to exist; but I don't see it dominating the game which broken cards should do. Not accounting for some enterprising Johnny out there who will find a way to break it in half.
Enchantment_Removal
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(13 votes)
YES!
"Target permanent becomes a combo."
or
"Destroy target permanent."
Too bad I can only run four of this card.......
count_dorku
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
Today's question:
How in the name of Urza does it turn enchantments into metal?
All you have to do is turn anything you want to get rid of on your opponents side into an artifact with this, then destroy that artifact. A very aggressive, deny land and mass removal card if used correctly.
eTHERIUMoFmASTER
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(14 votes)
tHIS iS sOOOOOO oP. iT iS bOARDER-lINE bROKEN iN tHE rIGHT dECK. tHERE sHOULD hAVE bEEN a lIMITER lIKE "dOESN'T uNTAP nEXT uNTAP sTEP."
Rollcaster
★★★★☆ (5.0/5.0)(28 votes)
When life gives you lemons turn them into artifacts.
Feralsymphony
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hey look! An extremely broken artifact! We ARE on Mirrodin! And if you want more then 4, look no further then its broken friends: Prototype Portal and Mirrorworks! And if that's not enough we have Shattering Spree or Shatterstorm and now (in the same block even) Creeping Corrosion! I'm making a {U}{R}{G} deck based around this.
Corey_bayoudragonfly
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Mode: only Splinter becomes an awesome basic-land hoser: Echoing Ruin only destroys artifacts that share a name with target artifact, so it is an awesome hoser.. of one land (or up to four if you're running four of this bad boy)
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Well, looks like the opponent's running Go for the Throat. Shields up!
Artscrafter
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
@jerkoid: Simplest way to break Horseshoe Crab and Grand Architect is with Mycosynth Lattice. Gets around the pesky need for it to be blue mana to untap. Then you don't even need the coating.
Another approach to get a similar effect (with fewer cards) is to enchant Vedalken Engineer with Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura, then turn the aura into an artifact. But there are even easier ways to turn one of those auras into infinite mana, such as with Bloom Tender.
@Chamale: Better than that, March of the Machines actually turns this into ": Destroy target land or target Aura."
@ugotpauld: Magnetic Mine will trigger if you destroy something that's temporarily an artifact. Triggers that look at objects on the battlefield care about the current properties of those objects, regardless of whether they are represented by cards that inherently give them those properties. This includes when something moves from the battlefield to another zone, at which point the "last known information" rule kicks in. This wouldn't work if the trigger said "whenever an artifact card is put into a graveyard" since that sort of trigger would care about what the card's properties are.
StampedingRhino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like this card, I wish they would print a twin. Would love to have 8 of these in a deck. very creative card. Wish it could mark all cards like painter's servant with artifact type, now that would be funny.
Barring the printing of liquimetal coating's twin (for a set of 8) I wish there were an artifact that could fetch other artifacts for under 4 mana, but that would probably be a game-wrecking card for many formats so nvm... just print us a liquimetal coating twin and it will be good.
Enemy_Tricolor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I so, so want to blow up a Jace the Wallet Molester with a Tuktuk Scrapper.
Werny
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I want to use this with Bazaar Trader and Metallic Mastery, but no. This card should be a mythic, not because of its power but because of how rare it actually is. Me and my housemate, between us, have opened up ONE.
Aburaishi
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
I am going to coat this entire mountain in metal. Then, I am going to have Barrage Ogre throw it at you.
I don't care about specifics, that should be a game-ender right there.
Lyoncet
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
And suddenly, with one mistake from design, Red had enchantment removal, Greed and White had land destruction, Blue laughed maniacally, and Black… Black just sat there and twiddled its thumbs I guess.
And the Planeswalkers trembled.
ramaset
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love the idea of this card- makes spot removal in standard SOOO much easier and versatile.
What's that? Jace the Mindsculptor? Why yes, I will destroy him with a 1 mana Crush, thank you very much! lol
Aren't I glad they screwed up like that and put "permanent" instead of "creature"?
Blackwatch_00
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This and an artifact removal spell (like revoke existance) will have your opponents singing "Baby come back"...lol
Polkovnik_Skyfox
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Very reminiscent of the old artifacts with end of turn boosts instead of equip costs.
SeiberTross
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(13 votes)
Viashino Heretic = {1}{R}, {T} Your permanents are on fire March of the Machines = {T} Your lands are suddenly disappering Splinter = {T} A great way to ensure you'll never play magic with that person again.
I've found LC most useful as a support card/subtheme. Like you can add a liquimetal to a red Eldrazi deck and add in things like Manic Vandal, and go with Lightning Bolt AND Galvanic Blast for fun.
this card is a beast oh you just play a land or dropped a creature. Bam well my turn its now an artifact and I play Solemn Offering and destroy it and gain four life.
NeedADispenserHere
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Rollcaster
Then use them to burn Life's house down
Gabriel422
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I never made a deck with this card. It's almost as if there's something aesthetically wrong with this card. Being the Johnny-Spike I am, upon reading MaRo's comment about this being a bad design (should've been target creature instead of target permanent), I thought to myself well at least it has more applications this way. But turns out this card somehow displeases me, and the pile of artifact destruction never came close to forming a deck.
Turn your creature into artifact + Manic Vandal = a nice trick.
Turn your land into artifact + Manic Vandal + Manic Vandal/Naturalize turn after turn til you're mana screwed feel outright cheap.
Not that it's overly powerful (too dependent on a single card), but I gotta agree with MaRo that it feels all sorts of wrong.
ugotpauld
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
If building a deck around this card, the best search card seems to be ancient stirrings as, best case scenario it gets you this for 1 mana, worst case, it gets you 5 cards closer and puts a land in your hand for 1 mana.
it is also green, which leads you to a bunch of good artifact removal, and nature's spiral to protect your liquimetal coatings and to get back creatures that destroy artifacts.
deck plan,
4 liquimetal coatins
4 ancient stirrings
an amount of veridian revels
2 natures spiral
24 lands of your choice
oh, and i think magnetic mine should kill people, but i do not know if they are artifacts when they enter the graveyard
jfre81
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
With all the artifact elimination in Standard, this thing is almost too good for being an uncommon. Oh, is that you Jace? Let's see, do I just hit this and Naturalize or Shatter? How about a trip to the x-zone with Into The Core? Yeah, that sounds good too. Or I could just feed you to my Hoard-Smelter Dragon instead. Anyway, nice knowing you, sculptor of minds. Your $70 planeswalker fell to a 70-cent combo. Power to the people.
scarecrowk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Heh heh heh... This is the main card in my monored land burn deck. The only decks that have given it any problem are elf/vengevine decks. I have a decent balance of damage and a lot of destruction designed to halt any but the most stubborn manaramp. And then I just pick up the table scraps with either a Splinter Twin'd Vandal or Scrapmelter, or the hungry hungry dragon. And if I'm feeling mean, there are always the metallic masterys for some control on the side. "Oh, when'd your Jace get 12 counters?! Oh well, I guess I better borrow him for a moment."
Well, unless they have out something to make their toughness bigger than 0, like Glorious Anthem (they get +1/+1), Godhead of Awe (they become a 1/1), Tempered Steel (since they are now an artifact they get +2/+2), or Earth Surge (since they are still a land they get +2/+2), etc.
Nucleon
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I disagree with the idea from MaRo that this card was a mistake. Artifacts always are the first to break new ground in Magic, because establishing new concepts for the game is easier when any color deck can use the concept. Also, artifacts don't have a place on the color pie, so making artifacts have weird abilities makes sense when debuting the ability.
Take Mindslaver. Sorin Markov has that ability as his ultimate, which seems to indicate that "control turn" effects are black. Put yourself in the shoes of design, however. Blue is ALL about control, and cards that control creatures or permanents always show up in blue. Why make mind control of players a different color than mind control of creatures? Black is just nastier than blue, that's why. Blue plays nice and takes away the tools you want to use. Black takes away the ability to decide how you want those tools to be used in the first place. It's an opressive, cruel, dominating ability.
However, if you want to avoid the question entirely, make the new ability part of an Artifact. Suddenly, blue or black can use it!
Back to the original point, Liquimetal Coating brings something new to the table. Directly adding or subtracting types of a card? Unusual, but it's been done before. Making it so simple, and accessible to everyone? Not so much. By giving colors new options, such as red enchantment removal, the card breaks new ground. However, that's what artifacts should do in the first place.
NoFace22
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
does a creature that becomes an artifact with this card stay an artifact if it leaves play?
Lobster-Overlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No, it would not remain an artifact. The "until end of turn" effect rides with the effect even if the originating card has left. Thus, the target will still see that it is only an artifact until end of turn. The effect resolved, thus it completes as normal.
This is my new favorite card. This turn 2, Memnarch turn 4, stole a creature and stole Garuk turn 5 (opponent didn't see "permanent" on it, and thought creatures only...)
reddaemon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is awesome. Use with Karn, Silver Golem to create the effect 1: Destroy target land or aura. (Auras that become creatures are placed into the graveyard as a state based action.)
4.5/5!
Valyant
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
4 Liquimetal Coatings, 4 Tezeeret, Agent of Bolas, and as any artifact breakers and creature destroyers you can get in there.
Attract
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Wow, no one has mentioned Gorilla Shaman? It kills lands for 1!
Tempted_Johnny
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Combos with... a few hundred cards, probably. But is just an enabler! Now, I love combos as much as the next guy, but each piece of a good combo should do something useful on its own to deserve merit. This card just falls short. Great flavor, very cool effects, but that doesn't mean it's a good card.
nope.avi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
making a memnarch edh deck can't believe i forgot to put this car din
Binaro
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Great card to have in a mana-screwing deck. Turn 2, this, turn 3, turn an opponent's land into an artifact and Manic Vandal it, and they'd be down to 1 or 2 lands.
Willieskyeyes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why is everyone saying vandal? thats a terrible card. go with Master Thief or Gorilla Shaman or Trygon Predator or Artifact Mutation or Shatter Spree or Copy Artifact or Splinter or...... the list continues but my fingers do not. anywho, I love this card and u need to play it right. Complement it with the above and its great little friends like Myr Landshaper and Neurok Transmuter so you're not relying on getting liquimetal. I like the thought of ancient stirrings. I'd never thought of that. thats a wonderful search for this type of deck and im probably going to add them to mine soon. thanks ugotpauld. now i won't be frustrated when i randomly can't seem to get one
DarthParallax
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Experiment Kraj. March of the Machines. Doubling Season. Sorin, Lord of Innistrad. (In no particular order, except Sorin and Kraj have to be second to last and last, or they'll see it coming and stop you if they can)
Step 1: Sorin enters the battlefield with 6 Loyalty. Step 2: ,: Liquimental Coating, -> Sorin is a noncreature artifact. Step 3: March of the Machines triggers -> Then Sorin is an artifact creature. Step 4: Kraj can copy the abilities of artifact-creature-Planeswalkers. Step 5: Kraj can use Sorin's Ultimate. Step 6: Kraj can target Sorin and two others. Step 7: Sorin re-enters the battlefield with 6 Loyalty (!) Step 8: Sorin is counted as a new Planeswalker, and Kraj can use his ability* (this is where I could be wrong) Step 9: Target opponent calls a target judge, seeing what you're about to do. The Judge resolves, and either you go back and stop at Step 7, or you proceed to Step 10. Step 10: Experiment Kraj goes infinite with Sorin, Lord of Innistrad's Ultimate. You destroy and steal every creature and Planeswalker on the battlefield. The Planeswalkers enter the battlefield with double their Loyalty counters. You can set all of their Ultimates off, and if you stack the triggers correctly....I THINK (Step 11: Five more judges are called) Step 12: You can go infinite with any and all Planeswalkers you steal if you remember to keep targeting Sorin and two others. Maybe. Step 13: All of your copies of Karn Liberated are confiscated because you're a Johnny, and a new law was passed which disallows Johnnies from owning Karn.
S-r-ex
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
@DarthParallax
Sorry, but loyalty abilities with negative numbers requires that many loyalty counters to be used as a rule, regardless of creature or planeswalker. Make a 1/1 lifelink vamp with Kraj instead, and use Elvish Aberration and Gilder Bairn's abilities with Kraj to spam loyalty counters on both Sorin and Kraj himself. Steal three dudes with Sorin, and steal six of them every following turn you have. As an alternative or just for the heck of it because you can, use Splinter Twin and Mirror Gallery (to stop the Legendary rule) on Kraj and make infinite of those little vamps in the process.
Speednat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Maybe my way of thinking is off, but with a Planeswalker, I thought that they were treated similar to the player. Spells targeting creatures wouldn't target a Planeswalker, only spells targeting players. When you artifact-ify them and shatter them is that allowed. Couldn't you just do the same to the player?
skormeus
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm gonna do this with Isochron Scepter and Naturalize. then proceed to have a two mana burn any permanent spell.
TherealphatMatt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
SO MUCH ABUUUUUUUUUUSE.
cioskookycards
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Play in a green /red deck specializing in blowing stuff up ....Nautralize becomes ; destroy target permenant , shatter the same , and you could use crush to destroy lands and other non creature things . Also ,run the hoard dragon who lets you burn artifacts . Its just : Tap this , pay 4 , melt what ever you dont like on the field and gain a good boost . Is it worth building a deck around ?
adrian.malacoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hell yeah, naturalize that planeswalker
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Speednat: In theory, but there's currently no way to target make a player targetable as a permanent. :P
Jormgund
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This+Mizzium Transreliquat. (1)(R)(U): Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target permanent permanently, and gains this ability...
My favorite, Covetous Dragon, still my favorite dragon. Turn Covetous into an artifact, turn the Transreliquat into a copy, the new Covetous is a 6/5 Artifact Creature!
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
EVIL CARD. When it works, you want to punch your opponents. But most of the time the deck just falls apart.
Mr_Hackman
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@Speednat Technically Planeswalkers still count as permanents. It's just that they are valid targets for attacking with your creatures (like how you say you're attacking Player C in a multiplayer game, the planeswalker is a valid target), and "306.7. If noncombat damage would be dealt to a player by a source controlled by an opponent, that opponent may have that source deal that damage to a planeswalker the first player controls instead."
And since they are still considered a Permanent, Naturalize/Shatter will still work on them with this.
Or you could have more fun... :) This + "target artifact becomes an artifact creature" effect at instant speed (take your pick, magic has a bunch, but I like Karn, Silver Golem for this) + Mimic Vat + Planeswalker of your Choice = Planeswalker Tokens! (Mind you they die after just one turn, but quite a few planeswalkers can still fire off their second abilities (The Sorins come to mind, as does Jace, Memory Adept)
Oh, you want lands? Sorry, Smelt says you can't have them.
Eluem
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Liquimetal Coating + Karn, Silver Golem (or anything similar, i can't figure out how to autocard using text) + Evil Twin = Copy any permanent as a creature and have the ability to kill it.
...so many great combos. But let me say this... target a Planeswalker, then use Vorel's ability.
Lord_of_phyrexia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why is there a mirran watermark on a card with phyrexian flavor text? also, @stratoscythe: you're evil, do you know that?
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Oh enchantmeeeents... red would like a word with you.
Gacrux
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is one of my favorite cards in the entirety of Scars block. It has it's obvious practical uses, such as enabling Shatter, Naturalize and, my favorite, making Scrapdiver Serpent unblockable.
But the dumbest (and greatest) thing I've ever used it for, was turning Chandra, the Firebrand into a non-creature, non-equipment artifact while having Bludgeon Brawl on the field, then equipping her to a Scrapdiver Serpent to swing for the win.
I just imagined the serpent grabbing a very shiney Chandra by the legs with it's mouth, then proceeding to bludgeon the living daylight out of my opponent with her.
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I may have finally found a card to replace the soon-to-be-gone Pithing Needle. Good-bye Planewalkers. Good-bye other annoying permanents. Now I just need to find room in my sideboard for this new great card.
5.0/5
Revoke Existance is a good idea; it's just a pity it's sorcery speed. Still, it combos with just so much. Heck, even in limited you could just use it with some good metalcraft cards to make activation a lot easier.
I had 3 shatter and 2 revoke existence in that draft deck. My best play of that tournament was on my turn Revoke Existance my opponent's Darksteel Juggernaut and then during my opponents turn, after he swung, I used Liquimetal Coating to turn his Alpha Tyrranax into an artifact and then Shattered it into a million billion tiny little pieces.
It was very satisfying.
Oh, and don't any of you dare forget just how utterly awesome this card is with Hoard-Smelter Dragon!!!
Edit: Also has interesting synergy with Indomitable Archangel
With this, and a Toymaker, Mono-black can now KILL enchantments and artifacts by turning them into creatures!
Of course, there are many other cards that could simply allow you to destroy such permanents, but that isn't as satisfying as KILLING an enchantment, is it?
...is it?
EDIT: Can you technically turn a Planeswalker into a creature this way? If so, then I am even happier! (Again, better ways to accomplish this, but still...)
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand... claw... talon...
T2: Swamp, Liquimetal Coating
T3: Swamp, Target Swamp with Liquimetal Coating, Phylactery Lich targeting the now artifact land.
T4: Equip and swing. Congradulations! You are now the proud owner of a 7/6 Indescructable beater that won't die to anything like Shatter or Revoke Existence. Enjoy.
A card that turns naturalize into vindicate and revoke existance into a 100$ removal card unseen to this date (remove target permanent from the game, at 2cmc)?
A card that turns Manic Vandals into Angel of Despair?
...
*HOW* exactly do you turn an enchantment into an artifact?
I rate this card a 10/5 for power, but -8 for lack of flavor and asshattery:
2/5 total total.
Edit:
But when will we see artifact enchantments?
Obviously, they can exist, so... where are they?
Not to mention artifact planeswalkers.
Perhaps it's a planeswalker on the card, desperately clinging on to his life after being coated in liquid death, awaiting to be utterly annihilated by a cantrip?
roguepariah
Thrown in a few Mimic Vat's and you are well on you way. When one of the Manic Vandals or Oxidda Scrapmelters dies, just Vat is and really annoy people. LMAO
However, putting Revoke Existence or even just a Shatter on Isochron Scepter with a coating or two on the field (or imprinted on Prototype Portal) gives you a nightmarish version of Vindicate every turn until they deal with the scepter. Which will be difficult when you're exiling a land every turn.
In the sense that "broken" is a card that requires you to play it, or else you're hopelessly outmatched by everyone else who's playing it, the Coating/Shatter/Revoke combo isn't broken. It's definitely busted, in that it's exceedingly good for the cost and probably shouldn't have been allowed to exist; but I don't see it dominating the game which broken cards should do. Not accounting for some enterprising Johnny out there who will find a way to break it in half.
"Target permanent becomes a combo."
or
"Destroy target permanent."
Too bad I can only run four of this card.......
How in the name of Urza does it turn enchantments into metal?
Liquimetal Coating now has Tap: Destroy target land.
Liquimetal Coating on Plague Stinger. Tezzeret's -1. 5/5 flying infect creature for the rest of the game.
This + Shatter + Naturalize + Viridian Corrupter + Hoard-Smelter Dragon. I'm sure there are others that can be used in this way as well.
All you have to do is turn anything you want to get rid of on your opponents side into an artifact with this, then destroy that artifact. A very aggressive, deny land and mass removal card if used correctly.
Another approach to get a similar effect (with fewer cards) is to enchant Vedalken Engineer with Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura, then turn the aura into an artifact. But there are even easier ways to turn one of those auras into infinite mana, such as with Bloom Tender.
@Chamale: Better than that, March of the Machines actually turns this into "
@ugotpauld: Magnetic Mine will trigger if you destroy something that's temporarily an artifact. Triggers that look at objects on the battlefield care about the current properties of those objects, regardless of whether they are represented by cards that inherently give them those properties. This includes when something moves from the battlefield to another zone, at which point the "last known information" rule kicks in. This wouldn't work if the trigger said "whenever an artifact card is put into a graveyard" since that sort of trigger would care about what the card's properties are.
Barring the printing of liquimetal coating's twin (for a set of 8) I wish there were an artifact that could fetch other artifacts for under 4 mana, but that would probably be a game-wrecking card for many formats so nvm... just print us a liquimetal coating twin and it will be good.
I don't care about specifics, that should be a game-ender right there.
And the Planeswalkers trembled.
What's that? Jace the Mindsculptor? Why yes, I will destroy him with a 1 mana Crush, thank you very much! lol
Imagine the possibilities.
Aren't I glad they screwed up like that and put "permanent" instead of "creature"?
March of the Machines = {T} Your lands are suddenly disappering
Splinter = {T} A great way to ensure you'll never play magic with that person again.
I've found LC most useful as a support card/subtheme. Like you can add a liquimetal to a red Eldrazi deck and add in things like Manic Vandal, and go with Lightning Bolt AND Galvanic Blast for fun.
I've also seen a deck that used this to coat Indomitable Archangel for laughs.
I'm pretty confident many friendships are lost with this and Splinter.
Then use them to burn Life's house down
Turn your creature into artifact + Manic Vandal = a nice trick.
Turn your land into artifact + Manic Vandal + Manic Vandal/Naturalize turn after turn til you're mana screwed feel outright cheap.
Not that it's overly powerful (too dependent on a single card), but I gotta agree with MaRo that it feels all sorts of wrong.
it is also green, which leads you to a bunch of good artifact removal, and nature's spiral to protect your liquimetal coatings and to get back creatures that destroy artifacts.
deck plan,
4 liquimetal coatins
4 ancient stirrings
an amount of veridian revels
2 natures spiral
24 lands of your choice
26 of your favorite cards that destroy artifacts like
two for ones manic vandal, oxidda scrapmelter, relic crush, into the core, viridian corrupter
stepping out of standard ancient grudge, shattering spree
the important part to me is the ancient stirrings as tutors and natures spirals as safeguards
how could i forget mimic vat
oh, and i think magnetic mine should kill people, but i do not know if they are artifacts when they enter the graveyard
Creature-
Goblin Arsonist x4
Perilous Myr x3
Manic Vandal x3
Oxidda Scrapmelter x2
Hoard-Smelter Dragon x2
Instant-
Lightning Bolt x4
Crush x3
Shatter x3
Sorcery-
Flame Slash x1
Metallic Mastery x2
Roiling Terrain x4
Melt Terrain x2
Chain Reaction x1
Enchantment-
Splinter Twin x2
Artifact-
Liquimetal Coating x4
Land-
Mountain x20
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
This + March of the Machines + Dross Scorpion = Destroy all of your opponents' land.
Well, unless they have out something to make their toughness bigger than 0, like Glorious Anthem (they get +1/+1), Godhead of Awe (they become a 1/1), Tempered Steel (since they are now an artifact they get +2/+2), or Earth Surge (since they are still a land they get +2/+2), etc.
Take Mindslaver. Sorin Markov has that ability as his ultimate, which seems to indicate that "control turn" effects are black. Put yourself in the shoes of design, however. Blue is ALL about control, and cards that control creatures or permanents always show up in blue. Why make mind control of players a different color than mind control of creatures? Black is just nastier than blue, that's why. Blue plays nice and takes away the tools you want to use. Black takes away the ability to decide how you want those tools to be used in the first place. It's an opressive, cruel, dominating ability.
However, if you want to avoid the question entirely, make the new ability part of an Artifact. Suddenly, blue or black can use it!
Back to the original point, Liquimetal Coating brings something new to the table. Directly adding or subtracting types of a card? Unusual, but it's been done before. Making it so simple, and accessible to everyone? Not so much. By giving colors new options, such as red enchantment removal, the card breaks new ground. However, that's what artifacts should do in the first place.
This is my new favorite card. This turn 2, Memnarch turn 4, stole a creature and stole Garuk turn 5 (opponent didn't see "permanent" on it, and thought creatures only...)
4.5/5!
Step 1: Sorin enters the battlefield with 6 Loyalty.
Step 2:
Step 3: March of the Machines triggers -> Then Sorin is an artifact creature.
Step 4: Kraj can copy the abilities of artifact-creature-Planeswalkers.
Step 5: Kraj can use Sorin's Ultimate.
Step 6: Kraj can target Sorin and two others.
Step 7: Sorin re-enters the battlefield with 6 Loyalty (!)
Step 8: Sorin is counted as a new Planeswalker, and Kraj can use his ability* (this is where I could be wrong)
Step 9: Target opponent calls a target judge, seeing what you're about to do. The Judge resolves, and either you go back and stop at Step 7, or you proceed to Step 10.
Step 10: Experiment Kraj goes infinite with Sorin, Lord of Innistrad's Ultimate. You destroy and steal every creature and Planeswalker on the battlefield. The Planeswalkers enter the battlefield with double their Loyalty counters. You can set all of their Ultimates off, and if you stack the triggers correctly....I THINK
(Step 11: Five more judges are called)
Step 12: You can go infinite with any and all Planeswalkers you steal if you remember to keep targeting Sorin and two others. Maybe.
Step 13: All of your copies of Karn Liberated are confiscated because you're a Johnny, and a new law was passed which disallows Johnnies from owning Karn.
Sorry, but loyalty abilities with negative numbers requires that many loyalty counters to be used as a rule, regardless of creature or planeswalker. Make a 1/1 lifelink vamp with Kraj instead, and use Elvish Aberration and Gilder Bairn's abilities with Kraj to spam loyalty counters on both Sorin and Kraj himself. Steal three dudes with Sorin, and steal six of them every following turn you have. As an alternative or just for the heck of it because you can, use Splinter Twin and Mirror Gallery (to stop the Legendary rule) on Kraj and make infinite of those little vamps in the process.
My favorite, Covetous Dragon, still my favorite dragon. Turn Covetous into an artifact, turn the Transreliquat into a copy, the new Covetous is a 6/5 Artifact Creature!
And since they are still considered a Permanent, Naturalize/Shatter will still work on them with this.
Or you could have more fun... :)
This + "target artifact becomes an artifact creature" effect at instant speed (take your pick, magic has a bunch, but I like Karn, Silver Golem for this) + Mimic Vat + Planeswalker of your Choice = Planeswalker Tokens! (Mind you they die after just one turn, but quite a few planeswalkers can still fire off their second abilities (The Sorins come to mind, as does Jace, Memory Adept)
Better yet, Revoke Existence.
2 mana: "Exile target permanent".
Alternatively, you could just use Dispatch.
1 mana: "Exile target creature".
So many possibilities, gotta love ol' liquimetal.
But let me say this...
target a Planeswalker, then use Vorel's ability.
also, @stratoscythe: you're evil, do you know that?
But the dumbest (and greatest) thing I've ever used it for, was turning Chandra, the Firebrand into a non-creature, non-equipment artifact while having Bludgeon Brawl on the field, then equipping her to a Scrapdiver Serpent to swing for the win.
I just imagined the serpent grabbing a very shiney Chandra by the legs with it's mouth, then proceeding to bludgeon the living daylight out of my opponent with her.