You don't see a lot of non-artifact constructs running around; in fact, he's the only one. So, what is he constructed out of?
Jay13x
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
@Scumbling1 - He's constructed out of 'Oops! Red already has three colored artifacts.'
Gabriel422
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Perhaps the most dangerous card printed in New Phyrexia.
I mean, Terravore was 1GG and people still broke it. -Goyf, -atog, two classes of creatures that are just about the most prone to being broken. This is one mana.
immelmann
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
In a deck built to accommodate this, I can easily visualise a 1 drop into 5/5 or more mid-late game.
Tetsu_tora
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(11 votes)
Amy Winehouse for one red mana... Wow.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(6 votes)
LOL Something As Powerful As Amy Winehouse for this Cost is Absoloutley Powerful This Is Lyne Staley/ Chris Farley Fiending Right here. But i Fiend Tha Hardest My ***!
djflo
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Such an odd card - the mana cost makes you want to play it early, but his ability makes you want to play it late.
Guest2103034515
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Agree with Gabriel, the most under rated and dangerous card in New Phyrexia
Imagine red and blue combo's with plenty of mini myrs galloping to attack and surpised with creeping corrosion and on the sideline cryptoplasm
gotta get dozens of this card
Polychromatic
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This looks problematic, but the best way I can think of to abuse it is self-milling along with other cards that mess with your graveyard.
HairlessThoctar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Abuse him using a bunch of baubles and cheap sac-to-generate-mana mana stones.
Day of Judgment and removal spells: FOOD FOR THE MUTHAFRICKIN' BONEHOARD!! Creeping Corrosion and Spellbombs: FOOD FOR THE SLAG FIEND!!
Ah, two of my most (and will be) favorite of phrases. The first one annoys my friends as it is. But what if you equip Bonhehoard on Slag Fiend??? dO_ob
Cloworora
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Hands up if you're thinking about tinkering this into Legacy Affinity to try to see how it it rolls.
Jedijoe
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This would be just SICK with a Ferrovore in play. Especially in Standard...
blindthrall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 for costing ONE GODDAMN MANA.
EternalLurker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If the lack of an Artifact supertype on this is identical to the Walking Atlas mistake, this is really sad.
As for the mechanics of the card, not starting as a 1/1 makes this unplayable in this Standard.
PhyrexianFryCook
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think this will be a powerhouse. Coupled with spellbombs and replicas this can get absurdly huge. Definitely underrated in my opinion.
Cubozoan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love it. Early game it's as innocuous as can be, but by mid-to-late game this guy can be upward of 6/6 for one mana (think wellsprings and perilous myr with sac outlets, not to mention baubles and spellbombs...). Fantastic art, too!
Vadoff
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Arcbound Ravager's new best friend.
Selez
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With all the spellbombs, wellsprings, and artifact-creatures-who-die-in-combat, this certainly has uses, but I have found that unless you are planning on deliberately sacrificing your artifacts to cards like Artillerize and Rusted Slasher, it will not be as big as you want it to be when you want it to be. Thinking about this card as something like a 6-drop for one mana is wrong, for the six-drop in question can be dropped on turn six. This, in most scenarios, will still be a 2/2 or 3/3 on turn six. Not quite the same impact. Originally I was gunning for this card, and saying it was 6th-pick worthy (not exactly spectacular for a rare, but still). Now I'd say you're gonna be better off picking him 8th unless you know you're going to be running artifact sac.
apocolypse_warbear
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
in response to some of the naysayers, there is a whole underlying mechanic to sacrificing artifacts in scars block, it will be quite easy to make slag fiend big, and also benefit from the wellspring like artifacts that have effects when they go to the graveyard....piston sledge anyone?
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
When I first saw this, I did a quick Gatherer search; had there really never been an artifact Lhurgoyf before? Apparently not. Of course it's red, too. The lack of the Lhurgoyf type annoyed me, but then, it doesn't really look like its kin so much.
Then I saw the mana cost. Wizards, you owe me half a glass of soda.
What the SHIT were they thinking? This isn't like Terravore, "Oh, lands are real hard to get into the graveyard, let's knock a mana off the cost for their trouble." No, artifacts are probably the easiest type to get into the grave. There are artifact creatures to sac, artifacts that sacrifice themselves, even goddamn ARTIFACT LANDS.
There's no evasion, true, but that'll be little consolation to you when some red raffinity-loving mage feeds this like 50 baubles on the second turn and hits you with it, probably accompanied by a Ravager. What the ***, Wizards!?
I want four.
iSlapTrees
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
two words:
Artifact Dredge
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(7 votes)
Two Words: Total Craprare
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
**QUESTION**- If I turn my color permanents into artifacts, then the artifact turned color perminants go to the graveyard, at what point EXACTLY are they no longer artifacts? My point, which I'm sure needs no explanation, If I have idk, 6 perminants turned artifact that I sweep during my main phase, is it possible for me to tap (r) to summon Fiend, give haste somehow and then swing for 6??
Mode
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Notably that guy is the first nonartifact Construct, and the second one to be colored right after Arsenal Thresher.
A Construct or a Golem having colors and not being an artifact feels kinda weird to me. Even the tokens created by Stone Idol Trap are colorless for instance :P
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not having the */*+1 template like Tarmogoyf does hurt. Not being an artifact creature (I wonder if it's the same kind of construct misprint as Walking Atlas in Worldwake - that creature was printed without "Artifact" in its typeline) actually makes it worse, because if it were, then multiples in your graveyard would buff the ones you still have in play. All in all, Death's Shadow has the enormous 1-drop role pretty much covered.
Here's a potential nuts draw in the current Standard environment that makes Fiend good. Turn 1 Mountain, Mox Opal, Mox Opal, Mox Opal, Mox Opal, Slag Fiend is a 4/4.
Out of the 74 cards with the Construct subtype, this is the only one that isn't an artifact. Welp. Also, this rating seems too low to me. I can see myself making a red artifact sacrificing deck with this and stuff like Atog, Arcbound Ravager, and Ferrovore to sacrifice the Wellsprings. The fact that this guy can't get the counters from a dying Arcbound Ravager is fixed by Mycosynth Lattice. It also allows you to sac your lands for a game-winning swing (sadly, it won't make the lands benefit Slag Fiend from the graveyard). It'd be nice for casual at least.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this were an artifact, he would have to cost instead of just .
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I mean, Terravore was 1GG and people still broke it. -Goyf, -atog, two classes of creatures that are just about the most prone to being broken. This is one mana.
Imagine red and blue combo's with plenty of mini myrs galloping to attack and surpised with creeping corrosion and on the sideline cryptoplasm
gotta get dozens of this card
I kind of wish it was a lhurgoyf construct.
Creeping Corrosion and Spellbombs: FOOD FOR THE SLAG FIEND!!
Ah, two of my most (and will be) favorite of phrases. The first one annoys my friends as it is.
But what if you equip Bonhehoard on Slag Fiend???
dO_ob
As for the mechanics of the card, not starting as a 1/1 makes this unplayable in this Standard.
Then I saw the mana cost. Wizards, you owe me half a glass of soda.
What the SHIT were they thinking? This isn't like Terravore, "Oh, lands are real hard to get into the graveyard, let's knock a mana off the cost for their trouble." No, artifacts are probably the easiest type to get into the grave. There are artifact creatures to sac, artifacts that sacrifice themselves, even goddamn ARTIFACT LANDS.
There's no evasion, true, but that'll be little consolation to you when some red raffinity-loving mage feeds this like 50 baubles on the second turn and hits you with it, probably accompanied by a Ravager. What the ***, Wizards!?
I want four.
Artifact Dredge
Total Craprare
A Construct or a Golem having colors and not being an artifact feels kinda weird to me. Even the tokens created by Stone Idol Trap are colorless for instance :P
Here's a potential nuts draw in the current Standard environment that makes Fiend good.
Turn 1
Mountain, Mox Opal, Mox Opal, Mox Opal, Mox Opal, Slag Fiend is a 4/4.
Their turn 1 (If they're Tempered Steel)
Inkmoth Nexus, Mox Opal, Memnite, Memnite, Dispatch your Slag Fiend. Your face = :(
Their Turn 1 (If they're everyone else)
Land, Dismember your Slag Fiend.