The way it's held makes me think of it as the mox that couldn't.
Don't worry little guy, Tezzeret's got your back.
scumbling1
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(16 votes)
They have finally printed it: the card that does nothing! Sure, I understand fully that this was intended to pair with Metalcraft, Affinity, or many other abilities that count / interact with artifacts. But Darksteel Relic truly does nothing in isolation. You can now say to your jaded friends who have stopped playing: "Did you hear? Wizards has started to print cards that do nothing!"
windwaker
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Definitely one of the most flavorful cards to search for with Trinket Mage.
VarteDod
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(16 votes)
MY EYES! THE RELIC DOES NOTHING!
PhyrexianFailure
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
I just love this, and cant even describe why. Its true that this and phylactery lich seems nice in mono black... with phyrexian obliterator...
Tetsu_tora
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(8 votes)
Tinker-bait
combos with recycle good target for infinite mana loop artifact destruction spell to fire up storm cards
Master transmuter-bait... this card rocks on so many levels. Now WoTC needs to print a 1/1 colorless creature with auto-pacifism and indestructability.
Runner up for the title of most Johny-tastic card. The winner? One With Nothing
Leonidus78
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(8 votes)
Tezzeret loves this card! UB Tezz deck is going to rock even harder now.
Gabriel422
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(10 votes)
"It's the last thing we can call our own."
Have you seen any side as utterly devastated as the Mirrans in the history of Magic?
Blackwatch_00
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(4 votes)
No Comment......
Combolulz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This was made to boost metalcraft...it helps i guess
Mogun
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(5 votes)
First use I though of was throwing at someone's face. I guess it does hell of a lot more.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Very interesting, but only serves as Tezzerfodder really. It does add more 0-costs to my buddy's Salvage Titan deck though...
MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I Played One With Nothin And My Opponent let me keep the 4 I Had In My hand. GeeseBologna Has Less Filler Than This.
brandonr189
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(4 votes)
Anyone here realise that there are cards out there that turn noncreature artifacts into creatures? This would give you an indestructable artifact creature to attack or block with AND help with metalcraft at the same time.
djflo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
For those who don't buy a lot of cards, it'd be extremely annoying to get this as an uncommon...
danyo622
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
best card in the game. I'm gettin a foiled playset for every one of my decks!
NocteMundi
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
It does nothing, including getting Crushed or Shattered.
HairlessThoctar
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(9 votes)
Some of the best art in the set. Some of the best text in the set. Some of the best design in the set.
Looooove this card.
dragonking987
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
I felt like trooling and going around saying this die to removal 0.5/5 andI can think of plenty of cards this dies to. But the bottom line is its not worth killing if your deck is made up out of kill spells. 0.5/5 the card that dose nothing.
Lateralis0ne
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
...I think I found my new favorite card. It's Johnny. It's Vorthos. It's the perfect card for me.
Now to break it so wide open you could hide a Blightsteel inside.
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
how mad would you be if you pulled this as an uncommon? I would be very mad. Kind of a crap card. Kool, but kind of crap. Who the hell caaaares if its indestructible, noones gonna care to kill it, it does absolutely nothing, literally.
Maxcoh
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Okay, I get it. Metalcraft, Tezz can abuse it, fine. But why the hell is this thing Uncommon? Do you know how many puppies I'd kill if I got this as an Uncommon?! 0, 0 puppies because thats wrong. But I would not enjoy them as much.
Feralsymphony
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(22 votes)
How has nobody commented on the blatant irony of this card? If you look closely, you'll notice that the ring of light over the circular relic forms the Phyrexian symbol. The last thing they can call their own is proudly supporting Phyrexia.
Reign274
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(11 votes)
I don't like double posting, but something came to my attention. Everyone is flaming hard on this card, let me beat some sense into you.
This card IS NOT WORTHLESS~! Every time I see a comment saying it is, I facepalm. My soul dies a bit on the inside. You get the point. So, what can you do with it?
Some of the already-stated ones:
Metalcraft trigger
Tinker
Affinity
Tezzeret animation
Phylactery Lich
Other uses:
Archbound Ravager? Yes, please.
Atog Bait
Phyrexian Negator (Not like anyone will use him anymore with Obliterator release)
Reprocess
Salvage Titan
You get the point. There are many cards that synergize with this card. Admitably, there are uncommons I would rather see in limited, but outside of limited, I understand the uncommon slot. If it had no indestructablility, I would agree that it is a total piece of garbage. But it has indestructablity. So quit your flaming and trolling. It got old 50 comments ago.
Lifespiker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
There are very few reasons to use this card over Darksteel Axe (in standard) or Darksteel Citadel (in any other format). Indestructibility is not that important on a card that no one will ever want to destroy. In fact, if they would have printed it WITHOUT indestructibility it would have been a lot more interesting of a card. 1/5
kiseki
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(32 votes)
The most surprising thing about the comments are that people say they would be disappointed to get this. As if they open up 14 cards from a booster and this would be the only one they don't like. I like between zero and three of the cards I open in a booster. This wouldn't disappoint me any more than getting any of the other cards I will never use. How do you stay sane if you are disappointed every time you open a booster?! I love how people complain that one with nothing is a rare. And then they make this card an uncommon, and people complain. Get over yourselves and a enjoy the cards that were designed for your psycographic profile without being upset by the cards that were not made for you. Opening up a trading card pack is like a treasure hunt. You don't get the rush of a great pack without opening packs you consider mediocre. If you only want great cards, stick to buying singles.
bfugitive
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(21 votes)
Hilarious that, when the art for this card was spoiled on MTGSalvation, we spent a few weeks trying to figure out what it does. Troll and behold, it does…
NOTHING.
Yoktes
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(8 votes)
we figured out what the flavour text of Null Rod was about It doesn't do anything no, it does nothing
SeiberTross
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
These guys should be crazy with either Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas or even his younger version. 5/5 indestructibles for 0 is pretty cool
Leshrac_Nightwalker
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(16 votes)
Hanna: "But it does nothing!" Gerrard: "No--it doesn't do anything."
The last thing you can call your own, and it does nothing? The Mirrans are completely screwed now.
MetALcRaFT
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Maybe you guys don't see the true purpose of this card. Having a set of Darksteel Relic means you can activate cards that has metalcraft much easier. Put this on Caw Blade and throw in Puresteel Paladin then you can juggle swords infinitely. The fact that it is indestructible means that it would be hard for your opponent to disable metalcraft, because cards that can't use metalcraft reduce their strength by half or even more. With this card you can have metal craft by turn 3 or if your very lucky turn 2 and even 1.
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Also known as Tezzeret's Air Hockey Puck.
Splizer
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
In the first stages of New Phyrexia's development, this card's original name was "Phylactery Lich's Phylactery"
I love it. This card is so *** Zen. It's something, it's nothing and it's full of potential. So refreshing to see something like this. I *** LOVE it.
The_DJax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Just had a thought. This works great as a one-of in Trinket Mage/ Shape Anew decks because it's free and is difficult for your opponent to remove. Blightsteel Colossus here I come!
As soon as I saw this I made a mono-black Phylactery Lich deck
vaiserious
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
tezzeret + this could be awesome :) even more hardcore with philactery leech. nice
Macsen
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Well, at least it doesn't cost anything!
StephenF
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Feed it to Piston Sledge to equip another creature, or feed it Throne of Geth to proliferate.
Also, makes a perfectly good faux Mox --- (T): add 1 colorless mana ...
Jake1991
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(13 votes)
DARKSTEEL RELIC
Y U NO DO ANYTHING?!!
fssfalcon
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I feel the uses that this card yield are endless! Think about the fact that it is Zero to cast...What if you can make a deck with moxen and thopters and such that can all drop without mana. And the mox with metalcraft can be used in conjunction with this on turn 1. A Zero Land Deck!!! How streamlined that could be?? Very focused indeed! Tezzeret can make it a 5/5 critter!! After he Impulses for it! Wow!
PhyrexianFryCook
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
I like how a daily MTG article just straight out called this bad.
Think of it as a vanilla artifact, but indestructible.
RATZGobbler
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a deceptive design guys. Yes it doesn't add mana, boost creatures or grant you three wishes and a trip to vegas. But you know what it can do? Survive. Divine Offering? Useless. Shatterstorm? Pfft. Dispatch? You're really going to waste a good card over a half decent one?
Metalcrafters don't worry about your memnites anymore. Myr Welder, would you like to be indestructible? I thought so. When you think about this some more, you guys will realize its hidden potential.
apollogod
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(8 votes)
@RATZGobbler
Myr Welder gains no benefit by exiling this card. Darksteel Relic has a static ability that makes it indestructible. The Welder only gains activated abilities.
Run with Tezz, a 5/5 thats indestructible when all you're spending to get him is some loyalty and a card draw. I like this because it's free to cast. If it was even 1 mana it would not be worth half as much as it is.
BlackAlbino
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
i like it, if for no other reason, it's cool who cares if it doesn't do anything?
Vinifera7
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I guess it can have 2 stars for the Phylactery Lich combo, but this is horrendously lackluster. Bad WOTC, bad!
A bad card, you're better off running any other 0 costing artifact for metalcraft, or Everflowing Chalice for 0. This may be indestructible, but think about it: If you have 3 artifacts, and your opponent wants to get you off of metalcraft, what does it even matter if one is indestructible? Unless you have 3 indestructible artifacts, only one of them being indestructible means nothing, because they'll just target one of the others.
I guess it earns the half a star minimum I had to give it for working with Tezzeret and the Lich. Still not worth wasting the deck space for.
scorpiolegend
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
This should've been a mox that tapped for 0 mana.
Malnourished_Student
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Plays 'well' with:
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas - makes a 5/5 ind. as soon as he drops. There are better choices though.
Tinker - But then again, so do all artifacts.
Phylactery Lich - I'd rather use DarkSteel Axe, but at least this alllows a T1 combo with Dark Ritual.
Knowledge Pool - Probably the only deck that could be competetive that I'd choose this card above others.
The main problem with this card outside of standard, is that in basically every case, Darksteel Citadel is the better choice by far.
Artscrafter
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I have finally found a good use for this card! Run it as donation fodder for a Zedruu the Greathearted EDH deck.
Ange-Gardien
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(9 votes)
But it makes Phylactery Lich a much better card to play, n'est-ce pas?
Zacklar
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
nteresting printing, now Magic has a card that does....NOTHING i know i know, combos with X, Y and Z but alone it does absolutely NOTHING
ErikLauer
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(34 votes)
Erik's Random card 6/17/2011 We competed with the Community team for the Erik Friborg Memorial Cup. The community won decisively. If they had lost, the prize was a Darksteel Relic.
This is the story of how I traded Ken Nagle Darksteel Relic for several awesome rares.
I was the development lead for Mirrodin Besieged. Powers that be decided to change the time where MBS takes place in the story. It was moved a bit to the height of the war. This created some holes in the card set. We filled the holes in several ways, including my coming up with some cards and putting them in the file. I was thinking of what was the simplest possible Darksteel card, and came up with this. It was an abstract idea of what other Darksteel cards are made of.
However we were still several rares short. So I told Ken, the design lead of New Phyrexia, that my team was going to look through his set for some cards that we thought would work well in our set. It was the quickest way to solve our problems, but clearly would create new problems for Ken. It wasn't something I wanted to do; frankly shopping from Ken's hard work felt lousy. But it was the best for Magic, so Ken agreed, and we did it. When we were done, Ken looked through MBS. He noticed this card, a card he had also made for New Phyrexia. He explained that this wasn't some abstract thing, it was all thas left of the Darksteel. It would be totally fitting in his set as the sole indestructible card.
Of course I agreed. This wasn't filling any special purpose in MBS; it was just a card. In his set it helped tell the story of the great Phyrexian victory.
Gahoojin
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This thing sure wont help with the war...
MechaKraken
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is a must for serious metalcraft decks. Trinket Mage can tutor it if you don't draw on your opening hand, and the security of having consistent metalcraft online makes this a worthwhile addition.
TheLibertinistic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The best mox proxy in existence. It has the right types, cost, and art that is totally easy to magic marker into being the right mox.
5/5
sonorhC
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I understand the rationale behind this: Even though it does nothing by itself, it fuels Metalcraft, Affinity, and the like. But there are plenty of other -cost artifacts that do that just as well, even in standard.
Yes, it's indestructible. But that doesn't really help, since what opponent would bother to use removal on this, anyway? If they've got artifact destruction available to them, then they'll just target one of your other artifacts, one that actually does something.
Unless, of course, they've got mass or repeatable artifact removal, like Shatterstorm or the like. But if you're running a metalcraft or affinity deck and someone manages to pull off one of those, the fact that you've got one useless artifact that survived isn't really going to make you any less screwed.
use643
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Perfect card for metalcraft!!!!!!!!
HonorGuard
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
people who say this does nothing and is worthless need to just stop playing magic because they dont know how to play. sure, it does nothing-by itself. its a combo card. the fact that its an indestructible item thats free to play is amazing in itself and worth playing since you can just drop it the moment you get it. metalcraft is just a small silly example of how powerfull this card can be with combos. try playing agaist legacy artifact decks and throw this in. you'll learn to respect it fast.
Raibys
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(6 votes)
This should have been called "Darksteel Goggles".
Magic-Master
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Too bad sacrificing it will still cause it to die, otherwise there could have been some huge combos (Kuldotha Forgemaster)
BalZac
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My playgroup is strating to get frustrated with me one dropping phylactery lich with this and a dark ritual on turn one. I'm not. It gets even better when I pop a second dark ritual on turn two with a second land and drop obliterator. Makes me 'bout fall out my chair every time.
Also not sure if anybody ever noticed the relic on the card is about the exact size of your standard glass counter. A foily version of this with a phylactery counter on it with lich on the board just looks purdy.
Adallace
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love cards like this that make you find creative ways to use them. Zero cost is always so appealing too.
PcvsApple
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just imagine Wizards releasing the set, getting ready for the next one, and then one guy is like "hey, remember darksteel relic? We forgot to print the word 'artifact' on there."
He would be recieved by blank stares...
DrTommyCreo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
affinity? andofcourse the metalcraft,but yet... doesn't a metal craft activate
Kydoon
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(14 votes)
Darksteel coaster. Can't be destroyed by condensation.
TherealphatMatt
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(19 votes)
"It's the last thing we can call our own. The Phyrexians didn't want it."
Nayban
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I run this in my FNM deck, along side Darksteel Myr, Rusted Slasher, and Worldslayer. An artifact that can stick it out when worldslayer kicks off is perfect for this kind of deck.
Concerned_Bystander
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A truly unusual card. Probably not much use outside of Affinity or Metalcraft decks, although having said that I'm sure every Phylactery Lich has one of these in his pocket.
I like it though. Really a funny card to run in a deck. Lots of various things you can do with it or to it.
Tiemuuu
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I had to make an account just so I could comment on this card. Srsly, why is everyone bashing it? This has to be the most flavorful card in the whole Mirrodin Block, alongside Mirran Crusader etc, but still beating it. Secondly, this card certainly has its uses. C'mon, I can't be the only who has ever thought about combining this with Darksteel Juggernaut, Darksteel Axe, Darksteel Plate and maybe Darksteel Myr. Just use some Worldslayer or even better, use Elspeth Tirel's last ability.
Imagine the lulz when it's turn 6-8 and you got a wiped board, and 2 or 3 Juggernauts with 6/6 - 9/9 going for lethal. Dang.
Anywho, I mostly love this card for it's flavorfulness. Easily an uncommon, which I'd love to pick from a booster.
quick question: if this becomes a 5/5 creature from Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas, does it keep its indestructibility?
OmegaSerris
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Darksteel Relic Artifact Darksteel Relic enters the battlefield tapped. Darksteel Relic is indestructible. : Add to your mana pool.
And you could have always added the "Only spend this on artifact spells and abilities." should that be proven broken. I would have considered Metalcraft instead, but then it would have been too similar to Mox Opal.
Yozuk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@dontmess17
Yes.
Havrekjex
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I like this card. It may not be very good, but it's damn cool flavorwise. You get some pretty hilarious reactions when you play it in casual, and then wipe the smirk off your opponents face by making it useful somehow.
SquirePath
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Am i the only person who would Tinker this into Darksteel Forge? Cause I, personally, would love to see the face of whomever you pulled that on.
kazenpaus
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I love the idea of a card that does absolutely nothing, yet is quite useful.
NicodemusCromwell
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm kinda sorry I didn't open this in my NPH Fat Pack :D
*Vorthos alert*
blobman
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is useless because its just a indestructible artifact.
Should've had : Add to your mana pool. They could've called it Darksteel Mox and gotten people really excited, followed by a major letdown.
theoneandonlyjoseph
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
i dont get why people hate this card- its a 0 (zero) mana cost metalcraft enabler. have a deck full of artifacts with metalcraft, drop two of these babys and never worry about losing your metalcraft bonus again- beacuse otherwise all it takes is a rogue manic vandal to cause your etched champion to lose his protection from colours, and make him vunrable to a lightning bolt. or maybe drop a third (again, for 0 (zero) mana) in combo with an Indomitable Archangel for shroud. mox opal, puresteel paladin, dispatch- i am not even trying to find these combos, i just looked at a list of cards with metalcraft. for non metalcraft options, try golem foundry for a free 3/3 token, or cards with affinity for atrifacts, like broodstar- who would be a 4/4 at worst (assuming you have 4 out- and realy, who's going to oblvion ring a 'useless' card). have a little imagination guys, it dosent hurt that much.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Its not too much to ask it to do something. Its getting my artifact count to go up at the cost of a card. My artifact count needs to go up while adding to my board position. Ill rate it a 1/5.
DeArmond77
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
To all the people who really don't like this card..... keep it! It makes a good bookmarker!
Frostraven
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I, the Red Frostraven, swear -- on my grave -- that I...
... WILL ...
BREAK
Darksteel Relic!
... MUAHahahahahaahahahhaaahhahahaha.
... You see; Break. Darksteel. But it does nothing. ...
Also, this would have looked so much better without any flaour text, just a 0 drop that had the indestructible mechanic written on it.
GolemEmperion
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
My first 0 cost card, as well as my first indestructible card. This card holds a special place in my heart. And a nice spot in my Metalcraft decks.
Kirbster
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Darksteel hockey puck! The wonders of modern science are truly marvelous.
Nicrostheking
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Probably my favorite card printed to date. Especially because of how people like to try and find a use. I have a binder filled with 200+ of this silly little bug. Just because nobody wants them. Upon it's release I expected it to be decent, or at least find a home somewhere. But sadly it never did. Happily to me, though, I've been able to get so many. And when I hand people the 'Relic Binder' I grin so wide from their looks.
It's so silly, and I love me some relic.
Blackworm_Bloodworm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh look, a free indestructible Affinity and Metalcraft enabler that I can sac to effects as well. Yeah, to be honest I knew that the moment this card was revealed. I also expected this many naysayers.
Antidromic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yes you could use it with Phylactery Lich but you could also use Darksteel Axe for the same purpose and then equip it to the Lich.
bay_falconer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No, it really does nothing, Hannah.
M0NGUS
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How can people complain about power creep when this exists?
aboblyndsae
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love cards that serve no purpose other than to be used in specific combos.
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is the only card that does absolutely nothing.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wield it in a Bludgeon Brawl to accomplish... absolutely nothing!
The best use I can see for it is Metalcraft enabling.
snickerpuss
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gerard: "But it doesn't do anything" Hanna: "Seriously, it does nothing."
@brandonr189 It doesn't work with that kind of card either. Most cards that animate noncreature artifacts set power/toughness equal to mana cost. So it'd become a 0/0 creature and promptly dissolve. Does not combo with March of the Macines.
Zylo-
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Everyone here seems to think this is a terrible artifact. HA!
5 Stars for this beast. You can do some devious things with this...
Pick15
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, at least you can't kill it...
Majora_13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even March of the Machines cannot make this card good. In fact, it's one of the (relatively) few ways to destroy it.
It sort of works with Bludgeon brawl, in that it allows infinite targeting combo's (daru spiritualist and task force then sacrifice for infinite life, for example). But Shuko is better for that.
I will find a way to make this a win con. It's like the ultimate Johnny challenge.
moonmist103
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Every time I read the flavor text its almost like a solitary tear rolls down my cheek when I remember those who fought, those fallen and their beloved world now lost. Mirrodin, though I only saw you during thy darkest hour, I shall miss thee when I gaze into your troubled past. You shall live on in the hearts of millions. RIP dear one RIP.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What an amazingly stupid, and interesting card. I would love to build a deck around this.
UncleJulio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh look, its a Darksteel Coaster.
I bet Phylactery Lich has a lot of these lying around his apartment... Along with his Stuffy Doll collection.
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Don't worry little guy, Tezzeret's got your back.
combos with recycle
good target for infinite mana loop artifact destruction spell to fire up storm cards
Master transmuter-bait... this card rocks on so many levels. Now WoTC needs to print a 1/1 colorless creature with auto-pacifism and indestructability.
The winner? One With Nothing
Have you seen any side as utterly devastated as the Mirrans in the history of Magic?
I guess it does hell of a lot more.
Some of the best text in the set.
Some of the best design in the set.
Looooove this card.
Now to break it so wide open you could hide a Blightsteel inside.
This card IS NOT WORTHLESS~! Every time I see a comment saying it is, I facepalm. My soul dies a bit on the inside. You get the point. So, what can you do with it?
Some of the already-stated ones:
Metalcraft trigger
Tinker
Affinity
Tezzeret animation
Phylactery Lich
Other uses:
Archbound Ravager? Yes, please.
Atog Bait
Phyrexian Negator (Not like anyone will use him anymore with Obliterator release)
Reprocess
Salvage Titan
You get the point. There are many cards that synergize with this card. Admitably, there are uncommons I would rather see in limited, but outside of limited, I understand the uncommon slot. If it had no indestructablility, I would agree that it is a total piece of garbage. But it has indestructablity. So quit your flaming and trolling. It got old 50 comments ago.
I love how people complain that one with nothing is a rare. And then they make this card an uncommon, and people complain. Get over yourselves and a enjoy the cards that were designed for your psycographic profile without being upset by the cards that were not made for you. Opening up a trading card pack is like a treasure hunt. You don't get the rush of a great pack without opening packs you consider mediocre. If you only want great cards, stick to buying singles.
NOTHING.
It doesn't do anything
no, it does nothing
Gerrard: "No--it doesn't do anything."
(Null Rod)
Swamp
This
Dark Ritual
Phylactery Lich
Darksteel Goggles are indestructible
The goggles do nothing.
Also, makes a perfectly good faux Mox --- (T): add 1 colorless mana ...
Y U NO DO ANYTHING?!!
Metalcrafters don't worry about your memnites anymore. Myr Welder, would you like to be indestructible? I thought so. When you think about this some more, you guys will realize its hidden potential.
Myr Welder gains no benefit by exiling this card. Darksteel Relic has a static ability that makes it indestructible. The Welder only gains activated abilities.
As for the uses of Darksteel Relic, I will be putting it in my deck with Shape Anew/Blightsteel colossus. It will replace Darksteel Axe and make the deck operate a full turn quicker. Very handy indeed.
I rate the card 3.5/5.
who cares if it doesn't do anything?
- WOTC
I guess it earns the half a star minimum I had to give it for working with Tezzeret and the Lich. Still not worth wasting the deck space for.
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas - makes a 5/5 ind. as soon as he drops. There are better choices though.
Tinker - But then again, so do all artifacts.
Phylactery Lich - I'd rather use DarkSteel Axe, but at least this alllows a T1 combo with Dark Ritual.
Knowledge Pool - Probably the only deck that could be competetive that I'd choose this card above others.
The main problem with this card outside of standard, is that in basically every case, Darksteel Citadel is the better choice by far.
Run it as donation fodder for a Zedruu the Greathearted EDH deck.
i know i know, combos with X, Y and Z but alone it does absolutely NOTHING
We competed with the Community team for the Erik Friborg Memorial Cup. The community won decisively. If they had lost, the prize was a Darksteel Relic.
This is the story of how I traded Ken Nagle Darksteel Relic for several awesome rares.
I was the development lead for Mirrodin Besieged. Powers that be decided to change the time where MBS takes place in the story. It was moved a bit to the height of the war. This created some holes in the card set. We filled the holes in several ways, including my coming up with some cards and putting them in the file. I was thinking of what was the simplest possible Darksteel card, and came up with this. It was an abstract idea of what other Darksteel cards are made of.
However we were still several rares short. So I told Ken, the design lead of New Phyrexia, that my team was going to look through his set for some cards that we thought would work well in our set. It was the quickest way to solve our problems, but clearly would create new problems for Ken. It wasn't something I wanted to do; frankly shopping from Ken's hard work felt lousy. But it was the best for Magic, so Ken agreed, and we did it. When we were done, Ken looked through MBS. He noticed this card, a card he had also made for New Phyrexia. He explained that this wasn't some abstract thing, it was all thas left of the Darksteel. It would be totally fitting in his set as the sole indestructible card.
Of course I agreed. This wasn't filling any special purpose in MBS; it was just a card. In his set it helped tell the story of the great Phyrexian victory.
5/5
Yes, it's indestructible. But that doesn't really help, since what opponent would bother to use removal on this, anyway? If they've got artifact destruction available to them, then they'll just target one of your other artifacts, one that actually does something.
Unless, of course, they've got mass or repeatable artifact removal, like Shatterstorm or the like. But if you're running a metalcraft or affinity deck and someone manages to pull off one of those, the fact that you've got one useless artifact that survived isn't really going to make you any less screwed.
Also not sure if anybody ever noticed the relic on the card is about the exact size of your standard glass counter. A foily version of this with a phylactery counter on it with lich on the board just looks purdy.
He would be recieved by blank stares...
An artifact that can stick it out when worldslayer kicks off is perfect for this kind of deck.
I like it though. Really a funny card to run in a deck. Lots of various things you can do with it or to it.
Imagine the lulz when it's turn 6-8 and you got a wiped board, and 2 or 3 Juggernauts with 6/6 - 9/9 going for lethal. Dang.
Anywho, I mostly love this card for it's flavorfulness. Easily an uncommon, which I'd love to pick from a booster.
Artifact
Darksteel Relic enters the battlefield tapped.
Darksteel Relic is indestructible.
And you could have always added the "Only spend this on artifact spells and abilities." should that be proven broken. I would have considered Metalcraft instead, but then it would have been too similar to Mox Opal.
Yes.
*Vorthos alert*
They could've called it Darksteel Mox and gotten people really excited, followed by a major letdown.
... WILL ...
BREAK
Darksteel Relic!
... MUAHahahahahaahahahhaaahhahahaha.
...
You see;
Break.
Darksteel. But it does nothing.
...
Ack.
Forget it.
Also, this would have looked so much better without any flaour text, just a 0 drop that had the indestructible mechanic written on it.
Especially because of how people like to try and find a use.
I have a binder filled with 200+ of this silly little bug.
Just because nobody wants them.
Upon it's release I expected it to be decent, or at least find a home somewhere. But sadly it never did.
Happily to me, though, I've been able to get so many. And when I hand people the 'Relic Binder' I grin so wide from their looks.
It's so silly, and I love me some relic.
Yeah, to be honest I knew that the moment this card was revealed. I also expected this many naysayers.
The best use I can see for it is Metalcraft enabling.
Hanna: "Seriously, it does nothing."
5 Stars for this beast. You can do some devious things with this...
It sort of works with Bludgeon brawl, in that it allows infinite targeting combo's (daru spiritualist and task force then sacrifice for infinite life, for example). But Shuko is better for that.
I will find a way to make this a win con. It's like the ultimate Johnny challenge.
I bet Phylactery Lich has a lot of these lying around his apartment... Along with his Stuffy Doll collection.
... you fill in the rest.