The first creature that kills in one swing that does not require you to cast it.
Completely unoriginal, the just took an older creature and slapped infect on it (seems to be a common trend with MBS), effectively obsoleting the other colossus.
ROBRAM89
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Your opponent can be at 20 life with zero poison and chump block this with a token...and STILL DIE!
Zulp
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(11 votes)
Don't appreciate what you did to one of my favorite cards of all time, Wizards.
Emrakul does not kill in one hit. Phage can be chumped AND can't be cheated into play.
If they had replaced trample with infect, fine, but 1 lousy colorless mana does not justify printing what is effectively a 22/11 Darksteel Colossus. This thing is an abomination.
CJM2
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(6 votes)
Emrakul cannot kill in one hit. Phage cannot be cheated into play. Neither are indestructible, both can be chump blocked. What were they thinking?
greg2367
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Second creature ever printed that kills in one hit (or even if he's blocked by a 1-toughness guy ala Dark Confidant) the first was Phage, and they specifically disallowed her from being cheated into play. They made this guy indestructible and an artifact. (power-balancing)
Why? Just Why? Not only did Wizards just make ol' Darksteel completely obsolete, now we have a card that literally gives me goosebumps when seeing it. So many ways to cheat this out, not mentioning shape anew in its own block, but you can just slap a distortion strike on this for game. This card is always going to scare me.
Leonin_Kha_Cameron
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
For 1 more mana it's a Darksteel Colossus with Infect, which essentially makes it twice as good. I'm with Zulp on this one.
I guess I'll be the first to point out the uselessness of this card why would anyone play this when they could just play storm crow?
mascot742
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
True, it is hard to cast, but there is plenty of ways to get it out there without actually casting it. Shape Anew, Polymorph, andMass Polymorph in an extreme case.
It isn't complete, I know, but the idea is to use the artifacts/lands that become creatures to polymorph into BC. Pandemonium is self explanatory. I guess it's a good thing there isn't a burn spell that is infect. *shudder*
Bursama
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Sorry what? ... And it's not even legendary...
Eternal_Blue
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
this whole set is a disgrace to magic. half the cards are reprints with infect slapped onto them, almost as an after-thought. infect is a mechanic that doesn't mix well with other blocks and will only be remembered as maro's failed attempt to make poison relevant. the beauty in poison was that it was quirky--it took thought and creativity to make a good deck. unfortunately with infect all the old poison cards have been obsoleted in favor of super-aggro decks that win on turn 2 or 3 (even in pauper).
maro if you're reading this--and we all know someone as vain and narcissistic as yourself reads all comments for any mention of his name--please quit now and take the rest of the design team with you. wotc needs new blood, fresh ideas. what wotc does not need is you.
AnTzero
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
When you have a creature with infect that doesn't have to run with infect, you know there's going to be trouble. Just keep in mind that selective memory banishes any artifact you don't want to shape anew.
feeltherawk
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
You know, I hear a lot of people screaming out:
" SUCKS BECAUSE IT CAN JUST BE EXILED OR BLOWN UP NOW WITH THE NEW MATERIAL IN THIS SET AND PREVIOUS STUFF"
'Kay, cool, waste your deck/side-deck slots with artifact burn like I tried to do for a deck. See how it works out for you.
That being said, two words (even though I expect to be yelled at for this): Prototype Portal.
MechaKraken
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Well... let's see. Ways to tackle this guy should you see him on the other end of the table.
First and foremost, he can be exiled. I imagine a lot of white decks running journey to nowhere when this comes out. He can be Pacifyied or Guard Dutyied too.
Not to mention you can deny him from entering the table at all using Stoic Rebuttal or any other cancel-induced spell. For lolz, you can play Unsummon just to look at the face of anyone who cheated him into play.
Now here's the interesting part - he may be indestructible, but he can still be infected himself! I'm not sure if there are any massive -1/-1 counter laying cards yet, but he can be teamed up on by other infect creatures and eventually whittled down.
I don't like that they obsoleted the ol' colossus, but that asides this brings nothing new. Serra avatar and phage are both one hit killers, and it's not like our friend mr. teeth didn't one hit kill you either.
@CJM2, Phage can be cheated out as early as turn 2, and emrakul will stop you from actually doing anything to stop it, since 6 permanents is a lot. And being hard to target is far more valuable than being indestructible.
I will never understand why Design let a card like this get through. Infect is already extremely powerful and the fact that this guy is pretty much only removable or infectable...just good god what the h? Why take an excellent card whom I have lovingly called "Iron Giant" ever since I started magic WITH Mirrodin...ugh. I give up...the return to Mirrodin has done nothing but ruin it for me and made me want to retreat back to my second favorite planes (Lorwyn and Zendikar)...so long Mirrodin, I will always love you and Sunburst/Modular but you are no longer the home I once knew.
BloodDragon
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Contrary to popular belief this is probably what Happened to the Darksteel Colossi.
Pesky Phyrexians
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This will be banned in EDH shortly.
GruesomeGoo
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
And I thought nothing could beat the original... Also probably one of the best pieces of art in the set.
"No half measures, no regrets. We'll tell no stories of Blightsteel Colossus. It will be as if it never existed at all." —Magic Players Everywhere
Emrakul may not kill in one hit, but he's much, much harder to get rid of (Baring board sweeps). And he essentially has haste, untaps all of your mana, and lets you draw a card when you cast him.
You can take out BS Colossus (I wonder if they do that on purpose...) with a freaking Pacifism.
(Just to clarify, I'm not saying it "sucks" because it can be exiled. I'm simply arguing that the availability and ease of removal, compared to Emrakul, is relatively high.)
Great_North
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
When I got two copies of Shape Anew in the fat pack I bought, I was a little sad.
Not anymore.
Shadoflaam
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Got one in prerelease, couldn't use it but literally everyone wanted it now it's in my edh deck...
Carthago
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Every seems to forget where big dudes go GREEN you no what else is in green...ASCETICISM target what? Whispersilk Cloak target what? sure you might have the removal but ive got counters in blue green. and if your whole deck is Artifact/Encahnment removal, you might have a problem against decks with...CREATURES a.k.a INFECT decks
Okay, so there are ways to answer it. But if they don't, time for game 2.
5ColorPro
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Drop in some Grand Architects to laugh at your attempts to revoke. If you get enough blue guys then you can even play him from your hand.
tcollins
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Not only is there removal (Revoke Existence, Arrest...) there are also cards that turn him against you, such as Act of Treason and Metallic Mastery, outside of red, use Corrupted Conscience). Also, for {12} I'd much rather cast Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, although he is more susceptible to removal, if i lose him at least i get 3 cards out of the deal.
It is the best infect card, the opponent has one turn to do something about it and then its game over. Also it could be over in 5 turns if you have maelstrom archangel and blightsteel in your hand
Strawb3rryPanic
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(7 votes)
well, I play B/R vamps so all I have to do is Mark Of Mutiny this.
Good thing it's mythic rare - any more of those and Mirrodin will definetly be doomed.
pzfreez7
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
first rare i pulled from besieged :)
NoobOfLore
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(18 votes)
Yet another member of the BS family, along with his angel of a sister.
landboysteve
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Unless you're playing vintage, where you can use Urza's lands, this guy is never going to see the light of day, certainly not in standard. So as big and bad as he is, like somebody already said, if this gets cast against you, you probably are going to lose anyway, if you already haven't.
SorianSadaskan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
BLIMEY! The the prodigal son overpowers his father (Darksteel Colossus).
Same analogy with Molten-Tail and Razormane, but as with Masticore, that is debatable.
Xaxas
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments directed at R&D for this card. My personal opinion is that R&D makes cards that are cool, look scary, and are not OP more than the next mythic. There are TONS of other giant creatures that have "I kill you in one hit" written all over them. Cruel Ultimatum, Phage, Myr Battlesphere, and Emrakul are all examples of these, but should they not have been printed? OF COURSE NOT. Any format that can reliably abuse this already has a billion other things that can be abused. I'm looking at you, vintage.
steelpommel
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
TIMMY!
TheMurderousKitten
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Not much of a threat in tournament play, but I have a feeling I will be seeing him in casual regularly. My friend is already rebuilding his infect deck around his four copies of this beast. Of course, I threw a couple copies of Splinter into my deck to counter that.
"Oh, a Blightsteel Colossus? Well, let's just remove him from the game. And while we're at it, go ahead and get rid of the other three copies you have hiding in your hand and library. Now we don't all hate playing with you anymore."
EvilCleavage
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is sooo sexy!! I actually got a fat pack a couple days ago and pulled of these bad boys, along with 2 inkmoth nexus! I couldn't believe it! This set is soo awesome I like it waay more than SoM for some reason. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that there are really good common's and uncommons. SoM didn't really have that for me. I feel satisfied sometimes even when I pull a crummy rare because I pull a good uncommon and a few good commons. Really makes a big difference for me. But this card is amazing. Have it in my ramp deck and it stomps. Usually one or two hitter quitters.
Try4se
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I like how no one mentions Mishra's Workshop as a way to get this out. Why bother with complex methods? Hard cast him.
nemokara
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Okay, WOTC. We get that you're trying to show us how Phyrexia is "corrupting" Mirrodin. But this just lacks elegance and smacks of lazy design.
NeoMint
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
What, wasn't Elder Land Wurm good enough? *** you, R&D.
KingCody77
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(9 votes)
more like "Rape Colossus"
iPreferStormCrow
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
He's an 11/11 with infect? AND TRAMPLE? Use Diminish for an instant win. And use tinker (if you have it) to get over his huge mana cost.
Gormaol
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Try4se Because most people don't give a rat's ass about the Vintage format, which Mishra's Workshop falls under. Vintage is like an auto win first/second turn if you know anything about MTG, which is why so few play it, and there are cards far superior to this for that purpose.
Blightsteel Colossus: Ha! I have returned, Emrakul, and more powerful then ever! Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: Oh, hey man, haven't seen you since Magic 2010. And it looks like all you got was an increased mana cost, I still have +4/+4 over you, kill 6 permanents every time I attack, and spit out unfair extra turns like I'm Time Walk. Blightsteel Colossus: Well, now that I joined Phyrexia, WAY eviler then you guys, btw, I get this neat thing called infect. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: And what's that do? Blightsteel Colossus: It says that I only need to deal 10 damage to kill someone and it maks all damage I do, permanent. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: But... You're 11/11... Blightsteel Colossus: Exactly. I also cost less then you AND I'm an artifact *cough* Tinker *cough* Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: But... Why? *cries* Krosan Cloudscraper *pats Emrakul on the back* Aw, cheer up man, power creep kills the best of us. At least he doesn't have affinity...
rinoh20
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i curse you name blight steel. may you rot on in the bottom of junk collections for all eternity, you infectious abomination.
Degazon
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Actually Eved, you cannot cast Pacifism on Emrakul. Maybe you're thinking of Oblivion Ring or Journey to Nowhere. Enchantment - Aura's target upon casting it, and at that time it is still a spell. Nothing is a permananet until it is on the battlefield.
Powercreep is back, and it's coming for our classics
WotC next secret card: Immense Growth (G)
Target creature gets +4/+4 until the end of turn
DeathDark
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The brother of Darksteel Colossus? Nay, nay... this is simply what happened when Phyrexia got tired of seeing those damned Platinum Emperions.
Your life total cannot change? Good, good...
@iPreferStormCrow
Diminish? DIMINISH!?! Where's your creativity, boy? Distortion Strike! Don't even leave them hope!
Aburaishi
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I despise this card on principle. The Infect mechanic itself doesn't sit well with me; this is just disgusting. Whoever decided this was acceptable to add to standard should be fired.
mrswamp
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
You know Id be ***ed about this if they didnt print cards like Shatter and Creeping Corrosion in the same set ( yea I know I just went there but with this thing, its justified). But I usually play mono black and other than GfTT (which cant hit this thing) wtf am I going to do with the removal scars gives us?
This is the most *** ive seen since Emrakul, come the *** on wizards
DamyntheSilver
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm kinda sad to see everyone complaining about a 1-hit kill. All it takes is a X/2 creature to live for an extra turn, on top of that, infect = win against it. Also there are a few spells in standard to remove artifacts from play. It's actually a very easy card to be rid of. And for people who want to cheat it in to play, its not to hard to break the cheat combo to drop him. The only way i can see this card being deadly, is if you're COMPLETELY unprepared for it, and then the opponent has something to make it unblockable. I understand that if you do manage to bring him to 0 toughness he goes back in the deck, but seriously, that's more a last ditch effort, cause most infect guys don't do 11 damage in one shot. And by that point you should have won the game anyway. People just fear it because its big. All you need to do is stop it from being cheated into play, and have a counterspell ready if someone (FOR SOME REASON) manages to hard cast it. Seriously, it's a 1 Blue to counter this with Steel Sabotage. There's so many ways to be rid of this card it's not even funny. It is very over powered, it's pretty cheap, but it's not invincible.
Also, if you can send this card back to your opponents deck, and they manage to drop the same one again, you're doing something wrong.
*pulls this card out from a pack* Oh sweet, I'll throw this into my reanimator deck and just discard then necromancy this out... oh wait, nevermind...
Kaizeischi
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(15 votes)
Nothing good can come of a Darksteel Colussus "Hulking out." This is like if all Emrakuls came with a small clip-on disk that spat acid at the opposing player.
Enchantment_Removal
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Unlike Darksteel Colossus, this guy dies to Kiku's Shadow.
Do these infect reprints remind anyone of the Ing from Metroid Prime 2? Like this guy is similar to the robot dude Quadraxis.
ok nevermind. More Magic less Video Games.
boogaboogaboogi
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Cast on it act of treason and laugh to death :)
Bandswithother
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Alot of people are ***ing and moaning because this guy "obsoletes" DS colossus. That their most beloved creature of all time has been defiled.
Why would someone run DSC over this? Because they like DSC better.
Wizards may have made a shiny new toy, but that doesn't mean anyone is forcing anybody to play with it. DSC is still a house, it can still win games, and give warm, fuzzy Timmy feelings. It shouldn't matter whether you have a DSC or a BSC pointed at the opponent, because either way they don't have much longer to live.
I have a deck with this in it, running four Jace, the mind sculptors. I never use them except for the Brainstorm ability. Unfortunately, while I get the combo working almost every game, I'm always beaten before I can attack.
supershawn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
the funny thing about this in my opinion is that if darksteel and blightsteel collossus fight this one will win...
Add some Jace, some Mana Leak, and maybe some See Beyond and you've got yourself a dang good start to a Standard deck.
Dante2006
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Anyone else think this will see use in legacy with Tooth and Nail ?
El_Feed
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Current deck I am playing around with... Kuldotha Forgemaster to pop this guy out... mayhem ensues forthwith
doomlord1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Zo my goodness
theseekerssidekick12
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
and the funny thing is i can have gotten him on the field in less than 5 turns
jemas42
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It's not hard to cast. Ignoring bolting it into play with bull (Kuldotha Forgemaster etc.) a myr deck or a everflowing chalice in a proliferate deck can have it in play on turn 7 or so, depending on draw and land.
Oh and then there's time I was archenemy and dropped it turn 1 with Introductions Are In Order. Everyone just scooped.
Superllama12
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
As I pulled out a foil Koth of the Hammer, the guy across from me pulled out two of these...then the guy next to me complained about pulling out a Venser the Sojourner...because he already had four!!!
Also, is it just me, or does the art look really similar to Platinum Emperion
drakejake
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
YAAAAAAAYYYY A NEW ''TINKER'' TOY
Hand_Bannana
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
i got a foil one. wonder if its worth anything
Kruzewah
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I started playing Magic around the time Onslaught came out. I started to feel comfortable with good, balanced cards. Then they came out with Mirrodin, which threw off my newly found ideas. It felt like a good chunk of Mirrodin and Darksteel were created just to break rules (or the game in General). I never really understood why they made Darksteel Colossus back then (with tooth and nail in the same block!)
And now this.... they just had to make one of the most ridiculous cards in the game second rate. I mean, they aren't even legendary either!
stille_nacht
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i dont like that this is an obvious ramp up from darksteel colossus.
what i do like is the fact that this is one of the most epic creatures i have ever seen o-O, say hello to my polymorph deck... (i like to imagine random tokens exploding into blightsteels.
Lateralis0ne
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So I totally turn zero'd this guy today. Was the coolest thing in the world.
And then my opponent swords'd Blighty on his turn. I nearly cried.
DysprosiumJudas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I make sure to give people dirty looks every time they drop this card. WOTC made a huge mistake with this card, but somebody actually playing it is like they're taking advantage of an old man's senility. People should be respectful enough to quietly look the other way and sweep this retarded concept off the table.
Type your comment here.ConfiscateAct Of TreasonIce Floe. Those are just a few killers i can come up with off the top of my head. How about Black Market in a low mana cost "sac. a Zombie" deck to get this guy out. Keep bringing your chump zombies back and sacking them again to pump the market and a card fetch to pull your BSC.
as for the rest of you, if you let your opponent hard-cast this guy then you deserve to lose. if you don't have the means of dealing with him in an artifact heavy environment, then perhaps you should look at your sideboard more closely.
And no, I'm not defending this guy, he is to me further proof that the entire magic R&D department have lost their minds when it comes to costing cards like this.
I once played a deck based off of the combo of this, Master's Call, and Shape Anew. Needless to say, I was pretty screwed the first game when my opponent attacked twice, killing my Hero of Bladehold. Second game, though, as he was laughing his his pants off, I played an Act of Treason, which left everyone else at the table in tears.
Another game, a guy hardcast this on turn 4 (can't remember how) and then played Invigorate.
A few minutes later, he stormed out swearing at everything within earshot.
What was that about "Easy to remove?" I have only lost one game when I get this guy out in my shape anew deck, and it was because kuldotha red was too fast for me. If you understand the concepts of magic, protecting him isn't a hard task at all.
Spideredd it sounds like you are complaing about zendikars mythics being way better then is commens and umcommens. Look at Vampire Hexmage,Vampire Nighthawk,Gatekeeper of malakir,Steppe Lynx and Journey to Nowhere. why dose everyone think he is overpowered. Unlike with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn you have a chance to deal with him before he attacks and unlike emrakul when he attacks unless you combo him it dose not end the game immediately like emrakul dose when he attacks. As for tinker it's Restricted so you probably wont draw it and even if Tinker wasn't Iona, Shield of Emeria would still be easier to cheat out considering she is a easy Reanimater target.
forgttenagain
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
I almost quit playing magic when the eldrazi came along, I DID quit playing magic and sell all my cards when this came out.
Robert_G
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Not as powerful as Emrakul....period. I fear Emrakul on the other side of the table a lot more than this guy.
Paleopaladin
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(12 votes)
Make room, Baneslayer, there more BS to bury this game in...
(land, lotus, sol ring, tinker for blightsteel, lotus, sol ring, lightning greaves)
M.U.R.D.E.R.E.D.
persecutor
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Let me tell you how this works. Open up your Mirrodin Besieged pack. Remove Blightsteel Colossus from said pack. Take your Blightsteel Colossus home. Put it in the toilet. Enough said.
BonniePrinceCharlie
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(16 votes)
Instantly kill the player who plays the BS with Backlash
scumbling1
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
I'm a little sad that they made Darksteel Colossus completely obsolete with this card's printing. I'm also disappointed at this card's sloppy artwork.
However, I'm happy to see Wizards finally print a fattie that can one-shot people AND can be cheated into play (Phage is too prohibitive). They were already flirting with the notion when they made the Eldrazi, but this isn't just 'you are crippled and will most likely lose' -- this is 'you are dead, now!'
Dregrage
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Because 2 turns clock wasn't enough.
Vinifera7
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(21 votes)
It's a little sad that this completely overshadows Darksteel Colossus. For that reason, I kind of hate it.
I lost game 1, but fortunately I had some Condemn (massive lifegain for my opponent!) in the sideboard and managed to win game 2-3. His deck also includes two Karn Liberated planeswalker. So if he fails to win by cheating it into play with Shape Anew, Karn can exile it from his hand and restart the game with the Colossus on the field turn one... aouch. I don't think there is summoning sickness in that case, so it's GG.
Nomad0404
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Someone said this is difficult to cast:
May I present to you Hoarding Dragon
But also I hate on hit kill cards like this - they ruin the game.
XPhoenixRisingX
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(5 votes)
total garbage... to anybody that posted turn 1 kills: none of it is legal an any format but casual play. tinker is banned in every format. shape anew is cool, but for one blue mana i unsummon it, making it a dead card in your hand.
SgtSwaggr
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
A 22/11 Trampler, Indistructable giant. Boom.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Game Over, YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s-c2JVI40
Thaifortune
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
My Splicer deck just got a little bit nastier with this big brother. Wing Splicer and Blightsteel. Flying 11/11 Trample Infect anyone?
Dr.Pingas
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(6 votes)
I dislike it on the grounds that, with Darksteel, you could at least hold it off. Get a Jareth, Leonine Titan out, and you can chump-block it till the cows come home. This guy is all downhill; once you attack, things die, period. Even if you have something beefy enough to stand up to it, you probably only get to block once or twice before it breaks through.
Latronis
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
hitting people is too obvious. I just like to slap a lure on it to slowly wipe the boad clear for the lulz
Joseph_Leito
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Unfortunately not STRICTLY better than Darksteel Colossus, because of the one mana extra (and I'm pretty sure infect actually makes strict quality rankings impossible with non-infect.). But anyone who doubts that this has much, MUCH better applications hasn't looked at the meta lately.
I agree with Joseph, Infect effectively doubles his power (if it hits them) while increasing it's mana cost so you really can't make such comparisons. It's really apples and oranges.
Anytime two cards have both a positive (infect) and negative (mana) quality over each other, the whole conversation becomes a matter of opinion, not fact. It's all situational based on your specific meta and play style. So 'strictly' won't work.
Talvuris
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I Don't get what all the fuss is about, bounce them with an aether spellbomb, after disposing on any annoying enchants with a dispeller's capsule
sarroth
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
@MechaKraken: "I'm not sure if there are any massive -1/-1 counter laying cards yet" - Umm, Black Sun's Zenith? Sure, the cost is ridiculous, but even if you just make the Colossus smaller, it might give you time to stall while blocking.
Not that I'm justifying this card. I actually hate it. Phyrexian Juggernaut loses the "can't be blocked by walls" part of Juggernaut when it got Phyrexianized, so this could have lost Trample. Is it more flavorful? Very. But as a Vorthos, I must say sometimes flavor needs to take a backseat to other aspects. Like fun, which I'm less likely to have with this out.
TheChurchIsHere
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Had a friend tinker into one of these on turn 3. I Mercy Killing 'd it, giving him 11 elves, tapped my Wellwisher gaining 13 life, then dropped a Wirewood Pride on my Taunting Elf, swung at him for 13, and killed off all the elves.
Spectis
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Glad I own this card, otherwise I'd throw out a couple Melira's Keepers onto the field.
Blue land, two Mox Sapphires, tinker, turn one Blightsteel Colussus.
deadeye1387
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
This is the noobiest, unskillful, stupid card WOTC has ever come out with. If you draw this card, you can be a newbie and win the game. It has no strategy to it whatsoever. But people use it anyway, so I try to keep around a couple of Revoke Existences.
Splattercat
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(9 votes)
@gtamaster503
Been playing DotP2012 huh?
Hottip: Karn cheats. Mox Sapphire is restricted in every format it isn't banned in.
PcvsApple
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(14 votes)
You know, birds often eat small stones and metal to grind their food in the stomach. After eating a healthy serving of spaghetti, Storm Crow needs something to grind it all up.
Paladin85
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
We have had win the game cards with you the player needing to build around it, now we have this instant loss punching device that wins you the game once it gets 10 damage through (trample helps)
Of course there are cards to halt or stop this monster, but for the good of the game this card is not
TherealphatMatt
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
I feel like there's a very sinister combo with Warstorm Surge, here.
labrat3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This guy is totally one-shot Ronnie from the Jersey Shore! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZf00gWxCP0
zenuedite
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Scoop fodder.
Still, 12 mana is an impressive feat in 1-on-1. But when they just use something ELSE broken to get out ANOTHER broken card (or two), say, Defense of the Heart, it's not very fair.
I would have costed this at 13. It's not hardcast that often anyway, and it makes it so much more nefarious. (Plus, infect for one more measly mana is ridiculous.)
700.4. If a permanent is indestructible, rules and effects can't destroy it. (See rule 701.6, "Destroy.") Such permanents are not destroyed by lethal damage, and they ignore the lethal-damage state-based action (see rule 704.5g). Rules or effects may cause an indestructible permanent to be sacrificed, put into a graveyard, or exiled.
Gatekeeper of Malakir does force a sacrifice of Blightsteel, assuming he doesn't have another creature, which is unlikely since many decks like to Shape Anew with tokens.
Black Sun's Zenith does place Blightsteel in the graveyard as a state based effect for having 0 toughness (704.5f If a creature has toughness 0 or less, it's put into its owner's graveyard. Regeneration can't replace this event. ). However, you have to pay 14 mana, and probably clean your board for that, and since he may be playing a bunch of tokens and he'll just get it back, since its now in his library.)
The only great way to kill it is to exile it. He is a pretty nuts card, but for players that are having trouble with him, you need to remember:
Its only one creature, while on offense it will beat you in a couple turns, decks that cheat it into play probably don't have a lot else going on. One creature, no matter how good, is still just one creature.
If he has more creatures, he probably played it legit 12, you should try and be mindful of bomb cards that could be coming out, and be prepared to do whats necessary.
If he got lucky, and it came out, luck is a part of this game, scoop if you can't win and don't sweat it.
One of many cards and combos that can be beaten better indirectly, just because wizards is holding your hand with removal don't forget that working around a problem is just as good/better as blowing it up. "Just go f---ing kill him"
Arachibutyrophobia
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
one of the three creatures that can kill a player at full-life when unblocked.
An incredibly uninteresting card, as though we're being told "KILL THEM WITH POISON!"
blisterine
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
I like nothing about this card. Darksteel Colossus is a fantastic card - very clever idea, brilliantly realized, with beautiful art to boot. This card makes that wonderful creation obsolete and, on top of that, is incredibly boring to play with. Unmake it, please!+
swords_to_exile
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Domo arigato - one shot roboto
Nucleon
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(15 votes)
I like to imagine that this thing is a Phyrexian attempt to build their own Colossus rather than a corrupted original. The original presumably died in a suitably heroic way.
"Superman..."
Arachnos
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
The scary thing about this guy is that he can come out as soon as Turn 1. All it takes is a Tolarian Academy, a few 0-cost artifacts (especially if they're mana generators), and Tinker and you win =D
mattblack04
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The argument for huge expensive game ending creatures is that if you get that much mana and yet live, you deserve a card that basically says "I win, let's play again." This works until you make it so you can cheat it in that's easy and inexpensive (mana wise). It's like cheating a Baneslayer in on turn 1.
Trample with Infect I expect to see on cards I can't hope to play till turn 5 unless I forego the first 3 turns doing nothing but manaramping. I did not expect to see them together on a card that can be cheated in and deliver the lethal poison counters on its own by turn 3, turn 2 with any card that gives haste.
spirit_of_blue
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Arachibutyrophobia, there are many many more creatures that can kill player at full life when unblocked. If only condition you mention that it have to be "unblocked creature", I am pretty confident, there have to be hundreds of such creatures. At example right now I have in mind at least B.F.M - http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9844, S.N.O.T, Hellkite Charger, Kiln Fiend, Immolating Souleater, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, Goblin Medics, Pestermite, Primordial Hydra and all other hydras (I think there was printed few of them) and so on.
Of course, all of those creatures need other part of combo which makes that 20 points of damage possible, but Colossus also needs combo. I doubt You will hardcast it. You will probably use combo to get it into play. Even just mana ramp is in its sense "combo with colossus" because such deck would be built this way to support it.
Megapossum
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Bonus points for using this with the Exalted ability.
Zokorad
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Not that good because unlike Darksteel Colossus it can not be Mana Ramped with cards that fits its Infectious nature but this could be a good card 4/5.
So, a question (though I think I already know the answer)- With this guy and all the other graveyard-dodgers, what happens if they are turned over by a Helm of Obedience? I'd like to think I get mah blightsteel bukkit, but I have a feeling that, due to the same loophole that synergizes with Leyline of the Void, the BS hits the graveyard, triggering both the Colossus' shuffle in, *and* the sacrifice of the Helm with no creature grabbed.
Is this correct?
TheWallinator74
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
This guy probably ended the Mirran-Phyrexian War on his own. As a fan of infect, this guy came out of the gate as a messiah for me. It was after seeing him that I knew Mirrodin would soon be under new management.
SkaerKrow
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
They shouldn't let Mark Rosewater work on sets when one of his pet mechanics is involved. When they do, stuff like this happens.
sonorhC
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
If they were going to create a creature with these stats at all, was the right cost for it. If you're hardcasting, this takes one turn longer than Darksteel Colossus to cast (probably more than one turn longer, actually, since you probably don't get a mana each turn), but once it's cast, takes one turn less to win. So both colossi give you the win on the same turn.
And if you're cheating creatures into play, the mana cost is irrelevant, and there's no mana cost they could have given this to balance it.
Of course, that still leaves the question of whether they should have printed a creature with these stats at all. But there are enough other big expensive creatures which almost guarantee the win, that I don't think now is really the right time to start complaining.
smokyWSDXS
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(9 votes)
Meh, too underpowered for me. He lacks haste.
TripleFisted
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Everyone seems to have their panties in a knot over this 12CMC trampling infectious beast of a card. So many simple solutions to this card. I will name one.
Am I missing something here? Why is this card rated so much lower than Darksteel Colossus? Is there really that much hate-rate for this card? I'll agree, it's a pretty ridiculous card, but jeez don't rate it .5 star just because you think it's too hard to deal with.
There's being flavourful, then there is this. However, it annoys me the most that because of this guy something like Quicksilver Gargantuan or Platinum Emperion being in Scars' prevented Darksteel Colossus being re-printed with perhaps awesome new art. Either WOTC knew the BS Colossus was coming which is a shame.
Mind control. Need I say more. Stop complaining, yeah it's nasty but there are cards out there that will screw over anyone who plays this. For a very short list:
Mind control Corrupted conscience Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker Karn Liberated Venser the Sojourner
not to mention simply forcing your opponent to re-cast it:
Vapor Snag Cancel Unsummon etc.
This is not the cheapest card in the game and it can be dealt with easily if you don't just think in terms of destroying it.
@pedrodyl: True, but it only works once and it won't affect a cancellation spell.
"You can activate Spellskite's ability even if Spellskite wouldn't be a legal target for the spell or ability. However, the target of that spell or ability will remain unchanged."
GrandAdmiralThrawn89
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Serves as the infected EVA in my Angel (Eldrazi) deck.
Evangelion FTW
Mr.Wimples
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The original Darksteel Colossus is now reminiscent to me of The Iron Giant now that this guy is around. Almost like some misunderstood hero.
Yes it can get cancelled, but so can everything else in the game. That's what makes the game fun. It's not like many people hardcast this anyway, so it shouldn't be that much of a tempo-loss. A personal favorite of mine is Fold into Aether on a Memnite, Searching both the memnite and the BS with Trinket Mages and Treasure Mages, respectively.
Paolino
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
OK, I have just read 18 pages of comments. ALL of them. What surprises me is how many people are complaining about this card for futile reasons.
For those who complain about the power of the card, yes it's very very powerful. It can be cheated into play with McGyver, Tinker, or what else... But Tinker is only playable in Vintage, where there are already first-turn-win combos, while Master Transmuter needs you to have it in your hand, and you usually have to tutor it someway, slowing down its entrance. Quicksilver Amulet costs , and Kuldotha Forgemaster costs and requires THREE ARTIFACTS to sacrifice; both of them are not so fast... And it's MUCH LESS powerful than other cards recognized by WotC itself as mistakes: Tolarian Academy, Tarmogoyf, Skullclamp and Jace for example. Most of these cards were banned in Standard and/or are still banned in Block Constructed. This one is not. Infect/proliferate environment is super-aggro and fast, and the fact that 10 damage are enough to win makes many other creatures very dangerous; moreover, damage dealt in form of -1/-1 counters makes creatures smaller and smaller, and even this huge super beast shrinks inexorably in combat.
For those who complan about this card outshine Darksteel Colossus, I say that it does NOT completely outshine it. Damage is still the main way to victory, and if you play Blightsteel Colossus you still have to play a poison-based deck: if you attack once with BS and then opponent removes it, he can be at 8 or 9 poison counters, but still at 20 life, and if you don't support poison in some way you are like at the beginning of the game but without your best cards... Darksteel Colossus is still played, even after this beast's coming. I personally don't like super-aggro mechanics, and in particular I don't like the infect/proliferate environment, but this is not a good reason to hate every single card involved: cards are designed and developed within a certain perspective, and some of them are really well designed if looked from the right point of view. From a flavorful perspective, the fact that Phyrexia has assimilated the most iconic Mirrodin creatures (like this one or Etched Oracle) is just proof of the fact that it is winning the war by absorbing and rebuilding the world of Mirrodin. While I don't like the infect mechanics and I liked Darksteel Colossus, I can't rate this card but 5 stars.
I must admit that I was upset when I saw this card for the first time, but after thinking about well, this is surely not a broken nor a badly designed card. This card is played at competitive level, and so is still Darksteel Colossus; this card has not been banned nor restricted in ANY format. Blightsteel Colossus is about $5, and so it's not one of those overcosted speculative cards...
This card is REALLY POWERFUL, but NOT BROKEN. And I have not even mentioned all the way to remove it!
It's good that occasionally some bombs like this one come out. Magic is a game of strategy, skill, competition, and these cards which alone can alter the metagame challenge players to find new strategies to use them and defend against. Life is hard because it's full of challenges to overcome, problems to solve and people or other things that obstruct us, and Magic is one of the BEST games in the world because it is EDUCATIONAL, as well as fun. Cards like this one are little life lessons, and we only have to learn from dealing with them.
AeonAnomaly
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
So. I have to ask. What happens if you use Trepanation Blade and Blightsteel is the last card in their Library?
Also, what if you had Undead Alchemist out? Would UA's exile go off before Blightsteel's return?
Goatllama
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Phyrexia knows how to improve upon fragile Mirran designs.
What about disentigrate? Since is removes him from the game would that do it, or would the indestructible negate the damage?
dragonhat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This with Mage Slayer is an instant win when you attack. Since the card specifies that the Colossus is dealing the damage, it counts as infect damage. So much for your opponent's massive blocking reserves.
dave22222
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
What an abysmal card. Darksteel colossus actually had flavor and was iconic whereas this card is nothing more than lazy design/power creep.
Areps
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
mage slayer
ericksee
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(14 votes)
what a tragic slip!
Hugomanen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Some guy looked smug when he played this with a grand architect, then i put a Ghostly Possession on my Invisible Stalker. The look on his face was priceless.
DoragonShinzui
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Oh yes, because Infect on a pseudo evasive, indestructible body is totally just worth more.
MithosFall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why the hell is this rated 3.989/5? This is an amazing card. It must be the same effects as Baneslayer Angel. People don't like it, think it's overpowered, overused, or overrated, and then rate it low because of that. This card immediately sets a sense of urgency or panic once it hits the field because it can win you the game in a couple of turns AND it's difficult to get rid of. There is no reason that this should be rated lower than Grim Poppet.
Punchgroin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Um, you all realize that backlash would deal 11 damage right? It wouldn't deal the damage in poison counters (read carefully). Kikus shadow would fail to destroy it for the same reason.
I recommend act of treason.
Considering how fast you can cheat this sucker out in a solid artifact deck, absolutely a top rated card. This is Emrakul level board threat at a much lower price that's easier to cheat. And if you *did* cheat it out with forgemaster, and they manage to kill it, you can just cheat it back out next round with another precursor golem. (you are running precursor golem in your forgemaster deck right?)
DaJoshMaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Punchgroin - No it woul deal infect damage, blacklash makes 'the creature' deal damage, and infect means 'this creature deals damage in the form of infect counters'. This works for much the same reason Livewire Lash deals infect.
GracefulInferno
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Chris Rahn, I am disappoint. You basically just flipped the art of Platinum Emperion and drew a phi character on its chest.
Fireballmage
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(10 votes)
This card is terrible design.
It is obviously intended to appeal to players' nostalgia about Darksteel Colossus... And then it turns out to just be a better Darksteel Colossus, completely obsoleting the original and trampling (Heh) all over players' memories of the robot.
Would it have been too hard to make this an 11 mana 9/9? It would have occupied its own niche instead of being an almost-always superior card, and it would have added more tension by not making it a one-hit kill.
Also, the art is worse-looking. :-P
Kamishini
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Hugomanen I'm sorry, but that wouldn't work. All he has to do is deal enough damage to 'kill' Invisible Stalker and then he can deal the rest to you. Someone else correct me if I'm wrong. As for the card itself, I'm not surprised by how much hate this card has received, especially from nostalgic players, and I can understand, to a degree, but hating a card because Wizards decided to do something like this is kinda... I don't know... But I digress. there are also more ways to deal with him now than when Darksteel came out, so I would take that into account personally.
Averyck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Thing is, it can get Pacified so easily. Or exiled. or any number of horrible things. But people see stats and fear. My splicer deck using this card is tailored to put it out on turn 4, but can function just as well if it doesn't work. He's no Progenitus
As a general rule I think an Infect creature should always cost 2 more than its counterpart. Grizzly Bear 2, Infect Grissly Bear 4, due to infect being able to deal 2x as much damage in order to win the game (10 poison) but somehow they made infect cheaply costed. Darksteel Colossus at 11 and Blightsteel at 12..... it just doesn't seem fair. the addition of Infect only cost 1 more mana?
2 words: whispersilk cloak ;) and Master transmuter to get it on the battlefield for sure!
Tantudo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
=} my friend just sac his Darksteel Colossus to Birthing Pod for this, I loved the flavor and unsummoned it; but the flavor off that move was just to good!
Am I the only one who wants to enchant this with Eldrazi Con***ionjust for some epic, yet awesome overkill.
BongRipper420
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I think this card was a much needed revamp of Darksteel Colossus. Because of the current meta and how the game has evolved in general, an 11/11 indestructible just isn't as scary as it use to be. There are just so many options of dealing with it, that it's not even that fearsome by the time you cast it. Between Oblivion Ring, Path to Exile, Unmake, Final Judgement, Unsummon, and the list just goes on. Darksteel Colossus simply doesn't inspire the same fear that it used to. So I think it's only appropriate that that a card as iconic as the Colossus get a revamp to make it as terrifying as it once was.
Exile Simian Spirit Guide from your hand and cast Right of Flame. Play the Swamp and cast Dark ritual. Using the three black mana from the Dark Ritual and one red mana from the Right of Flame cast Body Snatcher and discarded the Blightsteel Colossus. Next use the remaining red mana to hit Body Snatcher with a lightning Bolt and put the Blightsteel Colossus into play.
Now laugh because you opponent hasn't played a land yet.
Eved
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is awesome. I hate it.
@PhyrexianAdvocate Pacifism works on Emrakul, the Aeons Torn too. For anyone who doesn't believe that, read the rulings on Emrakul and learn the difference between "spell" and "permanent"
EDIT: ...wow. I was thinking that Pacifism was Journey to nowhere at the time of post. I'm aware that Pacifism is a spell. I'm not completely retarded, I was just thinking of the wrong card.
hoser2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lightning Mauler or Fervor gives it haste, which limits the opponent's reaction possibilities.
Notchism
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why this does not deserve a 5/5 it will be killed with a storm crow and a tragic slip
RecurringMemories
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Artwork = Great/Better then original! :-P Power/Abilitites = Amazing (1 Hit kill!) Cheatable into play = Damn straight (Tinker) Broken = Do I give the impression I care? I have no memories of Darksteel Colossus as I wasn't playing back then, so this beast smashing it to pieces doesn't bother me. I want to run either an artifact or infect deck just because of this monster...or maybe I'll put him into my Recurring deck with Deathrender, slap Lightning Greaves on him and begin to smash faces.
@TheWrathofShane: Agreed.
bay_falconer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
The real problem with this guy is the mana cost. He's to be added on as an alternative wincon in EDH or something.
RetroGamer3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One card Splinter.
Mhirnatsu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card just screams tinker.
high_tide_niv
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pandemonium. E
J34nM1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with Novablast Wurm on the sweep for an instant victory.
SeriesOfTubes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm sort of mad they made this this good. They couldn't have made the original sometimes better in some decks? Since its corrupted and all give it give you poison counters during each upkeep or something? IDK, just something.
nunyaJs
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Why does everyone keep saying "Blightsteel Colossus"? I thought this guy's name was "PowerCreep'?
oh! @TheWrathofShane
The Green card you were looking for was Splinter. :P
Salient
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Should've lost indestructibility when it gained infect.
Ligerman30
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
1 shot the robot. Very, very, very scary, especially w/ Lightning Greaves.
EGarrett01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What the heck? Darksteel Colossus wasn't strong enough??
dhinge
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So instead of getting killed in two turns, you get killed in one, but it only costs 1 more mana... right, there's no reason to throw away Darksteel Colossus.
infernox10
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I don't get why people hate this thing so much. I understand and somewhat agree with the "powercreep" argument. However, this thing oozes flavor. Wizards took one of the most iconic cards from MIrrodin and turned it Phyrexian. If that doesn't scream out to my inner Vorthos, I just can't understand what will.
Themercwithamouth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
His was the first mythic I ever saw. I stopped playing when the first mirroden block ended and started again when scars came out. I love how people *** and moan about this card. BSC is a beast. Haters u know you have one in your collection.
Grand architect + etherium sculptor+ minion reflector or golem artisan + BSC
Jah boi!!!!
Maelstrom_Hobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Turn one: Island, zero cost artifact; exile Simian Spirit Guide from your hand to play Need for Speed; tap the island and exile two more spirit guides to Tinker out the Colossus; sac the island to Need for Speed, swing for the win.
All you need is a perfect hand!
TheWaddleDeeKing
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A great card, though at 12 mana it's kinda hard to get out in most infect decks. Hell, in most infect decks you should have won before you can ramp for 12 mana. There are mana-ramp artifact decks though that could use this guy, so he has his place, just not everywhere.
4/5
Lifegainwithbite
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
By the time you get this card out you might prefer Darksteel Colossus because your opponent could be really low on life. They can just chump block this, take the trample counters and survive one more attack whereas if they're on low enough life, chump blocking won't work.
Hercynian
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even I don't like the fact that I can play these for 1 mana with master transmuter. It just gets disgusting. And no amount of equally disgusting cheap white exile makes it ok.
daverapp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Phyrexians have finished consolidating their powerbase on Mirr- I mean, New Phyrexia. Then they turn their sights on Zendikar!
"But wait!" you ask, "aren't there three Eldrazi titans still running around wrecking stuff there?" Who gives a crap, Blightsteel Colossus can kill the indestructbile one in one hit, turn the one that lets you draw cards into a 1/1, and I dunno what he'd do to the flying spaghetti monster, but I'd like to see some 34 of it. :)
Pyromage1222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i was playing a guy who had almost 6,000,000 life, and had serra avatar whom he returned to his deck for 6 mill life! i played blightsteel and the look on the guys face was priceless when he lost. at 12 mill life!
chodedestroyer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm just gonna Tinker you straight into my opponent's heart. <3
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I can't let you win dave.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy slays darksteel colossus. He is a freakin monster that can take out a planeswalker in 1 attack.
Nothing wrong with R&D for making this card, so many ways of dealing with it even if they cheat it out.
I want this in my deck. I'm trying to upgrade the agro-control-combo archetype into something nastier and this is perfect. All it needs is a Doubling Cube and Omnath, Locus of Mana.
Pongdok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Got a Swords to Ploughshares? O-ring? Path? Tragic slip? Nope? Ok, I win. Game two? Maybe if this had defender or something and cost half as much, it wouldn't have been so boring. As it is, chances are it is being cheated out somehow, and you just aren't going to have any fun. Yawn... 2/5
Bertemai
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
@daverapp: New duel decks idea - "New Phyrexia vs. Eldrazi."
Demonic_Math_Tutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A creature that can swing for leathal on its own is crazy.
A creature that can swing for leathal on its own and can't be removed by conventional means is insane.
A creature that can swing for leathal on its own, has indestructibility, can't be milled, with one of the most abusable card types is complete batshit.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Miran vs Phyrexia would be a cool duel deck, but they already did a Phyraxian dual deck. Still, it would be cool if the 'leader' of each deck was this and darksteel colossus.
I suppose Jor Kadeen would make more sense for the leader though.
Anyways, this card is really epic. It's one of the scariest creatures in the game. More scary than progenitus imo, however, the words 'protection from everything' are quite awesome.
In terms of flavor, the hate this guy recieves for being better than DSC makes me like him more. It hits us right in the feels and now we can relate to the pain the Mirrans felt as Phyrexia destroyed, replicated, and replaced their entire world.
Tamerlein
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
The fact that this card can win with a single swing while also being difficult to remove makes him just sort of silly in kitchen table environments.
5/5
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It's kinda funny that Pit Spawn, created all those years ago, still one-ups this guy in combat like a beast
*pi-dum ching*
Phelplan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Wizards, you could have made this creature a 10/10 for the twelve mana and still gotten the flavor through. It would have been fair and amazing and that little -1/-1 would have gone a long way in unifying your fan base around this creature. Just something to keep in mind for your future creations.
I'm amused by all the hate this guy gets. I don't mind that he's stronger than Darksteel Colossus in some ways. Just like I don't mind that he's weaker than DSC in other ways.
It just makes things more interesting and more exciting when you're faced with such a force. For me, it's not always about winning but whether I can achieve certain things and I'm always stoked when my opponent is also able to pull off certain specialties. Moments like that make some of the best games ever.
Why complain about one thing compared to another when you can just be thankful both exist. Let's face it, each card has it's place in mtg. Think about how stupid this game would be if it only ever pleased a particular group of players based on their limited preferences.
That's my take on it anyway.
Cheers
mrchuckmorris
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Run him in a Jhoira of the Ghitu deck alongside copious blue unblockability shenanigans. Suspend him turn 3 or 4, then zap him in with Timecrafting, and start losing friends each turn!
More importantly, --How fast do my reflexes need to be to avoid getting punched in the face?
I don't know what I'm annoyed at more: That Phyrexian Colossus fans have only loathing for this card, or that so many of you are trying to defend it as *fair* or *reasonable* by comparing it things like Psychatog, which was totally a Mistake, or Serra Avatar, which is...just not that good and only gets good if you suck at trying to beat her, or Phage the Untouchable which was meant to be uncheatable and have serious drawbacks, and they just...messed up and left holes and cracks?
This card is NOT ok....And that's Evil, Nasty, Torturous, POINT >)
I hate to break it to you, but New Phyrexia was a set that was kind of *meant* to upset and alienate the fans and players...think of it as the "Dark Knight" of MTG. In a fairer world, one where we were re-visiting an Invasion or Time Spiral-like era where the Phyrexians are going down? Maybe the old Colossus would be our model, not Darksteel. In the Weatherlight Saga the setting was Dominaria, so the inspiration for Phyrexian Colossus was Colossus of Sardia. But this time around, we were shown what happens when Phyrexia WINS. Mirrodin Besieged was our last warning.
What happens is we feel betrayed, violated, outgunned, and losing feels more like being murdered than dying in honorable combat. SHOULD they make cards like that? Debatable. Certainly when it's the result of unfortunate unforeseen interactions, it's regrettable, or when Development doesn't accurately predict the power level of Titans, that's regrettable too. And, yes, I feel for players that don't like it. That you think it's unbalanced and overpowered. And, just WRONG. You sirs, ARE CORRECT. However, Wizards was fairly clear and open and honest with what they were doing. They sometimes make actual mistakes not predicting the ludicrous combos or whatever. But....Blightsteel Colossus was exactly what it was supposed to be, and they did it EXTREMELY on purpose.
Some Mythic Rare creatures were 'mistakes' that I like it when people argue about.
Blightsteel Colossus was not one of them. It was DESIGNED to make people cry. It was SUPPOSED to be a CRASS INSULT to Darksteel Colossus. Everything it was, was by intent. Blightsteel Colossus is to Darksteel Colossus as Uruk-Hai are to Elves: The perfection of the Orc, a twisted, cruel, hateful mockery made to destroy and defile. I feel sorry for you, but Phyrexia *wants* you to feel the way you do, so it can drink your delicious tears. :P Blightsteel was supposed to cause terror and despair and cries of agony.....AND IT SUCCEEDED!
If you like or approve of this card, then you are a bad person. It's very much a 'Bad Person/Good Person test' >) Good People will heave and ho-hum, and moan their paeans to an absent god that this is WRONG. That it's an INSULT and a DESECRATION OF HISTORY. AND THE POWER CREEP! =O :'( Bad People will respond: "That's the Point, ***. B| "
Rakdos, Lord of Riots and Master of Cruelties can cheat him out nicely...with a fantastic die or die situation. Opponent will have 1 life. You have enough board presence to kill them with poison and normal damage. You're welcome.
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4x Trinket Mage
4x Shape Anew
4x Distortion Strike
1x Memnite
1x Blightsteel Colossus (optionally 2 in case you draw one before you're ready, or add draw+discard options.)
Fill the rest with anything to help you find the pieces (Foresee, Explore, etc.) and maybe some Negates in case they have an exile spell.
He totally takes down his older brother, the original eldrazi, Darksteel Colossus!
If there's some wonky haste giving-Shape Anew deck out there, expect to see this guy a lot!
I'm not going to argue that it's wrong to print one-hit kill monsters.
What I will say is that I don't like this guy.
For a mere 1 extra mana, they've taken one of Magic's most iconic, beloved, and powerful creatures and all but completely obsoleted it.
This guy should have cost as much as Emrakul.
The first creature that kills in one swing that does not require you to cast it.
Completely unoriginal, the just took an older creature and slapped infect on it (seems to be a common trend with MBS), effectively obsoleting the other colossus.
4x Trinket Mage
2x Blightsteel Colossus
3x Sunblast Angel
4x Wall of Omens
3x Wall of Frost
4x Shape Anew
3x Sleep
1x Everflowing Chalice
3x Mana Leak
3x Negate
2x Spell Pierce
4x Preordain
4x Glacial Fortress
2x Seachrome Coast
2x Celestial Colonnade
8x Plains
8x Island
If they had replaced trample with infect, fine, but 1 lousy colorless mana does not justify printing what is effectively a 22/11 Darksteel Colossus. This thing is an abomination.
the first was Phage, and they specifically disallowed her from being cheated into play.
They made this guy indestructible and an artifact. (power-balancing)
4x Blightsteel Colossus
4x Glint-Hawk Idol
4x Chimeric Mass
4x Pandemonium
4x Polymorph
2x Mass Polymorph
4x Inkmoth Nexus
4x Blinkmoth Nexus
1x Dryad Arbor
4x Hallowed Fountain
4x Steam Vents
2x Island
2x Mountain
It isn't complete, I know, but the idea is to use the artifacts/lands that become creatures to polymorph into BC. Pandemonium is self explanatory. I guess it's a good thing there isn't a burn spell that is infect. *shudder*
... And it's not even legendary...
maro if you're reading this--and we all know someone as vain and narcissistic as yourself reads all comments for any mention of his name--please quit now and take the rest of the design team with you. wotc needs new blood, fresh ideas. what wotc does not need is you.
" SUCKS BECAUSE IT CAN JUST BE EXILED OR BLOWN UP NOW WITH THE NEW MATERIAL IN THIS SET AND PREVIOUS STUFF"
'Kay, cool, waste your deck/side-deck slots with artifact burn like I tried to do for a deck. See how it works out for you.
That being said, two words (even though I expect to be yelled at for this): Prototype Portal.
First and foremost, he can be exiled. I imagine a lot of white decks running journey to nowhere when this comes out. He can be Pacifyied or Guard Dutyied too.
Not to mention you can deny him from entering the table at all using Stoic Rebuttal or any other cancel-induced spell. For lolz, you can play Unsummon just to look at the face of anyone who cheated him into play.
Now here's the interesting part - he may be indestructible, but he can still be infected himself! I'm not sure if there are any massive -1/-1 counter laying cards yet, but he can be teamed up on by other infect creatures and eventually whittled down.
One last thing - Domestication, Act of Treason, and Corrupted Conscience.
That is all.
@CJM2, Phage can be cheated out as early as turn 2, and emrakul will stop you from actually doing anything to stop it, since 6 permanents is a lot. And being hard to target is far more valuable than being indestructible.
Pesky Phyrexians
Also probably one of the best pieces of art in the set.
"No half measures, no regrets. We'll tell no stories of Blightsteel Colossus. It will be as if it never existed at all."
—Magic Players Everywhere
Emrakul may not kill in one hit, but he's much, much harder to get rid of (Baring board sweeps). And he essentially has haste, untaps all of your mana, and lets you draw a card when you cast him.
You can take out BS Colossus (I wonder if they do that on purpose...) with a freaking Pacifism.
(Just to clarify, I'm not saying it "sucks" because it can be exiled. I'm simply arguing that the availability and ease of removal, compared to Emrakul, is relatively high.)
Not anymore.
now it's in my edh deck...
Okay, so there are ways to answer it. But if they don't, time for game 2.
...indeed.
Good thing it's mythic rare - any more of those and Mirrodin will definetly be doomed.
Same analogy with Molten-Tail and Razormane, but as with Masticore, that is debatable.
"Oh, a Blightsteel Colossus? Well, let's just remove him from the game. And while we're at it, go ahead and get rid of the other three copies you have hiding in your hand and library. Now we don't all hate playing with you anymore."
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: Sup.
Darksteel Colossus: What the! 15/15! Not cool Wizards... *cries*
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: Sorry man. I'll cya, or not, kinda busy terrorizing standard and all that...
-Later-
Blightsteel Colossus: Ha! I have returned, Emrakul, and more powerful then ever!
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: Oh, hey man, haven't seen you since Magic 2010. And it looks like all you got was an increased mana cost, I still have +4/+4 over you, kill 6 permanents every time I attack, and spit out unfair extra turns like I'm Time Walk.
Blightsteel Colossus: Well, now that I joined Phyrexia, WAY eviler then you guys, btw, I get this neat thing called infect.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: And what's that do?
Blightsteel Colossus: It says that I only need to deal 10 damage to kill someone and it maks all damage I do, permanent.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: But... You're 11/11...
Blightsteel Colossus: Exactly. I also cost less then you AND I'm an artifact *cough* Tinker *cough*
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: But... Why? *cries*
Krosan Cloudscraper *pats Emrakul on the back* Aw, cheer up man, power creep kills the best of us. At least he doesn't have affinity...
Nice work, opponent. Get your land.
Powercreep is back, and it's coming for our classics
WotC next secret card: Immense Growth (G)
Target creature gets +4/+4 until the end of turn
Your life total cannot change?
Good, good...
@iPreferStormCrow
Diminish? DIMINISH!?! Where's your creativity, boy? Distortion Strike! Don't even leave them hope!
This is the most *** ive seen since Emrakul, come the *** on wizards
Also, if you can send this card back to your opponents deck, and they manage to drop the same one again, you're doing something wrong.
Do these infect reprints remind anyone of the Ing from Metroid Prime 2? Like this guy is similar to the robot dude Quadraxis.
ok nevermind. More Magic less Video Games.
Why would someone run DSC over this? Because they like DSC better.
Wizards may have made a shiny new toy, but that doesn't mean anyone is forcing anybody to play with it. DSC is still a house, it can still win games, and give warm, fuzzy Timmy feelings. It shouldn't matter whether you have a DSC or a BSC pointed at the opponent, because either way they don't have much longer to live.
Ornithopter
Selective Memory (or liliana vess's ability, or, if he's in your hand, brainstorm)
Shape Anew
I have a deck with this in it, running four Jace, the mind sculptors. I never use them except for the Brainstorm ability. Unfortunately, while I get the combo working almost every game, I'm always beaten before I can attack.
4 Shape Anew
1 Chimeric Mass
4 Trinket Mage
4 Treasure Mage
4 Inkmoth Nexus
Add some Jace, some Mana Leak, and maybe some See Beyond and you've got yourself a dang good start to a Standard deck.
Oh and then there's time I was archenemy and dropped it turn 1 with Introductions Are In Order. Everyone just scooped.
Also, is it just me, or does the art look really similar to Platinum Emperion
And now this.... they just had to make one of the most ridiculous cards in the game second rate. I mean, they aren't even legendary either!
what i do like is the fact that this is one of the most epic creatures i have ever seen o-O, say hello to my polymorph deck... (i like to imagine random tokens exploding into blightsteels.
And then my opponent swords'd Blighty on his turn. I nearly cried.
Those are just a few killers i can come up with off the top of my head.
How about Black Market in a low mana cost "sac. a Zombie" deck to get this guy out.
Keep bringing your chump zombies back and sacking them again to pump the market and a card fetch to pull your BSC.
as for the rest of you, if you let your opponent hard-cast this guy then you deserve to lose. if you don't have the means of dealing with him in an artifact heavy environment, then perhaps you should look at your sideboard more closely.
And no, I'm not defending this guy, he is to me further proof that the entire magic R&D department have lost their minds when it comes to costing cards like this.
I'm sure I can beat him.
4 x baneslayer
4 x blightsteel
+ something else.
Another game, a guy hardcast this on turn 4 (can't remember how) and then played Invigorate.
A few minutes later, he stormed out swearing at everything within earshot.
Fun times.
Vines of Vastwood
Spell Pierce
Canopy cover
What was that about "Easy to remove?" I have only lost one game when I get this guy out in my shape anew deck, and it was because kuldotha red was too fast for me. If you understand the concepts of magic, protecting him isn't a hard task at all.
Done.
Pwned.
why dose everyone think he is overpowered. Unlike with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn you have a chance to deal with him before he attacks and unlike emrakul when he attacks unless you combo him it dose not end the game immediately like emrakul dose when he attacks. As for tinker it's Restricted so you probably wont draw it and even if Tinker wasn't Iona, Shield of Emeria would still be easier to cheat out considering she is a easy Reanimater target.
(land, lotus, sol ring, tinker for blightsteel, lotus, sol ring, lightning greaves)
M.U.R.D.E.R.E.D.
Open up your Mirrodin Besieged pack.
Remove Blightsteel Colossus from said pack.
Take your Blightsteel Colossus home.
Put it in the toilet.
Enough said.
However, I'm happy to see Wizards finally print a fattie that can one-shot people AND can be cheated into play (Phage is too prohibitive). They were already flirting with the notion when they made the Eldrazi, but this isn't just 'you are crippled and will most likely lose' -- this is 'you are dead, now!'
4 Master's Call
4 Shape Anew
4 Blightsteel Colossus
I lost game 1, but fortunately I had some Condemn (massive lifegain for my opponent!) in the sideboard and managed to win game 2-3. His deck also includes two Karn Liberated planeswalker. So if he fails to win by cheating it into play with Shape Anew, Karn can exile it from his hand and restart the game with the Colossus on the field turn one... aouch.
I don't think there is summoning sickness in that case, so it's GG.
May I present to you Hoarding Dragon
But also I hate on hit kill cards like this - they ruin the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s-c2JVI40
Anytime two cards have both a positive (infect) and negative (mana) quality over each other, the whole conversation becomes a matter of opinion, not fact. It's all situational based on your specific meta and play style. So 'strictly' won't work.
Not that I'm justifying this card. I actually hate it. Phyrexian Juggernaut loses the "can't be blocked by walls" part of Juggernaut when it got Phyrexianized, so this could have lost Trample. Is it more flavorful? Very. But as a Vorthos, I must say sometimes flavor needs to take a backseat to other aspects. Like fun, which I'm less likely to have with this out.
Turn 2: Tinker, sacrifice sol ring, Blightsteel Colossus. Equip Lightning Greaves. :D
Been playing DotP2012 huh?
Hottip: Karn cheats. Mox Sapphire is restricted in every format it isn't banned in.
Of course there are cards to halt or stop this monster, but for the good of the game this card is not
Still, 12 mana is an impressive feat in 1-on-1. But when they just use something ELSE broken to get out ANOTHER broken card (or two), say, Defense of the Heart, it's not very fair.
damnation
gatekeeper of malakir
black sun's zenith
not unbeatable, but still damn strong.
hard to hardcast outside of serious mana ramping, but can be cheated in pretty easily.
everyone saying that he is terrible because he is better than darksteel colossus in almost every way is looking at it the wrong way
just have 4 of each in ur deck. now quit complaining
5/5
Day of Judgment, Damnation, and Wrath of God don't kill Blightsteel Colossus because he is indestructible.
700.4. If a permanent is indestructible, rules and effects can't destroy it. (See rule 701.6, "Destroy.") Such permanents are not destroyed by lethal damage, and they ignore the lethal-damage state-based action (see rule 704.5g). Rules or effects may cause an indestructible permanent to be sacrificed, put into a graveyard, or exiled.
Gatekeeper of Malakir does force a sacrifice of Blightsteel, assuming he doesn't have another creature, which is unlikely since many decks like to Shape Anew with tokens.
Black Sun's Zenith does place Blightsteel in the graveyard as a state based effect for having 0 toughness (704.5f If a creature has toughness 0 or less, it's put into its owner's graveyard. Regeneration can't replace this event. ). However, you have to pay 14 mana, and probably clean your board for that, and since he may be playing a bunch of tokens and he'll just get it back, since its now in his library.)
The only great way to kill it is to exile it. He is a pretty nuts card, but for players that are having trouble with him, you need to remember:
Its only one creature, while on offense it will beat you in a couple turns, decks that cheat it into play probably don't have a lot else going on. One creature, no matter how good, is still just one creature.
If he has more creatures, he probably played it legit 12, you should try and be mindful of bomb cards that could be coming out, and be prepared to do whats necessary.
If he got lucky, and it came out, luck is a part of this game, scoop if you can't win and don't sweat it.
One of many cards and combos that can be beaten better indirectly, just because wizards is holding your hand with removal don't forget that working around a problem is just as good/better as blowing it up. "Just go f---ing kill him"
the other two are phage the untouchable and marit lage from dark depths
(By the way, it looks more like Platinum Emperion or Myr Enforcer than Darksteel Colossus)
"Superman..."
Trample with Infect I expect to see on cards I can't hope to play till turn 5 unless I forego the first 3 turns doing nothing but manaramping. I did not expect to see them together on a card that can be cheated in and deliver the lethal poison counters on its own by turn 3, turn 2 with any card that gives haste.
Of course, all of those creatures need other part of combo which makes that 20 points of damage possible, but Colossus also needs combo. I doubt You will hardcast it. You will probably use combo to get it into play. Even just mana ramp is in its sense "combo with colossus" because such deck would be built this way to support it.
With this guy and all the other graveyard-dodgers,
what happens if they are turned over by a Helm of Obedience?
I'd like to think I get mah blightsteel bukkit,
but I have a feeling that, due to the same loophole that synergizes with Leyline of the Void,
the BS hits the graveyard, triggering both the Colossus' shuffle in,
*and* the sacrifice of the Helm with no creature grabbed.
Is this correct?
And if you're cheating creatures into play, the mana cost is irrelevant, and there's no mana cost they could have given this to balance it.
Of course, that still leaves the question of whether they should have printed a creature with these stats at all. But there are enough other big expensive creatures which almost guarantee the win, that I don't think now is really the right time to start complaining.
Claustrophobia. Problem solved for 3 mana.
MOST GAME-CHANGING: Backlash/Delirium
MOST AMUSING: Kiku's Shadow
MOST INSULTING: Block with Storm Crow, survive at nine poison, then Humble it to death
to bring this out, after using Ambush Viper + Viridian Longbow to take out their defense.
However, it annoys me the most that because of this guy something like Quicksilver Gargantuan or Platinum Emperion being in Scars' prevented Darksteel Colossus being re-printed with perhaps awesome new art. Either WOTC knew the BS Colossus was coming which is a shame.
Mind control
Corrupted conscience
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
Karn Liberated
Venser the Sojourner
not to mention simply forcing your opponent to re-cast it:
Vapor Snag
Cancel
Unsummon
etc.
This is not the cheapest card in the game and it can be dealt with easily if you don't just think in terms of destroying it.
@pedrodyl: True, but it only works once and it won't affect a cancellation spell.
"You can activate Spellskite's ability even if Spellskite wouldn't be a legal target for the spell or ability. However, the target of that spell or ability will remain unchanged."
Evangelion FTW
Yes it can get cancelled, but so can everything else in the game. That's what makes the game fun. It's not like many people hardcast this anyway, so it shouldn't be that much of a tempo-loss. A personal favorite of mine is Fold into Aether on a Memnite, Searching both the memnite and the BS with Trinket Mages and Treasure Mages, respectively.
For those who complain about the power of the card, yes it's very very powerful. It can be cheated into play with McGyver, Tinker, or what else... But Tinker is only playable in Vintage, where there are already first-turn-win combos, while Master Transmuter needs you to have it in your hand, and you usually have to tutor it someway, slowing down its entrance. Quicksilver Amulet costs
For those who complan about this card outshine Darksteel Colossus, I say that it does NOT completely outshine it. Damage is still the main way to victory, and if you play Blightsteel Colossus you still have to play a poison-based deck: if you attack once with BS and then opponent removes it, he can be at 8 or 9 poison counters, but still at 20 life, and if you don't support poison in some way you are like at the beginning of the game but without your best cards... Darksteel Colossus is still played, even after this beast's coming. I personally don't like super-aggro mechanics, and in particular I don't like the infect/proliferate environment, but this is not a good reason to hate every single card involved: cards are designed and developed within a certain perspective, and some of them are really well designed if looked from the right point of view.
From a flavorful perspective, the fact that Phyrexia has assimilated the most iconic Mirrodin creatures (like this one or Etched Oracle) is just proof of the fact that it is winning the war by absorbing and rebuilding the world of Mirrodin.
While I don't like the infect mechanics and I liked Darksteel Colossus, I can't rate this card but 5 stars.
I must admit that I was upset when I saw this card for the first time, but after thinking about well, this is surely not a broken nor a badly designed card. This card is played at competitive level, and so is still Darksteel Colossus; this card has not been banned nor restricted in ANY format. Blightsteel Colossus is about $5, and so it's not one of those overcosted speculative cards...
This card is REALLY POWERFUL, but NOT BROKEN. And I have not even mentioned all the way to remove it!
It's good that occasionally some bombs like this one come out. Magic is a game of strategy, skill, competition, and these cards which alone can alter the metagame challenge players to find new strategies to use them and defend against. Life is hard because it's full of challenges to overcome, problems to solve and people or other things that obstruct us, and Magic is one of the BEST games in the world because it is EDUCATIONAL, as well as fun. Cards like this one are little life lessons, and we only have to learn from dealing with them.
Also, what if you had Undead Alchemist out? Would UA's exile go off before Blightsteel's return?
1 Manna
Ornithopter
Infernal Plunge
3 Manna
Seething Song
5 Manna
Geosurge
8 Manna
Geosurge
11 Manna
This guy!
Opponent: Path to Exile
0 Manna, no creature.
I recommend act of treason.
Considering how fast you can cheat this sucker out in a solid artifact deck, absolutely a top rated card. This is Emrakul level board threat at a much lower price that's easier to cheat. And if you *did* cheat it out with forgemaster, and they manage to kill it, you can just cheat it back out next round with another precursor golem. (you are running precursor golem in your forgemaster deck right?)
It is obviously intended to appeal to players' nostalgia about Darksteel Colossus... And then it turns out to just be a better Darksteel Colossus, completely obsoleting the original and trampling (Heh) all over players' memories of the robot.
Would it have been too hard to make this an 11 mana 9/9? It would have occupied its own niche instead of being an almost-always superior card, and it would have added more tension by not making it a one-hit kill.
Also, the art is worse-looking. :-P
I'm sorry, but that wouldn't work. All he has to do is deal enough damage to 'kill' Invisible Stalker and then he can deal the rest to you.
Someone else correct me if I'm wrong.
As for the card itself, I'm not surprised by how much hate this card has received, especially from nostalgic players, and I can understand, to a degree, but hating a card because Wizards decided to do something like this is kinda... I don't know...
But I digress. there are also more ways to deal with him now than when Darksteel came out, so I would take that into account personally.
and Master transmuter to get it on the battlefield for sure!
Opening Hand: Swamp, Simian Spirit Guide, Rite of Flame, Dark Ritual, Blightsteel Colossus, Body Snatcher, Lightning Bolt.
Exile Simian Spirit Guide from your hand and cast Right of Flame. Play the Swamp and cast Dark ritual. Using the three black mana from the Dark Ritual and one red mana from the Right of Flame cast Body Snatcher and discarded the Blightsteel Colossus. Next use the remaining red mana to hit Body Snatcher with a lightning Bolt and put the Blightsteel Colossus into play.
Now laugh because you opponent hasn't played a land yet.
@PhyrexianAdvocate
Pacifism works on Emrakul, the Aeons Torn too. For anyone who doesn't believe that, read the rulings on Emrakul and learn the difference between "spell" and "permanent"
EDIT:
...wow. I was thinking that Pacifism was Journey to nowhere at the time of post. I'm aware that Pacifism is a spell. I'm not completely retarded, I was just thinking of the wrong card.
Power/Abilitites = Amazing (1 Hit kill!)
Cheatable into play = Damn straight (Tinker)
Broken = Do I give the impression I care?
I have no memories of Darksteel Colossus as I wasn't playing back then, so this beast smashing it to pieces doesn't bother me. I want to run either an artifact or infect deck just because of this monster...or maybe I'll put him into my Recurring deck with Deathrender, slap Lightning Greaves on him and begin to smash faces.
@TheWrathofShane: Agreed.
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@TheWrathofShane
The Green card you were looking for was Splinter. :P
Very, very, very scary, especially w/ Lightning Greaves.
I understand and somewhat agree with the "powercreep" argument.
However, this thing oozes flavor.
Wizards took one of the most iconic cards from MIrrodin and turned it Phyrexian.
If that doesn't scream out to my inner Vorthos, I just can't understand what will.
Grand architect + etherium sculptor+ minion reflector or golem artisan + BSC
Jah boi!!!!
All you need is a perfect hand!
4/5
"But wait!" you ask, "aren't there three Eldrazi titans still running around wrecking stuff there?" Who gives a crap, Blightsteel Colossus can kill the indestructbile one in one hit, turn the one that lets you draw cards into a 1/1, and I dunno what he'd do to the flying spaghetti monster, but I'd like to see some 34 of it. :)
Nothing wrong with R&D for making this card, so many ways of dealing with it even if they cheat it out.
Answers for each color, in standard.
Theres really no need to play mono anyways, but if you do each color has answers.
Edit: @nunya That was not standard bro ^_^
I'm trying to upgrade the agro-control-combo archetype into something nastier and this is perfect. All it needs is a Doubling Cube and Omnath, Locus of Mana.
A creature that can swing for leathal on its own and can't be removed by conventional means is insane.
A creature that can swing for leathal on its own, has indestructibility, can't be milled, with one of the most abusable card types is complete batshit.
I suppose Jor Kadeen would make more sense for the leader though.
Anyways, this card is really epic. It's one of the scariest creatures in the game. More scary than progenitus imo, however, the words 'protection from everything' are quite awesome.
In terms of flavor, the hate this guy recieves for being better than DSC makes me like him more. It hits us right in the feels and now we can relate to the pain the Mirrans felt as Phyrexia destroyed, replicated, and replaced their entire world.
5/5
*pi-dum ching*
I'm amused by all the hate this guy gets.
I don't mind that he's stronger than Darksteel Colossus in some ways. Just like I don't mind that he's weaker than DSC in other ways.
It just makes things more interesting and more exciting when you're faced with such a force. For me, it's not always about winning but whether I can achieve certain things and I'm always stoked when my opponent is also able to pull off certain specialties. Moments like that make some of the best games ever.
Why complain about one thing compared to another when you can just be thankful both exist. Let's face it, each card has it's place in mtg. Think about how stupid this game would be if it only ever pleased a particular group of players based on their limited preferences.
That's my take on it anyway.
Cheers
More importantly,
--How fast do my reflexes need to be to avoid getting punched in the face?
I don't know what I'm annoyed at more: That Phyrexian Colossus fans have only loathing for this card, or that so many of you are trying to defend it as *fair* or *reasonable* by comparing it things like Psychatog, which was totally a Mistake, or Serra Avatar, which is...just not that good and only gets good if you suck at trying to beat her, or Phage the Untouchable which was meant to be uncheatable and have serious drawbacks, and they just...messed up and left holes and cracks?
This card is NOT ok....And that's Evil, Nasty, Torturous, POINT >)
I hate to break it to you, but New Phyrexia was a set that was kind of *meant* to upset and alienate the fans and players...think of it as the "Dark Knight" of MTG. In a fairer world, one where we were re-visiting an Invasion or Time Spiral-like era where the Phyrexians are going down? Maybe the old Colossus would be our model, not Darksteel. In the Weatherlight Saga the setting was Dominaria, so the inspiration for Phyrexian Colossus was Colossus of Sardia. But this time around, we were shown what happens when Phyrexia WINS. Mirrodin Besieged was our last warning.
What happens is we feel betrayed, violated, outgunned, and losing feels more like being murdered than dying in honorable combat. SHOULD they make cards like that? Debatable. Certainly when it's the result of unfortunate unforeseen interactions, it's regrettable, or when Development doesn't accurately predict the power level of Titans, that's regrettable too. And, yes, I feel for players that don't like it. That you think it's unbalanced and overpowered. And, just WRONG. You sirs, ARE CORRECT. However, Wizards was fairly clear and open and honest with what they were doing. They sometimes make actual mistakes not predicting the ludicrous combos or whatever. But....Blightsteel Colossus was exactly what it was supposed to be, and they did it EXTREMELY on purpose.
Some Mythic Rare creatures were 'mistakes' that I like it when people argue about.
Blightsteel Colossus was not one of them. It was DESIGNED to make people cry. It was SUPPOSED to be a CRASS INSULT to Darksteel Colossus. Everything it was, was by intent. Blightsteel Colossus is to Darksteel Colossus as Uruk-Hai are to Elves: The perfection of the Orc, a twisted, cruel, hateful mockery made to destroy and defile. I feel sorry for you, but Phyrexia *wants* you to feel the way you do, so it can drink your delicious tears. :P Blightsteel was supposed to cause terror and despair and cries of agony.....AND IT SUCCEEDED!
If you like or approve of this card, then you are a bad person. It's very much a 'Bad Person/Good Person test' >) Good People will heave and ho-hum, and moan their paeans to an absent god that this is WRONG. That it's an INSULT and a DESECRATION OF HISTORY. AND THE POWER CREEP! =O :'( Bad People will respond: "That's the Point, ***. B| "
:3
also sneak attack for hilarity
-Swag_Crow
*SUNGLASSES*
TURNED IT UP TO 11.
If you want to have fun, don't put Blightsteel in your EDH deck.