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Tanglewalker

Multiverse ID: 43547

Tanglewalker

Comments (12)

theDAYtheMUSICdied
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0) (11 votes)
"Creatures you control are 100/100 with double strike as long as your opponent controls an attacking, unblocked Phage, the Untouchable."
Forgeling
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (6 votes)
Creatures you control have Artifact Landwalk. Would that have been so hard?
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (3 votes)
I think so Forgeling, because Landwalking abilities use a lands subtypes only. Wizards would have to rewrite that ruling part in order to phrase it like this.
Strangely, a land's supertypes seem to work again when taking a look at Livonya Silone or Ayumi, the Last Visitor.
Nonetheless you could just call it like this for short and others will likely understand what you mean.

Myr Landshaper and Memnarch can turn your opponent's lands into artifacts, given that you're looking for a little block-related combo.
ddde
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (3 votes)
There are things which allow you to block creatures with landwalk abilities as if they didn't have those abilities. However, since this doesn't technically give your creatures landwalk...
Alan13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=212709 ?
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (3 votes)
Another cheap trick with Mycosynth Lattice.
BegleOne
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (10 votes)
Yeah Wizards, this should balance artifact lands. Good thinking.
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
No thanks.
Boakes2047
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
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Dragasm
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
I feel that this card is harshly underrated. It was murder back it came out. I mean, this was part of a very small answer to affinity decks for me. Plus, it's not all that hard to convert permanents to artifacts anymore. I enjoy the idea of my GIANT green creatures (and any other colored ones for that matter) being unblockable. Plus, she's 3 for a 2/2. Hard to go wrong with that body considering her ability.
Sootoo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Love this card. It´s not really overwhelming, and not many people play artifact lands, but such flavorfull cards, which are also combo-able, are always welcome in my decks. Her breasts are too big though.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Forgeling's complaint is relatively simplistic compared to seeing the bigger picture:

that if this was priced {1}{G}, and was 3/3, it *probably still wouldn't have been enough.

Affinity decks usually shot WAY past "Metalcraft" by turn 3, the first turn that a normal 2-cost 3/3 would be able to attack with this supposed unblockability.

T1: Vault of Whispers. Ornithopter, Disciple of the Vault. That's 2 Artifacts.
T2: Great Furnace. Arcbound Ravager. That's 4 Artifacts and now you can EASILY go off on Frogmite and Myr Enforcer for the nice low price of....um, {0}. That's a not-bad curve. o.O

And you will be able to play Shrapnel Blast next turn to kill their Tanglewalker, even if they DID ramp into it with a Llanowar Elves.

You can push this card all the way to a 4/4 for 1 mana, and even though it would be actually effective at that point, it wouldn't, like, actually really wreck Affinity's day or anything. More like give it 'a worthy opponent'. That's how dumb Artifact Lands are. Really. REALLY. Freakin' DUMB. O.O

It's barely able to serve a good role as a strong answer to a....un-Spiked Affinity deck with a non-God draw. Affinity was really hard to get screwed so badly it didn't have a God-draw though, when built Spiked Enough.

20 Artifact Lands
4x Basic Land (I'm a complete amateur deck designer but this feels like an appropriate safety valve...against, like, Wasteland.)

4x Ornithopter
4x Frogmite
4x Myr Enforcer
4x Arcbound Ravager
4x Disciple of the Vault

4x Cranial Plating this was more helpful in Affinity than Skullclamp, I think. Clamp was busted to hell but I believe it went in completely different decks, so it was Aether Vial-Tribal-Clamp decks vs. Affinity.

I mean the problem was that with SO. MUCH. CRAP. floating around from both Onslaught and Mirrodin Blocks, (Siege-Gang Commander off of Vial, was that a thing? I feel like it probably was?) this was never going to see play outside Limited. . . . Where it's first-pickable, and yet even so might not be enough.