Pointed Discussion

Much too expensive for a 3/5 and its ability is rarely useful.

if it had banding...

Should have been 6/1 or something

DAMN this is good!!!

One of the strangest cards I've ever put into a deck.

Obvious Mycosynth Lattice combo is obvious.

This doesn't look Auriok at all!

: irritate the piss out of target tapped artifact creature's controller

"Can't block! Must block! Can't block! Must block! Can't block! Must block! Can't block! Must blo--"

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"

"--ck! Must block! Can't block! Must block! Can't block!"

"STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!" ... "Oh! Thank goodness, you stopped!"

"Stopped only because I had to. I ran out of mana."

I designed this long before it or Burning-Tree Bloodscale was printed:

Duct Crawler + Trumpeting Armodon = Duct Armodon
+ =
: Target creature can't block Duct Armodon this turn.
: Target creature blocks Duct Armodon this turn if able.
1/1 + 3/3 = 4/4

Naturally, when I saw this card I was dismayed that it came so close, yet could only affect artifact creatures! That doesn't even make sense -- Everything in its path is either pushed aside or ground under.

But, today MTGColorPie related this illuminating story:
"Maro once told me this story about an uncommon card he made with the playtest name “Magnet Man”, or something like that. You activated it to force artifact creatures to block it, like “attracting” with a magnet. You could also activate it to “repel” artifact creatures that you didn’t want to block it, like similar poles with a magnet. Sounds pretty fun and flavorful, right? You can totally picture that card attracting and repealing creatures like an actual magnet."