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where's the furnace?

In its belly. It eats all the artifacts!

So i was playing with my buddy and he played this card and hes one of those players who goes by the literal text on the card. He said "well since it says remove all artifacts from the game, you have to remove all the artifacts in your hand, deck, and graveyard from the game too. Since it doesn't specifically state artifacts in play, say good bye to all your artifacts." Is he right or is the card just poorly texted for game play. If this is truely how the card is to be play then, this card is a little too powerful, but a good way to get rid of Dark Steel Colossus.

MagicMarker, your buddy is being a dick. Furnace Dragon only removes artifacts that are currently in play. Cards that do things to other cards only affect cards that are in play, unless they say otherwise.

Next time he tries to pull something like that, play Terror and start going through his hand and library looking for a creature. If he complains, tell him that it doesn't specifically say that the creature it destroys has to be in play.

If you want to get really technical about it, the "artifacts" in your hand, library, and graveyard aren't actually "artifacts", they are "artifact cards", so they couldn't be removed unless the Dragon referenced cards as well as artifacts. Take a close look at cards like Zombify; it targets a "creature card," not a "creature", because if the card isn't in play, it's not a creature. The same goes for artifacts.

This card is not powerful.

Oh wow, I didn't want to believe people as stupid as MagicMarker's friend played magic.

Affinity is not something red is very versed with - in fact it's the only nonblue, nonartifact affinity card!
But that cip/etb effect is a huger drawback than this card would have needed, it makes you don't want to play that card.
In Mirrodin block it will of course also hose a lot from your opponent's side, but when you're going to play him cheap (for three, four or five mana) you're going to exile a lot from your own stuff - which isn't worth the trade. Without any artifacts on the other hand - as with all affinity cards - it's far too expensive.
Since the trigger also only works by hardcasting it and therefore won't help you when reanimating the dragon i see only very narrow use for this card. I think it's currently overrated.

By the way, when comparing this artwork to that one from Dragon Mage you really notice the similarity, both are drawn by Matthew D. Wilson.

The easiest way around the whole mess of crap is to play it using a card like Dragonstorm or the old Skyship Weatherlight artifact. This is the only way i would even consider using it or elvish piper but not sure if the effect still hits with that

Omnomnom. Don't forget to feed your dragon, folks. Or this guy will come to your house and eat all your metal stuff.

Funny that this guy seems so deliciously good (a dragon for my affinity deck!? Sign me the *** up!), until you get to his CIP ability. Seriously, reading that is a punch to the gut. It is a badass dragon that synergies with your affinity strategy... only to wreck it when it hits the field.

I am disappoint.

Seriously, how is this useful? Mirror match?

I actually like the use of affinity on this card--affinity was a powerful mechanic, perhaps too powerful. This card uses it interestingly---if you have a lot of artifacts out, you can potentially get a 5/5 flying artifact destroying dragon out for 3CMC. However, you will be losing 6 artifacts in the process. The drawback almost makes the affinity like a sacrifice ability, and seems to balance out the card quite nicely. In addition, this is a very funny flavorful use of that keyword--the dragon is more willing to come out with more artifacts in play, and thus easier to summon...but only because he wants to eat them. Omnomnom indeed.

This was often in sideboards back when Mirrodin was in standard, when 90% of decks was full of artifacts and artifact lands. Decks would splash red and cast this with Seething Song to get the RRR requirement. In a lot of match-ups that was basically like playing Obliterate, except your opponent's board was gone while you had a 5/5 dragon that won the game in the next couple of turns.

Someone played Mycosynth Lattice in a multiplayer game. I played this on the next turn. Nobody had a couterspell and everyone quit.

Neurok Transmuter with mycosynth lattice out, play this guy transmute all your creatures into blue non artifacts and it changes to remove everything you dont control from the game, thats about the only application i ever found for this guy in an artifact heavy deck where you dont need artifacts,

was gonna biuld a deck around mycosynth lattice, furnace dragon, secound sunrise, tap all lands for mana play furnace dragon, while furnace dragon is on the stack sack everything but mycosynth lattice everyone exiles all permanents they control, play secound sunrise, you get everything back...

just use it with Mishra's Bauble and Urza's Bauble and other similar thingies. Cheap dragon, deck thinning, exiling opponent's artifacts, boom

This is one of those underrates cards which has a very specific purpose.
My favorite memory:
Had a guy in my high school class who had a huge mouth...talking a lot of s*** about how impossibly awesome his artifact deck was, how it's never been beat, yadda, yadda... (around early 2007)
So I took on the challenge with my dragons deck (Without Furnace Dragon initially), only to find that he was a bullheaded idiot who had two things very wrong, giving him tremendous advantages: first, he said lands were spells....(?), and second, he vastly broke the four card limit with the blue artifact land for use with his affinity cards (Forget what it's called.)
His general strategy was to pile up tons of artifacts and throw cranial plating on a trampler.
I could not for the life of me convince him how much of an idiot he was. I went with his trash-street rules and lost...and not even by a whole lot, thanks to a turn four 14/14 Kilnmouth Dragon. Gotta love it when you get all three Urza's lands in a row at the start.
....Next Day...
I've added three Furnace Dragon to my deck. Fortunately no other changes were needed, since I already had it running fast with Myrs and Darksteel Ingot.
On turn four or five, he has his cranial Plating strategy completed, no cards in hand, now just waiting for summon sickness to fade, and passes me the turn. I drop a Furnace Dragon, destroying two Myrs and an Ingot, and basically deleting his entire field. He surrendered on the spot.
He called "fluke" and demanded a rematch.
The second match went almost exactly the same way.
He refused to ever play me again.
Juicy. Furnace Dragon could not be any happier.
I just absolutely love wiping the floor with morons that don't know the game's rules.

This card is pretty lame. Why would I play it an artifact-heavy deck if it just destroys all my artifacts?

Yey! Anti-synergy!

this was supposed to keep Arcbound Ravager in check. You know, with slightly better development tweaks, I think it almost could.

a good card when used right liquimetal coating

The reason this card was printed was for the Affinity mirror match. Nearly every affinity player had four copies in his sideboard. Why? Because in the mirror match, this card was an insta-win. In that situation, this card effectively read "Remove all permaments from the game. You get a 5/5 Dragon."

Guys, guys. Yes, the fact that it has affinity for artifacts and removes them from the game when it enters the battlefield is slightly contradictory, however....it also exiles your opponents artifacts as well. Just use it with artifacts that are excellent early game, but run out of steam, things like Tumble Magnet...then cast this late game when exiling your magnet doesn't really matter.

A very, very strange card. Rewards you for playing lots of artifacts by...eating all of your artifacts.

Ava_Adore, that wouldn't work because Second Sunrise returns cards that are in the grave. This exiles all of them.

Regardless, I suggest shenaniganing it in. Bladewing Risen would probably be better, since you don't need to lose everything you've built up to.

I love townsend's story lol
5/5 flyer for three that can blow things up when he comes into play is pretty neat. Works best with artifacts that either already gave you their bonuses or can give you them when you play this guy but after you've gotten affinity accomplished. These include baubles, pentad prism, (to a lesser degree) mycosynth wellspring and ichor wellspring.

interesting one-of in a deck containing Zirilan of the Claw to cheat him into play for a turn.

@Eved: I don't see why that's a huge deal. It's essentially like an Obliterate in that case, but for more mana. The dragon will exile everything, including itself. Everyone's on equal footing, board-wise. In that scenario, the player with the largest hand/highest life probably has the upper hand, and shouldn't have quit.

I mean, to be fair, I might have quit too, because it doesn't sound like a very exciting game after that.

Ferlord, he said "while furnace dragon is on the stack sack everything but mycosynth lattice". So his artifacts are in the graveyard while the dragon goes off, and he second sunrises them back.

An interesting card. Choices, choices... The best situation to use it is when your opponent(s) have enough artifacts to make up for your own losses.

this is a funny card, although I imagine the effect would backfire in most games.

Maybe you just use it along side a bunch of crappy artifacts, like spellbombs (which aren't crappy, per say, but you can live without sacking them)

It would've been cool if he did something with all the artifacts he melted down like get +1/+1 counters or deal damage to something, but considering that he fulfills his niche without it (breaking a mirror match of two very artifact reliant decks) I guess that's not necessary. Still, it would be cool from a flavor perspective and might not seem so conflicting (for lack of a better word) at first glance.