like AEther Vial, you can put your creatures into play with this without having to worry about any color problems.
on top of this, there is an endless list of useful things you can do with imprinted creatures that provide you with cip effects or something similar every turn. a powerful weapon to create all kinds of interesting effects, like even soft-locks for example by using Chittering Rats.
Great way for me of fixing Alara's three-colour challenge. And it works amazingly with cards like Sprouting Thrinax that thrive off of abundance of themselves.
I have 3 of these in one of my decks. I use it with Chronozoa, Clone, and Body Double. Combine this with Paradox Haze and you got a deck that can crank out a lot of stuff really quickly or steal the best your opponent has to offer and beat them to death with it.
Gilder_Bairn
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(23 votes)
Imprint Meddling Mage! It turns Magic: The Gathering into Go Fish.
You: "Ummmmmmmmm... do you have any Terminates?"
You: "Go fish. Do you have any... lightning bolts?"
Etc., and so on and so forth.
Or...
You: "I imprint... Dryad Arbor!"
Opponent: "NNNNNOOOOO!!!!!"
Or...
You: "I imprint... Ornithopter!"
Opponent: "Oh, great, a free blocker every turn. Wonderful. Your mother would be so proud."
You: "And Doubling Season!"
Opponent: "Oh, sure, TWO free blockers every turn. Because you will defeat me with your mighty 0/2 flyers."
You: "And Clock of Omens!"
Opponent: "...Oh. I see what you did there."
Zulp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I mainly use it in my artifact/scarecrow deck to clone a low-cost scarecrow every turn with Reaper King on the field, usually Lurebound Scarecrow or Heap Doll. It gets ridiculous pretty quick.
Alpinefroggy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Put cards like doubleing season in and this then combine soul foundry for avenger of zendikar, rampaging baloths or verdant force for one word... Ouch
McThor
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Hmmm...
Clone Just so you can pick what creature to make each turn.
Any Ally For *** and giggles.
Meddling Mage/Voidstone Gargoyle To *** off your opponents. Use with Extract to get to know your opponent's decks.
TV, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that tokens "fade" when they leave play, but they still go to the zone they were sent to (like if they were bounced, or sent to the library, or put into a grave.) So indeed, it would work.
There is so much you could do with this!
TVsDB
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My bad, tokens go into the graveyard and then are instantly removed from game. I read the full rule on the matter. Rock on Dross Scorpion!
phoenixcobra27
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ darkfury that won't work for Darien, King of Kjeldor because he is a legendary so another copy would cause you to sacrifice both
infernox10
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
You know, a simple combo would be using a classic Rat card that causes an opponent to discard.
"Oh, you just drew your card,
In response, get rid of it."
The first discard that can work at instant speeds.
Diachronos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos ridiculously well with Spore Frog if you're using it defensively, even more if you can get Soul Foundry untapped without waiting for your next untap step.
Luke_BPC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With a Chittering Rats imprinted, you could softlock your opponent. Just tap it at his upkeep, and have him send the card he drew back, and do it again and again and again. If he can't play it as an instant, you have the game right there. This could also work with Chimney Imp and a sacrifice enabler, possibly a Spawning Pit for the tokens.
BlackAlbino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
it's been reprinted as prototype portal, but better because it works on artifacts
Wow. Astounding. A useful artifact that combos with every single good non-legend in the game. Ball Lightnings on demand. Massive dudes with Bushido, with flash essentially. Quickdraw pingers like Cunning Sparkmage. An army of Goblin Guides. This transcends the color barrier by being playable in every deck, literally. Very nice with Kozilek's Predator. To those who would use Ornithopter: Phyrexian Walker for extra trample damage absorption. Use with Doubling Season and Kozilek's Predator to create 2 3/3s and a small army of 8 0/1's that can be sac'd for even more mana.
@ Gilder_Bairn: Your ornithopter-builder idea is great. Infinite devour fodder for Marrow Chomper!
Ok, ok. The combo above, with Conspiracy (naming the creature type "Ally") and Halimar Excavator. I make thopters. Lots of Thopters. They're all Thopter Allies. Halimar Excavator mills and mills and mills.
Obviously there are simpler and more effective combos for this card, but that's just the one that occured to me.
p.s.: Two of these, Glint Hawk on one, Ornithopter on the other. Why not throw in 4 Soul Wardens and 4 Soul's Attendants for 24 life a turn and a flying army?
Froenx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this plus harabaz druid, voltaic construct and anything that gives your creatures flash = infinite mana by turn six.
My favorite is Balefire Liege. Sure, his ability doesn't trigger when a token comes into play, but they do pump each other up, and finally, when you've got six 12/14's on the field, casting a simple lightning helix suddenly deals 21 damage and heals 21.
helluin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ichor Rats and some proliferate would make for a quick win. Might as well throw Voltaic Key in there as well.
jacktheinvisible
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This combos rediculously with any ally, doubling seasons, etc. If you want to skip any pansy stuff, Sporesower Thallid is rediculous in your thalld deck.
land_comment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Halimar Excavator. I garuantee you'll win very, very quickly.
Play this turn four with a Chimney Imp imprint. On your opponent's upkeep, unless they lock your mana or constantly draw cards, they are locked and you have as many Chimney Imps as you want.
asskicker123456789
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
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KarnRestarted
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have always liked the art on this. always have. I mean, come on, it's a giant machine! that is making souls!
Use Shrieking Mogg on their turn to tap down all their dudes then swing away
Bonghoots
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Paired up with Mystic Snake this thing is win condition as long as 4 mana is untapped.
nope.avi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hey look its mimic vat's older more broken brother also imprint eater of days on it and donate and then mindslaver them make them make an eater of days.
This card is so much fun. The possibilities are endless.
I used a deck where I imprint ornithopter on this bad boy. I sacrifice the ornithopter for megatog. Then Dross Scorpion untaps soul foundry. Rinse and repeat over and over again for a scary huge megatog with trample.
Alpha_Squad
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Gilder_Bairn you have arcbound ravager too for those orthocopters and maybe a disciple of the vault...
Axemonger
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dryad Arbor is the first idea that I had, then I thought about Lotus Cobra (drop a few Primeval Titan and hard cast your win condition) Less-assured mana, but more constant/combo-y; also, you don't need to tap the cobras in order to benefit from the mana gain, so you could use them as chump blockers or extra attackers for an Overrun.
Alternatively, if you want to draw cards, imprint Taunting Elf and equip Infiltration Lens and watch the fun happen. Might help to have a Spellbook out though, lol.
I put an adaptive automaton on this in my reaper king edh. It was sweet.
Nillock
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Call me old fashioned but i believe in putting Kokusho on this and making the opponents pray they get a destroy artifact card before this wins me the game.
Run in a sliver deck imprinting something like Might Sliver or Sinew Sliver. Or even use Parallel Lives with it in slivers
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Is there ANYTHING this card cannot do?
ArelMCII
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Imprint Force of Savagery on this, with Death's Presence out. Eight +1/+1 counters for three mana at instant speed. Might also make for a good Evolve trigger. Even without Death's Presence, it's still "Pay 3 mana: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with less than 9 power."
ProbablyThatGuy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm going to have to agree with a Clone variant being the ideal use for this in multiplayer, as the thing just has so many amazing interactions with all sorts of creatures. For sure one of my favorite cards.
My best use for it so far was a time I had cloned an opponent's Seedborn Muse with a Quicksilver Gargantuan, only to draw this card next turn. I Quickly dropped this imprinting a Sakashima's Student; with Seedborn Muse's ability, I get to untap the Soul Foundry on each player's turn, only to drop down another 7/7 Ninja Seedborn Muse which will allow more untaps on each player's turn... yeah, exponentially-growing army of ninja spirits. Good times.
Alternatively, imprint Siege-Gang Commander with Skirk Prospector on the field. Apply a Power Artifact or two to get a net gain of one or three goblins per activation. Clock of Omens allows this one to go infinite, while Goblin Shenanigans adds a direct damage effect whenever it goes off.
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on top of this, there is an endless list of useful things you can do with imprinted creatures that provide you with cip effects or something similar every turn. a powerful weapon to create all kinds of interesting effects, like even soft-locks for example by using Chittering Rats.
begin pumping out Darien clones and Soul Wardens to create a combo that makes you incapable of taking damage.
The possibilities with this thing are endless, great card.
4.5/5
You: "Ummmmmmmmm... do you have any Terminates?"
You: "Go fish. Do you have any... lightning bolts?"
Etc., and so on and so forth.
Or...
You: "I imprint... Dryad Arbor!"
Opponent: "NNNNNOOOOO!!!!!"
Or...
You: "I imprint... Relentless Rats!"
Opponent: "Oh..."
You: "And play Power Artifact on it!"
Opponent: "I..."
You: "And Doubling Season!!!"
Opponent: "..."
Or...
You: "I imprint... Ornithopter!"
Opponent: "Oh, great, a free blocker every turn. Wonderful. Your mother would be so proud."
You: "And Doubling Season!"
Opponent: "Oh, sure, TWO free blockers every turn. Because you will defeat me with your mighty 0/2 flyers."
You: "And Clock of Omens!"
Opponent: "...Oh. I see what you did there."
Clone
Just so you can pick what creature to make each turn.
Any Ally
For *** and giggles.
Meddling Mage/Voidstone Gargoyle
To *** off your opponents. Use with Extract to get to know your opponent's decks.
Race Lords
For super big fatties
Ball Lightning
For super fatty damage.
Soul Warden and co.
For massive life
The list goes on.
There is so much you could do with this!
"Oh, you just drew your card,
In response, get rid of it."
The first discard that can work at instant speeds.
@ Gilder_Bairn:
Your ornithopter-builder idea is great. Infinite devour fodder for Marrow Chomper!
For lols, Leveler maybe?
Ok, ok. The combo above, with Conspiracy (naming the creature type "Ally") and Halimar Excavator. I make thopters. Lots of Thopters. They're all Thopter Allies. Halimar Excavator mills and mills and mills.
So much you can do with this card. Example: imprint Magister Sphinx. Combo with Panoptic Mirror imprinted with Searing Wind or Hidetsugu's Second Rite. Kill a player every turn.
Obviously there are simpler and more effective combos for this card, but that's just the one that occured to me.
p.s.: Two of these, Glint Hawk on one, Ornithopter on the other. Why not throw in 4 Soul Wardens and 4 Soul's Attendants for 24 life a turn and a flying army?
armageddon via comet storm? sure.
hard casted progenitus? okay.
all your eldrazi in one turn? no problem.
myr rush? done.
Meddling Mage
Tidehollow Sculler
Phyrexian Revoker
Thoughtseize
You're welcome.
Play this turn four with a Chimney Imp imprint.
On your opponent's upkeep, unless they lock your mana or constantly draw cards, they are locked and you have as many Chimney Imps as you want.
also imprint eater of days on it and donate and then mindslaver them make them make an eater of days.
I used a deck where I imprint ornithopter on this bad boy.
I sacrifice the ornithopter for megatog.
Then Dross Scorpion untaps soul foundry.
Rinse and repeat over and over again for a scary huge megatog with trample.
you have arcbound ravager too for those orthocopters and maybe a disciple of the vault...
Alternatively, if you want to draw cards, imprint Taunting Elf and equip Infiltration Lens and watch the fun happen. Might help to have a Spellbook out though, lol.
This card's ludicrous potential reminds me of Isochron Scepter
My best use for it so far was a time I had cloned an opponent's Seedborn Muse with a Quicksilver Gargantuan, only to draw this card next turn. I Quickly dropped this imprinting a Sakashima's Student; with Seedborn Muse's ability, I get to untap the Soul Foundry on each player's turn, only to drop down another 7/7 Ninja Seedborn Muse which will allow more untaps on each player's turn... yeah, exponentially-growing army of ninja spirits. Good times.
Lol
Alternatively, imprint Siege-Gang Commander with Skirk Prospector on the field. Apply a Power Artifact or two to get a net gain of one or three goblins per activation. Clock of Omens allows this one to go infinite, while Goblin Shenanigans adds a direct damage effect whenever it goes off.