I'm giving this a 5 for the stupid combos it enables. Here's a walkthrough: Materials needed: Voltaic Construct, Karn Silver Golem, Planar Portal, and any artifact that taps to add 3 to your mana pool (I'll use Thran Dynamo for this example). First pay 1 to animate the Dynamo with Karn. Tap Dynamo, adding 3 to your mana pool. Use 2, untap it with Voltaic Construct, and repeat to get infinite mana. Then, with that mana, play planar portal and search your library for any card and put it in your hand. Now, use 1 mana to animate the portal. Then use 2 mana to untap the portal. Now search again, and again, until you have every card in your library (minus lands) in your hand. How will I finish my opponent? I'll play darksteel forge, nevinyrral's disk, and mycosynth lattice. Now, I animate the disk for 1, untap it for 2, and pop it (pray there isn't a Return to Dust response). Now you are unstoppable, so...use the portal to tutor for Emrakul the Aeons Torn, and play him, getting you an extra turn. Then use the portal to tutor for High Market. (If you want to add insult to injury, you can also tutor for It That Betrays and play it). Now, you end the current turn. Now, it's your turn again, and animate the dynamo to get infinite mana again. Attack with Emrakul. Use High Market to sacrifice Emrakul, which gains you 1 life and shuffles him back in your library. Then use the Portal to tutor him and play him again, getting you an extra turn. So, with Emrakul: attack, sac, tutor, play, repeat. End result: you get infinite mana, infinite life (from High Market), infinite turns (from Emrakul), you eventually gain control of all permanents your opponents control (using It That Betrays). Now, lets go back: why was this possible? Because of VOLTAIC CONSTRUCT!!!
NARFNra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Similar to cards with Platinum in their name, if your opponent plays a card with Voltaic in it's name you should probably shatter it as quickly as possible. Or you can die.
Then do whatever it is you do with infinite mana. My personal favorite is to play Myr Matrix. Heartstone works just as well as training grounds if you don't want to play blue and don't mind the extra cost.
MasterOfEtherium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Voltaic.......................Key'ish
Test-Subject_217601
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Ironically this wasn't originally a construct. (Because the construct creature type didn't exist at that time.)
Shadoflaam
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
this is broken with training grounds.
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Steel Overseer. I actually agree with MasterOfEtherium here about it being "Voltaic Key-ish". It's more expensive, but at the same time more repeatable.
infinite any colour with gilded lotus also curves nicely
Bbone37
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Guilded Lotus? Everflowing Chalice? Are these creatures now?
steinburger1109
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@a7141988,
That's all well and good, but one problem with it is that Thran Dynamo and Nevinyrral's Disk would need to have entered the turn before because once you animate them with Karn, they can't use tap abilities due to summoning sickness.
-Knaprig-
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The most obvious infini-mana combo with this card is Metalworker, but then again, that card is from the Urza Block.
Aremath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You can use it with Grand Architect to accomplish exactly nothing.
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Oh, and Colossus of Sardia. If you're into that sort of thing.
Then do whatever it is you do with infinite mana. My personal favorite is to play Myr Matrix.
Heartstone works just as well as training grounds if you don't want to play blue and don't mind the extra cost.
That's all well and good, but one problem with it is that Thran Dynamo and Nevinyrral's Disk would need to have entered the turn before because once you animate them with Karn, they can't use tap abilities due to summoning sickness.