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it's not that bad, at 3 cost for an unblockable monster, but it's the second effect that counts, powering down any monsters or cards with counters on them

I'm assuming Ferropede is supposed to be like a centipede, as well as cards like Gigapede. Well, even though their creature type is "insect", it shouldn't be. Centipedes and millipedes aren't insects. They belong to the subphylum Myriapoda.

You could also make use of this guy to prevent growth of cultimative upkeep on one of your own permanents by removing time counters, or remove -1/-1 counters from your creatures.

My inner johnny made me try this out in a deck along with Power Conduit, Clockspinning and Chisei, Heart of Oceans.
I noticed that this guy is regrettably just too fragile to find efficient use, if it only had shroud, was 1/2 or even 1/3, this card would be more playable.
But this 1/1 body will be blown away in an instant, and since you have to wait one turn until he can finally remove a counter you'll have a hard time making use of this.
I'd really want to play Hungry Hungry Heifer instead, but on one hand, this card is banned for being from Unglued, and on the other i should be glad that Chisei could even get the chance to exist thanks to that cow.

@Arach: Way to swallow a textbook. Because giving a small amount of creatures a creature type that is extremely similar to an existing and well functioning one makes total sense. Especially since most players would understand the reason.

Note that you cannot actually remove time counters from suspended cards with this, as suspended cards are not permanents as they are in the removed-from-the-game-zone.

My brother had an artifact deck that wrecked with this thing. This guy can win the game easy with the right cards. The aforementioned deck happened to be a Myr Skullclamp deck with Lightning Grieves, but even in your standard Affinity deck you can slap a Cranial Plating on this bugger and he'll swing for huge amounts of damage. Lightning Grieves gives him haste and makes him impervious to targeted removal.
Rated 4/5

Dark Depths.

The unas.suming Planeswalker slayer.

I usually run him with Unstable Mutation it only makes him a 3/3 unblockable for 4 and two cards, but its still fun ; )

I'm assuming it's sort of meant to be an answer to Darksteel Reactor. But there's plenty of other uses for it too, probably.

magic is meant to be fun not to be a zooology(know doubt he/she will pick me up on that) lesson just relax and think of combos/reasons of badness

Aside from the obvious second ability, I think many people are missing something. Colorless Unblockable. Cards like One with Nature can be used on it, or you can splash just enough blue for Curiosity and have card draw in a red deck. You can Giant Growth or otherwise pump this in a green deck for a sleeper beater.

The fact that it's colorless and still useful if you don't combo it makes this beast. Seriously 5/5.

LOL Way To Swallow A Textbook

Give him double strike and 2 unstable mutations.

This and Eldrazi Con***ion. You've got to get your...ferropede.
(apologies to The Infectious Grooves)

For those of us who don't like choosing between attacking a player or attacking a planeswalker.

Who am I gonna believe? WotC or Arachibutyrophobia?

I think it's obvious centipedes and millipedes are insects..I mean.. WotC says they are; what more proof do you need?

Insects have 6 legs. "pedes" have... too many. I saw it on both TV AND the INTERNET, so it must be true. This card rules, Unblockable powerstealer, whats not to like?

It can hit a player AND a Plainswalker at the same time, not too shabby.

Higher cost to play than Hex Parasite, and can only remove one counter per turn. On the other hand the ability is free, and comes along with unblockable damage. A Persist or Undying deck might want to run both.

@Arachibutyrophobia: Magic seems to use insect as a catch-all for any sort of bug that isn't a spider. It's far from the only fudging they do with creature types. Loxodons clearly aren't actual elephants for instance.

So if I had Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, two Ferropedes, some form of blanket haste (such as Anger in the graveyard) and I put Breath of Fury on one, shouldn't that create an infinite combat loop?

Ferropede A has Breath, hits player, sacced, Breath moves to Ferropede B.
Ferropede B has Breath, hits player, removes +1/+1 counter from Ferropede A, gets sacced, and moves the Breath back to A.

Each combat resets the other 'pede's undying counter.

I don't quite agree as to why this is rated so low. It's easy to cast in colorless, it's legal in modern, and it's chock full of potential. Yeah, it's fragile, it's also an artifact and unblockable, meaning it doesn't have to worry about creatures hitting it and it's relatively easy to bring back.

It will kill a Phylactery Lich outright and at about the same speed, it'll speed up your suspends, screw your opponents' counter farms and Grimoire of the Dead, pluck away their Myojin of Life's Web's divinity counter, and you can plop all your cipher cards and Shade's Form and Titanic Growth onto him (especially Shade's Form if you're worried about him being too fragile).

Yeah, Hex Parasite is great, particularly for its amazing price...that is, it's great IF you run black, or IF you are willing/able to burn through life paying for it, mind you. Ferropede came from a different set, has a different angle, and a different utility. You can't remove ten counters from something in a turn with Ferropede, but you can't remove a counter reliably every single turn with Hex, and it's not unblockable. Yeah, you could slap Aqueous Form on it...but that's another slot, and a bad use of Aqueous Form.

All in all, I think ferropede deserves a little more love. It's made the difference many times, it doesn't talk smack in group games while still giving you an ace in the hole and an answer to much +1/+1 counter weenery and is beautifully comboable.

@NinjaShadow: That is indeed correct. Centipedes belong to the subphylum "Myriapoda" which literally means "many feet", while the insects belong to "Hexapoda", which fittingly enough means "six feet".

@Designer_Genes: Insects are extremely similar to myriapods in the same way that you are extremely similar to a trout. Arthropods make up about 75% of the world's animal species, while vertebrates make up about 2%. There's really greater differences, both physically and genetically, between a centipede and bee than there is between a human and a frog.