For all you Timmie's out there, 4 mana puts your sweet Levithian into play.
DyadyaIstvan
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(14 votes)
How come the toolbag on the card is spending 4 to summon a Savannah Lions?
Zulp
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
A colorless Piper. Almost.
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The flavor text is awesome. I love those little sentances that can lift the atmosphere a little when sitting in a serious match, or that can make you laugh the first time you read them. Cabal Trainee, Squirrel Mob and Medicine Bag also has very nice flavor texts :P
Taltor
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Because the 'tool bag' is giving his apprentice something simple to summon. Anyway, a great artifact for getting out expensive creatures like angels, demons, dragons, etc.
Strictly inferior to Elvish Piper. Piper is legal in standard, and her effect only costs G. In order to play-and-drop with this, you need 8 mana sources. In order to play-and-drop with Piper, you need 5 mana sources, two of them green.
Getting Darksteel Colossus or Progenitus out quick? How about summoning Progenitus on THEIR 3rd turn after they declare attackers? Next turn you bring out Lorthos, the Tidemaker and ANOTHER Piper. The person I did that to forfeited soon after that.
RafiqTheMiststalker
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
@DeathDark
It doesn't take 8 mana sources. It takes 4. You cast turn 4, then drop Kozilek and what have you on turn 5. It's not meant to be held on to til the 8th turn -_-
It's also NOT strictly worse. This is colorless, and Elvish Piper can be removed by the rampant creature removal of today. I'm not the type to flame every creature because Swords and Bolt exist, but this not being a creature is a plus. And artifacts have ton of cheat into play cards and colorless acceleration like the Urzatron.
Elvish Piper IS good, and I'd rather use it. But don't be so black and white about cards. They are both useful cards.
majinara
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@ DeathDark: Inferior to Elvish Piper? You got to be kidding me. This amulet is far better than the piper. It doesn't neet green mana, it's no 1 toughness dork that dies when you pat him on the shoulder, and it can be used the turn it comes into play, while the piper has to sit around for a full turn. Sitting around for full turn is a huge disadvantage, since you give your opponent the possibility to react with sorcery speed removal, to draw another card that might be the removal one, and to untap, so your opponent has the mana available to play any removal. This card ain't the best card ever, but it's waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the piper.
Revan312
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I agree that this is, in many ways, superior to Elvish Piper. I've ran it in my Angel deck for a long time and it simply gels extremely well, the rest of the deck is enchantments along with Serra's Sanctum so getting this out quickly and using it is pretty simple. It doesn't die to the abundance of creature removal and for what it does, is inexpensive when your talking about slamming an Akroma or Reya into play on the 4th or 5th turn...
Sironos
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Much better than piper. All (good) decks have something that can handle a 1/1 creature, while not all decks have something that can handle an artifact. This is simply insane, so hard to be rid of and so devastating. it is COLOURLESS, which is the thing I like best about it, it is an insanely useful card that doesn't favour one colour (which insanely useful cards shouldn't imo). Wouldn't play it though, getting emrakul out for 4 mana is kinda lame.
Clavat99
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
lol, play the amulet, use Diabolic Tutor to get Emrakul, The Aeons Torn into your hand if you dont have it already, then use the amulet to get out your 15/15 on turn 4 or 5.
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(9 votes)
That kid looks so happy.
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I wish I was happy
Faralay
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
From July until October 2011, you'll be able to use this baby to bring out your precious Emrakul in standard. Bring your Naturalizes and Crushes to FNM.
LiXinjian
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Thank Rosewater those Eldrazis are rotating out in a few months!!
Atogatogatog
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
M12 reprint, YES!
chipperdyke
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
THE CARD'S TEXT IS COPIED INCORRECTLY INTO THIS SITE, SO IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO FIND THIS CARD!!!!! somebody needs to change this!!!!
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Reprinted. Get ready for a clown car full of Praetors, Titans, 11 power poisonous robots and Eldrazi to crash into standard.
deadbirdie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This gets whatever you want into play turn 3 if you build your deck right, Begining of game reveal Chancelor of the Tangle and drop 2 lanowar elves, or 2 arbor elves, or 2 birds of paradise, or any combination on turn 1, turn 2 play amulet, turn 3 play any big creature you happen to have in hand.
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Getting Darksteel Colossus or Progenitus out quick? How about summoning Progenitus on THEIR 3rd turn after they declare attackers? Next turn you bring out Lorthos, the Tidemaker and ANOTHER Piper. The person I did that to forfeited soon after that.
It doesn't take 8 mana sources. It takes 4. You cast turn 4, then drop Kozilek and what have you on turn 5. It's not meant to be held on to til the 8th turn -_-
It's also NOT strictly worse. This is colorless, and Elvish Piper can be removed by the rampant creature removal of today. I'm not the type to flame every creature because Swords and Bolt exist, but this not being a creature is a plus. And artifacts have ton of cheat into play cards and colorless acceleration like the Urzatron.
Elvish Piper IS good, and I'd rather use it. But don't be so black and white about cards.
They are both useful cards.
This card ain't the best card ever, but it's waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the piper.
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I wish I was happy