MTG Salvation

Preview from the new @wizards_magic twitter feed.

http://twitpic.com/3pzua7

Love, love love the art. Way helpful with Metalcraft.

That is some incredible art. Holy wow.

At first I read "Sliverskin" and thought it was something completely different. I would have preferred an equip cost of 1, though. But yeah, it can definitely help achieve Metalcraft.

Is it weird that the flavor text actually shows that the Neurok failed at what they were going for?

I'm a little disappointed that this is the card for this great art, and the card is merely okay. decent at making metalcraft but 2 and 2 for +1/+1 is not that great

Terese Nielsen knocks another one out of the park.

funny, i was also going to comment on the art (which had already been revealed).
without quinton hoover around, we don't have enough art nouveau : )

it's a pitty that this art was waisted on such a humdrum card. even for limited, this really needed to be a little cheaper to be worthwhile (prehaps a 1 equip cost). at 1 mana and equip it'd maybe make metalcraft a touch too easy, but it IS an uncommon... oh well. hopefully it gets printed as a playmat.

An excellent Metalcraft enabler for Limited, and it has a delightfully beautiful piece of art. I approve.

so its a +2 for metalcraft. Very nice card and very nice art.

This card is really bad right? It enables Metalcraft nicely, but is there any other reason that this is worth 4 mana and 1 slot in the deck?

Such a meh card for such nice art.

I want a foil.

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This card is really bad right? It enables Metalcraft nicely, but is there any other reason that this is worth 4 mana and 1 slot in the deck?

Apart from random dork fights, I see this as a more applicable Liquimetal Coating (although as an argument if you draft enough artifact removal the Coating is way better) for the Metalcraft draft deck.

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Pity about the equip cost. It should have been 1. Come to think of it, casting cost as well.

I would have been fine with zero. Awesome art for a silly bad card.

I wish it cost 1 so Trinket Mage could fetch it up, but it's still a fine metalcraft enabler. I also love the DaVinci-esque artwork.

Utter garbage. bleh. come on wizards don't let this be a sign of the quality of equipment to come.

Yeah, this is like Liquimetal Coating that's more useful more of the time. Still not good, but I'm trying to think of ways to use it already.

I hate it when really good art gets wasted on cards that nobody will ever play.

:/

I was hoping for a blue counterpart to Eternal Witness for this art.

It's more or less two artifacts for Metalcraft.

I wish you could attach it to your opponent's creatures so you could Shatter them like you can do with Liquimetal coating.

Overall it feels very "meh" to me, but I'd draft it

It's clearly designed to help enable metalcraft. So, what cards with metalcraft make this worth playing?

hmm . . .

Oh, hello Indomitable Archangel, how are you today?

Oh gosh this card is bad...Except in limited, where it's still kinda bad. Such a shame, the art is gorgeous.

This card's flavor is incredible. It shows the power of U ingenuity put to use in a united front against a common enemy. The answer to the problem of corruption, is an injection of Quicksilver. The art, is a set of blueprints being used for the production of these weapons, clearly shows the injection system. This is a symbiotic relationship of arcane magic, technical knowledge, and human soldiers.

The art, in addition to being a prefect representation of the flavor text, is amazing and I want a foil.

And to top it off, the card sucks. . Can't win 'em all I guess.

I pray to open one that's misprinted so that the art is present on the card, but some other card's relevant information is on the card, similar to Revised Serendib Efreet. Barring that unlikely scenario, I might draft this, but it's rather dissapointing.