That's some beautifully eerie Phyrexian architecture on the main artwork--eerie "foreshadowing," as it were. It's those small yet flavorful significant touches that I appreciate.
wait wut? I thought we would never get this considering the length they went to make Urza's Factory unplayable.
A card that makes herself a creature is very different from another one that makes a token of said creature every turn.
Yes your right but let me give a bit of a history lesson.
Back when Timespiral originally was being spoiled I believe one of the spoilers MaRo said there was going to be a card typed with Assembly-Worker in the set and since at that time they had also stated that there would be cards in the set from the past. We all assumed that we were going to get Mishras Factory since no other card in the then history of magic had said typing.
What we got was the base Assembly-Worker and Urza's Factory which if you realize uses all the tron lands to create said token. So tower, mine, powerplant, and factory gains you the ability to create one very underwhelming token, even in that time period. I felt at the time very trolled and the writing was on the wall that they would not ever reprint Mishra's factory. So imagine my surprise today that in modern we WILL be finally able to play the good factory.
wait wut? I thought we would never get this considering the length they went to make Urza's Factory unplayable.
A card that makes herself a creature is very different from another one that makes a token of said creature every turn.
Yes your right but let me give a bit of a history lesson.
Back when Timespiral originally was being spoiled I believe one of the spoilers MaRo said there was going to be a card typed with Assembly-Worker in the set and since at that time they had also stated that there would be cards in the set from the past. We all assumed that we were going to get Mishras Factory since no other card in the then history of magic had said typing.
What we got was the base Assembly-Worker and Urza's Factory which if you realize uses all the tron lands to create said token. So tower, mine, powerplant, and factory gains you the ability to create one very underwhelming token, even in that time period. I felt at the time very trolled and the writing was on the wall that they would not ever reprint Mishra's factory. So imagine my surprise today that in modern we WILL be finally able to play the good factory.
Your hypothesis doesn't hold much water since after Time Spiral they just did Mutavault, which is roughly the same (and often even superior) power level, so printing a 2/2 manland that activate for 1 didn't bother at all WotC. Urza Factory was just a homage of the urzatron, in a set where every single card was a homage of a past magic card.
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Spoiler EditorOh great, the Brother's War is spilling into Modern... again. Mishra's Factory is a mostly harmless (hopefully) new manland for the format.
A card that makes herself a creature is very different from another one that makes a token of said creature every turn.
Yes your right but let me give a bit of a history lesson.
Back when Timespiral originally was being spoiled I believe one of the spoilers MaRo said there was going to be a card typed with Assembly-Worker in the set and since at that time they had also stated that there would be cards in the set from the past. We all assumed that we were going to get Mishras Factory since no other card in the then history of magic had said typing.
What we got was the base Assembly-Worker and Urza's Factory which if you realize uses all the tron lands to create said token. So tower, mine, powerplant, and factory gains you the ability to create one very underwhelming token, even in that time period. I felt at the time very trolled and the writing was on the wall that they would not ever reprint Mishra's factory. So imagine my surprise today that in modern we WILL be finally able to play the good factory.
Your hypothesis doesn't hold much water since after Time Spiral they just did Mutavault, which is roughly the same (and often even superior) power level, so printing a 2/2 manland that activate for 1 didn't bother at all WotC. Urza Factory was just a homage of the urzatron, in a set where every single card was a homage of a past magic card.