I admittedly have not played much Vintage lately, but when I was playing I tried out Transmute Artifact several times and I was never really happy with it. Tinker has a big edge on Transmute Artifact because it lets you cheat out expensive artifacts. It's like stapling Demonic Tutor to a Show and Tell.

Transmute, by contrast, always functioned like a worse version of Trinket Mage, in my experience. Sure, you can tutor for a cheap artifact at sorcery speed, but... how often is this the best card for that job? Assuming you really want to get something that costs 2 or 3 instead of 1, now we're talking about paying 3UU or whatever to tutor... and we're crossing into what Tezzert costs. On top of all that, Demonic Tutor does the same thing for X+1B instead of X+UU+sac so...

I think it's just a function of a card that is really legitimately broken just not being competitive with other broken cards.

Now, if there was a deck that really needed to pump artifacts into the graveyard or really wanted another useful sacrifice outlet, maybe we'd be talking. Transmute does put two artifacts into the yard, and if that angle is something you can exploit, maybe it has a place.

Whoops!

I posted a thread with your preview card a few hours before this thread went up - I had no idea it was your preview! Sorry about that!

Yawgmoth's Will for your opponents graveyard! This effect is super powerful, as we know, but is there any case for it being playable in a world seeing a Storm mirror is like seeing a Unicorn in the wild?

So I've been screwing around with this thing casually, and it's really fun. Not sure it's vintage-level power, naturally. But, it can be tutored out and then it gives you a useful mana sink turn after turn. If you get Sai, Master Thopterist going with it or happen to be running other Thopters, it gets really powerful.

The deck I stuck it in has Ornithopters, Roterothopter, and Pilgrim's Eye. They're all pretty terrible, but Goblin Welder at least makes Eye sort of workable.

Whether LSV invented something or not, when a popular streamer does something, the larger community notices. You can see this with lots of reserve list spikes in prices that correllate to being mentioned on a podcast or a show. I think it's very fair to consider what tech is in the public's attention, at least if you're playing MTGO.

@hierarchnoble So we should call it Noah Fish instead, right?

Color me skeptical. This is a Punisher card. Your opponent will choose whatever is best for them. If you're locked down under a Sphere, they'll rely on Sol Lands instead.

If it cost 1 mana, then they probably would not have a choice; they kept a hand with a mox or crypt and need to use it, probably. So, if it cost 1, it would situationally be as good as Llanowar Elves. That's not high praise.

There's a second use case, along side Welder or something else to sac the artifacts, but that's an awful lot of work and mana to do what Mox Monkey already does.

@smmenen Well then, here's my list of cards I would like to hear your thoughts on from Battlebond and M19:

Spellseeker
Arena Rector
Archon of Valor's Reach
Stunning Reversal

Runic Armasaur
Sai, Master Thopterist
Alpine Moon
Isolate
Remorseful Cleric
Tezzeret, Artifice Master
Amulet of Safekeeping
Suncleanser

I wonder who has joined the design team that they're recently taking a stab at these elegant multi-deck hate answers? Is it Gavin?

Anyway, this card rocks off with its socks off. A one drop hate card that hits Oath, Shops, and Dredge? That's super relevant! Sign me up for a dozen.

@wfain

@wfain said in [M19] Desecrated Tomb:

some sort of dredge-shops hybrid list

You're a terrifying person, you know that, right?

@chubbyrain Card is playable. My only concern -- and I don't play enough Vintage lately to know if it's serious or not -- is whether a removal spell that addresses colorless creatures only is too narrow. Hitting all artifacts is broad enough to see play. Is killing shops creatures and Eldrazi but not other artifacts still broad enough?