Card Name Cid, Timeless Artificer Mana Cost Type Legendary Creature Human Artificer Rarity Uncommon rules Text Artifact creatures and Heroes you control get +1/+1 for each Artificer you control and each Artificer card in your graveyard.A deck can have any number of cards named Cid, Timeless Artificer.Cycling ( , Discard this card: Draw a card.) P/T Set Number 417 Language Franais Legal Formats Alchemy, Brawl, Commander, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Timeless, Vintage Rulings (6/6/2025) The second ability of Cid, Timeless Artificer lets you ignore the "four-of" rule in constructed play

Part of a cycle that features the almost-as-broken Gaea's Cradle and somehow the hilariously unbroken Shivan Gorge, Tolarian Academy taps to make a mana for each artifact you control, which led to decks that would dump their entire hand of cheap artifacts, make a ton of mana by tapping and maybe untapping Tolarian Academy, and then use big card-draw spells like Windfall and Stroke of Genius to refill before eventually milling the opponent out with Stroke of Genius, potentially all on Turn 1
As a bonus to Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker, it also has trample, meaning the chances of it dealing player damage as a 5/4 creature are already high, and that's before you put any additional counters on it.
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