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M11 Triskelion

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The Triskelion is back with three points of ping in Magic: The Gathering's 2011 Core Set.
The Triskelion is back with three points of ping in Magic: The Gathering's 2011 Core Set.
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The classic artifact creature Triskelion is back in Magic: The Gathering's 2011 Core Set, as an expensive 4/4 with a lot of flexibility.  Triskelion also has a great new friend, Steel Overseer, in M11 - Don't leave those two together for long or you'll be facing an artifact apocalypse that won't be easy to beat.

Triskelion
6
Artifact Creature - Construct Rare
Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: Triskelion deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
1/1

The last time Magic players got to play with Triskelion was Mirrodin, and it's always sort of fulfilled the same role - firing off colorless rounds of one damage bursts to clean out small creatures or finish off large ones.  At six mana, Triskelion is relatively expensive for a 4/4 creature, but you're paying for the versatility, and the fact that as an artifact you can toss Triskelion into any deck.

Triskelion can be played as a pricey 4/4 (You can get Stone Golem in M11, a vanilla 4/4 artifact creature for the bargain price of 5) or an ideal choice to pick off targets that can pose a threat with one toughness in M11 - Cards like Stormfront Pegasus, Child of Night, Liliana's Specter, Nantuko Shade, Royal Assassin, Goblin Tunneler, Prodigal Pyromancer, Awakener Druid,or even to finish off a damaged planeswalker.

Triskelion doesn't have all the high profile targets in M11 that it would have had in Rise of the Eldrazi, but Triskelion's still a very malleable rare artifact creature that can be inserted into any deck for results, making it a solid choice in draft and a definite play in a sealed deck pool.

Ping your way to victory with the shiny new bucket of bolts known as Triskelion at the Magic: The Gathering 2011 Core Set prerelease events this weekend!

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Daniel Tack has been playing Magic since the early days of Revised, when a Craw Wurm was just as magical as a Dual Land. Nowadays, Dan focuses on Limited style magic strategies, focusing on drafting and sealed deck play as well as the popular multiplayer format, Elder Dragon Highlander. You can...

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