I’d rather play Mandrake for a cheap beatstick
Immortal Vanguard - Magmar - Biomimetic hulk
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I suspect these are almost immune to removal before finished. Otherwise seem pointless?
Really? It sounds like a bad card, interfering with Natural Selection and Plasma Storm until it is built. And even if it gets built, removals are so strong in this game that it will be removed as soon as it hits the board. I was expecting something more interesting than a pile of stats…
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The buildings are immune to dispel, but not to other forms of removal.
They ARE immune to transformation, according to the article (which was probably wrong/poorly worded).
Three turns is a long time to wait for a vanilla 10/10. Sure, if it’s played early and survives you effectively get a cheap drybone golem, but at any other point in the game this will be answered with ease or come out too late to matter.
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There’s nothing there that implies they’re immune to transformation. It just says you cannot dispel the build effect.
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That implies that if you transform the buildings it will still eventually transform into their final form. It sounds odd to me.
Thanny says it will eventually transform. if you grasp a sentinel and then it transforms, it retains grasp’s effect (I’m quite certain of this but I haven’t misplayed a sentinel in a while) so I think by Thanny saying
may imply build stays even if transformed
Keeper vaath support YESSS!!!
In any case we have to hope they have learnt from the sentinel debacle of a total mess of spell interactions.
Do sentinels return transformed or untransformed, or does it depend on how it died?
I disagree, I think it says you cannot DISPEL the fact that it will eventually transform.
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Still…rip gauntlet
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I concur. I absolutely loathed the fact that Juggernaut is a Golem and spawns Golems and now this. An exception is made for Taygete not being some kind of reptile due to lore but this is just silly. They could have made it look like organic armour or something.
That being said, this looks like both a strong card but it also limits your deckbuilding options if you choose to incude it. If this is is around you can’t have Natural Selection and Plasma Storm in the early game because it will remove all your progress or just not be useful.
Build seems like Sentinel’s slightly healthier counterpart imho. We’ll see if it will see play.
I agree. My inner Grammar nazi just sees his point , and how it Could be something
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There’s interesting interactions here. If you Nether Summoning or Releaser a Sentinel I believe it returns the transformed form. If you use Bound Tormentor to steal an enemy sentinel you get the untransformed form, but you still don’t know which sentinel it is.
If a sentinel is returned to your hand after transforming, playing it will play the untransformed version.
So I suppose it could go either way.
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If you Aspect of the Ravager a Building, it is no longer a Building (removed!) and therefore will stop “building.” Ravagers don’t build into anything except tears 
Suppose it’s simpler to say: if it says Build on it, it’s going to build, regardless if it was dispelled. But if the card doesn’t have Build on it… well there’s nothing to talk about now is there? 
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As far as the card itself goes, I think that build has a very interesting interaction with the faction due to it conflicting with its removal. However, I think that with enough cards, that there will be alternatives for players that want to have a deck with this card. We’re already seeing it with Ragnora’s better use of lance and the new pupabomb.
For aesthetics, I personally don’t mind that it looks inorganic. I realize that factions have their own style, but there are room for outliers. Is there something in the lore that says Magmar specifically don’t use robotics at all?