Sydri, Galvanic Genius

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

{U}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost until end of turn.

{W}{B}: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Gidgetimer on Will animating card:Machine God's Effigy …

3 months ago

Your original premise is wrong. The reason Machine God's Effigy doesn't have any subtypes at all is that it wasn't printed with any subtypes.

Unless something makes it a treasure, it isn't a treasure; unless something makes it a food, it isn't a food; unless something makes it an elf, it isn't an elf. Sydri, Galvanic Genius and March of the Machines don't grant any creature subtypes, so it would just be an artifact creature with no subtypes. Mishra, Eminent One gives the subtype "construct", so the Machine God's Effigy copy is a construct.

Mave on Will animating card:Machine God's Effigy …

3 months ago

If I understood the rules of Machine God's Effigy correctly the reason why it doesn't has the subtypes like Saga, Myr, Construct or Forest is because those types are only available if the card is an Enchantment, Creature, Kindred or Land. But since it is an artifact it keeps types such as Treasure, Vehicle, Clue, Food etc. So would Sydri, Galvanic Genius return the type since it turns Machine God's Effigy into a creature and therefore it becomes able to hold the card type? And since March of the Machines directly causes Machine God's Effigy to enter as a Creature would it be able to retain the creature types or is there sth in the rules that simply erases all nonartifact creature types from it? So far I haven't seen this exact question. There were questions that refered to making a Mishra's Warform Token from Machine God's Effigy. They didn't go into detail regarding the creature type and only write "the copy will be an Artifact Creature - Construct". Mishra, Eminent One would be a similar case like Sydri. But why wouldn't the creature type be "dormant" in the copy? I read that e.g. copying a Vehicle with Machine God's Effigy or any other creature will keep the p/t dormant so if Machine God's Effigy gets crew it becomes able to turn into a creature with the regular P/T stats.

PieCake on What P/T has Brotherhood Vertibird …

7 months ago

Let's say you control Sydri, Galvanic Genius and an uncrewed Brotherhood Vertibird. You tap an Island to activate Sydri's ability and target the Vertibird. The only artifact you control is the Vertibird.

a.) What P/T does the Vertibird have in this scenario?
b.) What P/T does the Vertibird have, if I decide to crew it with Sydri after using her first ability on Vertibird?

Crow_Umbra on Soveriegn Above All

1 year ago

I haven't had a chance to slot Chivalric Alliance into their relevant decks yet, but have liked Minas Tirith, since my meta doesn't run much land destruction beyond stuff like Beast Within/Generous Gift/Demolition Field.

A couple more creatures I'd recommend checking out are Managorger Hydra and Ravenous Slime. Managorger can get huge pretty quickly (assuming it doesn't eat removal), and Ravenous Slime is a cheeky bit of graveyard/aristocrats hate that can also balloon up.

Nice! My primary playgroup moved on from "tabletop Modern jank" to EDH once the 60 card stuff started becoming samey. We were playing it mostly multiplayer anyways, so EDH made most sense. My first EDH deck attempt was turning the Sydri, Galvanic Genius precon into something resembling a deck. I consider Tuvasa the Sunlit to be my first true EDH deck, since that's the first one I took the time to actually upgrade. I took Tuvasa apart a while ago, but my Gylwain, Casting Director deck uses quite a bit of the pieces that Tuvasa originally used.

tonylomas on Help me torture

1 year ago

Hey all ! :D so i wanna build an artifact edh with pingers/stax by animating them into creatures eventually. I really like Sydri, Galvanic Genius for this task, mostly because her activated abilities and cuz she has White. Although...i also feel like Katsumasa, the Animator would provide me with free counters to animate them without relying on their cmc = p/t. Wich one would you use as commander? and i would really apreciate a full list of all stax/tax artifacts! and one more: Nurgle's Rot have u broken this card? seems really fun if u can spam it xd.

CannedCanOpener on Stimpak Junkie

1 year ago

If your main focus is lifegain, you can pretty easily win with lifegain alone using Test of Endurance, Felidar Sovereign, or Celestial Convergence - all three are very high-priority targets that need to survive a turn rotation, but Oloro can pretty easily bolster your life total enough and you have the counter magic to protect them (and if Convergence takes too long, something like Vampire Hexmage or Hex Parasite can skip the 7 turn clock). Or, if you want to focus more primarily on Aetherflux, you could use Sydri, Galvanic Genius to animate it and give it lifelink to make it game-winning at 51 life rather than 151.

metalflame on Sydri, mind slaver, and nim …

2 years ago

Sydri, Galvanic Genius can turn Mindslaver into a creature, and when you sac it you can put it back on the field with Nim Deathmantle.

Effect is you bring back mind slaver, take the opponents turn, and then take your turn again. Rinse repeat for infinite mind slaver

Is this how this would work in EDH?

Gidgetimer on Experience with Aetherflux Reservoir

2 years ago

It is a win-con card plain and simple. You don't just play Aetherflux Reservoir out for value. It draws entirely too much heat.

If people are using it as a spite move or to try to stall the game they are playing the card incorrectly. You either gain up to 51+ in an esper control deck and use Aetherflux Reservoir to shoot the table down by giving it lifelink with Sydri, Galvanic Genius or you play it to fuel paying life into Bolas's Citadel with either Necropotence or Sensei's Divining Top out to remove lands from your topdeck.