# YOU are an ARTIFICER ## Quick Notes - This is an unpowered 360 card cube - Focus on the Artifact type and cards that care about it - This is a synergy-focused cube -- think about building something of a contraption, with each part contributing to a greater whole - Sometimes that contraption is big robots + a player's face -- the aggro decks are strong, and you need to be prepared for them - Decks are usually two colours or two-and-a-half colours, often splashing for strong multicolour cards ## Archetypes Because of the highly synergistic nature of this cube and the density of colourless spells, the macro archetypes tend to exist outside explicit colour pairs. **Sacrifice** >>><<[[!Oni-Cult Anvil|c84db1e2-855c-4169-a9cc-a54c73c14e0c]][[!Hidden Stockpile|8d2176a5-66f8-4a21-bbe2-969c82ca36bd]][[!Gleaming Geardrake]][[!Gut, True Soul Zealot]]>><<< This archetype is very broad, ranging from grindy decks aiming to leverage the synergy of Hidden Stockpile and [[Staff of the Storyteller]] to decks that just want to explode your opponent with [[Broadside Bombardiers]]. [[Braids, Arisen Nightmare]] puts your opponent in a bind, either reducing their board or granting you card advantage on a turn-by-turn basis, and [[Breya's Apprentice]] provides an outlet to sacrifice your [[Ichor Wellspring]]s and [[Perilous Myr]]s for extra value. **Recursion** >>><<[[!Emry, Lurker of the Loch|bf4b9a8a-b42a-46fb-b0d0-9cf800f63c8a]][[!Silas Renn, Seeker Adept|4e3fe912-1374-47c7-b73f-89ef55c479c1]][[!Lurrus of the Dream-Den]][[!Goblin Engineer|31f675f6-df29-4b90-a5e6-26d915fdc6a1]]>><<< These cards generally pair well with the Sacrifice archetype, though they're perfectly capable of grinding the game out on their own. Recurring [[Pyrite Spellbomb]] or [[Executioner's Capsule]] gives you a repeatable source of removal, or you can loop [[Chromatic Star]] to fill your hand. [[Imotekh the Stormlord]] serves as a strong payoff for this strategy, generating bodies while you renew your resources, and if you can get to ten mana, there's even the option to lock your opponent out of the game with [[Mindslaver]]. **Artifact Tokens** >>><<[[!Black Market Tycoon]][[!Academy Manufactor]][[!The Goose Mother]][[!Savvy Hunter|15c98441-2b31-4e48-a399-f36dffcfa41d]]>><<< This archetype tries to leverage the power of creating and sacrificing Treasures, Clues and Food to dominate the battlefield. Build a stash of tokens and one-shot your opponent with [[Cyberdrive Awakener]]. [[Killer Service]] does an excellent job converting the junk you have laying around into large bodies. Feed the tokens you have laying around to [[Chitterspitter]] in order to grow your Squirrels -- and speaking of, while [[Chatterfang, Squirrel General]] is around, your various artifact tokens come with a little bonus. **Scales** >>><<[[!Hardened Scales|7dcdf1db-bfaf-4160-8003-1fa2e56b00dc]][[!Arcbound Ravager]][[!Hangarback Walker]][[!The Ozolith|9341ed06-53db-4604-b60a-3ea9129afbc2]]>><<< Based on the classic Modern deck, this archetype can hit quick and hard, while also presenting resilient threats using the Modular mechanic. Several additional Scales effects like [[Conclave Mentor]] and [[Ozolith, the Shattered Spire]] add consistency to the archetype, and cards like [[Walking Ballista]] put it over the top. [[Agatha's Soul Cauldron]] and [[Collector's Cage]] support the archetype while providing powerful additional effects. As of yet, no one has been slain by a 10/10 [[Inkmoth Nexus]].... **Artifact Aggro** >>><<[[!Arcbound Shikari]][[!Tempered Steel|6661b39d-505a-48f4-bc06-59084c6a3b0c]][[!Cranial Plating]][[!Shrapnel Blast|056affab-4e2a-4b68-b864-d879becd3c45]]>><<< This is the fastest deck in the format, attacking early with oversized creatures and closing the game with big burn spells to the face. It's supported by early threats like [[Vault Skirge]] and [[Signal Pest]], and cards like [[Steel Seraph]], [[Losheel, Clockwork Scholar]] and [[Embercleave]] give the deck the ability to close the game through a board of blockers. ## Subthemes This cube has several small-package subthemes that supplement the macro-archetypes **Stoneforge Mystic** >>><<[[!Stoneforge Mystic|6003e1e8-13d5-4f17-bbd4-ee05a6c4b30d]][[!Assimilation Aegis]][[!Skullclamp|1ea6289e-61c6-4221-8e44-07212f9ba3e4]][[!Nettlecyst|4a0bb5dc-75a6-4bd6-81f8-611197fb0fba]]>><<< This cube supports a flexible Stoneforge Mystic package, with tutor options for aggro, midrange and control alike. One thing to note is that some of the more powerful targets like Umezawa's Jitte, Kaldra Compleat, and Batterskull are absent here. **Energy** >>><<[[!Assaultron Dominator]][[!Static Prison]][[!Synth Eradicator]][[!Galvanic Discharge|32aa6e33-221f-414c-9b51-850d97a7e051]]>><<< The Energy package mostly consists of cards that work well on their own, but which shine when combined with each other. Typically these card support aggressive decks, but [[Aetherworks Marvel]] can go haywire in sacrifice decks. **Discard Matters** >>><<[[!Containment Construct]][[!Currency Converter]][[!Veronica, Dissident Scribe]][[!Ovalchase Daredevil]]>><<< This small subtheme takes advantage of a handful of cards that trigger when you discard a card. Casting [[Twinshot Sniper]] or [[Jolted Awake]] off Containment Construct after channeling or cycling them can be backbreaking, and the incremental advantage of the Junk generated by Veronica can't be understated. [[Shorikai, Genesis Engine]] is a strong card that only gets stronger with these in play, and there's even a [[Cookbook|039d62b0-3309-4424-a2ea-5a0d88d4bd72]] to go with that Daredevil! **Cheat** >>><<[[!Trash for Treasure]][[!Master Transmuter|252482b2-aaa7-49f3-af8c-30923ca98994]][[!Goblin Welder|324886ea-65d1-40ee-a8cb-eaaf922d2382]][[!Kuldotha Forgemaster]]>><<< This cube supports a small package of "cheat" cards, whether that means reanimating a big artifact through goblin ingenuity or putting cards directly into play from the hand. [[Triplicate Titan]] and [[Myr Battlesphere]] are strong cards to get on the board early, and who could resist recreating that fateful day when historical figure [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] invented the [[Portal to Phyrexia]]? **The Elephant in the Room** >>><<[[!Thopter Foundry|3d8dcd5e-d4d0-49ae-a591-78d80322105d]][[!Sword of the Meek|5a0c2773-3205-4ac4-b31c-c54fb06fdd7c]]>><<< Thopter Sword combo is in this cube. It's on my watch list, but so far it's been a powerful endgame for control decks which folds to the several pieces of instant-speed artifact removal present -- it's weakened by the lack of tutors and the vulnerability it has to cards you aught to be maindecking anyway.