I'm attempting to update the Daretti 2014 Commander Pre-Con, remaining true to the concept of the deck from the box, focusing on artifacts and abusing the graveyard via Crucible, and Scrap Mastery. I also included Aggressive Mining, utilizing the 'put a land into play' artifact toolbox of Walking Atlas, Burnished Hart and Solemn Simulacrum as well as Terrain Generator to circumvent the 'You cannot play lands' effect in order to gain some more card advantage in order to balance out red's lack of natural card advantage.
I had included Ruination and From the Ashes to try and create a white-prison sort of effect, I thought using about Smokestack, Sphere of Resistance, Tangle Wire, Winter Orb, Static Orb and Unwinding Clock, having the whole disruption suite created an uncomfortable atmosphere where I was the immediate target in most games I sat at, toning down to this more 'passive threat' attitude created a lot more room for political play, though now I'm considering Howling Mine and Font of Mythos to try and create indispensability. I feel as though Daretti allows me enough permanent-based card-draw, that, when combined with the graveyard abusing theme of the deck, seems to give me enough card advantage to pull games. I would be very open to more graveyard and artifact abusive card suggestions.
I am on a bit of a budget, though I am planning on acquiring a Staff of Domination and a Metalworker for this stack soon, I am more than likely never going to be able to afford a Mishra's Workshop.
I am probably going to scale things back a bit and try and fit within both the Multiplayer and the French lists, as most of the cards in the deck from the French list allow for a bit of unfair speed, as well as being prohibitively expensive. (Looking at you City of Traitors, Grim Monolith, Ancient Tomb.)
(Currently Working on acquiring foils for the whole deck, eventually all Japanese and/or foil, this is the current project status, for my records, feel free to PM me if you have any of the cards I'm missing for sale/trade.)
Land (38):
18 Snow-Covered Mountain (5 with 3 incoming, paying $5)
1 Homeward Path (Japanese non-foil incoming)
1 Sandstone Needle (English foil)
1 Temple of the False God (Still need, paying 18)
1 Ancient Tomb (Torn whether or not I'm going to play FTV foils.)
1 City of Traitors (Need one of these, but $60? Idk about that.)
1 Buried Ruin (Still need)
1 Mishra’s Factory (Judge foil is like $50, gonna wait on this.)
1 Terrain Generator (Need, paying $5)
1 Scrying Sheets (Need, paying $10)
1 Phyrexia’s Core (English Foil)
1 Darksteel Citadel (English Foil)
1 Arcane Lighthouse (Japanese non-foil incoming)
1 Flamekin Village (Need a japanese one. Considering buying a Japanese Built from Scratch.)
1 Great Furnace (English Foil)
1 Dust Bowl ($60! Gonna wait)
1 Encroaching Wastes (Japanese promo foil)
1 Tectonic Edge (Looking for the promo foil, $6)
1 Ghost Quarter (Looking for the Innistrad foil, $5)
1 Wasteland (I want the MPR Foil, but $300? Gonna wait.)
1 Strip Mine (Again, debating the FTV foils, $20 if I do)
Instants (4):
1 Galvanic Blast (Need, $4)
2 Shrapnel Blast (English Foil)
3 Volt Charge (English Foil)
3 Chaos Warp (Dont know if I'm gonna play the Arsenal Foil yet)
Sorceries (7):
1 Faithless Looting (English Foil)
2 Tormenting Voice (English Foil)
4 Ruination (Looking for Japanese Stronghold)
5 Scrap Mastery (Need in Japanese)
5 Cave-In (English Foil)
6 Wildfire (Holding out for 7th ed foil, $30)
9 Blasphemous Act (Need $4)
Enchantments (2):
3 Glacial Crevasses (Looking for a miscut or ink blotched)
4 Aggressive Mining (English Foil)
Red Creatures (5):
1 Goblin Welder (Holding out for an Urza's Legacy foil, $25)
2 Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer (Need, $15)
4 Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (Need, $3)
6 Hellkite Tyrant (Need, $8)
7 Rimescale Dragon (Need, $10)
I'm attempting to update the Daretti 2014 Commander Pre-Con, remaining true to the concept of the deck from the box, focusing on artifacts and abusing the graveyard via Crucible, and Scrap Mastery. I also included Aggressive Mining, utilizing the 'put a land into play' artifact toolbox of Walking Atlas, Burnished Hart and Solemn Simulacrum as well as Terrain Generator to circumvent the 'You cannot play lands' effect in order to gain some more card advantage in order to balance out red's lack of natural card advantage.
I had included Ruination and From the Ashes to try and create a white-prison sort of effect, I thought using about Smokestack, Sphere of Resistance, Tangle Wire, Winter Orb, Static Orb and Unwinding Clock, having the whole disruption suite created an uncomfortable atmosphere where I was the immediate target in most games I sat at, toning down to this more 'passive threat' attitude created a lot more room for political play, though now I'm considering Howling Mine and Font of Mythos to try and create indispensability. I feel as though Daretti allows me enough permanent-based card-draw, that, when combined with the graveyard abusing theme of the deck, seems to give me enough card advantage to pull games. I would be very open to more graveyard and artifact abusive card suggestions.
18 Snow-Covered Mountain
1 Homeward Path
1 Sandstone Needle
1 Temple of the False God
1 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
1 Buried Ruin
1 Mishra’s Factory
1 Terrain Generator
1 Scrying Sheets
1 Phyrexia’s Core
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Arcane Lighthouse
1 Flamekin Village
1 Great Furnace
1 Dust Bowl
1 Encroaching Wastes
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
Instants (4):
1 Galvanic Blast
2 Shrapnel Blast
3 Volt Charge
3 Chaos Warp
Sorceries (7):
1 Faithless Looting
2 Tormenting Voice
4 Ruination
5 Scrap Mastery
5 Cave-In
6 Wildfire
9 Blasphemous Act
3 Glacial Crevasses
4 Aggressive Mining
Red Creatures (5):
1 Goblin Welder
2 Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
4 Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient
6 Hellkite Tyrant
7 Rimescale Dragon
Artifact Creatures (12):
2 Myr Retriever
2 Walking Atlas
3 Burnished Hart
3 Junk Diver
3 Palladium Myr
4 Solemn Simulacrum
5 Kuldotha Forgemaster
5 Darksteel Juggernaut
6 Steel Hellkite
6 Wurmcoil Engine
7 Myr Battlesphere
8 Bosh, Iron Golem
Artifacts:
0 Everflowing Chalice
0 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Wayfarer’s Bauble
1 Expedition Map
1 Voltaic Key
2 Mind Stone
2 Grim Monolith
2 Coldsteel Heart
2 Lightning Greaves
2 Rings of Brighthearth
2 Scroll Rack
2 Contagion Clasp
2 Throne of Geth
2 Temporal Aperature
3 Worn Powerstone
3 Unstable Obelisk
3 Crawlspace
3 Hammer of Purphoros
3 Crucible of Worlds
3 Sunstone
4 Thran Dynamo
4 Trading Post
4 Nevinyrral’s Disk
4 Lux Cannon
6 Dreamstone Hedron
6 Caged Sun
6 Contagion Engine
6 Staff of Nin
7 Spine of Ish Sah
9 Darksteel Forge
Current change ideas:
-Caged Sun
-Wildfire
+Gauntlet of Power (Gauntlet of Might eventually.)
+From the Ashes
Conversely considering the following change instead:
-Caged Sun
-Ruination
+Gauntlet of Power
+Burning of Xinye
Sanctioned Substitutions
-Grim Monolith
-Ancient Tomb
-Strip Mine
-Sol Ring
-Crucible of Worlds
+2 Snow-Covered Mountain
+Basalt Monolith
+Mirrorworks
Additions being considered:
Any substitution suggestions are welcome!
I am on a bit of a budget, though I am planning on acquiring a Staff of Domination and a Metalworker for this stack soon, I am more than likely never going to be able to afford a Mishra's Workshop.
I am probably going to scale things back a bit and try and fit within both the Multiplayer and the French lists, as most of the cards in the deck from the French list allow for a bit of unfair speed, as well as being prohibitively expensive. (Looking at you City of Traitors, Grim Monolith, Ancient Tomb.)
(Currently Working on acquiring foils for the whole deck, eventually all Japanese and/or foil, this is the current project status, for my records, feel free to PM me if you have any of the cards I'm missing for sale/trade.)
Land (38):
18 Snow-Covered Mountain (5 with 3 incoming, paying $5)
1 Homeward Path (Japanese non-foil incoming)
1 Sandstone Needle (English foil)
1 Temple of the False God (Still need, paying 18)
1 Ancient Tomb (Torn whether or not I'm going to play FTV foils.)
1 City of Traitors (Need one of these, but $60? Idk about that.)
1 Buried Ruin (Still need)
1 Mishra’s Factory (Judge foil is like $50, gonna wait on this.)
1 Terrain Generator (Need, paying $5)
1 Scrying Sheets (Need, paying $10)
1 Phyrexia’s Core (English Foil)
1 Darksteel Citadel (English Foil)
1 Arcane Lighthouse (Japanese non-foil incoming)
1 Flamekin Village (Need a japanese one. Considering buying a Japanese Built from Scratch.)
1 Great Furnace (English Foil)
1 Dust Bowl ($60! Gonna wait)
1 Encroaching Wastes (Japanese promo foil)
1 Tectonic Edge (Looking for the promo foil, $6)
1 Ghost Quarter (Looking for the Innistrad foil, $5)
1 Wasteland (I want the MPR Foil, but $300? Gonna wait.)
1 Strip Mine (Again, debating the FTV foils, $20 if I do)
Instants (4):
1 Galvanic Blast (Need, $4)
2 Shrapnel Blast (English Foil)
3 Volt Charge (English Foil)
3 Chaos Warp (Dont know if I'm gonna play the Arsenal Foil yet)
Sorceries (7):
1 Faithless Looting (English Foil)
2 Tormenting Voice (English Foil)
4 Ruination (Looking for Japanese Stronghold)
5 Scrap Mastery (Need in Japanese)
5 Cave-In (English Foil)
6 Wildfire (Holding out for 7th ed foil, $30)
9 Blasphemous Act (Need $4)
Enchantments (2):
3 Glacial Crevasses (Looking for a miscut or ink blotched)
4 Aggressive Mining (English Foil)
Red Creatures (5):
1 Goblin Welder (Holding out for an Urza's Legacy foil, $25)
2 Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer (Need, $15)
4 Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (Need, $3)
6 Hellkite Tyrant (Need, $8)
7 Rimescale Dragon (Need, $10)
Artifact Creatures (12):
2 Myr Retriever (Need, $2)
2 Walking Atlas (Need
3 Burnished Hart (English Foil)
3 Junk Diver (Need, $6)
3 Palladium Myr (English Foil)
4 Solemn Simulacrum (Need M13/M14 foil, $20)
5 Kuldotha Forgemaster (Need, $15)
5 Darksteel Juggernaut (English Foil)
6 Steel Hellkite (Japanese pre-release foil)
6 Wurmcoil Engine (Need a pre-release foil)
7 Myr Battlesphere (Need, $6)
8 Bosh, Iron Golem (Need, $5)
Artifacts:
0 Everflowing Chalice (Promo foil, looking for Japanese promo)
0 Tormod’s Crypt (Japanese M14 foil)
1 Sol Ring (Need, but not FTV, $200, gonna wait.)
1 Wayfarer’s Bauble (English Foil)
1 Expedition Map (Need, $18)
1 Voltaic Key (Need, $8)
2 Mind Stone (Need a promo foil, $5)
2 Grim Monolith (Need, $200, gonna wait)
2 Coldsteel Heart (Need, $20)
2 Lightning Greaves (Need, $20)
2 Rings of Brighthearth (Need, $30)
2 Scroll Rack (Dont know if I'm gonna play Arsenal foils yet)
2 Contagion Clasp (Japanese Promo foil)
2 Throne of Geth (English Foil)
2 Temporal Aperature (Looking for Japanese)
3 Worn Powerstone (Looking for Japanese)
3 Unstable Obelisk (Looking for Japanese)
3 Crawlspace (Japanese Foil)
3 Hammer of Purphoros (English Foil)
3 Crucible of Worlds (Need Judge Foil, $40)
3 Sunstone (Looking for miscut or ink blotched)
4 Thran Dynamo (Need Set foil, $40)
4 Trading Post (English Foil)
4 Nevinyrral’s Disk (Japanese misprinted commander, would prefer Japanese BB 4th)
4 Lux Cannon (Need, $6)
6 Dreamstone Hedron (English foil)
6 Caged Sun (Being replaced with Gauntlet of Might eventually)
6 Contagion Engine (Need, $7)
6 Staff of Nin (have promo foil, looking for Japanese Promo foil)
7 Spine of Ish Sah (Need, $5)
9 Darksteel Forge (Need, $8)