MTG Salvation

Interesting, and kind of too bad it is like that.

My impression is that it would be more successful if you went "all in" with the support. Ravager and Plating would be better reasons to saturate the deck with artifacts more than Exemplar/Apprentice are.

Oh man, I forgot Steel Overseer was a card, now that we have Walking Ballista and Hangarback Walker, I'm a little tempted... I'm pretty hesitant to go in at 360 though. It makes re-adding Lore Seeker and crew feel better as well. The main reason they left my cube at all was because, other than Deal Broker, the cards themselves rarely got played.

Edit: I find the thought of potentially running Tempered Steel in cube endlessly amusing...

I've been running Ghostfire Blade for a while, and its actually been pretty awesome. But I run more thopter effects than the average cube (Thopter Engineer probably the main difference, along with Hangarback, Whirler Rogue, P&K, Pia Nalaar, and Eldrazi Skyspawner, Aether Chaser, Angel of Invention etc). I also run Thought-knot/Smasher along with the usual assortment of artifact creatures. Less common artifact creatures I run include Epochrasite, Palladium Myr, Perilous Myr.

Ghostfire blade also works with morphs.

When Teething Wurmlet was spoiled, I've done the math on this card and its roughly this:

- Given a sample size of 8 (Opening 7 + Draw 1) and a success population of 4 (Artifacts in your deck), there is a 60% chance of playing an artifact by turn 2.
- For each additional card drawn, the chance improves by roughly 5%
- For each additional artifact, the chance improves by roughly 9%

I feel these are decent are more or less numbers normal aggressive decks can achieve regardless. I'm not convince the payoff/ Inventor's Apprentice is really worth it, but Toolcraft Exemplar seems like an excellent swap for a white 1 drop regardless.