Has anyone had any success having RW coming with it's artifacts? Perhaps a slip of paper in the sleeve telling the drafter that they will get its artifacts post draft? I could see it being a decent card in an artifact deck if it came with its artifacts, especially since getting three cards for one draft pick is quite powerful as long as the cards are playable. I'm curious if anyone has tried this or something similar, such as squadron hawk coming with friends.
Squadron Hawk coming in playsets, or Avarax/Accumulated Knowledge/Muscle Burst, etc, has all definitely been done, and people have talked about the benefits and pitfalls here before. My takeaway, as someone who has never 'squadroned' cards, is that there are consequences you may not have foreseen. Getting a triple or quadruple pick lets you take riskier other picks, maybe messing up signals or archetypes for neighbouring drafters. The cards themselves are often traps, with the "burst" cards (Muscle Burst and friends), Ripple cards and self-tutors being over costed for their initial impact. Net result, the drafter who picks the squadron and their neighbours all end up with worse decks.
If you're doing this, ask yourself why it matters that you're doing it. My example would be Squadron Hawk in standard caw-blade, and why that card was worth including in the deck - it was a decent impression of an actual recursive threat, sure, but it also let you turn Jace's Brainstorm into an Ancestral Recall and carried equipment like a champ. If you're jamming Renowned Weaponsmith and associates because the act of tutoring those two cards opens up interesting interactions and new possibility space, while also being of an appropriate power level for the rest of your cube, awesome, that's ideal. If you're jamming the Renowned Weaponsmith and his squad because 'it'll be cool I promise", it probably won't be.
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If you're doing this, ask yourself why it matters that you're doing it. My example would be Squadron Hawk in standard caw-blade, and why that card was worth including in the deck - it was a decent impression of an actual recursive threat, sure, but it also let you turn Jace's Brainstorm into an Ancestral Recall and carried equipment like a champ. If you're jamming Renowned Weaponsmith and associates because the act of tutoring those two cards opens up interesting interactions and new possibility space, while also being of an appropriate power level for the rest of your cube, awesome, that's ideal. If you're jamming the Renowned Weaponsmith and his squad because 'it'll be cool I promise", it probably won't be.