Ive built my pauper cube but im wanting to boost the artifact support. Ive had trouble finding some great artifact synergy cards or just high end finishers. Anyone have a successful artifact theme in their pauper cube? How did you go about constructing it?
Thanks
There are a lot of nice artifact cards that go well together in draft, even at common. Just check out the two Mirrodin blocks, and Modern Masters 1. Not a lot of great "finishers" per se, but a lot of nice stuff to "artifact" your way into, like Myr Enforcer, Arcbound Wanderer, plus the other arcbound cards and Ornithopter. I think probably the best finisher would be cranial plating.
There is a good "robot" deck archetype in pauper, mostly centred around BUW. There are some good red cards that interact with artifacts now, though.
You will want to check out:
- Antiquities
- Urza's Block
- Mirrodin 1
- Alara
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Master's Edition 4, Modern Masters 1 + 2 and various box sets (there were some rarity downgrades)
There actually are some good artifact finishers. Hexplate Golem is a 5/7 and clobbers virtually the entire format except eldrazi. Rusty Hulk (or whatever it was from Scars) is a common in MM2 and can go rawr crush you on turn 4. And there's fliers.
Keep in mind that if you put too many shatter or naturalize effects in your cube the artifact deck will be a liability. It's already more vulnerable than other decks to naturalize so don't put too many in. That being said, stuff like the white shatter that gives you life becomes playable because there will be a lot of people taking artifacts to fill out their decks (hexplate golem is a prime example).
Look at Modern Masters 4 for an example of an "artifact set" that has too many shatters.
Ive built my pauper cube but im wanting to boost the artifact support. Ive had trouble finding some great artifact synergy cards or just high end finishers. Anyone have a successful artifact theme in their pauper cube? How did you go about constructing it?
Thanks
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You will want to check out:
- Antiquities
- Urza's Block
- Mirrodin 1
- Alara
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Master's Edition 4, Modern Masters 1 + 2 and various box sets (there were some rarity downgrades)
There actually are some good artifact finishers. Hexplate Golem is a 5/7 and clobbers virtually the entire format except eldrazi. Rusty Hulk (or whatever it was from Scars) is a common in MM2 and can go rawr crush you on turn 4. And there's fliers.
Keep in mind that if you put too many shatter or naturalize effects in your cube the artifact deck will be a liability. It's already more vulnerable than other decks to naturalize so don't put too many in. That being said, stuff like the white shatter that gives you life becomes playable because there will be a lot of people taking artifacts to fill out their decks (hexplate golem is a prime example).
Look at Modern Masters 4 for an example of an "artifact set" that has too many shatters.
There's a white "equipment matters" deck too.
This is the artifact matters expansion from my pauper cube, maybe it will give you some ideas.
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