Artifact Aggro was an archetype that I was always trying to make work in my rare cube but never seemed able to quite get there; I always loved watching Aggro Shops in Vintage, and dreamed of making a similar archetype in cube. However, when I switched over to Peasant and lost the likes of Arcbound Ravager, Phyrexian Revoker, etc... I assumed it just wasn't going to happen.
All this said, I've been tinkering with this archetype again lately, and with the printings of some good options in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty I think it can definitely work as a red aggro variant. Of course, it wouldn't have to be red, as white, blue, and even the other colors have gained some decent tools to support this, but for me it makes the most sense in red.
Here's what I'm currently planning on running to support this as soon as I do my Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty update:
I think there may be some crossover value with Boros Equipment and also +1/+1 Counters archetypes. And obviously, these cards would be supplemented by your normal group of burn spells that any RDW might run.
What do you think? Has anyone else tried this, and am I overlooking any potentially key cards?
What I want from the Artifact aggro deck is the flexibility to be any colour.
So White has ways to make artifact tokens and cast equipment cheaper. Blue improves evasion and draws cards. Black has sac outlets and instant speed plating. Red has aggro cards. Green has +1/+1 counters.
All this said, I've been tinkering with this archetype again lately, and with the printings of some good options in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty I think it can definitely work as a red aggro variant. Of course, it wouldn't have to be red, as white, blue, and even the other colors have gained some decent tools to support this, but for me it makes the most sense in red.
Here's what I'm currently planning on running to support this as soon as I do my Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty update:
Red:
Rabbit Battery
Inventor's Apprentice
Reinforced Ronin
Galvanic Blast
Shrapnel Blast
Arcbound Tracker
Arcbound Whelp
Twinshot Sniper
Arcbound Slasher
Hoarding Dragon
Colorless:
Signal Pest
Gingerbrute
Icehide Golem (I give the option for all Snow basics)
Trusty Machete
Bonesplitter
Lesser Masticore
Monoskelion
Epochrasite
High-Speed Hoverbike
Shambling Suit
Chief of the Foundry
Foundry Inspector
Porcelain Legionnaire
Filigree Familiar
Circuit Mender
Renegade Freighter
Grafted Wargear
Loxodon Warhammer
Snare Thopter
Untethered Express
and a number of other less "aggro" artifacts like mana-rocks, Sensei's Divining Top, or Arcum's Astrolabe which of course could be played in an artifact aggro deck, but aren't really designed to be there.
There are also a number of other red options like Boots of Speed, Kuldotha Rebirth, Aether Chaser, Atog, Ravenous Intruder, Thopter Engineer, and Bronzeplate Boar and colorless options like Vault Skirge, Perilous Myr, Patchwork Automaton, and Pierce Strider that I don't currently plan on including but could be used to fill out the archetype if needed.
I think there may be some crossover value with Boros Equipment and also +1/+1 Counters archetypes. And obviously, these cards would be supplemented by your normal group of burn spells that any RDW might run.
What do you think? Has anyone else tried this, and am I overlooking any potentially key cards?
This is how it currently is.
1 Ornithopter
1 Arcbound Worker
1 Gingerbrute
1 Iron Apprentice
1 Signal Pest
1 Arcbound Stinger
1 Containment Construct
1 Monoskelion
1 Myr Retriever
1 Patchwork Automaton
1 Perilous Myr
1 Vault Skirge
1 Chief of the Foundry
1 Circuit Mender
1 Foundry Inspector
1 Porcelain Legionnaire
1 Shambling Suit
1 Skyscanner
1 Snare Thopter
1 Towashi Guide-Bot
1 Bonesplitter
1 Flayer Husk
1 Trusty Machete
1 Cranial Plating
1 High-Speed Hoverbike
1 Grafted Wargear
1 Oketra's Monument
1 Renegade Freighter
1 Untethered Express
1 Thraben Inspector
1 Knighted Myr
1 Visionary Augmentor
1 Barbed Spike
1 Imperial Recovery Unit
1 Acquisition Octopus
1 Whirler Rogue
What I want from the Artifact aggro deck is the flexibility to be any colour.
So White has ways to make artifact tokens and cast equipment cheaper. Blue improves evasion and draws cards. Black has sac outlets and instant speed plating. Red has aggro cards. Green has +1/+1 counters.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own