{"ops":[{"insert":"TL;DR: Play a spacecraft or vehicle, then play Kilo. Station/crew with Kilo to proliferate once per turn with whatever utility artifacts you have, using counter movers as necessary. Win off Darksteel Reactor, Magistrate's Scepter, Lux Artillery, or big spaceship.\n\n8/30/2026: This is a non-deterministic \"dice factory\" deck, focused on combos and charge counters synergies and maybe sometimes victory via combat. Likely my most complex deck at the moment; so it's worth playtesting to understand.\n\nCharge counter mana rocks can potentially create a massive amount of mana with enough proliferation and time. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Cornucopia"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Everflowing Chalice"}},{"insert":" (kicked at least once) and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Empowered Autogenerator"}},{"insert":" create one-use charges - they can be tapped for their mana only once per turn, so should only be tapped when you're done proliferating. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pentad Prism"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Crystalline Crawler"}},{"insert":" don't need to tap and can have each mana taken off separately, and can be made non-deterministically self sustaining with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Surge Conductor"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus"}},{"insert":" . With Pentad Prism you'll need to leave at least one charge counter on it to have something to proliferate, but the crawler can restart itself as necessary. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Solar Array"}},{"insert":" grants charge counters to artifacts based on colors spent to cast it; which is most useful for artifacts that don't enter with their own charge counters but require them for use such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Titan Forge"}},{"insert":" .\n\nThe deck's draw options similarly include once-per-turn \"card rocks\" - the self-empowering "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Insight Engine"}},{"insert":" and proliferate-dependent "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reckoner Bankbuster"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ingenious Prodigy"}},{"insert":" - and some non-tapped options with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Etched Oracle"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mindless Automaton"}},{"insert":" . "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Uthros Research Craft"}},{"insert":" is conditional on having 3 or more charge counters, ideally should not be proliferated beyond that to keep it as a safer noncreature draw engine unless needed as a finisher.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kilo, Apogee Mind"}},{"insert":" is the deck's primary source of proliferation, and while he can go aggressive with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gavel of the Righteous"}},{"insert":" , the primary strategy is to tap him either by stationing spacecraft, crewing vehicles, or tapped from improvise triggers. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cayth, Famed Mechanist"}},{"insert":" is similar but requires mana to proliferate rather than tapping. While many of these spacecraft are self explanatory, special note should be given to two. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Seriema"}},{"insert":" has only three legal targets - the aforementioned Cayth, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alibou, Ancient Witness"}},{"insert":" as a source of scrying, or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus"}},{"insert":" as a defender and value engine that can make itself indestructible fairly easily. Usually, if you don't have card advantage grab Alibou; if you do grab Tekuthal. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inspirit, Flagship Vessel"}},{"insert":" provides an additional source of charge counters and a single instance of protection with himself as the weak point. However, if you have both The Seriema and Inspirit, they can easily make each other indestructible, or replacing one with Tekuthal + Resourceful Defense or Nesting Grounds (see below.)\n\nOnce you have a well stationed spacecraft or other artifact with more charge counters than you need, you can move them wholesale onto the deck's haymakers with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dismantle"}},{"insert":" (one-time use), "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moxite Refinery"}},{"insert":" (four mana to cast/activate, can convert +1/+1 counters or other counters into charge counters), or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Resourceful Defense"}},{"insert":" (eight mana to cast/activate, has additional utility mid game and moves counters off other permanents, so it can redistribute Tekuthal's indestructible counter that it's doubled the proliferation of.) If that's not an option, you can move one counter off one artifact to another with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Surge Node"}},{"insert":" , or off any permanent (including five or so lands that use charge counters) with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nesting Grounds"}},{"insert":" . The potential targets include "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Darksteel Reactor"}},{"insert":" , a wide board artifact or creature distribution with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lux Artillery"}},{"insert":" , or attempting an infinite turn combo with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Magistrate's Scepter"}},{"insert":" .\n\nI've labeled this as a bracket 3 deck because you can create a deterministic three-card-combo or lategame two-card-combo using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Magistrate's Scepter"}},{"insert":" . This is something I bring up in rule zero conversations and don't attempt to chain unless I can deterministically pull it off, either by adding counters+proliferating with Kilo+Inspirit or having nine appropriate counters that I can move around with Moxite Refinery/Resourceful Defense (and the required mana), or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Freed from the Real"}},{"insert":" on Kilo and six blue mana to rotate him three times (or three blue and six nonblue mana for Cayth.) Once you do pull off the lock, as long as you are able to assemble 20 charge counters to put on Darksteel Reactor or can freely damage opponents with flying spacecraft or Lux Artillery, you should be set; and the only point that would be unclear is if those cards are inaccessible and/or you're at risk of decking out first.\n"}]}