{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer Primer"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Concept"},{"insert":"\nThis is a mono-red artifact deck built around "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"fast mana, sacrifice, recursion, and artifact-based combos"},{"insert":".\nThe deck treats artifacts as renewable resources. Cheap artifacts can become mana, cards, protection, or larger artifacts, while the graveyard functions as an extension of the battlefield.\nSlobad ties everything together by providing both a free sacrifice outlet and protection for the artifacts that matter most.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sacrifice and Recursion"},{"insert":"\nThe deck is built to profit from artifacts dying.\nSlobad, Krark-Clan Ironworks, Ashnod’s Altar, Goblin Welder, Goblin Engineer, Daretti, Scrap Trawler, Junk Diver, Myr Retriever, and similar cards allow artifacts to move repeatedly between the battlefield and graveyard.\nThis makes removal awkward. Destroy effects can be blanked with Slobad, while even exile removal can often be answered by sacrificing the targeted artifact first so it can be recovered later.\nThe graveyard is less a weakness than another workbench.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Fast Mana and Big Artifacts"},{"insert":"\nA heavy artifact-ramp package lets the deck accelerate quickly into powerful engines and large threats.\nExpensive artifacts can also bypass their normal mana costs through Welder effects, Trash for Treasure, Daretti, Kuldotha Forgemaster, and other exchange effects.\nThis makes cards like Portal to Phyrexia, Cityscape Leveler, Wurmcoil Engine, and Triplicate Titan practical both as castable threats and as premium recursion targets.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Value"},{"insert":"\nMany of the deck’s sacrifice targets replace themselves through cards, mana, tokens, or death triggers.\nThat means sacrificing an artifact is frequently just converting it into a more useful resource.\nThe One Ring, Skullclamp, Coveted Jewel, Wellsprings, Wheel of Fortune, and other draw engines keep the deck supplied while the recursion package repeatedly reuses spent material.\nScrap Mastery provides the largest reset, turning a stocked graveyard back into an entire battlefield.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Board Control"},{"insert":"\nMuch of the interaction is attached to artifacts themselves.\nPortal to Phyrexia, Cityscape Leveler, Duplicant, Meteor Golem, Nevinyrral’s Disk, and similar cards can be sacrificed and reused just like the rest of the deck.\nSlobad is especially nasty with Disk because he can make it indestructible before it destroys everything else.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Winning"},{"insert":"\nThe deck can simply overwhelm the table through large artifact creatures and repeated recursion, but it also contains "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Nim Deathmantle loops"},{"insert":".\nDeathmantle combined with a sacrifice outlet and a creature that generates enough mana or disposable bodies when it dies can create repeatable sacrifice-and-return loops.\nCards such as "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cathodion, Wurmcoil Engine, and Triplicate Titan"},{"insert":" can turn Ashnod’s Altar or Krark-Clan Ironworks into mana-positive Deathmantle engines, producing infinite mana and/or repeated death, token, and ETB triggers depending on the pieces involved.\nOnce the deck has unlimited mana or sacrifice loops, its various draw engines, activated abilities, sacrifice payoffs, and large artifacts provide plenty of ways to end the game.\nThe deck does not need the combo to function, but opponents must respect it whenever Deathmantle and a sacrifice engine are present.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Strengths"},{"insert":"\nThe deck is fast, resilient, and extremely efficient at recycling material.\nOrdinary destruction is poor against it, sacrifice often generates value, and even attempted exile can frequently be dodged by sacrificing the target first.\nIts mana production also gives it the ability to move very quickly from setup into enormous threats or combo turns.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Weaknesses"},{"insert":"\nGraveyard hate remains the cleanest way to interfere with the recursion engine, particularly effects that remove the graveyard without targeting individual artifacts.\nThe deck can also occasionally draw too many expensive threats without enough acceleration or exchange effects.\nOtherwise, its biggest vulnerability is disrupting the sacrifice and recursion engines themselves before they can begin chaining value.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Summary"},{"insert":"\nThis is a straightforward but highly efficient artifact machine:\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"make mana, sacrifice artifacts, recur them, and keep trading disposable material for increasingly powerful resources."},{"insert":"\nSlobad protects the important pieces while making sure almost anything threatened with removal can instead be turned into fuel.\nThe deck can grind through conventional interaction, overwhelm the table with artifact value, or suddenly convert its recursion machinery into a Nim Deathmantle combo.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Slobad ain’t slo, and he definitely ain’t bad."},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}