Bane {"ops":[{"insert":"I decided it'd be an interesting venture to build an EDH deck that plays a lot on artifact spells/abilities, with the added challenge of the commander is the one and only creature (no artifact creatures, tokens, spells that turn lands and artifacts into creatures, etc.). Here's what I have so far:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/1324976#Emry's_Toy_Box"},"insert":"Emry's Toy Box (Commander / EDH) - Archidekt"},{"insert":"\n\nI settled on Emry as my commander, because I figured she'd help boost the usefulness of self-sac artifacts and alleviate some of the pain if I face artifact hate.\n\nAny suggestions on cards I can swap to make this deck more viable in a casual format?\n"}]}
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Hi Bane,\n\nFirstly up-vote for custom categories!! Secondly, my favourite way of winning with Artifacts is to turn them into creatures (which you have excluded). Here are my thought:\nRecommend that you search 'affinity', 'metalcraft', 'improvise', 'untap' and 'island' as each will give you a bit more synergy with your deck and mana base. Another search would be 'return all' as this will buy you time. A couple of hits I found for you: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Engulf the Shore"}},{"insert":"; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Flow of Ideas"}},{"insert":"; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stoic Rebuttal"}},{"insert":"; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thoughtcast"}},{"insert":".\nFew more win conditions would be "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mechanized Production"}},{"insert":" (works best w/ tokens) & "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirrodin Besieged"}},{"insert":" (works best w/ self-mill) \nConsider adding cards which self-sacrifice to draw cards ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Commander's Sphere"}},{"insert":" & "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Witching Well"}},{"insert":") as they'll be 'recastable' with Emry\nLastly "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Whir of Invention"}},{"insert":" is 'missing' from your tutors. \n\nBest,\n\nSlickSamos\n\nPS with Emry cards that shuffle your graveyard back in are not ideal ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elixir of Immortality"}},{"insert":"!) \n"}]}
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Thanks for the up-vote! And ah, those would work well, especially with that draw power from Flow of Ideas. And Mechanized Production would be really good, not just as a win-con. It'd pair quite nicely with stuff that has ETB triggers like Contagion Engine. I really like these ideas too, thank you! And I didn't even notice that about Elixir of Immortality, oops! It was basically a leftover strategy from a couple other decks I threw together, and a leftover strategy best saved for something else.\n"}]}
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Im no expert, just a casual player with my small group of friends, it looks cool but im having troble seeing the win con past the darksteel generator hitting 20? idk seems like theres a lot of different things going on and im not grasping it fully. But it does seem really cool lol maybe add a more detailed description of the gameplan. Sorry for my english!\n"}]}
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Your English is fine, no worries! But yeah, now that I look bad at it, there's not really any other win-con besides Darksteel. I thought I had a decent number of ping artifacts, but I had way fewer than I thought. You could pull out a win relatively easily with Tower of Murmurs by milling a player to death, but that's 8 mana per turn. \n\nAs for gameplan? My idea was to focus primarily on a defensive deck by using artifacts and enchantments to either clear out creatures or prevent them from doing as much damage as possible. Since there are a few crucial artifacts and enchantments to do this (like Oblivion Stone, Energy Field, and Contagion Engine), I have cards in there that can help dig them out of the library and graveyard (such as Emry, Planar Portal/Bridge, Ring of Three Wishes, Skull of Orm, etc.) and keep them in play. Then, when that defense is secured, that's when you would start searching out cards like Darksteel Reactor to pull out a win. Very slow process with a lot of room for things to go bad, so that's why I'm looking for some help.\n\nThank you!\n"}]}
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