CommanderCast Ep 278 – Off-Color Black Artifacts
April 11, 2017
Hello everyone and welcome to the real CommanderCast Episode 278! We’re your weekly source for Community, Strategy, and Technology, hosted on MTGcast.com and our homesite: CommanderCast.com! The guys are back this week. Mark and Adam go over Office Color Deck ideas. This week we heard your cries for artifacts. You wanted to see a Deck that used those lovely metal items, creatures, and bobbles. So what’sthe catch? Well they guys are doing it in black… Yeah…
And all you have to do is click the IB!!!
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CommanderCast Episode 278
Posted: April 10, 2017
Intros:
Adam
Mark
Check out our YouTube channel and Rachel’s “Alpha Project.”
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Community:
More Amonkhet Spoilers! (definitely not brief)
Gods, Cartouches, and Cats, oh my!
Plus: Why aren’t there more Sphinxes in the Egyptian set? Is Wither going to be a thing again?
Strategy:
Why is black normally bad at artifact decks?
- Fewer artifact synergies
- Fewer artifact matters cards
How to avoid generic black good stuff (Put down the Exsanguinate!)
How can artifacts matter be in black?
- Tutors make combos easier to assemble
- Rely on the few synergies that exist
Strategies:
Combo (eggs)
Stax
Commander
(*See also: Rival’s Duel Ep: 78 – King Macar Edition & Commanderin’ Ep: 73)
Technology:
Generic artifact matters
(Module combo?)
Benefit from sacs
- Sac triggers
- Sac outlets
Discard
Removal
- Battle at the bridge
- Gate to phyrexia
- Gild
- Irradiate
- Parasitic implant
- Tidy conclusion
- Underhanded designs
- Executioner’s Capsule
- Noxious gearhulk
Recursion
- Beacon of unrest
- Fortuitous find
- Moriok scavenger
- Scrounge
- Skeleton shard
- Resourceful return
- Whip of Erebos
Artifact matters
- Black coven vampires
- Dhund operative
- Fen hauler
- Flesh grafter
- Foundry screecher
- Glaze fiend
- Guardian beast
- Mephitic ooze
- Nim devourer
- Nim grotesque
- Nim lasher
- Nim shambler
- Nim shrieker
- Painsmith
- Phylactery lich
- Cranial plating
- Salvage slasher
- Vermiculos
- Xenic poltergeist
Ramp
Card draw
King Macar
- station combo
- Icy and winter orb and paradox engine
- Puppet strings
- Springleaf drum
- Staff of domination
- Umbral mantle
Vehicles
- Aethersphere harvester
- Aradara express
- Ballista charger
- Bomat bazaar charger
- Consulate dreadnought
- Cultivators caravan
- Daredevil dragster
- Demolition stomper
- Fleetwheel cruiser
- Heart of kiran
- Irontread crusher
- Mobile garrison
- Ovalchase dragster
- Renegade freighter
- Sky skiff
- Sovereign, consul flagship
- Smugglers copter
- Untethered express
Outtro/Contacts:
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Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com
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And a big thanks to everyone here at the CommanderCast Network. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!
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