Cube Masters Series | Building The Cube | Artifacts

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Philosophy of Artifacts

The Artifacts in the Cube should offer strong mana fixing for midrange/control decks, without leaving other strategies redundant.

Removal and utility cards for all strategies should be available.


Strengths

Mana fixing and mana ramp
Equipment
Removal for Permanents

Weaknesses

Situational cards (equipment, utility cards)
Vulnerable to Artifact destruction

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Artifacts (45)

Mana artifacts

Black lotus

Mox Diamond

Chrome Mox

Mox emerald

Mox jet

Mox pearl

Mox ruby

Mox sapphire

Coalition relic

Mana Crypt

Mana vault

Sol ring

Amarillary Sphere

Equipment

Bonesplitter

Loxodon warhammer

Grafted Wargear

Sword of fire and ice

Sword of light and shadow

Sword of Body and Mind

Sword of Feast and Famine

Skullclamp

Lightning Greaves

Umezewa's Jitte

Creatures

Wurmcoil Engine

Duplicant

Razermane Masticore

Molten-tail Masticore

Solemn simulacrum

Myr Battlesphere

Lodestone Golem

Utility

Aether vial

Engineered explosives

Cursed scroll

Smokestack

Tanglewire

Nevinyrral's disk

Oblivion stone

Phyrexian processor

Scroll rack

Sensei's divining top

Mimic Vat

Memory Jar

Ratchet Bomb

Chimeric Mass

Maze of Ith

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Thanks Charlie - I've been waiting for your feedback!!! Where have you been??!!!  :D

Charlie Grover said:

I like all the masticores and lodestone golem, I wouldnt cut those. Lightning greaves should be in as its one of the best cards for midrange/aggro against BU control. Triskelion has been underwhelming me recently, so i cut it. Would rather have duplicant by a significant margin.

 

Ive onlt had phyrexian revoker in for like 1 draft, but in that draft he was surprisingly good, and given that your cube is powered and mine isnt its probably better in yours. 

 

I might cut lotus petal, I really dont like it without comboing out.

 

As a general point, ill have a look through my cube later and see if I can see anything you have obviously missed.

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[Glenn Goldsworthy]

I know there is no colourless guys in at the mo but the Kozilec is all kinds of sauce with ramp or reinanimator