I think an underrated artifact commander is Shelob, Child of Ungoliant. I used to have her built as a spider tribal commander, but building her as a food themed control deck not only made her a lot more powerful, but also more interesting and satisfying to play. Even has a few flavorful combos to play in it like Shelob + fight spell + Devoted Druid! As for Bolas's Citadel, I don't think there is any way if would ever get banned. A 6 cost 3 black pip spell by itself is already quite restrictive and expensive, not to mention you need A) enough life, B) some way to get rid of topdeck lands C) an opportunity not to get blown out by interaction, which can happen at any time since you're not operating at instant speed. I do agree that the card is extremely powerful in the right deck, but definitely not banworthy like Dockside Extortionist or Thassa's Oracle. Personally I wouldn't even ban those, but they would likely be among the first to go if they were to make such drastic changes to the banlist.
I love my Jhoira storm deck, it was the first deck I really put time into tuning and have so much fun playing it. Still tuning it as well, and that is always fun for me
Really good video and I also really enjoy your content < 3. I have my beloved venser, corpse puppet deck, it's a mix of junky artifact token makers and aristocrat synergies topped by some cards like kappa cannoneer, deck is amazing to pilot and I rarely win with venser's ability to give someone poison counters. I encourage you all to try some less popular artifact commanders, deck are usually very fun to pilot and people often don't know what to expect
Daretti, Scrap Savant is the best mono red commander for an artifact theme. It gives you draw, discard and reanimator in one card. I like to play it in turn 1 in order to bring Triplicate Titan or Portal to Phyrexia in turn 2.
Great video as always! I have an Oswald Fiddlebender pure stax cEDH deck, with over 40 artifacts. It is perhaps the strongest, and certainly the most evil deck that I have ever made. It's a complete menace and I've won many games where my opponents basically spend 15 turns in a row just drawing and saying go. I prefer blue and white when building artifact decks, as they protect artifacts well. There's no tool for combating cards like Vandalblast and Stony Silence quite like a Swan Song. White, similarly, protects your artifacts because your opponents don't get to play
I dont have enough knowlegde to give you a good advise, but generally they are easy to play, is challenging because you have to put all your eggs in a basket, and make a deck that is all about your commander (you can have alternative win condition but, can be hard to pull), the deck need to be very efficient with the mana curve, and very aggresive. And they have a lot of variety building with Feather, The reedemed or Skullbriar, the Walking grave have diferent way to build. I see a video of your talking about not depending on your commander so this is the antithesis of that, I recommend to try it, maybe you like it.
Recently fell in love with an Izzet artifact deck, Toggo / Sakashima to get as many rocks on the field as possible and then use them as fuel for Megatog / Shimmer Dragon / Urza or Vault of Cataclan into an X spell / Rise and Shine / Brudiclad / Cyberdrive Awakener / other wincons with a bunch of other uses for the rocks too. It's not that artifact focused in the cards themselves, only about 20 total, but it's constantly churning out and filling the field with 20 nearly useless on their own rock artifacts which is great fun.
How would you think or feel about using Urza, Lord Protector as an artifact commander? I’ve got a list and it looks really good but I just don’t see a lot of people talking about it or giving good advice for it.
I've been working on a Tymna and Ich-Tekik abzan artifact list. It uses a lot of cheap, self-sacrificing artifacts like spellbombs to churn out 3/3 golems and keeps it's hand full with incremental Tymna card draw.
Glacian powerstone engineer and armix filigree thrasher is the one in building rn with a lot of graveyard stuff and self sacrifice stuff. Best card for it is mirrordin besieged cause you can just say nah and someone loses
I think an underrated artifact commander is Shelob, Child of Ungoliant. I used to have her built as a spider tribal commander, but building her as a food themed control deck not only made her a lot more powerful, but also more interesting and satisfying to play. Even has a few flavorful combos to play in it like Shelob + fight spell + Devoted Druid!
As for Bolas's Citadel, I don't think there is any way if would ever get banned. A 6 cost 3 black pip spell by itself is already quite restrictive and expensive, not to mention you need A) enough life, B) some way to get rid of topdeck lands C) an opportunity not to get blown out by interaction, which can happen at any time since you're not operating at instant speed. I do agree that the card is extremely powerful in the right deck, but definitely not banworthy like Dockside Extortionist or Thassa's Oracle. Personally I wouldn't even ban those, but they would likely be among the first to go if they were to make such drastic changes to the banlist.
my favorite style of artifact deck is “get bolas’s citadel out as soon as possible”
That's my favorite thing to do in mtg period l, not just artifact decks. 😂
I love my Jhoira storm deck, it was the first deck I really put time into tuning and have so much fun playing it. Still tuning it as well, and that is always fun for me
I have an artifact deck with Sydri black blue white with only 6 creatures with many artifacts none creatures with as many indestructible as possible.
Really good video and I also really enjoy your content < 3. I have my beloved venser, corpse puppet deck, it's a mix of junky artifact token makers and aristocrat synergies topped by some cards like kappa cannoneer, deck is amazing to pilot and I rarely win with venser's ability to give someone poison counters. I encourage you all to try some less popular artifact commanders, deck are usually very fun to pilot and people often don't know what to expect
I have yet to see a Venser, corpse puppet deck that sounds pretty cool! You got a deck list?
I really want to build an Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist deck. She seems like such great ramp for mono-black
I’ve never seen anyone play that commander but she seems like fun!
Daretti, Scrap Savant is the best mono red commander for an artifact theme. It gives you draw, discard and reanimator in one card. I like to play it in turn 1 in order to bring Triplicate Titan or Portal to Phyrexia in turn 2.
Bruh... Algorithm knows too much. I turned on my computer to build an artifact deck and here is TH-cam reading my MIND!
Great video as always! I have an Oswald Fiddlebender pure stax cEDH deck, with over 40 artifacts. It is perhaps the strongest, and certainly the most evil deck that I have ever made. It's a complete menace and I've won many games where my opponents basically spend 15 turns in a row just drawing and saying go.
I prefer blue and white when building artifact decks, as they protect artifacts well. There's no tool for combating cards like Vandalblast and Stony Silence quite like a Swan Song. White, similarly, protects your artifacts because your opponents don't get to play
Oswald is a really cool card! I’ve played against the cEDH build a few times and it’s very strong!
Like the video, I trying to learn how to build new types of deck, I love my Voltron deck, but struggle on other types of decks.
You should check out my playlist on other archetypes to see more! And any tips for Voltron? I might do that breakdown next
I dont have enough knowlegde to give you a good advise, but generally they are easy to play, is challenging because you have to put all your eggs in a basket, and make a deck that is all about your commander (you can have alternative win condition but, can be hard to pull), the deck need to be very efficient with the mana curve, and very aggresive. And they have a lot of variety building with Feather, The reedemed or Skullbriar, the Walking grave have diferent way to build. I see a video of your talking about not depending on your commander so this is the antithesis of that, I recommend to try it, maybe you like it.
Recently fell in love with an Izzet artifact deck, Toggo / Sakashima to get as many rocks on the field as possible and then use them as fuel for Megatog / Shimmer Dragon / Urza or Vault of Cataclan into an X spell / Rise and Shine / Brudiclad / Cyberdrive Awakener / other wincons with a bunch of other uses for the rocks too. It's not that artifact focused in the cards themselves, only about 20 total, but it's constantly churning out and filling the field with 20 nearly useless on their own rock artifacts which is great fun.
How would you think or feel about using Urza, Lord Protector as an artifact commander? I’ve got a list and it looks really good but I just don’t see a lot of people talking about it or giving good advice for it.
Nolas Citadel is a very fair card. Thassa should be baned? Yes!
I’m not a fan of Oracle either but citadel is pretty far from fair. If you hit one tutor you can basically win the game
@@thetrinketmage bolas citadel is legit and fair
I've been working on a Tymna and Ich-Tekik abzan artifact list. It uses a lot of cheap, self-sacrificing artifacts like spellbombs to churn out 3/3 golems and keeps it's hand full with incremental Tymna card draw.
Glacian powerstone engineer and armix filigree thrasher is the one in building rn with a lot of graveyard stuff and self sacrifice stuff. Best card for it is mirrordin besieged cause you can just say nah and someone loses
Breya for ever 💯
Surely, I can make a mono-green artifact deck clueless.
What about blightsteel colossus hes pretty strong
In what context? It’s a strong card but really high mana cost
@@thetrinketmage Combine with Mycosynth Golem.