Legacy Artifact (Need help)

by drakeraenes on 20 June 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

Wanted to take a stab at good old legacy. Decided to use blue artifacts and this is what I came up with. Criticism and suggestions are welcome!

How to Play

The basic premise is using Master Transmuter to get artifacts out. Elite Arcanist is for keeping good spells around like Remand, Serum Visions, & Fabricate.

Deck Tags

  • Legacy
  • Artifact
  • Mono Blue
  • Competitive

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Legacy Artifact (Need help)

elite arcanist only works on instants so he cant imprint your serum visions accumulated knowledge might be better and maybe just swap arcanist for isochron scepter. u might also want to run the urzas lands

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Posted 21 June 2014 at 06:04

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I'm unsure of what is going on with this deck. It says competitive in the tags, yet this says legacy legal and you're running serum visions over brainstorm? 1 Serum vision costs more than the playset of Brainstorms. Same with Ponder, and both are strictly better than Serum Visions.
From what I'm looking at I'd say your only win condition is the Colossus. If so I'd suggest running 4 since exile effects are huge in white. I'd also run some counterspells like Spellpierce, Daze or, if you have any, force of will.
Have you thought about using the Urza land since you have a lot of high cost artifacts, and while using Master Transmuter is a way to do it, she is susceptible to removal.
Artifact Affinity is an entirely different story.
http://www.mtgvault.com/couch312/decks/artifacts-and-stuff/
The goal of an artifact deck in legacy is usually to swing fast and swing hard. Having an opponent at 3-7 health on turn 3 is not uncommon.
All in all I don't see any win conditions for this deck other than Darksteel Colossus. I mean, you have 1 etched champion, but he's not going to do much good without equipment.
I hope that you can get this thing going strong, I like artifact decks, the link I provided is one of two go to decks for an event I actually want to win.

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Posted 26 June 2014 at 03:22

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yeah i dont normally try and make competitive style decks. my group runs purely casual so we just play whatever and hope for the best, but i do want to actually make some truly competitive decks. my biggest issue is i hate using cookie cutter deck designs because everyone knows how they work in tournaments, so i opt for a different approach oftentimes. to answer you both though:

i hadnt thought of brainstorm or ponder to be honest and i have a full set of brainstorm from conspiracy on hand so no issue there.

i have very few of the counterspells you listed if any, but i know they run cheap so i could get some easily enough.

colossus is a good wincon and if can get him its nice, but i have 3 champions already so thats more likely to be my go-to card here.

arcanist was actually meant to be for remand, but if i change the deck up a bit then i should be able to drop him in favor of other things

as for the urzatron, i have like 7 full sets between all the decks i have so i could easily add them in, but i dont always get all three out at the same time, plus it hurts my blue production significantly

i appreciate the comments and i will make some adjustments on here sometime soon, so stay tuned for it. i will post in here again when i make the changes

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Posted 26 June 2014 at 03:56

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Anytime man, I'm all for designing your own deck. I do know that the deck design I run is kinda lame, but it wins. The few times I lose I'm never crushed, it's always by the skin of their teeth, ya know?
From a deck builder's standpoint, you want to create your own deck, from a competitive standpoint, you see a lot of the same decks because they consistently win. I don't think I've ever not made it to the top 8 when I play affinity.
If etched is more of win con you should put some equipment in there to make him nice and fat. I'm a fan of Deathrender, or any of the 3 drop swords.

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Posted 26 June 2014 at 04:07

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i have 2 deathrenders and i could get a few of the swords from my local card shop. i will give it a shot

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Posted 26 June 2014 at 16:46

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