Standard - Artifact prison

22
4
28
3
25
Control
  • Deck contains 25 invalid cards for this format: Settle the Wreckage (XLN), Ixalan's Binding (XLN), Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (XLN), Arch of Orazca (RIX), Karn, Scion of Urza (DOM), Memorial to Genius (DOM), Memorial to Folly (DOM), Memorial to Glory (DOM), Memorial to War (DOM), Daring Archaeologist (DOM), Board the Weatherlight (DOM), Cleansing Nova (M19), Fountain of Renewal (M19), Crucible of Worlds (M19), Chromatic Lantern (GRN), Chamber Sentry (GRN), Sanguine Sacrament (XLN), Sentinel Totem (XLN), The Immortal Sun (RIX), Icy Manipulator (DOM), Damping Sphere (DOM), Daring Archaeologist (DOM), Amulet of Safekeeping (M19), Arcane Encyclopedia (M19), Chaos Wand (M19)
Main 60 cards (24 distinct)
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (28)
$25.89€13.550.02
$0.30€0.120.02
$0.20€0.080.03
$0.67€0.430.02
$0.25€0.100.03
$0.49€0.590.03
$2.81€1.330.02
$3.26€1.850.02
$3.16€2.130.02
Planeswalker (3)
$4.26€4.630.06
Creature (4)
$0.25€0.080.02
$0.25€0.120.02
Land (25)
$0.20€0.130.03
$0.30€0.190.03
$0.20€0.17
$0.44€0.270.02
$0.42€0.150.04
$0.20€0.120.03
$0.20€0.050.03
$0.22€0.080.03
$0.97€0.070.04
$0.65€0.080.04
$0.25€0.140.03
$1.10€0.140.03
Side 15 cards (10 distinct)
$0.25€0.080.02
$0.30€0.120.02
$15.78€11.160.03
$0.20€0.110.03
$0.33€0.180.02
$0.23€0.130.03
$1.00€0.670.90
$0.35€0.180.02
$0.36€0.190.02
$0.23€0.070.03
Maybeboard 2 cards (2 distinct)
$1.00€0.780.02
$0.25€0.270.03

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Description

Concept:

This deck is the base of a mono white prison deck. I am testing it with a janky mana base including most of the memorials. My goal is to complete it once War of the Sparks hits the shelves. The future set is extremey promising for a standard prison deck with Blast Zoneimage, Emergence Zoneimage, Mobilized Districtimage, Karn's Bastionimage, Karn, the Great Creatorimage, The Wandererimage... Everything needed to complete this deck.

This deck is still a work in progress.

 

The lock:

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Our goal is to deplete the opponent of resource, locking their most important threats under Ixalan's Bindingimage and making useless their planeswakers or key cards with Sorcerous Spyglassimage. Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazcaimage makes the combat step a nightmare for the opponent, they are forced to choose between playing around Settle the Wreckageimage and having their creatures do almost no damages, or get their board exiled. Field of Ruinimage is also a great land to punish the tri-colored decks in the current meta which rely on a greedy manabase.

 

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The deck relies a lot on these board wipes to stay alive. Making sure they resolve is probably the key to victory in creature heavy matchups like mono white and gruul stompy decks.

 

Value:

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I am a huge fan of Crucible of Worldsimage. Here it serves as a small value engine with all the memorials. The deck includes one copy of each except Memorial to Unityimage to take advantage of it, alongside Field of Ruinimage and Evolving Wildsimage. The deck does not play many creatures. Daring archeologist is mainly here to get back destroyed artifacts, but it can still serves as a good body.

 

Finishers:

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Once the game is locked or the board is empty, we can start making gigantic constructs with Karn. Memorial to Gloryimage and Crucible of Worldsimage create two 1/1 tokens each turn to start an army of tokens! Chamber Sentryimage is the most janky finisher, but the most fun to play and its recursivity makes it a great threat.

 

Discussion:

As it is, the deck is clearly janky. It relies too much on its board wipes to survive against aggressive decks, its only tool against mono red is Fountain of Renewalimage in the main deck. Golden Guardian may be a good inclusion as an additional blocker, but the lack of creatures in the deck makes it difficult to flip. Once it is flipped, it is much more potent than the Memorial to Gloryimage and Crucible of Worldsimage loop.  We could argue that Dawn of Hopeimage is a better card that does this by itself, but it does not convince me: artifacts are currently more difficult to remove from the board than enchantments because of Mortifyimage.

 

PS: Maybe it is only a trouble on my side, but I can't get the description hints to work here... the card pictures don't appear (names marked with {}). Please tell me if you know what causes this!

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Beethoven
Hyped for future updates. Looks like a ton of fun!
Xafanya
Last Updated: 17 Apr 2019
Created: 17 Apr 2019
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