#BUILD ARTIFACT MEANING FULL#

This sort of double-dipping on each artifact’s utility really helps ensure that you have plenty of use for your excess mana outside of casting large spells. I’m a pretty big fan of using Equipment card for cheap artifacts that can be tapped for mana, since tapping them doesn’t decrease their utility, and often tapping an Equipment for mana can pay all or some of its equip cost. And how fun is it that Darksteel Relic gets to be an indestructible Mox Emerald with Meria! It’s fun that Meria is the one who is tapping the artifacts for mana, so you don’t have to worry that Ornithopter or Phyrexian Walker has summoning sickness and can’t be tapped for mana. Now, I hear that Mox Emerald is a pretty powerful card, so if you really want to leverage Meria’s power, you’ll want to put in a fair number of zero-mana artifacts that do a good impression of Mox Emerald. Let’s see what we can dig up for our Meria deck! Zero-Mana Artifactsįirst off, with Meria on the battlefield, zero-mana artifacts are effectively Mox Emeralds. But once you’ve cast a bunch of big spells with your extra mana and your hand is lacking in action, the second ability can be just what you need to fuel up the gas. I have to admit, for me personally, I’m not a huge fan of the “use it or lose it” type of virtual card draw, since if I can’t or don’t want to use it, it bugs me that it’s gone forever. The whole “play from exile” theme that started in red, which then bled over to black last year with Prosper, Tome-Bound, has now dipped over into green. Making a Gruul artifact deck feels like new territory worth exploring. There have been many artifact-heavy decks centered around blue. I mean, you pretty much had me at “a Gruul version of Urza, Lord High Artificer,” except chock-full of fun and expensive red and green spells feeding off the extra mana instead of pesky and annoying blue spells. Now hang on a second, isn’t this a Gruul version of Urza, Lord High Artificer?!

No matter your play style or preferences, there’s bound to be at least a couple of new legends that you’ll want to build a deck around.įor me, one of the first to really jump out was Meria, Scholar of Antiquity!

#BUILD ARTIFACT MEANING FULL#

This coming weekend will be the full release, and I can’t wait to get my hands on a bunch of new cards for my Commander decks.īetween the main set and the new Commander cards, we’ve got a whopping 75 new legendaries to build decks around, which is just mind-boggling! What’s nice about legendary designs these days, though, is that they tend to be rather niche in what they do, so what I’ve found in scanning through the list is that some of them speak to me, and some of them don’t.

Dominaria United Prerelease weekend is in the books, and hopefully you were able to get your hands on at least a few of the cards you wanted for Commander.

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