Rakdos Artifice

Standard Artifact BR (Rakdos)

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Creature (22)

• 4x Desecration Demon
• 4x Generator Servant
• 4x Gnarled Scarhide
• 4x Rakdos Cackler
• 4x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 2x Soul of New Phyrexia

Land (23)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Mountain
• 2x Mutavault
• 8x Swamp
• 4x Temple of Malice
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Artifact (5)

• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 4x Rakdos Keyrune

Instant (3)

• 3x Shrapnel Blast

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Dreadbore
• 3x Sign in Blood

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 3x Lifebane Zombie
• 2x Stormbreath Dragon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Pithing Needle

Instant (6)

• 2x Bile Blight
• 2x Doom Blade
• 2x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Duress
• 1x Stain the Mind

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I have been testing a lot of Ensoul Artifact variants and as powerful as the card is, it is easily disrupted and pretty inconsistent. The decks all felt very depending on having it in your opening hand, drawing it early or your 5/5 just getting chump-blocked every turn or just killed with Devour Flesh or Hero's Downfall etc.

While Ensoul Artifact may not necessarily be underperforming, but really just being a strategy susceptible to disruption, Shrapnel Blast has done nothing but surprise me (never played when it was in standard) and overperform almost every time I have it. (Assuming you are playing enough artifacts). Generator Servant has also done nothing but overperform and just make me want to try it in more and more shells.

Sign in Blood is a great card for decks like this, and the main reason we are playing black(also removal and Desecration Demon), because we are often dumping our hand early and end up with no gas in hand.

Core strategy hinges around some 1-drops to apply early pressure until I can get Desecration Demon or Scuttling Doom Engine online with Generator Servant and Rakdos Keyrune potentially making that happen a few turns earlier. Finishing our opponent off with Shrapnel Blast.

Thoughts and feedback welcome!

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 2 Mythic Rares 24 - 5 Rares 15 - 4 Uncommons 7 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.78
Tokens	Enchantment Golem 3/3 C