panharmonicon does not work with Sai. It’s a cast trigger

Have you considered pairing Mechanized Construction with Helm of the Host ? That would give you an alternate win condition. - Also, maybe a Panharmonicon + Skilled Animator Combo?

This is very similar to the deck I run in standard (and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with good taste :P) so I'm just asking if you've thought of those. It looks really good! I'm just worried about your early game (something I'm also working hard t

Nice.

BigSlap yeah sounds like shit talk good bye youve joined this site for 11 hrs and ur talking shit. Shows what kind of player you are

Skyler1776 right now im looking to try and rotation proof the deck if saveable so no panharmonicon. And originally it was offering to keep the graveyard moving for the trawler and scrounger. Keeps me either attacking or casting to untap traxos and at least trade a body in most cases all the way up to hazoret in mono red

I like the changes

Yeah baby, take me to flavortown with that Suspicious Bookcase! Maybe not the most powerful card in standard but definitely my favorite flavor card out of the new core set, cool to see it serving a purpose! Thumbs up on the sweet deck!

EvilArcher85 that's what I'm hoping for. Is the unsuspecting oh look a bookcase, and then Traxos, Scourge of Kroog comes through smashing for 7. Plus casting one could cause Traxos himself to untap.

Hey, saw this deck in the competitive hub... Then saw the deck description complaining about too many comments suggesting to add Karn. What do you expect? If you're trying to play a competitive deck then you want to play competitive cards which are not budget. You can't have it both ways, being competitive and playing budget.

Navigator's Compass is a card you never want to put in a competitive deck because it does nothing that's worth deck spots. Even to help cast Lich you don't want to have to include a card in the main deck to do this instead build a good enough manabase to play Lich or cut Lich. In Compass's place play Treasure Map  ^Flip it's great with the artifact theme especially with Tezzeret. Traveler's Amulet is pretty far from competitive, but it's a better artifact than both Compass or Gleaming and because of rotation there's not a lot of current artifacts to choose from. Gravestone and Spyglass are in the sideboard, might as well main deck both of them because they're better artifacts then a lot of the other artifacts in the deck. Because of the artifact theme you don't mind having cards like them main deck especially Spyglass.

I see lots of cards here that rely on artifacts to be good or to even be cast: Lich, Animator, Sia, Zahid and War, but I don't see enough artifacts that are worth playing to support all these cards. There's simply not enough artifacts, consider more artifacts? Consider cutting Lich? His is not worth it especially when Tezzeret and Sia are two competitive post rotation reasons to play artifacts. I suggest focusing on blue as the primary color of the manabase and using black as a secondary color only for removal and sideboard Duress. The core cards here are blue: Tezzeret, Sia, Animator, Zahid and War, it makes sense to have a lot more blue in the manabase than black.

The most important card for artifacts here is Sia, yes even more than Tezzeret, because Sia can make his own artifact army simply by playing artifacts. He's more important because he's one your best enablers for Tezzeret so you can play Tezzeret and right away 0 him to draw two cards, that's what gives Tezzeret potential to be a powerful Planeswalker. Sia's also a draw engine using the same artifacts he creates or others including Thopters that Tezzeret makes. He can do it all for an artifact strategy, which is amazing for a three drop. You want to have him in play before you start slamming artifacts because the value can get out of hand. Consider more Sia?

Good luck with your deck.

Umh, you say you want to abuse historic trigger for Zahid and Traxos, but Traxos isn't on the decklist.

Celebris Was, testing with and without now. Look at revisions....and notes below what you read. Please do your homework before commenting. I delete about 30 comments a day of people not paying attention

Ended up doing 1 and 1 Tezz and Traxos

I'd add 2 voltaic servant and 1 more Traxos. The combination of these two is mind-blowing.

nirjash13 Thats how the deck was originally setup. Having 2 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog gets slow and clunky sometimes not running all the artifact bodies from KDH / AER. Decided on 1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master and Traxos, Scourge of Kroog based on paper testing. It's just the right balance.

The 2 Voltaic Servant's will likely go back in. Was testing for Siren Stormtamer and just don't like it quite as much. If I wasn't making this post rotation ready it would be 2 Ornithopter, Because who wouldn't like 0 cost blocker that can turn into a 5/5 flyer turn 3 from Skilled Animator

Always wanted an artifact deck and this sure satisfies me! Can't wait to pick this up :)

Instead of Murder perhaps Spell Swindle My thoughts you've got quite a few destroy spells and even better negative health effects, if you caught a big counter late game all those treasures would be with an The Antiquities War proc.

Cabal Paladin feels a little out of place, but I understand the reasoning for him and I'm sure he does quite a bit of damage. I'd perhaps suggest in his place Mastermind's Acquisition Allows you to hunt for anything main or side board. Marionette Master in the Sideboard would be a rather fun finisher with the addition of Mastermind's Acquisition.

Hornswoggle would also be a legitimate idea for the addition of the treasure and the extremely creature heavy meta.

Vaughntastic147 Swindle ive debated but no marionette. The whole point of this deck is rotation ready. Marionette is in my old treasure control deck. And shes rotating otherwise yes she would be top end. Aquisition i dont really like in here. More for control base. Trying to keep his more to the aggro side.

If I had the funds required to add karns, hence you said they should be in there, how many should I put in and what cards should I take out? Thanks!