Kurkesh Artifact Ramp

Commander / EDH Artifact Mono-Red Multiplayer Ramp

Killer_Manfred

Ramp (27)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Moonsilver Key
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Honor-Worn Shaku
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Worn Powerstone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron

ManaDenial (5)

• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Keldon Firebombers
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue

Lands (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 18x Mountain
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x The Mycosynth Gardens
• 1x Tower of the Magistrate
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x War Room
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip

Disruption (10)

• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Red Sun's Twilight
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Portal to Phyrexia
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Commander (1)

CardAdvantage (14)

• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Mishra's Research Desk
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Reckoner Bankbuster
• 1x Tome of Legends
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Misc. (7)

• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Darksteel Forge

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This deck started off as a value machine back in 2016 with loads of targets for Kurkesh and a charge counter subtheme. As it was soft to artifact hate, I started cutting fluff and added disruption in the form of land destruction and mana taxing. After loads of (understandable) hate from my playgroups, the current version keeps the mana taxing but omits the land destruction. For the (more powerful) land destruction version, click here: Kurkesh Land Destruction Ramp

The deck can produce infinite mana with Basalt Monolith and Forsaken Monument or with Gilded Lotus and Voltaic Key while Kurkesh is out. It can then finish the game with Walking Ballista.

If you want to make this deck more competitive, I'd suggest adding more cheap interactive cards like Pyroblast or Bolt as well as more infinite combos and additional ways to search them up (e.g., Painter's Servant + Grindstone).

I am happy about suggestions and other feedback and will continue updating the list. Thank you!

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 day
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.85
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Pilot 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure