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Commander / EDH* Artifact Control Land Destruction Mono-Red

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Creature (25)

• 1x Beetleback Chief
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Bosh, Iron Golem
• 1x Bottle Gnomes
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Flametongue Kavu
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Myr Sire
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Sundering Titan
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (41)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x High Market
• 29x Mountain
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Blood Moon

Artifact (22)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Liquimetal Coating
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Panic Spellbomb
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Instant (3)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Word of Seizing

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Trash for Treasure
• 1x Wildfire

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Land (2)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Scalding Tarn

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds

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Maybeboard is for cards that I think about adding!

This deck first started as the preconstructed Built from Scratch deck. I was sure it was the most broken deck out the Commander 2014, and God was I true. I was even able to win some 6 players games using the preconstructed version! Now that it is modified, I think it is even stronger. In this description, I will try to write a little primer about my Daretti, Scrap Savant (even if I know there are a lot of them out there, if two persons read mine and it can help, it will be worth it). So keep on reading!

Introduction

Daretti, Scrap Savant is one of the 5 new commanders from the Commander 2014 set. In my opinion, he is amongst the two best planeswalker commanders printed in this set, Nahiri, the Lithomancer being the other one. I still think that this one is the best of the two, and you will surely learn why if you continue reading this little primer. However, even if the two decks are about artifacts, they have a completely different playstyle.

This deck is for you if:

• You like playing with artifacts;

• You like reanimating things;

• You like big creatures that are not green;

• You don't mind destroying lands.

You should play something else if:

• You don't like red;

• You don't like having a planeswalker in the command zone;

• You like winning through commander damage;

• You don't like playing a strange red control deck.

General

Whys is Daretti, Scrap Savant the commander? Simply because Goblin Welder is not legendary. Daretti is the perfect commander to play mono-red artifact control. It is the only red commander I would say is able to play a control strategy.

Also, how does our commander being a planeswalker impacts the game? Well, for sure we can't win via commander damage. But it brings two major things in my opinion:

• It can "extend" our life total and kind of buy us an extra turn if our opponent is hating it and constantly attacking it;

• If left unchecked, the ultimate can win us the game, and even if we do not get up to there, the others abilities are worth it, because it will be like casting a free sorcery each turn.

Also, some opponents may decide not to kill your commander, because they know that if they do, you will be able to cast it again and just restart. This makes the planeswalker wasier to defend, in my opinion.

Strategies and Synergies

As you may have already noticed, the main strategy of the deck is to sacrifice and reanimate a lot of artifacts. Some of them are stronger than others, and it will be discussed in this sections. There are generally two ways to win: Going for your commander's emblem or attack with big dudes you just cast and reanimate. The first involves more control and combo (which I like), while the second is more aggro. Down here you will find a breakdown of most of the cards included in the deck and some combos that are available to win or just to have some fun (I am only gonna talk about the cards I changed in the deck, I don't want to explain cards that were already there).

• Duplicant is one of the best removal available to this deck. For 6 colorless mana, you get to exile a creature, which is 1 less mana than you would use for Karn Liberated, for example. Also, with all the welding effects going on, it is really easy to exile a creature, sacrifice this to bring back another artifact, then sacrifice it again to keep on removing problematic creatures from your opponent's fields. It can also be pretty big depending on what it exiles and can get a lot of damage in.

• Gamble is the only real tutor spell available to red that can go and tutor aynthing from the deck. It only has one downside, which is not really a downside at all in this deck: discard a card at random from your hands after. Even if you tutor an important artifact in the deck and it gets discarded, it should not be that much a problem to reanimate it right away.

• Kuldotha Forgemaster is another really good tutor in this deck. The downside on this one can be really big for a deck not playing it right, but as of now, each time I have used this to fetch another artifact, I have won the game. Usually, I sarcifice it to itself, so I just need to loose two other artifacts. I usually try to sacrifice some combo pieces and tutor another piece, so I can just reanimate it and combo off the same turn.

• Mindslaver is a win condition in this deck. It is even better if you have Daretti, Scrap Savant's emblem out. this way, if you have enough mana, you get to control each other player at the table, ensureing the victory. I have been able to pull this combo a couple times, and it is very funny to see your opponents faces when they finnaly realize what is going on.

• Rings of Brighthearth is one of the best combo piece in this deck. It allows me to do so much. First of all, I have a lot of activated abilities that are worth copying: Daretti, Scrap Savant, Goblin Welder, Kuldotha Forgemaster, Feldon of the Third Path just to name a few... Also, I recently realized (!) that you can copy fetchland's ability with this so you can get an extra land out of them. Usually, this artifact gives me a huge advantage if I have some effects to copy, and it is one I really like to tutor early.

• Sensei's Divining Top is one of the best artifacts ever printed. red is kind of lacking card draw and filtering, and this is both at the same time. With our commander, it is even greater: what I usually do is before my draw step, I look at the top 3 cards of my library then I place them in the order I want. I draw one, then I use Daretti, Scrap Savant's first ability to draw the other two. At the end of turn of the player just before me, I look at the top 3 again, place them how I want, then draw the first card using the top. And I do this every turn. Oh, and I just wanted to say that the top is practically impossible to kill. Some have already tried, but no one succeeded.

• Squee, Goblin Nabob is in here simply to be used with our commander's first ability. We can discard this, draw a card, then get it back at our next upkeep. It will grant us card advantage, and it will still let us draw cards if we have nothing else we want to throw. Also, it can serve as a great chump blocker against a large creature without trample: cast and block, return to your hands, cast and block, return to your hands...

• Staff of Domination is another really cool combo piece in the deck. With enough mana (I will soon add ways to generate infinite mana with this), it can allow us to completely control the board, gain a lot of life and even draw a lot of cards! Broken when you have enough mana to abuse it, good even if you can activate it only one or two times a turn.

• Sundering Titan is banned in regular commander, I know, but my playgroup is playing without a banlist, so it is fine. This is one of the best artifact to abuse through welding effects. It can destroy a lot of lands. It is even greater when you are playing against two or three colored decks, destroying 2/3 lands to them while you only blow up one of yours. When Blood Moon will be in the deck, it is gonna be even better: it will allow you to blow up their nonbasics instead of your Mountains. I have found out that it is better to tutor this artifact later in the game, when there are a lot of basic lands on the battlefield and you don't care about blowing yours, else it could also slow you down.

• Tangle Wire is probably the best card to play early game. it will tap all the resources your opponents have, allowing you to easily build up your commander's loyalty counters without it being attacked or destroyed. You can even reanimate it to keep the pressure on. Late game, it is less useful, but it can prevent them from playing big finishers or to attack you, which can always be nice. Pro tip: you can tap this to it's own effect :)

• Wildfire is a dick card, but I am fine being a dick. I decided to pack some land destruction in this deck to be able to control even more what is going on. It is easy to play around lans destruction with all the mana rocks available to us, so we care less about our lands being destroyed. When I will add Crucible of Worlds to the deck, it will be even better. Also, this is kind of a boardwipe, which is quite useful to clean the board of smaller utility creatures or tokens.

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Goat 0/1 W, Goblin 1/1 R, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Myr 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Commander