Riptide Artifact Cube?

LadyMapi

LadyMapi

Kinda inspired by ZKR, but... what if we centered the four big macroarchetypes of Things Wot You Can Do With Artifacts in the four non-green color triangles, and then filled out the rest of the cube with build-arounds and microarchetypes? So the cube would broadly look something like:

{W}{U/B}: Artifact bounce (Make artifacts go HAND -> PLAY, and vice-versa)
{B}{R/W}: Artifact aristocrats (Make artifacts go PLAY -> GRAVE, and vice-versa)
{R}{W/U}: Artifact spam (get a LOT of artifacts out - also equipment because whatever this is where all the support is I guess)
{U}{B/R}: Artifact cheat (get SPECIFIC artifacts out)
{G}{c}: The Fun Police, the police of fun.

I feel like that kind of ZKR-ish tools-over-decks(-over-cards, because we're still RiptideLabs) might be a more natural way to think about a cube that's so heavily centered on an archetype that leans so hard on colorless cards.
 
LadyMapi

LadyMapi

The idea was that you'd have a little bit of the macroarchetypes in their "off" colors (kinda like how ZKR has at least one card of each Party type in each color). So (to give a bit of a silly example) a player on a {B/R} sac deck might splash into green because they drafted



from the {B/G} Food microarchetype, adding a bit of extra flavor to their deck. :p

Or they might pivot a little bit because they drafted this one-card buildaround, and become a {R/G} Ramp deck:

 
alvoi

alvoi

ravnic said:
I like it, but I also think it would ba a bit too strict to have green as anti-artifact-color only
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Yes, I am similarly worried, but maybe it could be fine if we add also many green cards that have good synergy with artifacts?

{W/U} artifact aggro with tempered steel and master of etherium, affinity
{U/B} artifact control with tezzeret the seeker and grim bauble
{B/R} artifact sacrifice synergy with oni-cult anvil, deadly dispute and ichor wellspring
{R/W} artifact aggro with equipments? and modular creatures, also +1/+1 counter synergies?
{W/B} maybe food and lifegain centered, with some strong support from the green part of the cube
{U/R} artifact combo and cheat with goblin welder, reshape and similar things

Something like this for the archetypes?
 
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