Built From Scratch
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- Commander
- Daretti, Scrap Savant
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $113.95
- Grade
- B+
How it grades
Fundamentals 88/100. Plays like Artifacts.
This reads as Artifacts, built around Daretti, Scrap Savant. An artifact engine deck: cost reducers and cheap trinkets snowball into board states and card advantage that scale with the artifact count itself. The pieces are individually weak but the whole is far more than the sum, and a single well-timed Vandalblast is the scariest card in the room. Its strongest fundamental is mana reliability (Your spells reliably arrive on time for this curve); the first thing to tighten is mana curve: 34% of spells cost ≤2, 28% cost 6+.
- A+Mana reliability
- A+Land count
- BMana curve
- A+Ramp
- A+Card draw
- A+Interaction
- A+Commander synergy
- AWin conditions
- B+Card quality
- A+Legality & size
Where it falls short
- BMana curve34% of spells cost ≤2, 28% cost 6+.
- B+Card qualityMedian EDHREC rank #3,611
Strong on mana reliability, land count, ramp, card draw, interaction, commander synergy, win conditions and legality & size.
74 cards graded: A- 10, B+ 22, B 28, B- 6, C+ 6, C 1, C- 1. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Made together, they take Built From Scratch from B+ to A-.
Reckless Fireweaver1R$0.46
In place of Whipflare: doesn't ramp, draw, interact or threaten. What is it for? (38/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Chases the same treasure plan as your commanders.
Scrap Trawler3$3.18
In place of Incite Rebellion: doesn't ramp, draw, interact or threaten. What is it for? (41/100)
Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff. EDHREC Artifacts staple. Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers).
Storm-Kiln Artist3R$1.63
In place of Tuktuk the Explorer: weakest slot in the deck (48/100)
Pays off your instant-and-sorcery engine (11 producers). Feeds the commanders' treasure payoff. Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers).
Unwinding Clock4$20.83
In place of Bitter Feud: weakest slot in the deck (48/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Banner of Kinship5$8.03
In place of Impact Resonance: weakest slot in the deck (50/100)
Pays off your token engine (7 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (17 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Tarrian's Soulcleaver1$3.86
In place of Word of Seizing: weakest slot in the deck (51/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain3$22.00
In place of Volcanic Offering: weakest slot in the deck (56/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Chases the same treasure plan as your commanders.
Psychosis Crawler5$2.64
In place of Epochrasite: weakest slot in the deck (57/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (13 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Conjurer's Closet5$4.08
In place of Bottle Gnomes: weakest slot in the deck (57/100)
Pays off your enters-the-battlefield engine (13 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Impact Tremors1R$2.21
In place of Scrap Mastery: weakest slot in the deck (57/100)
Pays off your token engine (7 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (17 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 26
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- B-
- B+
- B+
- B-
- B+
- B+
- B+
- B+
- C+
- B+
- B
- B+
- B
- B+
- B
- A-
- A-
- B
- B
- B
- A-
- B
- B+
- B+
- B
Instants 6
- C+
- B+
- B-
- C+
- B
- B+
Sorceries 5
- A-
- C-
- B-
- C
- B+
Artifacts 20
- B+
- B
- A-
- B+
- B
- A-
- B
- A-
- B+
- B+
- A-
- A-
- B
- B+
- B+
- A-
- B
- B+
- B
- B+
Enchantments 1
- C+
Lands 41
- C+
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B-
- B
- B
- B
- B
- B-
- C+
- B×8
- B×7
- B×7
- B×7
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