How it grades
Fundamentals 77/100. Plays like Artifacts.
This reads as Artifacts, built around Osgir, the Reconstructor. 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 ramp (16 ramp effects (want 11+ for this curve for Artifacts)); the first thing to tighten is mana curve: 21% of spells cost ≤2, 23% cost 6+.
- AMana reliability
- BLand count
- C+Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- A+Card draw
- A+Interaction
- B-Commander synergy
- AWin conditions
- ACard quality
- A+Legality & size
Where it falls short
- BLand count38 lands. About 42 fits this curve for Artifacts.
- C+Mana curve21% of spells cost ≤2, 23% cost 6+.
- B-Commander synergyOnly 27 of 61 spells play into your commanders' plan; they want treasure support. Counts the builds players run with your commanders (Artifacts, Reanimator, Tokens; from EDHREC).
Strong on mana reliability, ramp, card draw, interaction, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
83 cards graded: A- 4, B+ 37, B 34, B- 5, C+ 3. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Made together, they take Lorehold Legacies from B to A.
Reckless Fireweaver1R$0.42
In place of Excavation Technique: sorcery-speed removal: can't answer on their turn (52/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Chases the same treasure plan as your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Smothering Tithe3W$57.33
In place of Hoard-Smelter Dragon: conditional removal: dead against some boards (55/100)
Fuels your treasure payoffs (8 in deck). Feeds the commanders' treasure payoff. WotC game-changer.
Storm-Kiln Artist3R$1.64
In place of Reconstruct History: weakest slot in the deck (58/100)
Pays off your instant-and-sorcery engine (12 producers). Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Feeds the commanders' treasure payoff.
Impact Tremors1R$2.58
In place of Sanctum Gargoyle: weakest slot in the deck (59/100)
Pays off your go-wide engine (14 producers). Fits the token build players run with your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Welcoming Vampire2W$3.83
In place of Rout: weakest slot in the deck (59/100)
Fits the go-wide build players run with your commanders. Pays off your go-wide engine (14 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Soul WardenW$3.31
In place of Pia Nalaar: weakest slot in the deck (60/100)
Pays off your go-wide engine (14 producers). Fits the token build players run with your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Terror of the Peaks3RR$30.59
In place of Audacious Reshapers: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Pays off your go-wide engine (14 producers). Fits the token build players run with your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Unwinding Clock4$22.05
In place of Bosh, Iron Golem: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (9 in deck). Fits the artifact build players run with your commanders. Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers).
Puresteel PaladinWW$2.48
In place of Rip Apart: sorcery-speed removal: can't answer on their turn (62/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (36 producers). Fits the artifact build players run with your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Young Pyromancer1R$0.31
In place of Laelia, the Blade Reforged: weakest slot in the deck (63/100)
Fuels your token payoffs (3 in deck). Pays off your instant-and-sorcery engine (12 producers). Fits the token build players run with your commanders.
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