Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
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- Commander
- Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $318.80
- Grade
- A+
How it grades
Fundamentals 99/100. Plays like Artifacts and Lifegain.
This reads as Artifacts · Lifegain, built around Ragost, Deft Gastronaut. 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. The fundamentals check out across the board. From here it's meta calls and personal tech.
- A+Mana reliability
- A+Land count
- A+Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- ACard draw
- A+Interaction
- A+Commander synergy
- A+Win conditions
- A+Card quality
- A+Legality & size
Nothing falls short. Strong on mana reliability, land count, mana curve, ramp, card draw, interaction, commander synergy, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
82 cards graded: A 1, A- 21, B+ 32, B 26, B- 1, C+ 1. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Bronze Guardian4W$1.37
In place of Spirit Loop: weakest slot in the deck (57/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (37 producers). Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Alibou, Ancient Witness3RW$0.26
In place of Scrapheap: weakest slot in the deck (61/100)
EDHREC Artifacts staple. Pays off your artifact engine (37 producers). Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck).
Esper SentinelW$58.03
In place of Wake the Past: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Top-5% staple by play data. Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Ornithopter of Paradise2$2.16
In place of Descent into Avernus: weakest slot in the deck (63/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Steel Overseer2$0.32
In place of Astrid Peth: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Myr Battlesphere7$0.34
In place of Leonin Elder: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Gold Myr2$0.93
In place of Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' artifact payoff.
Impact Tremors1R$2.52
In place of Sevinne's Reclamation: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Pays off your go-wide engine (20 producers). Shares the commanders' burn mechanic. Top-5% staple by play data.
Mox Opal0$229.58
In place of Transmutation Font: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (37 producers). Fuels your artifact payoffs (15 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Welcoming Vampire2W$3.45
In place of Goblin Engineer: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Fits the go-wide build players run with your commanders. Pays off your go-wide engine (20 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 23
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Planeswalkers 1
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Instants 8
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- A-
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Sorceries 5
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Artifacts 22
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Enchantments 6
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Lands 34
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- B
- C+
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- B×9
- B×10
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