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Izzet Artifact Deck (Standard) ~ ( Vault Link )

Has a problem vs White/Blue control, if anyone has suggestions. Primarily in regards to bounce and wipe, specifically aimed at ensouled artifacts / mana engine. The whole sideboard is built around combating this, but haven't tested it yet though.

Main parts are:
Ensoul Artifact onto (in descending order of preference) Citadel, Ornithopter, Drum.
Chief + Servant in the meantime to ramp into Soul and Engine.

Hour of Need is in to deal with a consistent problem I had with flyers, and offer an alternative to ensoul - Ornithopter and Dakra early game targets, Chief and Servant are ok if you make it beyond raw mana to cast Engine/Soul.

Thassa synergies well with Dakra and gets forces past later game blockers, as only soul has trample. Not much to make her a creature, though.

Mainboarded Negates to protect ensouled creatures and tokens

Rush is handy as for a last swing or surprise block, but I may replace these with more Hours.



//Artifact (3)
3 Springleaf Drum

//Artifact Creature (10)
4 Ornithopter
3 Scuttling Doom Engine
3 Soul of New Phyrexia

//Creature (9)
3 Chief Engineer
3 Dakra Mystic
3 Generator Servant

//Enchantment (4)
4 Ensoul Artifact

//Instant (11)
2 Hour of Need
4 Negate
2 Polymorphous Rush
3 Shrapnel Blast

//Enchantment Creature (2)
2 Thassa, God of the Sea

//Land (21)
4 Darksteel Citadel
9 Island
4 Mana Confluence
4 Shivan Reef

SB: 3 Anger of the Gods
SB: 3 Divination
SB: 1 Generator Servant
SB: 3 Hubris
SB: 1 Shrapnel Blast
SB: 4 Swan Song