Artifacts R Fun by user4049963

Format: Commander

Commander: Knuckles the Echidna

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This mono-red deck is commanded by Knuckles the Echidna, focusing on aggressive artifact generation and high-tempo combat. By deploying low-cost mana rocks and Treasure enablers on Turns 1–3, the deck curves cleanly into Knuckles on Turn 4, capitalizing on innate double strike, trample, and haste to generate immediate Treasure tokens on combat damage. As the Treasure hoard compounds, the deck transitions into devastating mid-game threats like Hellkite Tyrant, Ancient Copper Dragon, Depthshaker Titan, and Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant. Alternate win conditions through 20- or 30-artifact upkeep triggers on Hellkite Tyrant or Knuckles offer non-combat inevitability, while Depthshaker Titan turns utility tokens into an overwhelming hasty alpha strike. While vulnerable to mass artifact wipes and lacking stack interaction, the deck maintains steady recovery through redundant Dragon payoffs, impulse card draw, and flexible graveyard recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1 Beamtown Beatstick
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bottle-Cap Blast
• 1 Brass's Bounty
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Captain Lannery Storm
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant
• 1 Collector's Vault
• 1 Crime Novelist
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Depthshaker Titan
• 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fire Diamond
• 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• 1 Generous Plunderer
• 1 Goblin Engineer
• 1 Goldhound
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Goldvein Pick
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Hell to Pay
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Hoarding Ogre
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Impulsive Pilferer
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Iron Myr
• 1 Knuckles the Echidna
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Loyal Apprentice
• 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mines of Moria
• 27 Mountain
• 1 Mycosynth Lattice
• 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Pirate's Pillage
• 1 Power Depot
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Ravenous Robots
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Scene of the Crime
• 1 Scrap Mastery
• 1 Seize the Spoils
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sticky Fingers
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Strike It Rich
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 The Fire Crystal
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Xorn