dimir artifax budget 100 by cpham206

Format: Commander

Commander: Golbez, Crystal Collector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Dimir artifact strategy led by Golbez, Crystal Collector. The game plan revolves around rapidly assembling artifacts to unlock Golbez's scaling end-step triggers. In the early game, the deck accelerates with low-cost mana rocks, artifact lands, and efficient token generators like Sai, Master Thopterist, Academy Manufactor, and Forensic Gadgeteer. As artifacts enter the battlefield, Golbez surveils through the library to stock the graveyard with high-power creatures, most notably Death's Shadow. Reaching four artifacts establishes a repeatable recursion engine, returning key utility creatures each turn. Once the board expands to eight artifacts, Golbez turns into a devastating life-drain engine, burning each opponent for 13 life every end step when returning Death's Shadow. Backup win conditions include swarm combat with Cranial Plating and Broodstar, mass reanimation via Lich-Knights' Conquest, and an alternate win with Mechanized Production, supported by defensive pieces like Meekstone and Propaganda.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cranial Plating
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Death's Shadow
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Efficient Construction
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
  • 1 Enhanced Surveillance
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Filigree Attendant
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 18 Island
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
  • 1 Noggle the Mind
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pactdoll Terror
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Retrofitter Foundry
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rook Turret
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shambling Suit
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Underworld Cookbook
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm