Arcum's Artifact Army by Papa-Triste

Format: Commander

Commander: Arcum Dagsson

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a highly focused, Mono-Blue Artifact Combo and Stax strategy helmed by Arcum Dagsson. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap artifact creatures as fodder, then tapping Arcum to sacrifice them and cheat massive, game-ending noncreature artifacts directly onto the battlefield. By bypassing mana costs, the deck can quickly establish oppressive stax locks with Winter Orb and God-Pharaoh's Statue, or assemble its primary infinite combo using Chromatic Orrery. The deck eschews combat in favor of fast, layered infinite mana and card draw loops, ultimately aiming to draw the entire library and win cleanly through Thassa's Oracle or a lethal Walking Ballista. With a dense suite of free counterspells and instant-speed protection, the deck plays like a resilient, proactive combo engine that dictates the pace of the game while threatening a win out of nowhere as early as Turn 3 or 4.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcum Dagsson
  • 1 Back to Basics
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Citanul Flute
  • 1 Cogwork Wrestler
  • 1 Combat Courier
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Copper Gnomes
  • 1 Copy Artifact
  • 1 Corridor Monitor
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Filigree Sages
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 28 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mind Over Matter
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Myr Sire
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Secret Identity
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tomb Trawler
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Winter Orb