Unctus, Grand Metatect
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Brawl Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Unctus, Grand Metatect

Legendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Vedalken

Other blue creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card."

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

: Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a blue artifact in addition to its other colours and types. Activate this ability only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

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NyxDragon on Lords or Buffs?

3 months ago

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legendofa on Stealy McStealer

4 months ago

robngraves That combo doesn't quite work. Animated lands are still colorless unless specifically stated otherwise, and Mycosynth Lattice even makes sure they're colorless. So your lands die along with all the other lands, since Caged Sun won't pump them.

Chief of the Foundry, Master of Etherium (already in the deck), and Unctus, Grand Metatect would all work, though.

multimedia on Urza upgrade

1 year ago

Hey, some nice upgrades to the precon so far. Good additions of wincon combos: Sword + Foundry + Altar and Urza, PoK + Altar + Battlesphere.

Consider cutting a few of the lesser unnecessary higher mana cost creatures for some more draw? Constructs have an easy time if they can attack at doing combat damage to an opponent thanks to menace from Urza. If you can draw a card each time a Construct does combat damage to an opponent then you're getting great value from Constructs and a good reason to want to attack. Bident of Thassa is in the precon and it's repeatable draw with Constructs. Research Thief is more repeatable draw with Constructs that's also a flying artifact creature. More repeatable draw from Constructs can help to draw combo pieces.

Skullclamp is in the precon and it's excellent with Sword + Foundry combo since it creates 1/1 Thopters that can then each be saced for 1 mana to draw two cards. Because Urza's artifact creature affinity can pay for his Commander tax then Skullclamp with Urza is another way for repeatable draw.

Grim Hireling doesn't draw with Constructs it makes ramp, treasures which can help with Revel in Riches since the only reliable source of treasures here is Tithe. Hireling's effect is like Thopter Spy Network where you can trigger it more than once if you have creatures do combat damage to more than one opponent.

When deciding to add a card, it can help deck building and the mana curve to cut a card that's more mana cost. Wire Surgeons is a lesser 6 drop here than the rest and it's effect is only artifact creature not artifact. Having to pay the mana cost of an artifact creature in your graveyard to then exile that artifact is not good. Sharuum the Hegemon another 6 drop here who reanimates an artifact which is much better than what Surgeons does. Marionette Master can be a wincon with combos: Sword + Foundry + Altar and Urza, PoK + Altar + Battlesphere, but this is adding a fourth card, 6 drop, to the combos which is a lot and is really not needed because these combos create infinite artifact tokens which gives Constructs infinite power/toughness.

If you want to combo with Sword + Foundry then you can't control any effect that increases p/t of artifact creatures. Thankfully, Foundry can sac any nontoken artifact, before you want to combo with Sword + Foundry sac the artifact anthem effect. This makes anthem effects that increase p/t that are artifacts better than anthem nonartifact cards. Urza, Prince of Kroog is the exception since it's part of another combo. Since playing Sword + Foundry consider cutting Tempered Steel?

You want to avoid artifact exile effects as much as possible because you have no way of getting back a card in exile. Playing some more Counterspells is a mana efficent way to counter opponent exile effects. Urza's Ruinous Blast hurts you too much since it exiles all Constructs and all combo pieces here except Urza, Prince of Kroog. All the 4 drops here have effects either when ETB or repeatable except Filigree Attendant doesn't, making it a much lesser card that could be cut?

Steel Seraph is a reasonable priced upgrade for Hexavus. Seraph can be cast with prototype for 3 mana giving you a 3/3 artifact creature flier to help artifact creature affinity for Urza and it can on your turn at combat give a creature you control flying including Urza. Wonder is another better option then Hexavus for flying, Unctus, Grand Metatect or Armix, Filigree Thrasher can discard it while in combat. Discard Wonder when you have to discard down to 7 card hand size because you drew so many cards.

Good luck with your deck.

multimedia on Urza, Chief Artificer 2023 Upgraded Precon for LGS

1 year ago

Hey, well done so far on a budget casual upgrading the precon.

If attacking with Constructs is what you want to be doing then here's some budget upgrades to consider:

When you can draw cards from Constructs doing combat damage to opponents thanks to menace from Urza then you're getting much value from Constructs. Bident of Thassa is in the precon. Vault of the Archangel is tech from a land, menace with deathtouch is a nasty combination because opponents are not going to block Constructs and lose all their creatures. Just having Vault untapped with enough mana to activate it is enough to make your Constructs essentially unblockable. You can also gain a ton of life with Constructs.

Some other budget upgrades to consider:

Good luck with your deck.

legendofa on Infinite combo too slow

1 year ago

Unctus, Grand Metatect

Interesting, and free looting isn't bad. The other abilities are fairly useful together, too, but they're not the focus of the deck. I'll have to think on this one.

multimedia on Rise of the Constructs (Budget)

1 year ago

I added two more budget artifact creatures from Phyrexia ONE set, Unctus, Grand Metatect and Transplant Theorist.

Unctus, Grand Metatect seems powerful for a three drop artifact creature and it's compleated Grand Architect, nice flavor. Repeatable loot from other blue creatures being tapped and repeatable way to make Urza an artifact or any other creature I control blue. It's also an anthem effect for other artifact creatures. The anthem effect does turn off Foundry + Sword combo, but it's other repeatable effects make up for this as well as I have ways to bounce or remove Unctus if I want to combo with Foundry + Sword.

Transplant Theorist is repeatable loot and a way to save cards in my graveyard from being exiled or put bottom of library nonartifact cards to maybe cast again. I really like that Theorist triggers from artifact ETB not cast since then it can trigger creating a Construct or Thopter and there's no bullshit only once per turn restriction. It triggers for any artifact not just creatures, good interaction with Master Transmuter bouncing an artifact or casting with Anrakyr the Traveller. It triggers to loot when I play an artifact land, that's a big bonus. Pair Theorist with Bolas's Citadel to keep Citadel going because I can see the top card of my library before I choose to loot with Theorist. If the card is a land, loot, if not continue Citadel.

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