One Eye Woken [Garthifacts]

Commander / EDH* Artifact Forcefeed Metalcraft MUD Tokens Vorthos

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Artifact (63)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Clown Car
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Candelabra of Tawnos
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x The Millennium Calendar
• 1x Wizard's Rockets
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Moonsilver Key
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Forcefield
• 1x Manascape Refractor
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Staff of Compleation
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Vexing Puzzlebox
• 1x Font of Mythos
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Lithoform Engine
• 1x Machine God's Effigy
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Otherworld Atlas
• 1x The Golden Throne
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unbender Tine
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone  ^Meld
• 1x Timeless Lotus
• 1x Coveted Jewel
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Chromatic Orrery

Land (21)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Fomori Vault
• 1x Hall of Tagsin
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Scorched Ruins
• 1x The Mycosynth Gardens
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x Urza's Workshop

Instant (2)

• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Urza, Lord Protector  ^Meld
• 1x Walking Archive
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Platinum Angel

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Sideboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Terror

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Urza, Planeswalker  ^{Meld  Meld}

Creature (1)

• 1x Shivan Dragon

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Braingeyser
• 1x Regrowth

Land (1)

• 1x Vault of Catlacan

Artifact (1)

• 1x Lotus Bloom

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This deck was inspired in large part by this lecture by Randall Carlson.

The Magic of {2}

The deck has multiple pairs, such as a pair of Workshops (Urza's Workshop and Mishra's Workshop.) It also has pairs of Hedrons, Mines, Diamonds, Keys, Clocks, Temples, Archives, Cities, Anvils and grand Orreries

The Magic of {3}

It has several thirds as well, symbolized in its Ruins, Rings, Mirrors, Moxen, Vaults, Talismans, and the stellar Chromatica

The Magic of {4}

The Loti represent fourths through a transition from thirds into fourths from the physical to the spiritual representation.

The Magic of {5}

The Colors of Mana are represented by fifths. They represent the following forces along with their respective associated color, The Void (blue), the Strong Force (white), the Weak Force (red), electromagnetism (green) and finally, gravity (black). The red and white mana are radiationally divergent. The black mana is gravitationally convergent.

The various Stones also represent the fifths.

The Magic of {6}

Garth represents the magic of sixths. Through the magic of sixths, the lotus transforms from the physical thirds to spiritual fourths.

The Magic of {7}

Urza represents the magic of sevenths. Urza through reflection also represents eighths. Through the golgathian sylex, Urza and The Mightstone and Weakstone   fuse. In this fused state, the sevenths transform into eighths.

The Magic of {8}

Eight's ways are quite mysterious. They make a fun topic of exploration for any young wizard. One recent focus for myself with the power of eights is in its ability to represent all logic gates. With the Mightstone and Weakstone, you represent gravitational convergence and radiational divergence, but in the symmetry of 8, perhaps there is a simultaneous expression of both the within and the without. I'm open to the idea. I need to explore eight a little futher. There is symbolism in 8 representing the "three" from "one."

I am drawing a parallel between eight and the regular truncated icosahedron. Unlike many other solids, this solid reduces down through digital root expressions to a convergence of the OR logic gate represented by the doubling track, the AND logic gate, represented by the symmetry between 3 and 6 and also the NOT logic gate symbolized by the number 9.

This is because the regular truncated icosahedron has 32 faces, representing the conclusion of the doubling track at 5, the solid has 60 vertices, representing the AND logic gate of the 3-6 track, and it has 90 edges, representing the NOT gate through the expression of the powers of 9.

Because I've identified this through the geometry rationale of Buckminster Fuller (by attribution of expressive qualities of the geometry of dimensionality) I think there could be something deeper in this expression that needs further discovery. I will reflect on it.

The Magic of {9}

The source of the inspiration for this deck is the magic of the number nine.

The deck has 21 lands. 2+1 = 3 which is a factor of 9. The deck has 18 {0} or {1} mana spells which is a multiple of 9. 1+8=9 The deck has 75 lands and spells CMC {3} or less. 7+5 = 12. 1+2 = 3. 19 spells of CMC equal to {2}. This is 38. 3+8=11. 1+1=2. This represents the doubling circuit of 1,2,4,8,7 and 5. One of the spells is the doubling cube itself.

There are 17 {3} mana spells. That's 51 mana. 5+1=6. The lands are 21. 2+1=3. The 3 mana spells are 51. 5+1=6. 3+6=9 (a symbolic representation of the beginning and end.)

There are 13 {4} mana spells in the deck. 13x4=52. (7) There are 8 {5} mana spells in the deck. 8x5=40. (4) There are 3 {6} mana spells, 3x6=18 (9) and one {7} mana spell. (7)

Total, not including Garth One-Eye, there are 24 spells CMC {4} or greater. 2+4=6. When you compare the 75 CMC {3} or less, 7+5=12, 1+2=3 with the 24 CMC {4} or greater, 2+4=6, you get a symbolic representation of the beginning of the deck as 3 and its ending as 6. Again, you have 3+6=9

The deck has 24 colors of mana. It has 13 blue, 1 green, 5 red, 1 black and 4 white. 2+4=6. It has 192 combined generic and hybrid symbols. 1+9+2=12. 1+2=3. The generic mana costs are symbolized by 3 and the colored costs by 6. 3+6=9.

The deck has a CMC 216 mana cost total. 2+1+6=9. 216 divided by 24 equals 9. The 9 loosely represents gravitational convergence and radiational divergence.

There are a lot more details that I don't necessarily need to go into, but this deck was inspired by research I've been doing into Buckminster Fuller and also Randall Carlson. I suppose this became a bit of an homage to their teachings.

One last thing I will mention is that there is some profound significance between these numbers and the number 13. I don't need to go into it, but you can learn about the significance of the "12 surrounding the 1" in a short youtube clip of Buckminster Fuller explaining the significance of the Vector Equilibrium. He talks about submarines in the video. It's pretty good and pretty short and he covers all the important details.

If you're interested in more in-depth ideas related to the significance of 9 with respect to dimensionality, you can read more here. Show

After some studying and imagining, I came to equate the following shapes with the following numbers:

1, tetrahedron (This is represented by the Mind Stone and signifies positive-space building patterns)

2, cuboctahedron (This is symbolically represented by the Mightstone and the Weakstone. The Mightstone represents gravity, the Weakstone, radiaton.)

3, cube (this represents the negative-space building patterns)

4, octahedron (This is represented by Hedron Archive. It introduces an additional degree of dimensionality to the Mind Stone symbolically.)

5, sphere

6, rombicdodecahedron (this is an inverse cube... it also is the sixth platonic solid but only stable in the 4th dimension. Just like the Hedron Archive represents a shift up in positive-space dimensionality building patterns from Mind Stone, this is the equivalent for negative space in terms of a shift up from a cube. An equatorial section of its 4th-dimensional representation produces the equivalent to the Mightstone and the Weakstone in 3-dimensional space, and an equatorial section of that equivalent section can produces either the cube (3) or the tetrahedron (1) equivalents within their 2-dimensional spaces. (I'm using Mightstone and Weakstone metaphorically. Its actual name is the Vector Equilibrium or the Cuboctahedron.)

7, icosahedron (This is represented by Dreamstone Hedron. It has 30 edges, 20 faces and 12 vertices. It's negative-space equivalent is represented by the number 9 and is called the dodecahedron. Like the icosahedron, this negative-space equivalent is a platonic solid and is known to magic players as a 12-sided die. The icosahedron is familiar to magic players as the "20-sided die." Likewise, the tetrahedron is a 4-sided die and the octahedron is a 8-sided die. Both the 4-sided, 6-sided, 8-sided, 20-sided and the 12-sided dies form the 5 platonic solids. (There's a 6th in 4d, but no need to worry about that one for now.)

The unique part about the Icosahedron and the Dodecahedron is that they form inverses of each other. The centerpoints on the faces of one form the vertexes for the other. They're like penguins. They permanently mate.

Icosahedron has 20 sides, 30 edges and 12 vertexes. Dodecahedron has 12 faces, 30 edges and 20 vertexes. They are "mirrors" of each other, or they are reflections of the same common agent in both negative and positive space forms.

8, Truncated Icosahedron - This is the Frankenstein love-child of the dodecahedron and the icosahedron. It has 12 regular pentagonal faces (just like the dodecahedron) and also has 20 regular hexagonal faces (similar to the icosahedron, except they're hexagonal as opposed to triangular) for a total of 32 faces. There are also 60 vertices and 90 edges.

9, Dodecahedron - The Negative space increase in dimensionality beyond the Rombicdodecahdron.

These shifts in dimensionality can be researched on their own by using an AQAL map and there are also philosophers who study and write about them. I got pretty obsessed with learning about them for a while. I liked Jean Gebser's aperspectival view on the cultural dimensionality of magic, (mind stone) mythic (hedron archive) and rational (dreamstone hedron) cultural models. He posited of a 4th stage called aperspectival which is why I started researching the 4th dimension and is why I got interested in the writings of Buckminster Fuller and people like Randall Carlson in the first place. I think this is represented by bitcoin in our timeline.

Other key relation to 9 is the number of artifacts (60) + the number of lands (21) = 81. 8+1=9 The number of non-artifact, non-creature, non-planeswalker spells = 2+2+2=6, and the number of non-commander creatures + planeswalkers = 11+1=12 (1+2=3) again, 6+3=9

There is also symbolic relevance to the creatures + Tezzeret forming the 12 that surround the one (Garth.) Garth's story-line is from the house of Oor-Tael Magic. It represents the achievement of secret wisdom and mastery of forms.

Ok, I think that is mostly everything about the deck with respect to number 9. Oh, for the spells that are cmc {3} or less, 10+38+51= cmc 99 total. 9+9=18, 1+8=9. {4} or greater=117, 1+1+7=9

99+117=216. Importantly, 216 is twice 108. 108 is the angle of the degree of the pentagon. 5 x 108= 540 (this is 1.5x the # of degrees of a circle. So double this number gives us 3 circles or 1080 degrees.) Symbolically, the number 9 is also symbolized by the 12-faced pentagonal platonic solids when viewed using dream-logic.

Now for a summary of the metaphorical significance: How I see this is that Garth's "One Eye" are actually the 12 eyes of faces of the dodecahedron (representing nine-ness.) I suppose this can loosely be considered to be a metaphor for the "12 surrounding one" which comprises the form of the cuboctahedron (i.e. the Mightstone and the Weakstone.)

Well, I still need to work out more of this deck's mythos, but that's is what I've gotten so far.

It's really fun to play also.

Allegory for the Fourth Dimension

Urza's backstory contains some veiled symbolism to 4th dimensional math modeling. For example, Urza's Sylex created a blast that trapped 12 planes in a bubble and prevented transplanar magic from reaching them. You can read a bit about it here.

One way of looking at these twelve trapped realms is as a symbol of the twelve platonic solids across both 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional space. These can be represented by its 12 creatures.

Another way of considering the symbolism of Urza to the 4th dimension is the 9 titan engines which he constructed for the purposes of invading Phyrexia. This could be considered symbolic of base-ten mathematics reflected in the geometry of platonic solids across the third dimension.

Primordial Solids

Symbolic of Mastering Space - The Triangle Show

Etherium Sculptor - tetrahedron

Foundry Inspector - octahedron

Urza, Lord Protector    - hypertetrahedron (5-cell)

Urza, Lord High Artificer - hyperoctahedron (16-cell)

Symbolic of Mastering Energy - The Square Show

Walking Archive - cube

Sai, Master Thopterist - rhombic-dodecahedron

Shimmer Myr - hypercube (tesseract) (8-cell)

Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter - hyper-rhombicdodecahedron (hyper-diamond) (24-cell)

Symbolic of Mastering Awareness - The Circle Show

Metalworker - icosahedron

The Reality Chip - dodecahedron

Phyrexian Metamorph - hypericosahedron (the 600-cell)

Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer - hyperdodecahedron (120-cell)

Some of my notes in their development:

Date added	1 year
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 1 Mythic Rares 56 - 4 Rares 19 - 1 Uncommons 5 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.73
Tokens	Clown Robot 1/1 W, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Powerstone, Soldier, Treasure
Folders	Borrowed