The Goblin Pope

Commander / EDH* Artifact Mono-Red

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Instant (3)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Shrapnel Blast
• 1x Volcanic Offering

Sorcery (9)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Scrap Mastery
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Ghirapur AEther Grid

Artifact (25)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Liquimetal Coating
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Rusted Relic
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x The Chain Veil
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Ugin's Nexus
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Creature (23)

• 1x Bosh, Iron Golem
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Flametongue Kavu
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient
• 1x Lodestone Myr
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Pentavus
• 1x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (38)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Great Furnace
• 27x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God

Commander (1)

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"Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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Introduction/Overview

MonoRed has always been my favorite color to play in Magic, mainly Burn strategies. That, however, isn't very viable in Commander (unless you play Heartless Hidetsugu, but even then it isn't that fun). And Goblins seem fairly straightforward (sorry Krenko, Mob Boss). Combo seemed somewhat... Unfair (that means Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is out). That reduced us to just artifacts. Well luckily for me, the 2014 Commander decks were just released. I was very excited when I saw Daretti, Scrap Savant. Daretti is:

• MonoRed

• A Goblin Planeswalker (something I have been wanting for a LONG time)

• Artifact-themed, and

• A Pope!

I got the precon first thing, and you can see how the list has changed here.

This deck is primarily a toolbox deck, meaning that it is fairly adaptive to how the game is going. This is mainly because Daretti isn't much more than just a Planeswalker that can let you pitch whatever you don't want in your hand/whatever you do want in your graveyard and get Artifacts back. Even though he is just gas for the deck, he is the highest quality gas for this high-powered engine.

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The 99

I'm not going to list every single card that isn't a Mountain on here, just some highlights and cards that actually do a lot for this deck. I'm not going to explain why cards like Sol Ring, Solemn Simulacrum, and Chaos Warp (even with the tuck rule change) are good.

Ichor Wellspring and Mycosynth Wellspring are essentially free card advantage. They can be great to sacrifice and get another artifact from our graveyard or can be brought back out in case you're falling behind and can help catch you up. The fact that they can be played so early in the game is a good bonus.

Howling Mine is a really good draw engine that also prevents people from coming after you. When you're done with it, you can just sacrifice it so nobody can draw cards anymore!

Darksteel Forge protects practically everything we have. It allows more control of what goes into our graveyard, which is always nice to have in this deck. It can also be cheated out early.

Reforge the Soul is amazing in this deck because it dumps a bunch of your cards into your graveyard, refills your hand, and your opponents have to deal with a brand new hand.

Bosh, Iron Golem can deal a decent amount of damage to creatures or players. Mainly used with higher CMC artifacts for efficiency reasons.

Purphoros, God of the Forge can be an all-star, oddly enough. With the amount of artifacts being exchanged from the battlefield to the graveyard (and vice versa), there's a statistical probability a decent amount will be creatures. This can allow us to wear down our opponents as the game goes along, leaving them in the kill-able range later on in the game. Definitely underrated in this deck.

Goblin Welder is likely the MVP of the deck. Quite possibly the best creature in the deck.

Insurrection is a big, dumb spell that can win us the game by stealing our opponents' boards. If all else fails, this will more than likely win the game single-handedly.

Hoarding Dragon is a fantastic tutor in our deck, fetching any artifact we want. Beware, however, it has to die for the artifact to come into our hand.

Hellkite Tyrant is also a card that should be strategically played. It can win the game, yes, but a plethora of things can happen to have it taken away or Cloned or copied. But when it works, it really works.

All Is Dust can be fantastic because it isn't that expected. Creatures can't be regenerated and it gets past indestructible, while also going after Enchantments (something Red isn't known for). Although we have to sacrifice Daretti, the amount of advantage gained is too great not to use.

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Improvements

The first part of making improvements to a complete deck is deciding on what to cut from the deck first. The cards in this list are cards that either underperform in the deck or just feel like they're there just to make this a 100 card deck.

• Dreamstone Hedron

• Expedition Map

• Faithless Looting

• Flametongue Kavu

• Ghost Quarter

• Hammer of Purphoros

• Juggernaut

• Junk Diver

• Lodestone Myr

• Liquimetal Coating

• 2x Mountain

• Myr Retriever

• Palladium Myr

• Pristine Talisman

• Reliquary Tower

• Rusted Relic

• Scrapyard Mongrel

• Scuttling Doom Engine

• The Chain Veil

• Tormenting Voice

• Torpor Orb

• Trading Post

• Volcanic Offering

This list is the Acquireboard, or what I plan on adding to the deck once I have them:

• Anger

• Blightsteel Colossus

• Crawlspace

• Foundry of the Consuls

• Gilded Lotus

• Hellkite Igniter

• Karn, Silver Golem

• Krark-Clan Ironworks

• Kuldotha Forgemaster

• Lodestone Golem

• Mage-Ring Network

• Molten Psyche

• Mountain Valley

• Mycosynth Lattice

• Oblivion Stone

• Platinum Angel

• Platinum Emperion

• Rocky Tar Pit

• Sculpting Steel

• Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer

• Soul of New Phyrexia

• Staff of Domination

• Vedalken Orrery

• Voltaic Key

• Wheel of Fortune

I'm also considering playtesting Slag Fiend. It seems like it would be mediocre at best in this deck, but it definitely could have potential.

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Thank you for looking at my Daretti, Scrap Savant EDH/Commander deck! Feel free to comment your thoughts on the deck down below or give this deck a +1 (although both would also be appreciated)!

Feel free to look at my Modern deck:

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.19
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Goat 0/1 W, Myr 1/1 C, Pentavite 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink