Some ideas about building an Artifact deck around Traxos, Scourge of KroogJust creating the deck and thinking about interactions with colors- at the moment I tend to use white and blue
The cards:
I think 2 Shalai, Voice of Plenty is a good addition to the deck because it protects our artifacts from spot removals like Abrade (oh this deck will suffer vs red decks...)Recursion is always nice and since we are only playing historics I add 2 Teshar, Ancestor’s Apostle
Foundry Inspector and Jhoira's Familiar will do nearly the same and provide us with some cost reduction for all artifacts (Jhoira reduces our 4 non artifact Legendaries too)
Mox Amber will untap Traxos for zero but probably wont create mana for us so maybe we can cut it for budget reasonsAlternatively 2 Ornithopter could do the same job here
Skittering Surveyor will take out the lands for us so we reduce the chance of beeing mana flooded (same with Traveler's Amulet maybe 8x Land Search is a bit too much)
Cuted 2 Surveyors added 2 Padeem, Consul of Innovation for Hexproof and Carddraw
Powerstone Shard Really excited to see if this card can work in the right combinations, playing it for less than 3 and then tapping for potential 4 (or realistic 2) per card seems kind of nice
Sparring Construct is a small one drop that we are going to play for free later
Voltaic Servant will give Traxos a kind of vigilance
Seal Away will deal with annoying threads
Helm of the Host must be tested first but we reduce it's cost and are able to copy Traxos, so why not
More Ideas:
2 to 4 Dauntless Bodyguard could help from Sideboard vs red
Arcane Flight is worth a thought too, What's better than a 7/7 trample creature for 4? A 8/8 trample flying creature for 5 maybe?
Icy Manipulator could help vs larger creatures/go big Approaches
Alternatively mono black Landbase with two to three Cabal Stronghold would be more 'Tron' and would give us more removal options ( Vraska's Contempt for example)
