Budget U/R Artifact Explosion

Standard Aggro Artifact Competitive UR (Izzet)

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Instant (10)

• 3x Lightning Strike
• 4x Shrapnel Blast
• 3x Temur Battle Rage

Enchantment (6)

• 4x Ensoul Artifact
• 2x Messenger's Speed

Artifact (4)

• 4x Ghostfire Blade

Creature (20)

• 3x Generator Servant
• 2x Illusory Angel
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Ornithopter
• 3x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 2x Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
• 2x Soul of New Phyrexia

Land (20)

• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 4x Island
• 8x Mountain
• 4x Shivan Reef

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Sideboard

Instant (13)

• 3x Anticipate
• 2x Cancel
• 2x Dig Through Time
• 2x Disdainful Stroke
• 2x Neutralizing Blast
• 2x Stubborn Denial

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Anger of the Gods

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Maybeboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Annul
• 1x Collateral Damage
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Stoke the Flames
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Titan's Strength
• 1x Wild Slash

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Aqueous Form

Artifact (6)

• 1x Briber's Purse
• 1x Chariot of Victory
• 1x Ghostfire Blade
• 1x Spidersilk Net
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Ugin's Nexus

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Pyromaster

Creature (3)

• 1x Chief Engineer
• 1x Elusive Spellfist
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker

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This is my second deck. You can find my first one here. Explosion refers to both Shrapnel Blast and what the deck is supposed to do after a few turns. Please critique

You should be able to get the deck for about $60, less if you don't care about the 4 pain lands which are about $20. You can also replace the Monastery Swiftspears with Elusive Spellfists

Strategies/synergies:

• Initial windup of around 2-3 turns then end the game within 2-4 more

• Given the initial windup, can quickly explode and go hard aggressive, but also has good blockers and can burn to kill threats

• Scuttling Doom Engine + Shrapnel Blast or Shrapnel Blast + any of the other artifacts really

• Generator Servant not necessary but can make a lot happen in a single turn

• Good amount of flying, trample, haste, double strike to end the game before too long

• Doesn't rely completely on either burn or creatures but has a decent amount of both

• Ensoul Artifact has lots of targets, can get flying from Ornithopter or indestructible from Darksteel Citadel

• Deck benefits a lot from prowess since there's already a good amount of low cmc spells and Generator Servant, so Monastery Swiftspear and Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest are good supplements for aggressive play

• Illusory Angel can come into play relatively easily with Generator Servant, Ornithopter, Monastery Swiftspear, Messenger's Speed, and lots of 2 cmc spells
  
  
  Possible cons:
  

• Possible weak early game/against hard aggro

• Possibly weak to bad draws (ex. too many Ornithopters, too many high CMC without any low CMC, too much burn/buffs without enough creatures) and no spells to help with draw

• Nothing that gives +1/+1 which could be useful for double strike and flyers

• Possibly a little short on lands

• No life gain

• No enchantment or creature removal

• No counterspells except for sideboard
  
  
  Sideboard thoughts:
  

• Counter spells because why not I'm playing blue

• Anticipate in case of opponent stalling, might as well get card advantage

• Anger of the Gods for boardclear, could potentially have problems with tokens without it, not sure
  
  
  Thoughts:

• Might switch out the Fleetfeather Sandals for Ghostfire Blade s, may find something else to remove for 4 of them. It helps prevent Ornithopter from being a dead draw and is a cheaper cast for Illusory Angel Need to playtest them more
• Might remove 1 Scuttling Doom Engine for 1 more Ornithopter if I fit Ghostfire Blade in

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 4 Rares 22 - 6 Uncommons 11 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.15
Folders	DTK Standard, Like, Standard, Looking into it