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| Arena | Legal |
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| Casual | Legal |
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Ensoul Artifact
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact is a creature with base power and toughness 5/5 in addition to its other types.
Taida on
Affinity and what to cut
1 week ago
Maybe you can try Experimental Synthesizer. Gives you some draw until end of turn, and you can sac it with whatever, and the effect triggers again. I also like Etched Champion quite a lot, as it is quite difficult to remove and is both amazing blocking and attacking. A substitute to Cranial Plating could be Nettlecyst, or you can even run both. Something like Skilled Animator, Kenku Artificer or Ensoul Artifact can also be very fun, especially if used on an Ornithopter or any indestructible land such as Silverbluff Bridge or Darksteel Citadel. Another affinity card I have a sweetspot for is Broodstar, but it needs colored mana, so it is not as easy to cast as a Myr Enforcer.
notjinzo on
5 Color Artifact Deck
1 year ago
I think the amount of artifacts in here could be an advantage for some affinity spells like Thought Monitor or Myr Enforcer, alternatively you could do something Ensoul Artifact or Tezzeret's Touch. Something akin with ramp would be good too due to the land usage, or a landfall creature would have good use here, I think Lotus Cobra might help you out. Explore, Rampant Growth, Growth Spiral, and Manamorphose could help you with early game mana usage/land playing.
WhatInTheWhoNow on
Cut-CO knives are ehxpensive!
1 year ago
Thanks for your suggestions! Here are my thoughts:
As for the Clock of Omens combo, it is my opinion that it's rather difficult to assemble for the following reasons:
- Finding four cards for a combo is a lot, besides having to set them up.
- Two artifacts, a creature, and a card in hand are required. That means a single removal or discard spell can disrupt the combo.
- clock is basically a dead card without the combo.
I agree with your opinion on Memnite. I chose to add it because it can add to the artifact count and crew Smuggler's Copter, which is sometimes necessary to get asmor running. It can also be a target for Ensoul Artifact. Fae of Wishes can also crew copter, is a discard option, and can grab the combo or another sideboard option. Honestly I think the only downsides are that it's not an artifact and it costs a lot to do stuff with it. Unearth seems like a really good option as long as it has targets, but if I remove all creatures except for asmor it won't be any good. Any suggestions for replacement creatures?
itsbuzzi on Converting from Modern to Pioneer
1 year ago
Ensoul Artifact can get away with wins just as much as any other deck. I feel the term "Pioneer Viable" is very loose at the moment, remember Izzet Creativity was Tier D to Off-Meta before it won.
Have fun and good luck building your brew for Rakdos. It's refreshing to see a deck with that doesn't look the same as the rest.
Argy on Converting from Modern to Pioneer
1 year ago
I still use Ensoul Artifact in a mono blue Artifacts Pioneer deck, which does quite well.
Usually makes the top 4.
It is an original brew, though, so it doesn't stick to as many rules.
Icbrgr on Converting from Modern to Pioneer
1 year ago
A mana rock that has seen competitive play and i still use would be Springleaf Drum... however it is very fringe if not obsoleted in artifact aggro decks.
I still personally still cling onto the old way to play artifact aggro using Springleaf Drum and Ensoul Artifact but both cards have fallen out of favor for the strategy for being competitive... but thats just something I know/accept when I play my deck at FNM.... still gets wins but is nothing like it used to be.
Icbrgr on Pioneer Artifact Aggro: Where's Ensoul?
1 year ago
Ever since the beginning of Frontier/Pioneer Ensoul Artifact aggro has had a presence in the competitive meta.
Ive seen the deck evolve over time to be less and now be more for the sideboard answer cards/removal and Ingenious Smith/Michiko's Reign of Truth Flip... which makes sense and all...but why has Ensoul Artifact fallen out of favor in these decks?
I always thought that the main appeal to the deck was making an Ornithopter a 5/5 flyer or slapping it onto Darksteel Citadel for 5/5 indestructible and just close out the game quickly with an obnoxious early beater that either was harder to remove or had evasion... combined with whatever artifact synergy the decks running.
Is Ensoul Artifact suffering the same fate as Kird Ape/Loam Lion/Wild Nacatl where although aggressively costed it just isnt enough anymore? I see some lists still running the card on some Youtube lists but they are starting to be over 6 months old now.
I personally still run Ensoul Artifact in a list featuring Patchwork Automaton with Reinforced Ronin/Network Disruptor... I feel like I have a moderate/acceptable success/winrate with the decklist; but admittedly I dont play Pioneer very seriously and just attend the LGS that hosts Pioneer ever once in awhile because its a bit of a drive to get there as opposed to other shops that play EDH/Modern far more conveniently for me.
