Platinum Emperion

Artifact Creature — Golem

Your life total can't change. (You can't gain or lose life. You can't pay any amount of life except 0.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

SufferFromEDHD on Bant Golems

1 week ago

Great minds think alike ;) Roon of the Golem Realm

Splicer's Skill is what motivated me to build golems a few years back. Would be great in this. Cut Mental Journey.

Platinum Emperion you are running the big robot. This would be a solid #2 fattie. Cut Glassdust Hulk.

Soulless Jailer golem stax tax

Nexus of Becoming newest toy

SteelSentry on Madcap Experiment

8 months ago

Kinda cheating, but if Platinum Emperion is the only artifact in your deck, you're guaranteed to get it and won't take damage from the spell, based on how it resolves. It's a neat little trick from otherwise artifactless Canadian Highlander decks.

Xica on Madcap Control

9 months ago

How does Gifts Ungiven help in getting Platinum Angel or Platinum Emperion onto the battlefield?

Forkbeard on Runadi, Behemoth Caller: Beef Chief

1 year ago

Alright, I've made some changes based on some recent thoughts I've had about this deck, some cards I've been meaning to add + I've incorporated a few of your good suggestions Profet93, cheers:

In:

Ancient Tomb

Garruk's Uprising

Heroic Intervention

Kenrith's Transformation

Last March of the Ents

Monster Manual

Return of the Wildspeaker

Sanctum of Ugin

Thought Vessel

Tribute to the World Tree

Out:

Archetype of Endurance - I've had success Tooth & Nailing this lad + Platinum Emperion into play for a soft lock, but I agree that the redundancy for the cost is really unnecessary + is not core to the game plan.

Dryad Arbor - Kept it in here for that rare but sweet GSZ tutor for turn 1 ramp, but Ancient Tomb is the superior choice by a wide margin, lol.

Eldrazi Conscription - Win-more and unnecessary.

Endless Atlas - As mentioned, better draw exists in green.

Green Sun's Zenith - Removed as my green targets are limited and I think I have enough tutors already.

Platinum Emperion - An expensive to cast, unnecessary defense card.

Strip Mine - Swapped in Sanctum of Ugin for this. I think the tutor potential might be more handy than land removal.

Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger - The douche of all douches, this guy is so expensive and is such a kill on sight boi - because he hoses the whole table & typically just makes me the enemy/target, it usually dies to removal. Like, immediately.

World Breaker - Swapped out for the more efficient removal spell, Kenrith's Transformation

Zhulodok, Void Gorger - I've had a chance to play this guy a couple times now and he's just too clunky in a non-fully colourless build

The average CMC is still atrocious here but that's ok, I think some of these changes will help smooth things out a teensy bit. This is my big dumb stompy funsies deck and I don't necessarily need it to be supremely optimized with the perfect curve etc. I do think the revised ramp, draw & removal suites look a wee bit better after these changes and I'm excited to see how it plays.

Gidgetimer on does paying life trigger Darien, …

2 years ago

Damage and loss of life are not the same thing despite damage to a player usually causing life loss. Paying life and losing life to something like Bump in the Night do not make tokens from Darien, King of Kjeldor despite your life going down. Damage from a source with infect or damage dealt while Platinum Emperion is out does make tokens from Darien, King of Kjeldor despite your life total not changing.

unstable_anomaly on Full Metal Alchemy (Retired)

2 years ago

Hey Gsanna, thanks for stopping by. Apologies for such a delayed response here, life's been crazy lately and I haven't really had the time for magic.

I'm actually considering retiring this version of the deck and switching to a version without any of the infinites loops or game winning combos. That being said Cityscape Leveler is a great card (it'll be in my new version of the deck), but I personally wouldn't pull Platinum Emperion for it. The emperion is just simply too good. It has bought me the time I've needed to assemble a combo in several games. Plus it's just a personal pet card of mine. As for Mondrak, Glory Dominus this should absolutely be in the deck. I've been considering pulling mirage mirror for awhile now, so I'd probably make that swap. Bitter Reunion seems mediocre at best. I think there are better options.

Cheers.

Gsanna on Full Metal Alchemy (Retired)

2 years ago

Hey!

New sets have brought fresh new good cards, just wanted to know what did you think about running Cityscape Leveler instead of Platinum Emperion, and if you would run something like Mondrak, Glory Dominus and if yes, what would you swap it for? Something also worth considering for a maybe board would be Bitter Reunion pretty powerful in this deck and adds an haste enabler.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this!

Forkbeard on Runadi, Behemoth Caller: Beef Chief

2 years ago

Totally get it Epicurus, it's a good critique and you're not wrong - the early game can be a bit of a wash. That said, the ramp options/mana doublers in here usually zip me to 7 or 8 mana quickly which gets me started on that beefy action. A few top deck filters, draw spells + cheat into play options in here too which can help refine the early game.

I play in a honed but not quite cEDH meta and this deck fares quite well in that environment. I've won the last 2 4 person FFA games I've played this deck - the last match was funny, down to 1 other player and I had a soft lock with Archetype of Endurance + Platinum Emperion + Void Winnower & was milling 20 cards a turn with Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. BUT. I know what you mean. Are you thinking it could use more fast mana? I completely agree that this deck needs more efficient early game removal/interaction and I think I will look to take out a few win-more options in favor of cheap removal (e.g. Nature's Claim) + a fog effect or 2, that's a good idea.

Do you have any cheap-ish to cast removal favourites that you like to run in mono G/colourless?