A battle box for 2 players: https://luckypaper.co/articles/a-guide-to-battle-box/
Aiming for a 5 color Artisan build with a few strong themes in it.
This is a WIP
Aiming for a 120 card list
- 15 cards for each color
- 40 multicolor cards
- 3 for each guild (2 gold + 1 hybrid)
- 1-2 for each shard / capenna house
- 5 artifacts (mostly equipments or utilities)
Themes:
- Lots of choice spells, all Capenna charms and the Ravnica Charms
- Lots of creatures that do use mana for abilities: Guildmages, Battlemages, etc
- Classic cards for each color (Murder, Cancel, etc)
- A theme of counters, proliferate and life gain (i.e. Ajani's Pridemate)
- A theme of creating and sacrificing creatures / tokens
- Adventure cards for versatility, cross color adventure for WOE considered
Thins I avoided:
- Ramp / Mana Dorks / mana fixing / Land destruction (it does not work well in this format)
- Scry (it is complicated because you have a shared library)
- Tutors (too powerful)