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Daretti, Scrap Savant

Commander / EDH Artifact Budget Casual Cycling Discard Goodstuff Mono-Red Reanimator Sacrifice

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Commander: Daretti, Scrap Savant

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Daretti, Scrap Fetishist:

This Budget EDH deck uses Daretti, Scrap Savant for his ability to reanimate artifacts and fill our graveyard. It aims to use artifact synergies to gain value and work toward powerful game-ending combos.

The goal of this deck is to play artifacts, draw cards, and sacrifice them to be reanimated later with Daretti, Scrap Savant, Scrap Mastery, Feldon of the Third Path, Goblin Welder, and Goblin Engineerfoil.

In the early game, cheap and efficient artifacts like Ichor Wellspring, Mycosynth Wellspring, and Tsabo's Web help us early by replacing themselves through card draw or mana ramp. Additionally, they serve as good early sac-targets for Daretti, Scrap Savant's -2.

With cards like Faithless Looting, Trading Post, Phyrexia's Core, and Daretti, Scrap Savant's +2, we can supplement this card draw while also filling our graveyard with strong artifacts.

In the mid-game, we can reanimate artifacts with good ETB effects like Myr Battlesphere, Spine of Ish Sah, Combustible Gearhulk, and Meteor Golem, gaining immediate value with them. Expensive artifacts, like Mindslaver, Mirrorworks, Kuldotha Forgemaster, and Bosh, Iron Golem can also be cheated out. Many of these cards also have triggers that occur when they leave the battlefield, such as Ugin's Nexus, or upsides when dying, such as Scuttling Doom Engine, allowing them to also serve as good sac-targets as well.

Once we come online, we very quickly become a huge threat, likely attracting unwanted attention. Using removal, board wipes, and denial cards like Tangle Wirefoil, Tsabo's Web, Soul of New Phyrexia, and Silent Arbiter can help us protect our board as we progress.

By amassing large amounts of mana through cards like Caged Sun, Blinkmoth Urn, Everflowing Chalice, and Mycosynth Wellspring we can attempt to close-out the game with big finishers like Steel Hellkite and Hellkite Igniter, or combos like Urza's Armor + Pyrohemia.

To reach our win-conditions, we run many forms of support. Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer and Soul of New Phyrexia provide protection, while Planar Portal and Kuldotha Forgemaster help us grab what we need during pivotal moments. Shimmer Myr lets us play artifacts on our opponents' turns, and Copper Gnomes lets us cheat out expensive artifacts early.

Special mention goes to Nevinyrral's Disk, which combos extremely well with Soul of New Phyrexia, making its effect one-sided. Additionally, Nevinyrral's Disk was printed before planeswalkers were conceived, meaning it conveniently avoids hitting our Daretti, Scrap Savant.

Possible Card Replacements:

Replace Hoard-Smelter Dragon w/ Hellkite Tyrant — Hellkite Tyrant is basically an auto-include for most artifact-heavy decks, not just for its alternate win-condition, but also the amount of value you get from it stealing opposing artifacts. If you can steal at least a sol ring, that's usually good enough to justify playing it. However, as of writing this, it's $10 USD, and that breaks our budget slightly.

Replace Scuttling Doom Engine w/ Wurmcoil Engine — Swap one engine for another. Wurmcoil Engine is a massive creature. It gives you so much in just one card. That doesn't even account for our ability to sac and reanimate it basically whenever we feel like it. But, again, it's expensive. Currently between $10 and $20 USD.

Replace Lodestone Golem w/ Darksteel Golem — Darksteel Golem is a bit of a non-bo for this deck, and thus is hard to justify running. That being said, it's just so damn iconic, and if it wasn't $10 USD right now, it'd be an auto-include.

Replace Copper Gnomes w/ Krark-Clan Ironworksfoil — A highly valuable card for this deck. It can do a ton of work as a hybrid sac-outlet and mana source. But it's nearly $20 USD. Too rich for me.

Replace Metalwork Colossus w/ Mycosynth Lattice — Mycosynth Lattice and Darksteel Forge combo together in a very powerful way, especially with Nevinyrral's Disk. I elaborate on this interaction below. Mycosynth Lattice on its own isn't really worth running without Darksteel Forge, so it's recommended that if you're cutting for one, you cut for both.

Replace Ratchet Bomb w/ Darksteel Forge — (Same as above.)

Replace Pyrohemia w/ Smokestackfoil — It's highly recommended if you're swapping out Pyrohemia, to also swap out Urza's Armor, as they are combo pieces that rely on each other, and if used alone they're both very sub-par. Smokestack however, can allow you to go hard on the stax strategy, and is up to your tastes whether or not you want to go in that direction.

Replace Urza's Armor w/ Winter Orb — (Same as above).

The easiest way to make this deck significantly stronger is to include the combo between Mycosynth Lattice + Darksteel Forge, which makes everything you control Indestructible.

Nevinyrral's Disk takes this a step further, allowing you to have multiple casts of its activated ability, since it doesn't require a sacrifice like most artifacts of its type. It gains Indestructible, and doesn't get destroyed by its own ability like it normally would. With Mycosynth Lattice and Darksteel Forge making everything you own Indestructible, Nevinyrral's Disk becomes a repeatable one-sided board wipe that hits just about everything relevant. That can arguably win games alone.

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