Rare Metals (Legacy MTG Deck)

Rare Metals

Legacy 12-post Affinity Artifact Colorless Combo Infinite Combo

Dami

Artifact (22)

Creature (14)

Land (24)

Sideboard

Artifact (10)

Creature (3)

Land (2)

2x Homeward Path

Maybeboard

Artifact (3)

Instant (1)

1x Titan's Presence

Creature (1)

1x Hangarback Walker

Pure Colourless Artifact Deck: Rare Metals 9.0

This deck works in 4 main phases:

Use the lands and colourless mana generating artifacts to generate as many colourless mana as possible;
Put in place one of the infinite mana combos;
Use the infinite mana to build your indestructible army or search and set your winning condition;
Win the game with the things you have set in the battlefield.

On the sideboard I will keep some viable cards to the deck to give it some extra options and in the maibeboard I will place the cards that I'm interested in test in the deck or those that are already being tested.

Current Combos:

Ancient Tomb + Platinum Emperion for mana production with no life loss drawback.
Cloudpost + Glimmerpost + Thespian's Stage & Vesuva combo (the 16 post) can produce large amounts of colourless mana and some life (1).
- When Thespian's Stage copy Cloudpost it is already on the battlefield so the clause "comes into play tapped" is ignored.
Darksteel Citadel + Thespian's Stage + Vesuva for some indestructible mana generation.
Karn, Silver Golem + Mycosynth Lattice for land and aura destruction and make equipments fall off and become unable to equip them.
Darksteel Forge + Karn, Silver Golem to create indestructible artifact creatures from regular artifacts.
Glaring Spotlight + Karn, Silver Golem to make regular artifacts into creature artifacts and give them with Hexproof and turn them Unblockable until the end of your turn for a potential all-out attack (2).
Karn, Silver Golem + Swiftfoot Boots to make regular artifacts into creature artifacts and protect them with Hexproof until the end of your turn (2).
Homeward Path + Karn, Silver Golem to make regular artifacts into creature artifacts and regain control over any artifact you own that you lost control over (2).
Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice to make all permanents under you control indestructible.
Metalworker + Staff of Domination combo with 3 artifacts in your hand for infinite colourless mana production that can then be used to activate any of the abilities of Staff of Domination as many times as you want ( you can use this to all your opponent creatures, draw your winning condition or gain infinite life (1) ).
Karn, Silver Golem + Voltaic Construct to any artifact.
Metalworker + Voltaic Construct combo with 2 artifacts in your hand for infinite colourless mana production.
Any of the following combos for infinite colourless mana production:
- Grim Monolith + Karn, Silver Golem + Voltaic Construct ;
- Karn, Silver Golem + Thran Dynamo + Voltaic Construct ;
Voltaic Construct + Metalworker + Karn, Silver Golem and Planar Portal for infinite consecutive library searches to get any number of cards into your hand.
- You can search for Lux Cannon ( if added to the main deck ) to destroy all permanents in your opponent field.
- You can search for Staff of Nin to achieve a winning condition with this combo.
- You can search for Elixir of Immortality ( if added to the main deck ) and use it if any of the cards you need is in the graveyard and this way send it back to library so you can get it with the search combo.
- I used Metalworker in this combo because of all the 4 infinite colourless mana combos in this deck this one is the most simple to use, but any of the other combos will work just as well.
Amulet of Vigor can be used to remove the need to Cloudpost / Vesuva when entering the battlefield.
(1) - The life production is negated if Platinum Emperion is in the field.
(2) - If Karn, Silver Golem ability is used in an artifact with cost it will be put into the graveyard since its toughness will become 0.

Banned and Restricted cards that are on radar for possible future use:

Mana Crypt banned in Legacy and restricted on Vintage
Mana Vault banned in Legacy and restricted on Vintage
Mishra's Workshop banned in Legacy
Sol Ring banned in Legacy and restricted on Vintage

Removed Cards:

Akroma's Memorial / All Is Dust / Basalt Monolith / Chimeric Mass / Codex Shredder / Colossus of Akros / Darksteel Colossus / Dead-Iron Sledge / Doubling Cube / Dreamstone Hedron / Everflowing Chalice / Forcefield / Grafdigger's Cage / Library of Leng / Lightning Greaves / Lodestone Golem / Magma Mine / Mirrorworks / Nevinyrral's Disk / Ornate Kanzashi / Ring of Three Wishes / Skyship Weatherlight / Spine of Ish Sah / Strionic Resonator / Trinisphere / Urza's Mine / Urza's Power Plant / Urza's Tower / Walking Atlas / Whispersilk Cloak / Wurmcoil Engine

This is all the cards that were on the deck at some point but were removed. They may be included again if needed.

Deck main Weaknesses:

Cards that can gain control over artifacts.
- Ex: Memnarch / Hellkite Tyrant. One possible counter to these is Homeward Path.
Cards that can destroy Artifacts. Most of this danger comes from red cards with low cost and copying effect.
- Ex: Shattering Spree / Builder's Bane can destroy this deck quickly. The main counter to these is Darksteel Forge.
Cards that can stop you from activate artifact abilities.
- Ex: Null Rod / Stony Silence / Damping Matrix. There is not really a counter to these cards but you can play Mycosynth Lattice and make your opponent feel your pain.
Cards that can force / stop you from / Artifacts.
- Ex: Kill Switch / Static Orb / Storage Matrix. You can counter it by choosing lands and then use Karn, Silver Golem to transform regular artifacts into artifact creatures and use Voltaic Construct to them or use Mycosynth Lattice and make your opponent feel your pain.
Cards that can destroy nonbasic / all lands.
- Ex: Wasteland / Ruination / Armageddon. A counter to this is the combo Darksteel Citadel + Thespian's Stage / Vesuva that can grant you indestructible mana generation or use Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice to make all your lands indestructible.
Cards that can force / stop you from / nonbasic / all lands.
- Ex: Winter Orb / Back to Basics / Mana Web / Static Orb / Storage Matrix.
This deck relies on making his cards indestructible so any card that can exploit these effect weak points will give you problems. These weak points are:
- Exile ( Merciless Eviction / Decree of Annihilation / Furnace Dragon );
- Returned to its owner hand ( Erratic Portal / Steel Sabotage / Hurkyl's Recall / Upheaval );
- Toughness reach 0 from -1/-1 counters ( Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon / Contagion Engine );
- Be forced to sacrifice a card type or multiple permanents ( Energy Flux / Cataclysm / Kozilek, Butcher of Truth ).

Swiftfoot Boots can be equipped to any creature to counter 1, 2, 3, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2 & 7.3 and you can use Karn, Silver Golem to transform regular artifacts into artifact creatures until the of the turn so you can equip it in any artifact you need protect during your turn. Same goes to the combo of Glaring Spotlight with Karn, Silver Golem that unlike Swiftfoot Boots will protect every artifact ( other than artifact lands and cost ones ) not just one, but can be used only once.

Honourable Mentions:

The_Dragonmaster that helped me build of the deck in its prototype stage when I was still new around here.
The deck Metalocalypse by brokendwarf from where I got the idea for the inclusion of Karn, Silver Golem in this deck and his suggestion to add Voltaic Construct to the deck.
chicagobearz that suggested the addition of Trinisphere to this deck.

All my other decks

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Major Update (9.0) — Oct. 31, 2014

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After 7 Updates this deck is now very close to a final stage where there is nothing more to update on it ( at least until new expansions that contain cards that will improve this deck get released ). But still there are some last changes I want do to it before I lay it to rest and start invest my time in other decks. This changes are mainly related to the cards play ratio, because after spend some time looking at the statistics of the last 100 games of each card when they were in the main deck I noticed that 3 cards had a very low play rate compared to the average play rate of all cards so I decided remove them from the deck. These cards are:

Everflowing Chalice from the main deck, because 68% time I got this card in hand there was a better option to produce mana in my hand so it kept been delayed and delayed to the point that ended most of those games with it still on my hand.
Trinisphere and Lodestone Golem from the sideboard, because even though this 2 cards are useful both individually and combo together, they just dont suit my play style. I tend to be an offensive player that likes play fast combos and win the games in the fastest and most powerful way possible, while this 2 cards are more suited to a more defensive oriented control deck ( this only based on my point of view and play style ) turning them second choise cards for me.

Taking the place of Everflowing Chalice in the deck will be Semblance Anvil that will accelerate the pace in that artifacts will enter in the field turning this deck more fast, and for the place of Trinisphere and Lodestone Golem in sideboard goes Thousand-Year Elixir that will accelerate the use of abilities and Copper Gnomes that will alternate with Quicksilver Amulet as an hand to field tutor.

Nevinyrral's Disk was tested in deck but I still find Lux Cannon more useful so it was removed from it.

Minor Update (8.0) — Oct. 15, 2014

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Thanks — Sept. 29, 2014

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Minor Update (7.0) — Sept. 16, 2014

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Major Update (6.0) — Sept. 1, 2014

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Land Update (5.0) — Aug. 18, 2014

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Minor Update (4.0) — Aug. 15, 2014

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Win Condition (3.0) — Aug. 11, 2014

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Major Update (2.0) — July 5, 2014

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Top Ranked	Achieved #50 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Metalworker + Voltaic Construct Karn, Silver Golem + Voltaic Construct Metalworker + Staff of Domination Karn, Silver Golem + Mycosynth Lattice Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice Ancient Tomb + Platinum Emperion Darksteel Citadel + Thespian's Stage + Vesuva Darksteel Forge + Karn, Silver Golem Glaring Spotlight + Karn, Silver Golem Karn, Silver Golem + Swiftfoot Boots Homeward Path + Karn, Silver Golem Grim Monolith + Karn, Silver Golem + Voltaic Construct Karn, Silver Golem + Thran Dynamo + Voltaic Construct
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 30 - 12 Rares 10 - 2 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	5.22
Folders	Other's Decks, lool, New Decks, Favorite Decks, Artifacts, My Decks, Inspiration, 60 Card Decks, IDEAS, ppl tester deck
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