Best artifact ramp in mono red?
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on June 14, 2015, 5:14 p.m. by Indigoindigo
TSIA. These are the cards I've found so far. I might've missed something, but won't pay more than $2 per card (no Mana Vault, Gilded Lotus or Thran Dynamo)
CMC 1:
Sol Ring
Expedition Map
Wayfarer's Bauble
CMC 2:
Coldsteel Heart
Everflowing Chalice
Fellwar Stone (will this produce colorless if i only play against mono-blue?)
Fire Diamond
Mind Stone
Ruby Medallion
Star Compass
CMC 3:
Basalt Monolith
Burnished Hart
Darksteel Ingot
Heart of Ramos
Pristine Talisman (Will play because of Well of Lost Dreams)
Worn Powerstone
CMC 5
Mana Geyser (I'll play this anyway because it goes infinite with Reiterate)
CMC 6
Dreamstone Hedron
If you were to pick, what 12-15 cards would you choose?
Indigoindigo says... #3
"I might've missed something, but won't pay more than $2 per card"
So yeah, that didn't really help me pick any of the artifacts I listed.
June 15, 2015 12:41 a.m.
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You also listed stuff like Sol Ring so I figured you were flexible. Anyway, implied from my previous post, synergy is more important than other things. Use things like Mind Stone and Burnished Hart if you're also running artifact recursion like Trading Post. Use Everflowing Chalice and Astral Cornucopia if you're running things like Contagion Clasp / Contagion Engine. Capisce?
June 15, 2015 6:34 a.m.
"Won't spend more than $2 per card"
You're missing out. Gilded Lotus, Thran Dynamo, and Coalition Relic are some of the best rocks in the format, and $5 isn't that bad of a price tag for any of them. Also there are some printings of Mana Vault that are very cheap.
But if I were to pick from that list you made:
- Sol Ring (takes up a land's slot)
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Coldsteel Heart
- Everflowing Chalice
- Fire Diamond
- Mind Stone
- Ruby Medallion
- Star Compass
- Darksteel Ingot (replace with Coalition Relic)
- Worn Powerstone
- Dreamstone Hedron (replace with Gilded Lotus)
- Commander's Sphere (You're missing this one.)
Consider Khalni Gem.
I would include the following as well, but not count them as part of your ramp package as you shouldn't rely on them working:
I would not include:
- Fellwar Stone (It will produce colorless if you play against a non-red deck.)
- Basalt Monolith (This is meh if you don't have a way to untap it like Voltaic Key)
- Heart of Ramos (terrible)
- Pristine Talisman (The Well of Lost Dreams combo is... cute.)
graft says... #2
Might not be in your budget, but I've been known to combine the following:
Extraplanar Lens / Gauntlet of Might (proxied) / Gauntlet of Power / Caged Sun / Mana Flare
With:
Mirrorworks / Prototype Portal / Rings of Brighthearth and a bunch of mountains
Make millions of mana working from home with this one weird trick, control players hate it!
June 14, 2015 6:07 p.m.