How Can a Scrap Mastery Deck Improve?
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Posted on Dec. 22, 2020, 10:48 a.m. by bjgivesbj
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Upon discovering Bosh, Iron Golem, I was determined to make him good. I wanted to use his ability as fast as possible, and not have to wait until turn 9. After stumbling upon a red planeswalker, Daretti, Scrap Savant that could yank artifacts out of the graveyard by turn 5, the idea for this strategy began to practically brew itself. However, the planeswalker ability still felt slow, as I could only return one artifact at a time. Later, I decided on the newly found Scrap Mastery to do that job. In the turns leading up to turn 5, I would need to toss as many high CMC artifacts (including Bosh) into the graveyard as possible. Luckily, Red has many efficient cards to do just this: Faithless Looting, Thrill of Possibility, Lightning Axe etc. When it is time to pull the artifacts out of the graveyard, I should be instantly rewarded by enter battlefield effects of cards like Combustible Gearhulk, Meteor Golem, and Myr Battlesphere.
Turn six I can attack with any number of these and then sacrifice one or so to Bosh for the remaining damage.
My question today is threefold:
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Should I splash another color to get more synergy off the discarding and more options for artifacts? If so, what cards would you add or substitute (while keeping the deck under $50)?
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Have you seen decks like this before? If so, could you provide a link?
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How would you feel if you played this deck against your friends? If you had to play against it?
Hey Simic, thanks so much for the comment! I can see myself turning this into a commander deck soon too. I've only been posting decks for about 3 weeks, and the helpfulness of this community never ceases to amaze me. I hope one day I will know enough to give some good tips too :)
December 22, 2020 4:43 p.m.
Megalomania says... #4
A guy in my playgroup plays Daretti Stax. It’s quite fun to play against. He doesn’t have a list posted on the site but it uses most of the cards you’d expect a mono-red prison/stax deck to have such as Blood Moon, Magus of the Moon, Tangle Wire, Winter Orb, and Static Orb. Also in the list are enablers like Goblin Welder and another goblin which tutors for an artifact. I forget the name. If budget isn’t an issue, add Lion's Eye Diamond and Jeweled Lotus.
December 23, 2020 6:57 a.m.
Hello! I've played Bosh amongst tons of other mono red artifact decks, so I would like to give my 2 cents on him while answering your questions.
- Mono red is a very fun artifact deck. I've built Daretti, Scrap Savant, Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer, Bosh, Iron Golem and Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient. While Bosh is SUPER fun, I felt he was too slow, fragile, and mana intensive. If you insist on running him I'd recommend running protection cards such as Swiftfoot Boots, Lightning Greaves, and Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer. While I loved all of these as commanders, I felt that Slobad was my favorite. Free sac outlet in the command zone/protection for key on the field artifacts is nothing to scoff at. In terms of adding other colors, you could certainly do that. I've also run a deck like this with Rakdos, Lord of Riots. Scrap Mastery was a bit of a backup plan, but saved me post boardwipe many a time. The deck revolved around pinging opponent and using Rakdos's reduction ability to play giant artifact creatures. I don't sadly have the list on me anymore, (I don't believe) but I will return after this comment to repost if I find it.
Sadly I never inputted a list before taking it apart as my playgroup didn't exactly enjoy it. What I can recommend though is a lot of egg cards. Egg is a term for a card like Chromatic Star/Ichor Wellspring. They add mana/cards when sacced/etb. When using Scrap Mastery you can get a bunch of Card Advantage after these re=enter the field.
When playing general reanimator decks you need to watch out for for graveyard hate. One Tormod's Crypt and your whole deck is ruined! Cards like Perpetual Timepiece are irreplaceable, as they not only mill you for more cards to Scrap Mastery back, but can save your grave in a pinch! When playing against it I would Bojuka Bog this deck immediately. Graveyard decks are a powerhouse when left unchecked.
I hope some of this helped. Happy brewing!
EDIT: I was looking for my list for Rakdos and found it!
FauxFaux says... #2
To answer your three questions in short;
In all honesty, I would say that splashing another color isn't ... necessary, but could help. My reason for saying this stems primarily from the limit that a low budget deck stipulates. Adding Blue, perhaps, through Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer.
I've had the (dis)pleasure of playing comp built Bosh decks, and they can certainly hurt, but ultimately fall flat if repeated removal or control limits him harshly. I can provide a link when my play groupmate decides to post; however I will try to help if able.
As stated above, the primary thing holding Bosh back is that CMC. There are some ways to sidestep it or reduce it a bit, but unless you run a deck that is expensive in budget, I believe it will be rough to play. Glass half-full perspective would be that, because it is budget, you might be able to edge out wins just because of the over all slower game speed vs. CEDH builds or even casual builds.
3 1/2. Playing against it is fairly similar to defeating the more highly tuned variant in CEDH; as long as rocks and Bosh himself are dealt with frequently enough, my little mono-green Rishkar deck could steamroll over it effortlessly.
let me know if you'd like any help or info towards any other end!
December 22, 2020 12:28 p.m.