r/mtg • u/TheHalloweenHorror • 10h ago

I Have a Question / I need Help A Sculptures-only Deck?

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A Sculptures-only Deck?

“Sculptures have power & toughness that are equal to the number of Sculptures you control”

Goal:
A Sculpture, artifact creature token / tribal deck - try to go wide and tall as possible!

Key Creature:
“Doomed Artisan” - Sculptures you control can’t attack or block. At the beginning of your end step, create a colorless Sculpture artifact creature token with “This token’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of Sculptures you control.”
(To my knowledge, this is the only card in MTG that generates Sculpture tokens. Please correct me if I’m wrong.)

This poses some issues:
1) In order for the Sculpture engine to work, Doomed Artisan needs to be tutored, protected, and have recursion possibilities, etc. Because if they go to the graveyard, the sculpture engine shuts down. (Might be good as a secret commander?)
2) Doomed Artisan needs to be flickered, blinked, or bounced before Combat phase - so that the Sculptures can be “unlocked” to attack or block. But needs to be able to return to generate more sculptures.
3) Once per turn (or End phase) is not ideal/is slow/is clunky. So we need ways to copy, multiply, or populate them.

Token Multipliers (or anything with Keyword: Populate):
• Mondrak, Glory Dominus (Creature - 2x tokens)
• Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation (Creature - 3x tokens)
• Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (Creature - 2x tokens)
• Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage (Creature - pay 4 mana to a copy of a token)
• Doubling Season (Enchantment - 2x tokens)
• Parallel Lives (Enchantment - 2x tokens)
• Primal Vigor (Enchantment - 2x tokens and 2x counters)
• Second Harvest (Instant - 2x tokens)
• Parallel Evolution (Sorcery - 2x tokens)

Ways to copy Creatures, or Token Multiplying affects, for more Sculpture pumping (Like Ojer Taq, Mondrak, etc.):
• Bramble Sovereign (Creature - pay 2 mana to make a copy token)
• Cackling Counterpart (Instant)
• Rite of Replication (Sorcery)
• Mirrorweave (Instant)
• Spark Double (Creature)

Ways to blink/flicker, the Doomed Artisan:
• Roon of the Hidden Realm (Creature - pay 2 mana and flicker)
• Brago, King Eternal (Creature - has to attack to flicker)
• Venser, the Sojourner (Planeswalker - charge up 2 to flicker)
• The Eternal Wanderer (Planeswalker - charge up 1 to flicker)
• Flickerwisp (Creature - ETB flicker)
• Charming Prince (Creature - ETB flicker)

Protection:
• Final Showdown (Instant - pay 3 mana for indestructible)
• Teferi’s Protection (Instant - pay 3 phase out and not lose)
• Guardian of Faith (Creature - ETB phase out)
• Selfless Spirit (Creature - sac for indestructible)

Possible “Statues” to include (although, I want to stick to the “Sculptures” theme):
Levitating Statue
Ancestral Statue

Instants:
Ephemerate
Eerie interlude
Momentary Blink
Rootborn Defenses
Cloudshift
Clever Concealment
Ghostway

Sorcery:
Wake the Reflections (populate)

Enchantments:
Anointed Procession
Astral Slide
Teleportation Circle
Song of the Worldsoul (whenever you cast a spell, populate)
Growing Ranks
Cathar's Crusade (to double counters)

Artifacts:
Sculpting Steel
Prototype Portal
Roaming Throne (double abilities - like that of Doomed Artisan)
Conjurer’s Closet

It’s very much just an idea at this point- need help with building the “99”. It would be a very niche, very casual deck - probably bracket two. But I like the concept of killing opponents by inanimate objects.
What would you include? Exclude?
Any better or more efficient ways/combos you’d suggest for this deck?
How would you build this or “fix” it?
Just curious, just for fun 🙂

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u/DaemonDante42 9h ago

I'd potentially look at [[Ghired, Mirror of the Wild]] to helm the deck. He'll let you easily populate a bunch of sculptures White and green gives you access to token doubling, populate, blink effects, and creature tutors. Red can give you access to temp token copies of the artisan that can then be populated to stick around

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u/Deadpooldoc Jodah 7h ago

There is [[anointed procession]] and an elspeth that doubles

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u/DoctorMog 10h ago

Seems like quite the challenge. I don't have any thoughts on what you're making, but I stuck doomed artisan in my stiltzkin deck so that I can pass off statues for card draw.

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u/Uncouth87878787 9h ago

Mondrak feels like the obvious commander. I'd do either Mondrak or else something blue white to give you more access to bounce effects.

[[Amoeboid changeling]] feels fantastic (if you're in blue) to add an easy way to get a sculpture to attack.

[[Omni-Changeling]] is solid for copying and making more sculptures.

[[Abundant Countryside]], [[bloodline pretender]], [[Flock imposter]], [[irregular cohort]], [[personify]], [[universal automaton]], [[banner of kinship]] all feel like good choices.

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u/sfaviator 8h ago

[[Nesting dovehawk]] is pretty good it might be pricy now

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u/Hooligan_Humble 9h ago

You could put [[Helm of the Host]] on The Doomed Artisan to increase the amount of sources of Sculptures. Each Artisan would trigger off of Mondrak or Ojer Taq which would exponentially grow your Sculptures.

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u/Toes_In_The_Soil 8h ago

I would very much enjoy collaborating with you to build this deck together, since this sort of thing is definitely my usual build style. If you use Archidekt, they have the option to collaborate with other users. Mine is Market Gnome. Feel free to DM me on there or here on Reddit if you're interested in working together on this one.

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u/-dus Always bet on 6h ago

[[Artificial Evolution]] and [[New Blood]] would let your sculptures attack without blinking or bouncing the artisan

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u/LemonadeGamers 5h ago

btw changeling tokens are also scultures!

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u/OniWarthog 9h ago

With your flicker effects, you want to make sure you don't target the sculptures since theyre tokens. Its my understanding they won't come back in, they'll just be gone

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u/TheHalloweenHorror 8h ago

Correct, just would need to flicker the doomed artisan - so that the tokens could attack & block.

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u/OniWarthog 7h ago

Another thing that might help is doubling up triggers like Delany or Panharmonicon effects

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u/Dont-know-didnt-ask 5h ago

Your best bet to get around the "can't attack or block" clause is to blink the creature till the next end step. One of the Wandering Emperor cards does that plus [[phelia exuberant shepherd]] come to mind.

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u/BrightGreenLED 5h ago

I'm actually curious if Phelia works since you have to declare attackers in order to trigger her ability, at which point, I don't know if you can add to the declared attackers. If anyone knows about the timing of this, I'd really like to know.

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u/Dont-know-didnt-ask 5h ago

Oh you're right on that one. I just had a brain fart.

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u/BrightGreenLED 4h ago

Airbending is essentially blinking with a small extra cost. Dunno if that helps you at all, but something to keep in mind.