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 🙂