Blue Artifact

[Disturbedone0777]

Just a little deck Im' working on now.

3xSteel Overseer
4xGrand Architect
3x Mirran Spy
2x Etched Champion
4x Lodestone Golem
2x Treasure Mage
[18]

Support
3x Everflowing Chalice
2x Inexorable Tide
3x Semblance Anvil
3x Lux Cannon
3x Contagion Engine
3x Jace, The Mindsculptor
2x Blue Sun Zenith
[19]

Lands
4x Glimmerpost
4x Halimar Depths
2x Mystifying Maze
13x Island
[23]

[browncoat]

First why treasure mage? You have little to tutor up. Also mirran spy seems very useless. Untapping is nice but you have few way to abuse it. I also think you want the fourth copy of everflowing chalice. Proliferate is a fun mechanic but you have few targets to really get a benefit out of. Thats the main problem with the deck it has a few fun combos but a lack of overall synergy. There is a proliferate theme but no way to predictably win with it. The creature base is fun but doesn't mess well with the rest of the deck. And finally the deck has little disruption which weakens its ability to actually win through the combos.

While this deck could work I would suggest using a deck like this as inspiration. It appears you are trying to use a mono-blue version of this deck but don't have the number of combos that can be interchanged for victory.

1 Valakut, the molten pinnacle
19 mountains

2 pilgrims eye
3 necropede

2 chandra nalaar
4 mox opal
2 destructive force
2 pyroclasm
4 koth the hammer
4 contagion clasp
3 galvanic blast
3 voltaic key
4 throne of geth
3 lux cannon
4 everflowing chalice


sideboard
2 pyroclasm
1 mindslaver
3 combust
3 brittle effigy
3 tunnel ignus
3 ricochet trap

[Disturbedone0777]

Thanks for the tips. This deck is still in it's infancy. I'm still looking through cards to see what things would be fun to abuse. The deck you listed as an example doesn't do anything that I want to do with Profilerate. Although it still does look like fun to play. I'm aiming to do something with blue and proliferate. At the moment the idea was artifact creatures getting bigger.

The combos that I had in mind when I went for this was that I could use the Mirran spy to untap either the steel over-seer and retap him for added creature growth, or else use him to untap creatures to re-use mana when my Grand Architect was in play.

Of course there is the proliferate cards that I want to get get counters on them, those being Jace,The mindsculptor the everflowing chalice, and the Lux Cannon. Plus if I manage to get a +1/+1 counter on and of my creatures the amount of proliferate in the deck can make that explode.

The reason I tossed in Treasure mage was in order to ensure getting contagion Engine out as soon as I could since it allows for the quickest double Proliferate. I can see flaws in that though as the slots could be better occupied.

The deck is still in infancy. There is plenty of places that it could be improved but I'm not going to drop the concept pf using proliferate to abuse creature's +1/+1 Counters. I"m debating though moving to a different tone altogether. The thought occured to me that I could abuse proliferate and +1/+1 counters in a green deck probably more effectively. With mana ramping I"m pretty sure that I could get the Engine to go off. Hmm. These thoughts are dragging me back to the drawing board.

[browncoat]

The main problem is that you don't have enough power cards to proliferate. My deck with 4 koth, 2 chandra, and 3 lux cannon feels like too few proliferate targets sometimes so with 4 fewer targets that win you games you will have issues getting wins due to the lack of targets.

Yeah mirran spy can untap the overseer, a card I don't really care for due to its slowness, but that is not enough. The grand architect combo is fun but not too great.