Every workday ahead of the set's paper release, Insight takes a quick look at a deck featuring cards from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. There's an aggressive and wild white-blue brew in Standard that's exhibiting an affinity for artifacts, making use of Ingenious Smith and The Blackstaff of Waterdeep!
While you can't use any cards with the eponymous keyword, you can absolutely show off your affinity for artifacts with your Standard deck now. Really, there's no other explanation for the inclusion of dorky creatures such as , , and than that you care about the artifact type. The deck stores all of its removal capabilities in artifacts too, meaning and , and also uses a couple of .
is the main payoff for running all of these artifacts. The evasive creatures mentioned above are crazy at 4/4, so are some of the noncreature artifacts, and a 3/3 even turns into a 7/7.
can pick up any artifact from the top of your library, and it often grows big because there are so many here. is great as a tutor, even though it doesn't have many targets. It can still sacrifice a Serpent or to find the the all-important Blackstaff, or it can sacrifice excess copies of the legendary artifact for value.
It's a shame how is itself an enchantment, but it's nevertheless one of the strongest cards in the deck. Finally, is perfect in an artifact-heavy deck too because it allows you to cast a spell for free as early as turn two if that spell only costs generic mana.
This is a fun little aggro deck that also uses the companion to its fullest potential. With all the new low-cost drops like , , and , there is no need for anything more expensive.
| Hamuda's White-Blue Affinity, 10th place at Standard Challenge |
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