Daily Dominaria Deck Tech: Crackdown Combo Combinate

Every workday while the set is new, Insight is taking a quick look at one deck featuring the latest additions from Dominaria United. This time we explore a deck like no other, utilizing a combo that you may not have seen before. Let's examine the most ingenious artifact deck in the format!

paragon party


This artifact deck was played here and there in the past but never really got a proper result to showcase. Now, with the addition of a new tool from Dominaria United, it took third place at a Modern Challenge!

It's an artifact deck through and through, but it also runs a ton of tutor effects to make sure it finds what it needs. And what it needs is, for example, the combo of and . When you have those two cards and any other creature, you can keep re-equipping Construct and then the other creature, back and forth, an arbitrarily large number of times. While doing so, Construct grows with each iteration. At the end of the process, you get a, say, 10,000/10,000 Construct with shroud and haste, thanks to the boots. would be very useful here to add trample.

On top of the aforementioned, the deck also features the classic combination of and . This one can generate as many tokens as you can dump mana into it. A bunch of them will usually get the job done, or at the very least stabilize. Sometimes you can also use and its last ability to win the game straight away, no questions asked.

A trio of two-drops helps find the pieces required for those combos. supplies the equipment in question, or it brings the beats via et cetera. Then there's , which is essentially an artifact . In addition, you have , which puts stuff into the graveyard and can later recur it. The new can immediately take advantage of the graveyard and play the card from there. If this or that combo fails, Serra Paragon can also replay other spells every turn and essentially bury the opponent in card advantage.

If that wasn't enough, the deck employs , , and a ton of utility artifacts, bolstered by . It's a tricksy artifact toolbox deck that has a ton of generically powerful cards.


Crackdown Combo Combinate by bbotonline, 3rd at Modern Challenge, September 4
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