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One of the cards out of Kaladesh that’s most interesting to me is Metalwork Colossus. In a set packed with powerful artifacts that do all kinds of crazy things, this seems like an incredibly interesting payoff. The first question is whether you can reasonably get enough artifacts into play to cast Metalwork Colossus in a reasonable timeframe. The second question is whether the card will be impactful enough to be worth it. I can’t wait to find out.


This deck does so much nothing, and I love it. The key here is finding a balance between interactive cards like Creatures and Spatial Contortions and non-interactive cards like Prophetic Prism that help you work your way towards Metalwork Colossus. Scrapheap Scrounger and Glint-Nest Crane are great ways to hold the ground early. Then you just look for opportunities to cast do-nothing artifacts and work your way up to the Metalwork Colossus.

I’m a big fan of the vehicles in this shell, since they can function as creatures in combination with Scrapheap Scrounger and Glint-Nest Crane, but also can be non-creature artifacts for Metalwork Colossus. My favorite two cards are Hedron Archive and Cultivator's Caravan, both of which net you multiple mana towards the Metalwork Colossus. Once you get there, you can use Sanctum of Ugin to either find more copies of Metalwork Colossus or start chaining Elder Deep-Fiends to close out the game.

Inventors' Fair seems especially powerful in this deck. If you can hold the ground, this card will help keep your life total above water. Once you’ve got enough artifacts, you can tutor up whatever effect you need access to in order to take over the game, like Skysovereign, Consul Flagship or Key to the City.

With the density of exiling removal like Declaration in Stone and Stasis Snare in this format, I’m not convinced that Metalwork Colossus is really what you want to be doing, but I love that the card is powerful enough to be worth trying to build around, and can’t wait to see if someone can really break it.


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