Phyrexian Metamorphįor four mana ( or three and a little life), Phyrexian Metamorph can Clone any artifact or creature on the battlefield. Still, a land and a card are almost never bad. Recent power creep in creature design makes Solemn Simulacrum an ‘’almost useless body’’ so it’s not the powerhouse it used to be. It ramps, it fixes mana, and it draws you a card when it dies or chump blocks. This sad robot was printed in the Mirrodin block. A good place to start building with this artifact creature is creatures with adventure, the modal double-faced cards from Zendikar Rising, and expensive cycling creatures. This card is friends with the likes of Ancestral Vision, Living End, Crashing Footfalls, etc. Shardless almost always hits a 0-mana spell if you build your deck with a curve that starts on three.
The Modern doors opened with its reprint in Modern Horizons 2.Ī 2/2 that cascades into a 0-to-2-drop for three has a lot of value. Shardless Agent saw a lot of play in Legacy’s Shardless BUG deck since it was printed in Planechase. Ethersworn Canonist shuts down a lot of strategies with its Rule of Law, mainly decks interested in playing a lot of cantrips with scarce removal. Storm coming? Not with this hatebear around. You want to play Baleful in any Dimir ( ) defensive/controlling deck, especially if artifact synergies are present. You can also blink or unearth this guy for extra value. Baleful Strix cantrips for two mana and defends the air and the ground alike. The death cantrip bird is a staple of Cube and Legacy control decks that was deemed too powerful to be printed in Modern. Oh, what’s that aura you have on the stack enchanting your guy? Mine! Combat tricks? Those are mine too.
If you’re interested in going deep on sideboarding in Modern, it’s covered in this course by Reid Duke. It blocks well on the ground and, considering the prevalence of Lightning Bolt in the format, it’s the true lightning rod. Staple Artifact Creatures SpellskiteĪn old (sideboard) staple in Modern, Spellskite can redirect any spell in the stack to it for the low cost of two life or. Simply put, artifact creatures are creatures that have both the “artifact” and “creature” types. Stonecoil Serpent | Illustration by Mark Poole
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