Deploy artifact payoffs and attack while new artifacts produce counters and unlock otherwise defensive creatures.
Deploy artifact payoffs and attack while new artifacts produce counters and unlock otherwise defensive creatures.
Commit when repeated useful cards and enough support make a complete deck in these colors.
Four checks while you draft
Can I affect the board before the payoff?
Artifact entries offer counters for one extra mana each. Plan that mana alongside the artifact spell; the upgrade is optional, not free.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
With Mm’menon and Pangolin present, cast Melded Moxite before combat. Both artifact-entry rewards trigger; reserve one mana if you want Pangolin’s own counter.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Deploy artifact payoffs and attack while new artifacts produce counters and unlock otherwise defensive creatures.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
The key card is present but its support is thin.
Prioritize useful support such as Oreplate Pangolin or Mechan Shieldmate.
With Mm’menon and Pangolin present, cast Melded Moxite before combat. Both artifact-entry rewards trigger; reserve one mana if you want Pangolin’s own counter.
Your deck already enables the plan but is losing the early turns.
Take a castable early creature or efficient answer before a second expensive payoff.
Pangolin’s extra counter costs mana. Do not count nonartifact token creatures or ordinary creature entries as artifact triggers.
The support is missing
Favor independently useful creatures and interaction if the narrow support does not arrive.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Pangolin’s extra counter costs mana. Do not count nonartifact token creatures or ordinary creature entries as artifact triggers.
Remove the counter recipient in response to Mm’menon’s trigger or force them to use mana before deploying an artifact. Trade before a single attacker gets too large.
Terrapact Intimidator59.6% GIH · 5,249 instances
Codecracker Hound58.5% GIH · 4,890 instances
Uthros Psionicist57.8% GIH · 3,840 instances
Cryogen Relic57.8% GIH · 13,908 instances
Mouth of the Storm57.7% GIH · 3,820 instances
Orbital Plunge57.5% GIH · 12,243 instances17Lands ↗ · Jul 29–Sep 1, 2025 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Quantum Riddler 3UUWarp provides a cheap entry draw, while the full creature supplies an evasive finisher. At one or fewer cards in hand its replacement effect adds a card to a draw event; plan your hand size, but keep needed interaction rather than emptying it blindly. Warp alone grants no haste.
Nova Hellkite 3RRIts printed haste makes warp a genuine immediate aerial attack, and the entry damage can finish a small or already damaged creature. Compare the three-mana temporary attack with paying five to retain the Dragon. Warp normally exiles it before the next opponent turn.
Possibility Technician 2RIts entry and later Kavu entries bank exiled cards without a turn deadline, provided you control a Kavu when playing them. Warp can supply an early card, but once it leaves you need another Kavu or must recast it before those cards are playable. Land plays still follow normal limits.
Warmaker Gunship 2RDeploy expendable artifacts before it when the extra entry damage changes a kill. The Gunship counts itself as an artifact, then needs six station counters before it is a flying creature. Keep blockers while charging it rather than relying on its future body immediately.
Celestial Colonnade A tapped white-blue land becomes a flying vigilant threat for five mana. It can tap for mana after attacking because vigilance kept it untapped, but activating it does not protect it from creature removal. Do not animate a land that entered this turn and expect it to attack.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Jul 29–Sep 1, 2025 · 100-instance minimum
Mechan ShieldmateAn efficient blocker that can attack on a turn an artifact entered under your control. Make the artifact before combat; it need not remain on the battlefield afterward.
Illvoi Operative
Melded MoxiteDiscard a spare card on entry for two new cards. Later turn the artifact into a tapped Robot when a creature or a departure matters more than retaining the artifact.
Codecracker Hound
Oreplate PangolinArtifact entries offer counters for one extra mana each. Plan that mana alongside the artifact spell; the upgrade is optional, not free.
Mouth of the StormExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
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| With one pick, fill the missing early play, answer or support card before adding another narrow payoff. The plan must work without drawing its key card. | Compare complete builds from the cards you opened. Keep the castable curve and interaction even if the draft theme is only partly supported. |
With Mm’menon and Pangolin present, cast Melded Moxite before combat. Both artifact-entry rewards trigger; reserve one mana if you want Pangolin’s own counter.
Bombard
