This mono-black Phyrexian Praetor can give you victory by making you and your opponents draw cards.
Learn the best deck for Sheoldred in MTG.
This Toy is pulling all the strings, but it sure isn’t playing around.
Since the vast majority of colorless spells are artifacts, this severely limits your design options.
Activated abilities are always written in the [cost]: [effect] format.
When in doubt, look for the colon (:), which is present in every activated ability.
Mystic Forge, by Samuel Perin
Marvin is a toolbox that acts likea second copy of creatures with activated abilities, including mana abilities.
The colorless restriction is a big handicap, butit also has some benefits.
With a little luck, you should outpace your opponents almost from the start.
Mystic Forge, by Samuel Perin
Thankfully, there are a ton of mana-producing artifacts available.
Still, after a turn or two you’ll have a net positive effect and a lot of acceleration.
Basalt Monolith is even easier to go infinite with.
If you’re free to get these abilities onto Marvin, that’s even better!
Palladium Myr is the best optionsince it only costs three mana and produces two colorless.
Kozilek’s Channeler is right behind it, at a more expensive five-mana cost.
Sculpting Steel, by Heather Hudson
Another option is mana reducers.
Ugin, the Ineffable is the MVP (Most Valuable Planeswalker) in this deck.
This piece creates multiple infinite combos in the deck, the simplest being Heartstone and Basalt Monolith.
As a result, some of your most reliable draw options are lands.
War Room fits into almost any deck, but the fewer colors your commander has the better.
Fomori Vault isn’t technically a draw effect, but we’ll count it.
You don’t get a card advantage, but you do get to look for the card you need.
The best drawing option, but perhaps a prohibitively expensive one,is The One Ring.
The drawback is that on each of your upkeeps you’ll lose that much life.
Ugin, the Ineffable, from the ramp section, also provides a bang out of draw effect.
Darksteel Forge is a must-have, despite the high cost.
Itmakes all of your artifacts indestructible, which applies to 92 percent of your nonland permanents.
Add Cryptothrall to that to give them all Hexproof and your board will be practically untouchable.
Or overload it for five mana to protect all of your creatures.
Myr Welder allows you to exile artifacts from graveyards, and then use those artifacts' activated abilities.
This makes it an excellent backup commander if your opponents are too focused on Marvin.
Deck Tech
This decklist is chock-full of combos, from simple to complex.
Karn, Silver Golem, and Karn, The Great Creator both can turn artifacts into creatures.
It also allows you to destroy your opponents' zero-mana artifacts, including Treasure and Food tokens.
Swap out Farmstead Gleaner for Pili-Pala for infinite mana.
Voltaic Construct allows you to create a couple of combos without Marvin, Murderous Mimic, or Myr Welder.
For when it would take a miracle to win your next game.
