Modern Affinity with Arcbound Ravager & Cranial Plating
Strategy
The deck focuses on flooding the board with cheap artifacts and creatures, leveraging the affinity mechanic to cast spells at reduced costs. Key cards like Arcbound Ravager and Cranial Plating allow for powerful interactions and quick victories, while Thoughtcast provides card advantage. The sideboard is designed to address common threats in the modern metagame, including artifact hate, control, and graveyard strategies.
- Arcbound Ravager + Ornithopter: Sacrifice Ornithopter to boost Ravager, then move counters with modular.
- Cranial Plating + Inkmoth Nexus: Equip Cranial Plating to Inkmoth Nexus for a potent infect attack.
Mainboard (61 cards)
Creature
18 cards
Krang, Master Mind
$1.97 × 2
Arcbound Ravager
Ornithopter
$0.35 × 4
Signal Pest
Steel Overseer
$0.98 × 4
Instant
2 cards
Faithful Mending
$9.46 × 2
Sorcery
4 cards
Thoughtcast
$11.82 × 4
Artifact
16 cards
Mox Opal
$202.12 × 4
Springleaf Drum
$1.33 × 4
Cranial Plating
$0.44 × 4
Darksteel Citadel
$1.19 × 4
Land
21 cards
Glimmervoid
$4.35 × 4
Inkmoth Nexus
Spire of Industry
Blinkmoth Nexus
Island
Plains
Sideboard (15 cards)
Instant
5 cards
Wear // Tear
$1.00 × 2
Stubborn Denial
$4.88 × 3
Sorcery
2 cards
Whipflare
$0.26 × 2
Artifact
8 cards
Grafdigger's Cage
$2.84 × 2
Damping Sphere
$1.51 × 2
Tormod's Crypt
$21.96 × 2
Pithing Needle
$0.44 × 2
Deck Statistics
CMC Curve
AI-Generated Synergies
Arcbound Ravager can sacrifice artifacts to pump itself, and Cranial Plating can equip to creatures for a large boost in power. Together, you can make a large creature that can deal significant damage while sacrificing other artifacts to increase Ravager's power.
Steel Overseer can put +1/+1 counters on your creatures, including Signal Pest, which can help it become a more threatening attacker. As a 1/1 with evasion, it benefits greatly from the counters provided by Steel Overseer.
Mox Opal provides mana acceleration and can help you cast Thoughtcast for a reduced cost when you have an artifact-heavy board state. Drawing two cards for just one mana can significantly improve your hand and options.
Krang, Master Mind allows you to discard cards to create a powerful board state, while Faithful Mending helps you gain life and draw cards, enabling you to discard cards you don’t need while improving your hand. This synergy supports a discard strategy.
Inkmoth Nexus can be activated to become a creature, and Darksteel Citadel is an indestructible land that can help support an artifact-based strategy. This allows for a versatile land that can attack while still being a strong mana source.
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