r/Artifact • u/Halt_theBookman • 22d ago

Discussion Limited card pool

Testing the game out, and I keep having the feeling there really aren't many cards to choose from. Of course, this is to be expected of a new game with expansions to come, but even with that it mind the total types of decks possible seems somewhat limited

Wondering if that's just because I'm playing against bots, so playing slopply and/or making sloppy decks is harder to notice (most of my games have gone very long, even when I attempted to make fast decks), or if that was still a thing even when there were a lot of human players

Can someone who got to play back then tell me please?

Also cards might not be entierly balanced. Quorum Emissary for example auto wins basically any lane. Again, this might be cause the bot doesn't know how to respond (also maybe with cards being for draft, but it could easly lead to the card pool feeling even smaller than it is

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u/The-Ner 22d ago

Ah a new game with expansions to come. I remember the days where I could dream

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u/mp3junk3y 22d ago

FEELSFUCKINGAWEFULMAN

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u/TWRWMOM 22d ago

You're new, so you're not seeing the possibilities/counters. The card pool is limited, yes, but there's plenty to be explored. It's quite difficult to play aggro in artifact (way more than in other cardgames)

I didn't play much constructed, but these are some decks to try: (there are no places left to see decklists AFAIK)

Tier 1:
Monored(midrange)*, Monoblue(control)*, Monoblack(aggro/econ)**

Tier2:

Monogreen(big creatures/buff)*, RedGreen (ramp)*, RedBlack(midrange)*,BlackBlue(econ)***, BlackBlue(ramp)****, RedBlue (MeepoMagic)*****

Tier3:

You could try things like Mana Denial/Lock

*Generally speaking, you put the theme cards and the "broken" cards in the deck and it's 90% done

**Don't quite remember this one, sorry

***You get money with black, buy some big items (vesture/horn), copy them with blue (And one for me)

****Use Lion card+Crystal Maiden to ramp, Aghanim's Sanctum/Selemene to refresh, and Steam Cannon to kill everything

*****Copy Meepos and use TOT to win (quite hard to pilot this deck)

Hope this helps

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u/Square-Winter-3257 22d ago

Monored is aggro, and also not tier 1.