"Tezzeret , Artifice Master: Extracting Knowledge from Metal"

"Tezzeret  , Artifice Master: Extracting Knowledge from Metal" 

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Drawing cards in Magic is always a great experience. Drawing once with a spell is good but being able to draw multiple cards with a permanent on several turns is even better.So much so that cards like Howling Mine and Jace Beleren are a must include in decks that just love to draw cards.

Tezzeret , Artifice Master is another planeswalker that allows you to draw cards and if you control 3 or more artifacts he automatically has "Metalcraft" and allows you to draw 2 cards instead. And that is his 0 costing second ability.

In an EDH setting where you can play a Seat of the Synod , Sol Ring and Sapphire ring on turn one alone you don't really need to worry if you can achieve "metalcraft. I mean with this god play you can even cast Tezzeret himself and draw those 2 cards to replenish your hand. 

And just in case you are missing a couple or artifacts or so Tezz himself can provide you with a 1/1 colorless thopter artifact token with flying. Just use this first skill ability and give him a +1 loyalty counter.  With the popularity of Thopter tokens from the Kaladesh block and cards like Thopter foundry you might also try and win with a Mechanized Production in play. This Thopter can also protect your Tezzeret from dying unnecessarily before you can abuse his particular talents.

Another thing that caught my eye was his ultimate ability. Sure he comes in with 5 loyalty counters and normally you have to wait for 5 turns to use his ultimate ability. 4 turns to use his first skill and then another turn to get his ultimate ability. Of course it would help a lot if you have a Chain Veil or can Proliferate with cards like Steady Progress or Tezzerets Gambit.

So what does the -9 ultimate do? You get an Emblem that says that at the beginning of your end step , search your library for a permanent card , put in into the battlefield , then shuffle your library.

If you don't like what an opponent is going to do you to next turn you can just go ahead and get a Mindslaver , activate it if you could and control that opponents turn. You could probably search a Moat(if you have one) or Blazing Archon so nothing can attack you. You could get a Stormtide Leviathan to deter land based attackers or even get an Omniscience out and counter at will without paying any mana cost for the rest of the game. Yup all the many permanents that can help win you the game. Lock other players with a possessed Portal or annoy them with a Knowledge pool. Get an Oblivion Stone or Boompile to clear the board or maybe a winning combo piece like Revel in Riches or Mechanized Production. tsk tsk. I already know the kinds of players in my playgroups who would abuse this guy. I am one of them.