Golbez, Crystal Collector

Golbez is a grinding engine that rewards you for playing artifacts while simultaneously filling your graveyard with useful creatures. Every artifact that enters triggers surveil, letting you mill the exact cards you want into your graveyard—especially creatures you can recur later. Once you hit four artifacts, you start bringing creatures back to your hand each turn, and at eight artifacts, you're draining each opponent for that creature's power. The deck aims to build a growing board of cheap artifacts, many of which generate value on entry, while your graveyard becomes a second hand of threats.

Your win condition is usually a mix of incremental damage from repeated surveil mills and the drain triggers, combined with recurring threats that pressure the table. Cards like Ornithopter, Memnite, and Solemn Simulacrum fill the low end, while constructed artifacts like Sphincter Artifact lands and other utility pieces fuel the engine. You're not racing anyone—you're playing a longer game where your repeated artifact triggers and creature recursion eventually wear opponents down through attrition and inevitability.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.