Mishra, Excavation Prodigy

Mishra, Excavation Prodigy wants you to discard artifacts and turn that chaos into card draw and mana. The core gameplan is simple: cycle through your deck by discarding artifacts (whether forced or voluntary), generate red mana whenever you dump artifacts, and use that extra mana to cast bigger spells or activate abilities. You're essentially drawing cards and fixing your mana every turn while filtering through your deck for the answers you need. The deck wins through a mix of artifact synergies—tokens, sacrifice effects, or big X-spells fueled by all that generated red mana—so you're simultaneously fixing your hand, ramping, and building toward a lethal board state or game-ending spell.

This is a spellslinger-adjacent artificer deck that rewards you for playing cards you'd want to discard anyway. You'll load up on looters (cards that let you discard), wheel effects (mass discard), and artifacts that want to go to the graveyard or care about being discarded. Cards like Squee, the Immortal or Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger turn your discard pile into repeatable value, while artifact token generators turn your mana advantage into board presence. The deck balances card advantage, acceleration, and evasive threats into a grinding midrange engine that's hard to run out of resources.

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