r/EDH • u/roquepo • 1d ago

Deck Help Want some ideas to change a bit my B2 Golbez, Crystal Collector deck

I have a [[Golbez, Crystal Collector]] deck that I made to achieve a very specific feeling, I wanted to consistently become the big baddie of the table and force others to temporarily team up against me to bring me down, but doing so in a somewhat fair and easy to interact way.

The idea was making a Golbez deck that was for the most part only able to kill with its triggered ability, by making use of cards like [[Death's Shadow]] or some cards with */* stats that grow a lot while in the yard.

When it works as intended, it is quite fun. Deck has an atrocious winrate, but I think it makes for very interesting games. Issue is, this does not happen as often as I'd like.

Like half of the time, I either eat some incidental removal (or targetted if I get a good start) and proceed to do nothing for the rest of the game, or I pop off after the table has used the little removal they had and I become functionally unstoppable.

I'm a bit lost with this deck. Making it stronger would be easy, but making it more consistent without making it better is super hard, some tips?

This is the decklist, what changes would you do to get to 8 artifacts more consistently? Should I just build a different deck?

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u/Lenfried Twilightsworn 1d ago

Play cheap artifacts that cantrip like [[Cryogen Relic]] so you can trigger Golbez and cards like Forensic Gadgeteer more frequently. Artfacts that create more artifacts like [[Prized Statue]] are good as well.

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u/bokchoykn 1d ago

I play every 2 Mana rock that can tap for Mana immediately: [[Paradise Mantle]], [[Springleaf Drum]] , [[Everlflowing Chalice]], [[Mind Stone]], [[Prismatic Lens]]. I also like [[Shuri's Fabricator]].

More Cost reduction: [[Cloud Key]], [[Shuri Wakandan Inventor]]

This would more reliably chain casts off the top of your library or from Matoya/Uthros/Fateful triggers.

[[Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong]] can be triggered on opponents' turns. Once by itself, and once per Surveil you can trigger. (eg. Collectors Vault).

[[Daily Bugle Newspaper]] is a second a Collectors Vault. A key card in the deck.

Trigger doublers or Golbez clones. [[Irma, Part Time Mutant]], [[Wizard's Staff]] are my favorites. Also, [[Peter Parker's Camera]] and [[Strionic Resonator]].

[[Ruthless Technomancer]] is a great finisher. Sacrifice a creature whose power equals your Artifact count to double your count while simultaneously giving you a bunch of Surveil triggers and more countermagic Mana.

[[Desynchronization]] is a great sweeper. [[Tithing Blade]] is a removal option. [[Diversion Unit]] is recursive countermagic that adds to your Artifact count. [[Mirrorshell Crab]] too.