Artifact (63)
- 1x Astral Cornucopia
- 1x Everflowing Chalice
- 1x Jeweled Amulet
- 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
- 1x Lotus Petal
- 1x Mana Crypt
- 1x Mishra's Bauble
- 1x Mox Opal
- 1x Urza's Bauble
- 1x Candelabra of Tawnos
- 1x Chromatic Sphere
- 1x Chromatic Star
- 1x Expedition Map
- 1x Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant
- 1x Glasses of Urza
- 1x Mana Vault
- 1x Manifold Key
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1x
Sol Ring
- 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
- 1x Arcane Signet
- 1x Doubling Cube
- 1x Fellwar Stone
- 1x Grim Monolith
- 1x Helm of Awakening
- 1x Howling Mine
- 1x Liquimetal Torque
- 1x Mind Stone
- 1x Moonsilver Key
- 1x Prismatic Lens
- 1x Talisman of Conviction
- 1x Talisman of Creativity
- 1x Talisman of Progress
- 1x Thought Vessel
- 1x Manascape Refractor
- 1x Midnight Clock
- 1x Mirage Mirror
- 1x Rings of Brighthearth
- 1x Sculpting Steel
- 1x Semblance Anvil
- 1x Staff of Compleation
- 1x Temple Bell
- 1x Vexing Puzzlebox
- 1x Worn Powerstone
- 1x Font of Mythos
- 1x Hedron Archive
- 1x Lithoform Engine
- 1x Machine God's Effigy
- 1x Mystic Forge
- 1x Otherworld Atlas
- 1x The Golden Throne
- 1x The One Ring
- 1x Thran Dynamo
- 1x Unbender Tine
- 1x Vedalken Orrery
- 1x Forsaken Monument
- 1x Gilded Lotus
- 1x Memory Jar
- 1x The Mightstone and Weakstone Meld
- 1x Timeless Lotus
- 1x Coveted Jewel
- 1x Dreamstone Hedron
- 1x The Immortal Sun
- 1x Chromatic Orrery
Land (21)
- 1x Academy Ruins
- 1x Ancient Tomb
- 1x Buried Ruin
- 1x City of Traitors
- 1x Deserted Temple
- 1x Emergence Zone
- 1x Fomori Vault
- 1x Hall of Tagsin
- 1x Inventors' Fair
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1x
Karn's Bastion
- 1x Mishra's Workshop
- 1x Otawara, Soaring City
- 1x Planar Nexus
- 1x Scorched Ruins
- 1x The Mycosynth Gardens
- 1x Treasure Vault
- 1x Urza's Mine
- 1x Urza's Power Plant
- 1x Urza's Saga
- 1x Urza's Tower
- 1x Urza's Workshop
Instant (3)
Commander (1)
Creature (11)
- 1x Goblin Welder
- 1x Foundry Inspector
- 1x Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
- 1x Metalworker
- 1x Scrap Trawler
- 1x Shimmer Myr
- 1x Skittering Cicada
- 1x Urza, Lord Protector Meld
- 1x Walking Archive
- 1x Platinum Angel
- 1x Thought Monitor
Enchantment (1)
Sideboard
Instant (2)
Planeswalker (1)
Creature (1)
Artifact (1)
This deck was inspired in large part by this lecture by Randall Carlson.
The deck has multiple pairs, such as a pair of Workshops (Urza's Workshop and Mishra's Workshop.) It also has pairs of Hedrons, Mines, Keys, Clocks, Archives, Cities Jewels and grand Orreries
It has several thirds as well, symbolized in its Ruins, Rings, Talismans, and the stellar Chromatica
The Loti represent fourths through a transition from thirds into fourths from the physical to the spiritual representation.
The Colors of Mana are represented by fifths. They represent the following forces along with their respective associated color, The Void (blue), the Strong Force (white), the Weak Force (red), electromagnetism (green) and finally, gravity (black). The red and white mana are radiationally divergent. The black mana is gravitationally convergent.
Vaults are represented in fifths.
The various Stones also represent the fifths.
Garth represents the magic of sixths. Through the magic of sixths, the lotus transforms from the physical thirds to spiritual fourths.
Urza represents the magic of sevenths. Urza through reflection also represents eighths. Through the golgathian sylex, Urza and The Mightstone and Weakstone fuse. In this fused state, the sevenths transform into eighths.
Eight's ways are quite mysterious. They make a fun topic of exploration for any young wizard. One recent focus for myself with the power of eights is in its ability to represent all logic gates. With the Mightstone and Weakstone, you represent gravitational convergence and radiational divergence, but in the symmetry of 8, perhaps there is a simultaneous expression of both the within and the without. I'm open to the idea. I need to explore eight a little futher. There is symbolism in 8 representing the "three" from "one."
I am drawing a parallel between eight and the regular truncated icosahedron. Unlike many other solids, this solid reduces down through digital root expressions to a convergence of the OR logic gate represented by the doubling track, the AND logic gate, represented by the symmetry between 3 and 6 and also the NOT logic gate symbolized by the number 9.
This is because the regular truncated icosahedron has 32 faces, representing the conclusion of the doubling track at 5, the solid has 60 vertices, representing the AND logic gate of the 3-6 track, and it has 90 edges, representing the NOT gate through the expression of the powers of 9.
Because I've identified this through the geometry rationale of Buckminster Fuller (by attribution of expressive qualities of the geometry of dimensionality) I think there could be something deeper in this expression that needs further discovery. I will reflect on it.
There is also a parallel to the 8 star tetrahedron which form the greater 64 tetrahedron.
The source of the inspiration for this deck is the magic of the number nine.
The deck has 21 lands. 2+1 = 3 which is a factor of 9. The deck has 20 or mana spells which is a factor of 24. The deck has 75 lands and spells CMC or less. 7+5 = 12. 1+2 = 3. 19 spells of CMC equal to . This is 38. 3+8=11. 1+1=2. This represents the doubling circuit of 1,2,4,8,7 and 5. One of the spells is the doubling cube itself. (edit: this is out of sync at the moment with the deck's updated design)
There are 17 mana spells. That's 51 mana. 5+1=6. The lands are 21. 2+1=3. The 3 mana spells are 51. 5+1=6. 3+6=9 (a symbolic representation of the beginning and end.)
There are 14 mana spells in the deck. 14x4=56. (2) There are 6 mana spells in the deck. 6x5=30. (3) There are 2 mana spells, 2x6=12 (3) and three mana spells. 2X7=21 (3)
Total, not including Garth One-Eye, there are 24 spells CMC or greater. 2+4=6. When you compare the 75 CMC or less, 7+5=12, 1+2=3 with the 24 CMC or greater, 2+4=6, you get a symbolic representation of the beginning of the deck as 3 and its ending as 6. Again, you have 3+6=9
The deck has 18 colors of mana. It has 7 blue, 1 green, 3 red, 1 black and 6 white. 1+8=9. It has 192 combined generic and hybrid symbols. 1+9+2=12. 1+2=3. The generic mana costs are symbolized by 3 and the colored costs by 6. 3+6=9.
The deck has a CMC 216 mana cost total. 2+1+6=9. 216 divided by 24 equals 9. The 9 loosely represents gravitational convergence and radiational divergence.
There are a lot more details that I don't necessarily need to go into, but this deck was inspired by research I've been doing into Buckminster Fuller and also Randall Carlson. I suppose this became a bit of an homage to their teachings.
One last thing I will mention is that there is some profound significance between these numbers and the number 13. I don't need to go into it, but you can learn about the significance of the "12 surrounding the 1" in a short youtube clip of Buckminster Fuller explaining the significance of the Vector Equilibrium. He talks about submarines in the video. It's pretty good and pretty short and he covers all the important details.
If you're interested in more in-depth ideas related to the significance of 9 with respect to dimensionality, you can read more here. Show
Well, I still need to work out more of this deck's mythos, but that's is what I've gotten so far.
It's really fun to play also.
Recent edit: I've found a new video called Black Whole which explores a concept called a 64 tetrahedron based in part on ideas of buckminster fuller called the isotropic vector matrix which shows an arrangement of 20 tetrahedrons into a mecha-tetra-hedron. then a reverse polarity model is combined or mirrored from this and a double toroidal sphere encompasses it.
There are allegories to the 4th dimension including the boundary of triple tetrahedrons in the form of a group of eight tri-tetrahedron which combine with the larger isotropic vector matrix star tetrahedrons to form the greater 64 tetragram and there are models which can link this with the i ching due to the identical modeling features. I have some weird theories on the fringe of these ideas involving the 0th hexagram being a root structure for consciousness development. This is symbolized in my deck by Shivan dragon's firebreathing mechanic.
The deck begins with 4 fundamental planes for four forces, these are Angel's Grace, Everybody Lives, Teferi's Protection and Storm the Vault. And slotted into these four planes are 12 creatures who represent twelve planes of Dominaria in the shard of the twelve worlds. These form around the Shivan Dragon and create the vector equilibrium or the zero-energy frequnecy to the universe.
Then, via the octave equivalency of pattern repetition, you have the 40 mana producing artifacts (Treasure Vault is included) and these represent the isotropic vector matrix, and then these forms are bounded by the triple tetrahedral boundary of the 4th dimension, which are 8-fold and are represented by the 24 utility artifacts (mostly non-mana-producing) so in this model, you get the 4 dimensional planes, the twelves shards of existence, the 20 archetypal lands from which the energy of the mana is drawn directly, the 40 isotropic vector artifacts and the 24 boundary artifacts which is 4+12+20+40+24 = 100.
It should be noted that this forms Urza and Urza is symbolized via a 10-fold nature... the eyes of Urza are present in the drawn powerstones and the glasses are present to reflect Urza's dimensional observance.
The twelve shards and planes are 54 mana, The Jupiter rocks are 54 mana The June rocks are 54 mana The boundary rocks are also 54 mana, each comprising exactly 1/4th of the deck's vector points.
Urza's backstory contains some veiled symbolism to 4th dimensional math modeling. For example, Urza's Sylex created a blast that trapped 12 planes in a bubble and prevented transplanar magic from reaching them. You can read a bit about it here.
One way of looking at these twelve trapped realms is as a symbol of the twelve platonic solids across both 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional space. These can be represented by its 12 creatures.
Another way of considering the symbolism of Urza to the 4th dimension is the 9 titan engines which he constructed for the purposes of invading Phyrexia. This could be considered symbolic of base-ten mathematics reflected in the geometry of platonic solids across the third dimension.
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| Date added | 1 year |
| Last updated | 2 days |
| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 16 - 1 Mythic Rares 55 - 4 Rares 22 - 1 Uncommons 4 - 2 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.73 |
| Tokens | Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Powerstone, Soldier, Treasure |
| Folders | Borrowed |
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