­Metallic Mimic + Dance of the Dead_

A solid cheap tribal-enabler. And send your creatures dancing, in order to raise the dead. More dance, bigger revival. Nifty.

Revive an entire tribe? I like it. Do it.

Could have gone with "Metallic dance" I guess? Actually; I think I will. Instead of "Choose a tribe" the tribe is fixed at "Artifact".

Could be or for the effect, but I think we'll stick with . Black can bring styuff back to life; and doesn't get enough artifact-love.

Black can only bring once-living creatures to life, not artifacts. It also can't harm artifacts, because they're not affected by death

This effect could be mono white or Izzet

Black can reanimate artifacts. Seee Scrounge, Beacon of Unrest, Geth, Lord of the Vault. White and blue are traditionally better at it, and I'd argue red as well, but it actually doesn't come up often and actually seems to be an entirely ignored mechanic by the article Mechanical Color Pie 2017. I counter your opinion with mine of saying black gets to reanimate everything - even nonpermanents e. g. Sins of the Past, but relevant to this also artifacts.

Interestingly; all of those are your opponents artifacts it reanimates.

It should be noted that Beacon and Geth return both creatures and artifacts, intentionally tying the two together often in artifact-matters themed sets. Meanwhile, Metallic Dance wants a sort of Twilight's Call, but only for artifacts. It's a stretch of a stretch.

For what it's worth, I can get behind black Refurbish, if there's a good flavor angle. Something about digging up graves and happening to find a buried artifact in the process. Something like Grim Discovery works for me. But, personally, I'd want to enforce that the creature must come with the artifact. None of this and/or that Grim Discovery pulls. You were fetching a body, and happened to get an artifact as well. Otherwise, it's a pretty clear color pie break.

Yeah; I knew this was a stretch; but on reflection I agree it's a bit much.

Maybe this is a thing for to be able to do?