For Challenge # 066. Aiming to make a blue-red card that's definitely not Izzet.

Any artificer has a risk of being a little bit mad-inventor-y, but I hope this doesn't really feel that way. There aren't dwarves on Ravnica, the name and artifact type are deliberately evoking Alara, and most crucially, the Izzet didn't really muck around with artifacts at all. Mizzium Transreliquat was the only counterindication there, and that was part of a cycle with Plague Boiler, Moratorium Stone, Sunforger and the rest.

I like this. :-)

Fair enough. It doesn't really seem like a stretch for Izzet to work with artifacts... they just don't. It's funny when you think about it... none of the guilds in Ravnica are the 'artifact guild'. Makes sense, since it would lop-side the artifacts of the set towards one-tenth of the guilds, and there isn't that many spots for the artifacts anyway.

I have a really strange reaction to this.

RU is a really sensible colour for an artisan: forges have always been R, and mechanics have always been U. Passionate and curious, but in a methodical, tinkering way, rather than a madcap zany way. And it fits a Dwarf too: it's a very common tropes for dwarves to start off as miners and smiths, but then move into artificing.

But somehow, it still just feels wrong, I think because in my mind RU is so closely associated with "zany" that it's hard for me to imagine a Dwarf as RU, even though that's the whole point of the challenge...

Mmmm, my only gold dwarves were . Blue dwarves were particularly hard to come up with; I just went the mer route.

Kindles have a glitches where they get stuck opening a page you visited once, and right now, it's this page for me. My dwarves in Dienoct are (r)(w)(u), so maybe I'm just used to that color combination, but it seems okay to me.