commander · Daretti, Scrap Savant
Built from Scratch (C14).
A mono-red artifact recursion deck from Commander 2014, led by Daretti, Scrap Savant — loot through your library, reanimate artifacts from the graveyard, and build an unstoppable artifact engine with Goblin Welder and Feldon.
The Commander
Built from Scratch is Commander 2014's mono-red artifact deck and Daretti is one of the most powerful planeswalker commanders ever printed. His +2 loots (discard then draw two), his -2 sacrifices an artifact to return a different artifact from the graveyard to play, and his ultimate — available in six turns from his starting loyalty — gives you an emblem where artifacts that die return to the battlefield. The deck fills its graveyard with large artifact threats and uses Daretti to cycle them back into play repeatedly.
Daretti, Scrap Savant turns the red color's inherent discard effects into a graveyard engine. Discard your Wurmcoil Engine with his +2, then -2 to sacrifice something small and return the Engine. Every turn cycle Daretti generates a free artifact recursion while advancing toward the unstoppable emblem. The deck supports this with Goblin Welder for instant-speed artifact swaps and Feldon for temporary copies.
Key Cards
Goblin Welder
Tap: exchange an artifact you control for an artifact in your graveyard. A one-mana 1/1 that swaps artifacts at instant speed, unlimited times. Daretti puts Wurmcoil Engine in the graveyard, Goblin Welder exchanges a token for the Engine at instant speed on an opponent's end step. Against sweepers, Welder saves your best artifact by swapping to a cheaper one before the wipe resolves. Against targeted removal, exchange the targeted artifact for a graveyard piece before the removal resolves. Goblin Welder is the single most important creature in the deck.
Feldon of the Third Path
Pay two mana and tap: create a token that's a copy of target artifact creature in your graveyard. It has haste and is sacrificed at the beginning of your next end step. Feldon copies your best artifact creature from the graveyard for two mana — a Wurmcoil Engine copy attacks for six with lifelink and deathtouch, generates two tokens when it dies, and disappears at end of turn. Activate Feldon multiple times for multiple copies. Combined with Daretti's emblem, the tokens return permanently.
Wurmcoil Engine
A 6/6 with lifelink and deathtouch that splits into two 3/3 tokens with lifelink and deathtouch when it dies. In Daretti's deck, Wurmcoil Engine is the most valuable artifact creature to put in the graveyard. Feldon copies it each turn. Goblin Welder returns it. Daretti -2 retrieves it. Each time the Engine dies or gets sacrificed, you receive two 3/3 token bodies that have the same lifelink and deathtouch. The deck is fundamentally built around the Wurmcoil Engine recursion loop.
Scrap Mastery
Each player exiles all artifact cards in their graveyard, then sacrifices all artifacts they control, then puts the exiled cards onto the battlefield. This is Living Death for artifacts. After a board wipe that destroys your artifact engine, Scrap Mastery returns everything simultaneously — and also returns your opponents' artifacts from their graveyards, but in a mono-red artifact deck your graveyard has far more artifacts than theirs. Use it as a recovery tool after interaction or as a proactive rebuild.
Trading Post
Four separate one-mana activated abilities: return an artifact from the graveyard to your hand, discard a card to create a Goat token, sacrifice the Goat for four life, or sacrifice an artifact to draw a card. Trading Post is the artifact utility Swiss Army knife. Discard a Wurmcoil Engine to Trading Post (enabling Goblin Welder recursion), create a Goat token as Welder fodder, draw cards off artifact sacrifices, or return any artifact directly to hand. One card handles card draw, graveyard setup, and sacrifice outlet simultaneously.
How to Play
Get Daretti onto the battlefield by turn three using mana rocks from the deck's artifact acceleration. Start using his +2 immediately — discard large artifact threats like Wurmcoil Engine into the graveyard while drawing replacement cards. Once there's a valuable artifact in the graveyard, Daretti's -2 retrieves it for free. Goblin Welder in play means every artifact the deck controls can swap for a graveyard piece at instant speed. The win condition is resilience rather than speed — assemble a loop where Wurmcoil Engine keeps dying and returning, generate overwhelming life advantage through lifelink, and close through combat with massive artifact bodies that opponents can't permanently remove.