For this go-around, Im tackling one of the core features of artifacts: their color identity
It will go for hundreds of dollars, potentially thousands if the card ends up being good, and its the one thing you really want to open in the set
In this article, Ill go over the face commanders, alternate new commanders, themes and card distribution, while also highlighting some of the new cards I expect will do well and stick around in homebrew decks
This list will probably change for me, especially considering that the next two releases definitely have some nice Soldier support
The Pavel deck happily runs some stuff like Omen of Fire that can be completely dead because the deck can usually afford to have dead cards and still be a threat, and the Sunastian deck runs some pretty derpy 'big' creatures, many aren't even cost effective, it just doesn't matter because if you have enough huge creatures it doesn't matter if you paid extra for them, they're still huge creatures that will stomp the opponent into gravy

Ancient Arsenal Creature (22) Eivor, Battle-Ready Escarpment Fortress Surtr, Fiery Jtun Settlement Blacksmith x3 Keen-Eyed Raven x4 Spartan Veteran x2 Labyrinth Adversary x3 Bureau Headmaster x3 Ezio, Brash Novice Arbaaz Mir Towering Viewpoint x2 Instant (5) Battlefield Improvisation x2 Misthios's Fury x3 Enchantment (3) Artifact (6) Raven Clan War-Axe x2 Headsplitter x2 Hookblade x2 Land (25) Stone Quarry x3 Plains x11 Mountain x11 Ancient Arsenal is a straightforward Boros equipment deck with an aggressive game plan of attacking and getting in chip damage via random burn effects stapled to its cards