Artifact Life Gain (Modern)

Artifact-based life gain jank. I built this deck based around how fun saying "trigger" can be. in the right setup this deck has like 10-15 triggers in a turn, and can untap and retap things several times for extra value. Unless your opponent has good artifact removal, this deck can combo out with Sanguine Bond around turns 7-9. It's not the fastest combo deck for sure, but it's a lot of fun.

I've been trying to find a good way for this deck to defend itself, because as of right now, this deck basically just eats all the damage your opponent throws at it, with the idea that it can gain it all back on the next turn. As with all white decks, it has a lot of trouble drawing cards, but if you can resolve a Well of Lost Dreams all of a sudden you can be drawing an extra 2-4 cards every turn.

Pristine Talisman is one of the most important cards here since it does two things the deck really wants to do: gain life and ramp your mana. You can tap it, gain 1 life and make a mana, pay the mana to a manifold key, and do it again, remaking the mana you spent. This works particularly well if you have an Angel of Vitality which essentially doubles that life gain, and if you have a Rhonx Faithmender on the battlefield, gaining 8 life off of that 1 Talisman becomes a very real possibility.

usually your best bet is to wait to play Rhonx Faithmender until you have the rest of your combo assembled, as he's almost aways the first creature your opponent will point their removal at.

I kept Gideon's Company in the sideboard since it can get huge almost immediately, and sometimes sideboading it in for a Soul's Attendant and an Angel of Vitality can be really fun. Plus Manifold Key can make it unblockable, so you can potentially swing in with an unblockable 11/11.

Outside of winning with a Sanguine Bond, if you can get Chalice of Life// Chalice of Death to transform, and then tap and untap it with manifold key, you'll essentially put a 2 turn clock on the game.

If you have any ideas I'm very open to feedback!