Can only White and Green destroy artifacts?

[Ebins]

Curious - I have all the cards and I THINK I've gone through them all, but I might has missed a couple. I know that in the full set (i.e., actual cards) that all colors can remove artifacts. However, in this game, it seems that only white and green have the ability to do so? If so, why? With the last two releases, there has been a HEAVY focus on artifact play, and I hate having colors dictated to me simply because of the limited choices.

If there are other ways to remove artifacts from the game with the red, blue or black colors, plesae let me know, because I keep losing due to some damn artifacts that I can't get rid of (not talking artifact creatures or vehicles).

Thanks!

[Pandawan]

Red :

Ruinous Gremlin (R) [Kaladesh]
2.R: Sacrifice Ruinous Gremlin: Destroy target artifact.

Destructive Tampering (2.R) [Revolt]
Choose one --
• Destroy target artifact.
• Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

I don't think there is any artifacts destroyers in Black and Blue though.

[Ebins]

Thank you thank you!!!

[zoiks]

I can't think of any pure Black cards in Duels that can get rid of an artifact already in play, but I suppose with some blue you could use Tezzeret's Touch as a makeshift artifact removal by following it up with something to kill or steal it...or there's Anguished Unmaking though it's also white.

Blue has plenty of ways to deal with artifacts (counter, steal, and boomerang effects).

Red can also steal artifacts, temporarily, and then eat them.

And there's a few colorless alternatives I know of, like Universal Solvent, Ulamog, Mockery of Nature, and Lashweed Lurker....all high mana cost, but they could potentially do the job.

[MortyMnemonic]

There's also "Daring Demolition" in black. At least, it can destroy a vehicle (but not other artefacts).

[Space Dog]

Red really got the short end of the stick here. Red is the color of destruction but for whatever reason it is white and green that get good 1 CMC and 3 CMC artifact removal. That can also hit enchantments.

Green and White are both heavily favoured as colors that can deal with basically everything by themselves, while Red is limited to cheap rush tactics.

The color pie should be much more focused in what the different colors can and cannot do. And what would be cheap CMC for another color should be expensive for another. Or give red artifact mass removal like Shatterstorm that other colors wouldn't get. Even though White already has even that in Tragic Arrogance.

[Space Dog]

And looking at all these 4-5 color goodstuff decks, especially in 2HG - giving red Demolish would have been an excellent idea.

[yummyvermin]

Universal Solvent is an artifact that can destroy them, although it's expensive to use.

For blue, you just have to bounce or counter the artifacts.

[BubblezCJ]

Pretty much all good red destruction is pre-Origins. They released the artifact set without releasing the artifact destruction to balance it. :shrug:

[damianvc31]

Blue has Lunar Prison to deal with any permanent, although its a rare.


Nevermind its just creature, land or planeswalker

So yeah bounce it and counter it i guess...

[xblacklightz]

if you ask me they should remove reclamation sage from green in the next set. Over all there is no draw back having it in a green deck. White gets punished for boarding in artifact/enchantment hate but for green a 2-1 for 3 mana isn't the end of the world.

[seriaon]

Originally posted by xblacklightz:

if you ask me they should remove reclamation sage from green in the next set. Over all there is no draw back having it in a green deck. White gets punished for boarding in artifact/enchantment hate but for green a 2-1 for 3 mana isn't the end of the world.

Really, you want the poeple crying about vehicles to cry even louder?