Dalakos wants a deck that makes huge amounts of mana for giant spells. It also works in a deck built around Artificers, Equipment / Hammer Time or Merfolk.
Mana cost
Blue, Red ()
Power / toughness2 / 4
RarityRare
: Add . Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.
Equipped creatures you control have flying and haste.
Picked for what they do in Dalakos's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Dalakos's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Open the full glossary
explain how Dalakos works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary
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An equipped creature is one with one or more Equipment attached. A creature that’s also an Equipment isn’t an equipped creature.
Wizards of the Coast24 Jan 2020
You can’t spend mana generated by Dalakos’s first ability to activate abilities of artifact cards that aren’t on the battlefield or to pay costs in triggered abilities of artifacts.
Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryURPlayers write colors as letters: U for blue, R for red. Blue is U because B was already taken by black.Big ManaBig Mana decks build up far more mana than usual, then spend it on huge spells. Some are X spells, which have X in their cost and get stronger the more mana you put in.Open the Big Mana pageBig ManaProduces several mana at once from a single source, rather than the one extra mana most acceleration gives you. That surplus is what lets a deck cast something enormous far ahead of schedule. Compare Ramp, which is a reusable source you build up over time, and Burst Mana, which pays out once and is then gone. Cabal Coffers, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, Savage VentmawOpen the Big Mana pageRampAn effect that accelerates your mana, giving you a reusable mana source beyond the usual one land per turn. Cultivate Rampant GrowthOpen the Ramp pageEquipment / Hammer TimeEquipment, plus cards that attach it for free. That lets even Equipment with a huge equip cost, like Colossus Hammer, go to work right away.Open the Equipment / Hammer Time pageStatic BuffGives creatures a lasting bonus to power and toughness while it remains on the battlefield, rather than a boost that wears off at end of turn. Garruk's Uprising, Patchwork BannerOpen the Static Buff page
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