Magic TMNT draft guide: Artifacts are shockingly powerful in this color combo

Many of Magic: The Gathering’s most recent Universes Beyond sets have nudged artifact strategies toward white-blue color combos, but the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set refocuses the game onto Izzet (red-blue). Sure, we’ve gotten a few pieces of equipment and vehicles in red with sets like Final Fantasy and Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the classic artifact pairing has felt neglected in the game recently. I expected TMNT to follow suit and focus more broadly on mutanttypal strategies and the mutagen tokens across all colors. In my time with the set preview on Magic Arena, however, my best deck focused on red-blue artifacts to overwhelm my opponents.