If you control three or more artifactswhich is almost alwaysit gains you 1 life on upkeep, which helps you to stay in the game longer
There, you can sort by many extra attributes for building a deck, plus see the promo cards released so far
It takes a while before a deck with the number of nonbasic lands tri-color decks would naturally play would get to stop sacrificing lands, and many of even your similarly colored opponents will be able to keep operating for a similar amount of time unless you bust this out right away
Several years ago, this led us to ask the question, "Are there different types of boosters we could make that would excite a different audience than what our normal Draft Booster is aimed at?" The first booster to come from this line of thinking was the Theme Booster
On top of giving near immunity to counters, red and black have a ton of creature and artifact removal effects, and with Shadow giving them split second, you can get around most tricks that other colors can use to protect their permanents
The flavor also makes me really happy