You cant play this without the artifacts to support it, but it's great with them
When a battle you cast resolves, it enters the battlefield under your control with a number of defense counters on it equal to the number in the jagged square in its lower right corner
You cant really go wrong, as such, but consider ease of casting and the density of power three or four creatures, and then density of token production
That means golems can be used as overcosted tools for colors that dont have access to certain types of effects
Rounding out todays reveals, we have a couple of nice red spells
However the core strategy of the deck, walking the opponent into an expensive play, locking him with Winter Orb, and generating progressive tempo with Quirion Dryad on offense was compelling to the point of irresistibility