And Markov Blademaster is a far better attacker than she might look like on the surface, which I believe is why she isnt included in more decks, tribal or not
D-Tier: Enormously, Incredibly, Boringly Unfun and 95% Never Unbanned Erayo, Soratami Ascendant ($6) Gifts Ungiven (50) Griselbrand ($3) Leovold, Emissary of Trest ($2) Limited Resources ($3) Lutri, the Spellchaser (bulk) Nadu, Winged Wisdom (50) Panoptic Mirror ($8) Paradox Engine ($7) Primeval Titan ($8) Prophet of Kruphix ($1) Sundering Titan (bulk) Sway of the Stars ($3) Tinker ($1) Tolarian Academy ($200) Upheaval (bulk) A lot of these cards are just repetitive play patterns, over and over again
This creature can be effective even as general artifact hate, but I find it most effective against artifact tokens
Canoptek Scarab Swarm Canoptek Scarab Swarm is a haymaker
Granted, this black creature was printed before EDH was a popular format
Epic - Epic isn't a bad keyword conceptually