Artifact Synergies - XP, Levels & Placement
How Dicevaders artifacts work: column XP, level-ups that trigger effects, rarity, and the placement-dependent synergies across the seven revealed kits.
Quick Answer: How Do Artifacts Level Up?
Artifacts sit in board columns and gain XP when you score through them — the cleanest confirmed examples: The Mothership funnels +10 XP into the column artifact when you score a pair there, Amalgram pays +2 XP per scored Mini Dice, and From the Deep's Kraken die pays +10 XP on launch. Level-ups then fire effects: Divine Touch triggers any artifact at Level 3 or below the moment it levels up, and Stone Chisel spawns a buffed Pawn when it levels up.
| Source | Where the XP Goes |
|---|---|
| Scoring pairs (The Captain) | +10 XP to that specific artifact column (The Mothership) |
| Scored Mini Dice (Blob Girl) | +2 XP to the column artifact (Amalgram) |
| Kraken Die launches (The Core) | +10 XP to artifacts in its column (From the Deep) |
| Non-Token spawns (The Duchess) | +10 XP to the column artifact (The Art Of War) |
| Rift face launches (The Riftmaker) | +10 XP to all artifacts |
| Triple base-dice launches (The Exalted) | +10 XP to every artifact on the board |
| Scored Webs (The Exalted) | +2 XP to the artifact in the Web's column (Galactic Web) |
The XP Routing Table
The table above is the single most useful artifact fact on this site: XP sources are commander-bound, but their destinations differ — some pay one column, some pay the whole board. Build evaluation starts here: if your commander pays column XP, cluster value there; if it pays board-wide XP (Riftmaker, Exalted triples), spread artifacts and let everything level.
Placement Is the Build
The revealed kits reward board geometry explicitly: Wings of Fury pays a +6 multiplier for pairs scored in its own column; Golden Halo buffs adjacent artifacts; Red Spice burns the artifact to its left for a x2 Multi; Rib Cannon pays when the Kraken scores its column; Parasite pays per destruction in its column. Two players running the same commander with the same artifacts are playing different games if their layouts differ.
Reading Rarity Honestly
Rarity tags are official (Common through Legendary) and roughly track impact ceiling: Legendaries like Mass Relay and Whalefall define builds, Commons like Cavities and Big Apple are steady engine parts. But the strongest confirmed synergy tools include Uncommons (Eon Moss, Stone Chisel, Timeblock, Galactic Web) — rarity prices the slot, not the payoff. See the artifacts hub for the full per-commander breakdown of all 28 revealed items.
Published September 27, 2026 · Last updated September 27, 2026