Artifact Quantity over Quality

Commander / EDH Artifact Equip Tokens

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Land (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Drossforge Bridge
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Foundry of the Consuls
• 1x Goldmire Bridge
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Highland Lake
• 2x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Plains
• 1x Razortide Bridge
• 1x Rustvale Bridge
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Silverbluff Bridge
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Tranquil Cove
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• 1x Saheeli, the Gifted
• 1x Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Damn
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Saheeli's Directive

Creature (22)

• 1x Alibou, Ancient Witness
• 1x Arcanist's Owl
• 1x Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• 1x Chief of the Foundry
• 1x Deadeye Plunderers
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Ethersworn Adjudicator
• 1x Fathom Fleet Swordjack
• 1x Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer
• 1x Loyal Apprentice
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Maverick Thopterist
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Shimmer Dragon
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Thopter Engineer
• 1x Vedalken Humiliator
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Enchantment (7)

• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Pia's Revolution
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip
• 1x Thopter Spy Network

Instant (5)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Despark
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Wear / Tear

Commanders (2)

Artifact (21)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mana Geode
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tenza, Godo's Maul
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Worn Powerstone

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Artifacts: Quantity over Quality

There are a lot of excellent artifacts out there that make an impact all by themselves. They show up in a lot of different decks, because of how useful they are. This isn't one of those decks.

This Akiri, Line-Slinger + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept deck is based around making a whole bunch of artifact tokens that maybe aren't so great in a vacuum, but in this deck every single artifact matters. This is a factory, and we're gonna pump out servos and thopters and treasures until our opponents are overwhelmed by metal.

We can swing out with an army of buffed up automatons, we can send a truly massive Akiri in to kill with commander damage, we can blow some people out with some surprising damage sources, or we can win with some alternate win conditions that favor our game plan. We got options, and all of them are good.

Here's how we get it done

1) The Factory Floor

First and foremost, we need to churn out some artifact tokens. Treasures, servos and thopters are our primary focus, but there's a few other different flavors we can generate.

• Thopter Engineer: Nice and simple. Also gives our little robots haste
• Thopter Spy Network: Tokens and card draw. Two very good things in one card
• Brass's Bounty: Expensive, but can throw out a lot of treasure for a single card

2) Expand expand expand

Can't have an oppressive manufacturing based economy with only one factory. We need to use our artifacts to make more artifacts, and for cheaper. It's like investments, only slightly more violent

• Inspiring Statuary: Turns our little machines into a weird kind of mana dork
• Blinkmoth Urn: Nobody is getting more mana out of this than us
• Etherium Sculptor: A large portion of this deck is artifacts, so making artifacts cheaper is a no brainer

3) Juice the robot army

Even in large quantities, thopters and servos just aren't very threatening. We need to ways to take advantage of our machines, either by buffing them or by getting power out of having so many at once. Akiri already get's pretty big because of our output, but we can do more.

• Chief of the Foundry: A simple anthem that's gonna hit a lot of targets
• All That Glitters: We can turn a single creature into an absolute monster
• Cranial Plating: Basically gives us a second Akiri to beat people with

4) Victory through technology

We're pretty good at combat, with our robot army, but we don't need to win only by bringing our opponents life total down. We can win pretty passively with some alternate win conditions

• Mechanized Production: Provides additional tokens, and servos and thopters count. We can get 8 of those no problem. Or we can enchant one of our artifact lands (like the indestructible bridges) to get a weird kind of ramp
• Revel in Riches: Another source of treasures, and an alternate win condition that cares about them
• Mirrodin Besieged: More of an alternate kill condition, we can either generate more tokens or we can generate card advantage and maybe drop someone.

5) Weird burn surprises

The inspiration for the deck falls in this category. We can use the number of artifacts as a surprising burn threat from a few different sources, adding some additional damage pressure

• Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge: MTGA's effect for his +2 is what made me make this deck. Drain people out pretty effectively with the claw
• Fathom Fleet Swordjack: Blasts when it attacks. The encore can do some real work
• Pia's Revolution: It doesn't count tokens, but we can force our opponents to make some tough choices that soften them up. And even if they take the damage, Silas can bring the artifact back anyway.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Akiri, Line-Slinger + Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 36 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.73
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Phyrexian Myr 2/1 U, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U, Treasure