Grixis Welder Strix

Standard*

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Land (16)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Island
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Underground Sea
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Volcanic Island

Artifact (17)

• 2x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Meekstone
• 3x Mox Opal
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 3x Sword of the Meek
• 4x Thopter Foundry

Creature (10)

• 4x Baleful Strix
• 4x Goblin Welder
• 2x Trinket Mage

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 3x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

Instant (7)

• 3x Brainstorm
• 4x Force of Will

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Ponder
• 2x Transmute Artifact

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Sideboard

Artifact (4)

• 2x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Instant (4)

• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Blue Elemental Blast
• 2x Red Elemental Blast

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Firespout
• 2x Perish

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Title says it all. These card are all very reasonable, and work well together. Welder-Strix has been played to some success in Vintage, and they work pretty well in Legacy too.

Strix also works well with Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry - for example, you can weld out sword for strix, and end up with both in play and draw a card. Add a Thopter Foundry, and you can sac strix to make a thopter, weld sword into strix and be up a card, a life, and a thopter.

I decided to try to work this into the shell of the old Esper Tezzeret / Shot in the Dark decks, using red instead of white. Losing Enlightened Tutor is tough, but welder + Strix is absurd, possibly enough to make up for it.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 1 Rares 6 - 9 Uncommons 19 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.89
Tokens	Thopter 1/1 U