I will drown you in Thopters

Modern Affinity Flying Tokens WUB (Esper)

Taida

Creature (17)

• 2x Circuit Mender
• 4x Ingenious Smith
• 2x Malcator's Watcher
• 3x Market Gnome
• 4x Ornithopter
• 2x Thought Monitor

Enchantment (6)

• 3x Tempered Steel
• 3x The Raven's Warning

Land (22)

• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 5x Island
• 5x Plains
• 4x Prairie Stream
• 4x Razortide Bridge

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Forging the Anchor
• 4x Thoughtcast

Artifact (10)

• 3x Ichor Wellspring
• 2x Springleaf Drum
• 2x Talisman of Progress
• 3x Thopter Foundry

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Azorius Charm
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Faithful Mending
• 1x Fateful Absence
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Unbreakable Formation

Enchantment (3)

• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Tempered Steel
• 1x Zoetic Glyph

Creature (1)

• 1x Kappa Cannoneer

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Depopulate

Artifact (2)

• 1x Thopter Foundry
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Land (1)

• 1x Pit of Offerings

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A fun deck I made based on some old pauper affinity lists I saw. I kept some of the draw cards and include the Thopter Foundry as the main condition. It is filled with artifacts that draw cards when they die or generate mana, so they either pay for themselves when sacrificing them to create a Thopter or they just give you more cards. Then there are some support cards like Ingenious Smith and Forging the Anchor, allowing to get artifacts or Tempered Steel to buff all artifact creatures.

Finally, I have added some copies of The Raven's Warning. I like it quite a lot, as it allows me not only to get whatever I need from the sideboard, which is prepared for mostly everything as well as some copies of the key cards being Thopter Foundry and Tempered Steel. The saga also gives you a 1/1 bird to chump block in case its needed, as well as drawing a card and letting you see the opponents hand.

The deck is quite straightforward. Just put your artifacts into play, sacrifice them to Thopter Foundry to create a Thopter and draw some cards, then slowly attack the enemy, which gets very fast when playing Tempered Steel.

This is a purely casual and budget deck, it is not designed to be optimal, just fun while still packing some punch. All suggestions are more than welcome as long as it follows this.

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position in Modern 4 months ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Tokens 4 months ago
Date added	4 months
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 5 Rares 28 - 8 Uncommons 10 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Bird 1/1 U, Clue, Thopter 1/1 U