Improv Class with Professor Anguish

Standard Artifact UB (Dimir)

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Land (26)

• 4x Choked Estuary
• 7x Island
• 4x Spire of Industry
• 4x Sunken Hollow
• 7x Swamp

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Tezzeret's Touch

Artifact (16)

• 4x Bone Saw
• 4x Cogworker's Puzzleknot
• 2x Renegade Map
• 4x Servo Schematic
• 2x Terrarion

Creature (10)

• 4x Herald of Anguish
• 2x Merchant's Dockhand
• 4x Ornithopter

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Reverse Engineer

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This deck looks to utilise many of the artifact synergies present in Kaladesh block to quickly overwhelm your opponent with an army of undercosted artifact beaters. You can see when looking at the cheap artifacts we have here to fuel the Improvise mechanic that all of the 2 mana artifacts produce 2 artifacts total to the count. This is intended, as it allows us to have a nut draw of a turn 3 Herald of Anguish. However, sometimes we have a bunch of cheap artifacts and never draw the Herald. This is where Tezzeret's Touch comes in. Tezzeret's Touch allows us to turn any of our small useless artifacts like Terrarion and especially Ornithopter into giant creatures as early as turn 3. The great thing about 5/5s like Herald of Anguish and Tezzeret's Touch is that they dodge widely played removal like Harnessed Lightning, Grasp of Darkness and sometimes Fatal Push. Even if they get hit by a Murder, the demon would have already got at least some value with discard and the artifact enchanted by Tezzeret's Touch will just return to your hand.

One artifact that isn't super cheap but works incredibly well with Tezzeret's Touch and all of our servos is Aethersphere Harvester. Imagine swinging in for a 10-point life swing on turn 4 with a 5/5 Harvester.

EDIT: After testing, Aethersphere Harvester was found to be too clunky and was swapped out for Bone Saw to increase the density of low cost artifacts and make the turn-3 Herald more likely.

This deck is resilient enough to kill control decks but fast enough to put up a defense against many of the aggro decks in the format before you massacre them with your demon. Any suggestions for cards to add or remove in either the mainboard or the sideboard would be greatly appreciated, as would a simple upvote. I hope this deck tech inspires you to try the deck out for yourself, and if you do don't forget to post any results right here.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 14 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.41
Tokens	Servo 1/1 C