Paradox-Flux (Historic)

Historic* Artifact Combo Eggs RUW (Jeskai, America)

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Land (21)

• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 8x Island
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mirrormade

Artifact (21)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Folio of Fancies
• 4x Golden Egg
• 1x Guild Globe
• 4x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 4x Raugrin Crystal
• 4x Witching Well

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip

Creature (5)

• 2x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Fae of Wishes
• 1x Galazeth Prismari
• 1x Shimmer Dragon

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Narset of the Ancient Way
• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 3x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Instant (5)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 2x Paradoxical Outcome
• 2x Whir of Invention

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Irencrag Pyromancer
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Sprite Dragon
• 1x Steel Overseer
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Chandra, Awakened Inferno
• 1x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Artifact (1)

• 1x Icy Manipulator

Instant (1)

• 1x Disperse

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Mass Manipulation
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Selective Snare

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Maybeboard

Unknown (2)

• 1x extra copies of many cards in the deck
• 1x some kind of alt-win con involving treasures?

Instant (2)

• 2x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Era of Innovation

Artifact (4)

• 4x Metalspinner's Puzzleknot

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Rebuilding one of my favourite standard combo decks from three-some years ago, Paradox Flux, in Historic with the release of Kaladesh Remastered!

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This is a combo deck revolving around Aetherflux Reservoir and Paradox Engine . The win condition is to go infinite drawing cards and untapping things until you can dome your opponent for 50 life! (mostly on a single turn)

In the standard version of this deck this happened on average around T7, but it should hopefully be a turn or more faster in Historic. This current build is a first draft. It plays well, has the same explosive turns and produces a lot of fun winning lines to discover, but it is not yet tuned (card counts are unrefined and there are probably some cards to cut and several more cards to include).

Some of the major changes from the Kaladesh-standard version are:

• addition of red mana and the inclusion of Saheelis - having an on board artifact-copying mechanism has so far proved very effective, it makes winning with Reservoir happen a lot easier if you can have multiple copies of it in play, or alternatively she often copies mana rocks to help with producing infinite mana.
• having access to much better eggs in the form of, well, Golden Egg (and honourary eggs Mind Stone and Witching Well ). Previously I used Prophetic Prism and Metalspinner's Puzzleknot and I may revert to including some of these for a little more card drawing.
• mostly lacking an alternative win con (suggestions welcomed!). Shimmer Dragon however is bananas in this deck and wins games through card draw regardless of whether it can attack for the victory (which is often can).
• Emry|Emry, Lurker of the Loch removed some of the need for Wildest Dreams to bring things back. She was another gift to the deck. You can hold her in hand until needed and potentially make hasted copies of her with Saheeli to buy things back - she is also another way to go infinite by untapping her with Paradox Engine to replay artifacts!

Since the creation of this deck the Arena team has been kind enough to add some of the missing cards in subsequent anthologies! We now have access to Inspiring Statuary and most recently Reverse Engineer - which is a busted card draw spell in this deck. Statuary mostly functioned as a wincon alongside Mechanized Production , and as yet I haven't found a neat way to include it in the deck. It's power is relative to the amount of non-artifact spells that are included, as well as the ability to make artifacts, but these are mutually exclusive in some cases! There is definitely an alternative build revolving around treasure and card draw, so I encourage people to explore that space!

In the near future I will write up a detailed guide, but I am still discovering new winning lines every day, and working out the best deck composition. Until them, I encourage you to read the full deck guide for the older version (Paradox Flux) - the description of how to reach the winning position and play out that turn is accurate (bearing in mind the cards that have been cut and added - the unfortunate omission of Mechanized Production from Kaladesh Remastered meaning that alt win-con is no longer possible :( ) Good luck and have fun!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 3 Mythic Rares 20 - 6 Rares 8 - 5 Uncommons 13 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.77
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Emblem Chandra, Awakened Inferno, Emblem Narset of the Ancient Way, Illusion */* U, On an Adventure, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure