Sphinx's Thopter's

Standard Artifact Mill Mono-Blue Theme/Gimmick

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Creature (12)

• 3x Chief of the Foundry
• 4x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 4x Whirler Rogue

Land (24)

• 22x Island
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Ruins of Oran-Rief

Enchantment (12)

• 2x Dampening Pulse
• 4x Monastery Siege
• 4x Sphinx's Tutelage
• 2x Thopter Spy Network

Artifact (2)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Aligned Hedron Network

Instant (6)

• 2x Crippling Chill
• 2x Force Away
• 2x Negate

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Day's Undoing
• 1x Displacement Wave
• 2x Fascination

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Alhammarret, High Arbiter

Artifact (1)

• 1x Orbs of Warding

Instant (2)

• 2x Artificer's Epiphany

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Ugin's Insight

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Mirror Mockery

Instant (3)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Disperse
• 1x Scatter to the Winds

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Talent of the Telepath
• 1x Temporal Trespass
• 1x Treasure Cruise

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Playtested and Completed Finally

//Update// I added Jace and managed to successfully implement him. :3After quite extensive playtesting I can confirm that this decks Primary and Secondary playstyles hold up to my expectations.

The Primary playstyle I designed this deck around is, at the core, immense Draw while activating Sphinx's Tutelage. I have included a chance reset, Day's Undoing, in the case that your preparation for Sphinx's Tutelage is overwhelming and your draw is supremely overwhelming what your deck currently has in it, IE: You have 2x Monastery Siege and per say a Thopter Spy Network with many Thopter's landing hits causing draw as well with your Deck only having say 26 cards left in it while you consume about 6-14 cards per turn, just reflush everything and restart lol.

The Secondary playstyle, as per the usual with my deck designs, is just pure Damage, straight to the opponents face. With the included Chief of the Foundry, the use of Thopter Spy Network's, and finally Whirler Rogue. Your damage will be amazing if used correctly. IE: 3x card:Thopter's, 2x from Whirler Rogue this turn and 1x from Thopter Spy Network this turn, out alongside two Chief of the Foundry, you will have 3x 3/3 card:Thopter's. With the use of Whirler Rogue's useful ability, "Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.",you can make one of your 3/3 Thopter's unblockable, not that it needs to be lol IT HAS FLYING xD.

While there are a number of cards over the Standard limit of 60 cards, you can remove four cards as I do normally: 1x Chief of the Foundry, 1x Alhammarret's Archive, and 2x Negate's.

Modern Edition *WIP*

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Tips:

It's okay to have massive amounts of Draw before Sphinx's Tutelage is out.

Ideal Land in opening Hand is three, at least two.

Your only defense is a number of Bounce and Control Spells as well as your Thopter Token's so use, kill xD, them wisely. Make sure to have Thopter's alive for Draw, due to Thopter Spy Network.

I have included a large creature wipe, Aligned Hedron Network. It's actually more useful than most would think. :3

Monastery Siege should be played only in Khans modal. While it is useful to have protection on your creatures this deck just doesn't have any value in saving your creatures when they are generated so often.

Be careful when using Alhammarret's Archive its effect, by choice at least, will override card draw to two. On the other Hand you can choose to use it to save yourself from the overwhelming amount of card draw you will have set up without Sphinx's Tutelage.

Do note that this deck works on colorless (Eldrazi / Wastes).

Overview:

While this deck is mainly just Gimmicky and Damage, it is really satisfying watching your opponents mill every time you do almost anything.

Top Ranked	Achieved #15 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 3 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.75
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Thopter 1/1 C
Folders	Standard, Possible Standard Decks, want to try, Tutelage
Based on	Artifact Draw Final *WIP* LiveBacteria UNK