Esper Artifacts

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

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Artifact (30)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Caltrops
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Retrofitter Foundry
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Thopter Foundry
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Time Sieve
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Thopter Spy Network

Land (34)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Irrigated Farmland
• 5x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 4x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Creature (13)

• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Muzzio, Visionary Architect
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Voltaic Construct

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Glimmer of Genius
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Hallowed Burial
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Supreme Verdict

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Sideboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Winter Orb

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My first serious EDH deck.

This list doesn't run many creatures since Sydri turns our artifacts into creatures, but the ones we do run very much help out our game plan, like allowing us to make thopters, draw cards, and discount our artifacts when we play them. Kuldotha Forgemaster lets us sac thopters to cheat out our high end, Master Transmuter lets us do degenerate things like return a Sol Ring to our hand to cheat out a Darksteel Forge on turn three. Padeem of course to give our artifacts hexproof, trophy and treasure mage to tutor artifacts, blah blah.

I built this deck relatively spell heavy compared to most commander decks. Four different counterspells to ensure that I can protect my board. I try not to use these willy nilly; only on spells that affect my board in a way that would be detrimental, like a vandalblast, or to stop a game winning spell from my opponents. I've got four hard sweepers in the deck as my playgroup's meta is very creature heavy, along with cyclonic rift. Our only two card draw spells are mana sinks, as you'll very often have lots of mana with all of the mana rocks in the deck. Not too much in the way of spells for card draw, as a lot of our artifacts draw us cards and a couple of the mana rocks can be cashed in for cards too. Typical white removal is in too, swords to plowshares and its second copy (Dispatch) as well as enchantment and artifact removal. Three artifact based tutor spells, as well as a Mystical tutor just to be sure you can get the spell you need to save you.

Classic commander enchantments including Phyrexian Arena and Rhystic Study, as well as a Thopter Spy Network to better cover us in the air and to give us artifacts to sac, or turn into tiny deathtouch blockers.

You'll see that black mana is really underrepresented, we only really splash black for a few cards and to let us use Sydri's ability of course.

I have a few win conditions that don't involve beating face with artifacts including:

Infinite turns via Time Sieve and Thopter Assembly

Aetherflux Reservoir with lifelink thanks to Sydri, infinite death lasering

Land Destruction via Sydri's ability with Mycosynth Lattice on board

One sided boardwiping each turn with Darksteel Forge and Nev's disk, this will wipe your opponents lands too if you have Mycosynth lattice on the board

There is also a combo for infinite colorless mana (or of any color with Mycosynth out) with Voltaic construct and any of the mana rocks that tap for three or greater.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 1 Mythic Rares 48 - 1 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.36
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Construct 4/4 C, Energy Reserve, Goat 0/1 W, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U