Scissors

Standard* Combo UR (Izzet)

SirGuilford

Creature (17)

• 4x Generator Servant
• 3x Hoarding Dragon
• 4x Illusory Angel
• 4x Ornithopter
• 1x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 1x Ral Zarek

Land (24)

• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 6x Island
• 2x Izzet Guildgate
• 6x Mountain
• 2x Shivan Reef
• 3x Steam Vents
• 1x Temple of Epiphany

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Ensoul Artifact

Artifact (6)

• 2x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Haunted Plate Mail
• 2x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Trading Post

Instant (6)

• 2x Lightning Strike
• 4x Shrapnel Blast

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Anger of the Gods

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 2x Frostburn Weird
• 1x Prognostic Sphinx

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Burning Earth

Artifact (2)

• 2x Pithing Needle

Instant (8)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Dispel
• 2x Negate
• 3x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Wild Ricochet

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Goblin Kaboomist
• 1x Illusory Angel
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Domestication

Artifact (5)

• 2x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Haunted Plate Mail
• 1x Prophetic Prism

Instant (4)

• 1x Izzet Charm
• 2x Lightning Strike
• 1x Magma Jet

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My work-in-progress attempt on an Ensoul Artifact deck. I think Generator Servant could be another very nice combo with cards like Hoarding Dragon or the things it searches for, Scuttling Doom Engine or Soul of New Phyrexia. I might be tempted to try Master of Predicaments too, as putting both it and a free Illusory Angel down on turn three sounds pretty good to me (I'm assuming most people will always pick the 4+ option with the Master). Scuttling Doom Engine is fantastic with Shrapnel Blast too.

Ensoul Artifact is of course the soul of the deck (pun intended). Good targets are Ornithopter, Darksteel Citadel and Darksteel Ingot, although I battle to decide when to play my 'thopter - turn one in case I draw Ensoul Artifact or keep it in my hand to drop an Illusory Angel on turn 3? Right now I'm keeping it in my hand unless I have the Ensoul Artifact or until I can cast two spells at once anyways. I'm testing Prophetic Prism - the mana-fixing and card-draw is nice, but I sometimes find myself wishing it were a Darksteel Ingot instead. However it does synergize with the rest of the deck, so I should probably try to add more in.

I'm also testing out a single copy of Chasm Skulker. I decided I needed some card draw to replace the cheap combo parts and to draw more parts of the combo, so I added two Divination, and the skulker works quite nicely with this. So far he's been quite good, so I might work on playing more. Ral Zarek is my final one-of to test. He actually seems to work pretty well - because the deck generally had one big creature whacking away, the tapping of a blocker and simultaneous untapping of either a mana-artifact or the attacker is highly relevant, and the extra lightning strike is great, too.

I will need to work on adding more Lightning Strike.

Comments and suggestions would be much appreciated.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 10 - 9 Rares 25 - 1 Uncommons 10 - 5 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.67
Tokens	Goat 0/1 W