Basic kill: Start your turn with Arcum on the field. Play an artifact creature, sac it to get Paradox Engine. Play another artifact creature, sac it to get Citanul Flute. Search one of the several 0cmc creatures, cast it and sac it to get Mana Vault if needed. Assemble Scrap Trawler+Myr Retriever for inf mana and inf untaps, win with Walking Ballista.

2-turn Arcum kill: Start turn with Arcum on the field, play an artifact creature and pass the turn. Eot, sacrifice the creature to get Citanul Flute, activate to tutor a 0cmc creature. Untap, play the 0 cmc creature, tutor Paradox Engine and win like in first example.

Commander Free win: Assemble Engine+Flute, activate Flute to tutor up Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever and Arcbound Ravager. Loop for inf mana, tutor Ballista with Flute for the kill. If mana is a concern, you can tutor 0 mana creatures before going for Scrap Trawler & gang.

Hard kill: You have assembled Flute+Engine, but you only have a mindstone(or simimar) as your mana producing nonland-permanent. You can gain 5 mana by tutoring up all 5x 0cmc creatures, then tutor up Phyrexian Metamorph. Copy the best manaproducer, preferably Mana Vault. Tutor Hope of Ghitapura, cast it, untap your mana and assemble Myr Retriever/Ravager/ Trawler loop. Remember that sacing the Hopeful Thopter brings back Hangarback or Ballista from your graveyard if Trawler is on the battlefield.

Additional info: Trawler+Retriever loop requires you to have 3 untapping mana to produce inf mana(and untaps), but this can be circumvented by tutoring Etherium Sculptor. With Trawler only costing 2 to cast, it loops with a simple Sol Ring or Palladium Myr, even without Metamorph.

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Sensei's Divining Top+Paradox Engine+Voltaic Key draws your deck if you have a 2 mana producing nonland permanents. Tap Top, untap with Key, tap Top again, draw a card, cast top to untap key and the rocks.

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Date added 6 years
Last updated 6 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

11 - 0 Mythic Rares

44 - 0 Rares

18 - 0 Uncommons

16 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.04
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Thopter 1/1 C
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