Breya Revels in Riches (and Thopters) [Primer]

Commander / EDH Artifact Casual Primer Rock

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Lands (30)

Card Draw & Tutors (9)

Win Conditions (6)

Ramp & Rocks (14)

Wipes, Removal, & Counterspells (12)

Artifact Lands (6)

Token Synergy (1)

1x Anointed Procession

Commander (1)

Token Generators (13)

Utility & Synergy (8)

Maybeboard

Other (19)

A token-heavy, alternate win-conditions, artifact-centric Breya, Etherium Shaper deck that's as good as it is fun! Presenting....

Breya Revels in Riches (and Thopters)

Please UPVOTE if you love treasure!!

PLEASE NOTE: This is (as all good decks should be) an ever evolving work in progress thanks to the great comments from other tappedout users. Please check any "EDIT" remarks at the bottom of this description if the main description no longer makes sense as I might have moved some of the cards out.

Shout out to helpful users that have made valuable comments to improve the deck: Betulas, Stefouch. Thank you! Please note that this deck was inspired by the very cool Revel in Artifacts - check it out and give it an upvote.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. It's time to break out your Breya, Etherium Shaper - but we aren't all about infinite combos! This deck is all about staying alive and winning when your opponents least expect it.... by hoarding ALL THE ARTIFACTS! It's not STAX, it's TREASURE and THOPTERS!!

"How does it work?" I hear you cry, or maybe that's just the voices in my head, who knows? Who cares!? Here's why Breya has collected each of the lovely cards in this collection......

Win Conditions!

The primary aims of this deck are to win with one of the three cards below:

Revel in Riches - Collect all the treasure. There can never be enough to satisfy Breya's greed. However, there can be enough to win the game.
Mechanized Production - Collect all the other artifacts!
Hellkite Tyrant - People being mean to you? Steal THEIR artifacts and win that way instead!

That being said, this is a Breya deck, and so if you want to ensure that your "friends" don't get away and win without you, there are some high value cards that go in this deck (mentioned below for their individual benefits) that also just happen to combo out:

Ashnod's Altar + Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry - Infinite colourless mana, infinite life, and infinite thopters. Even without Ashnod's you get X thopters and X life where X is the mana you can spend on it.
Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve or Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry + Time Sieve - Assuming you have enough mana on the board to play the Assembly every turn / sac Sword 5 times then have infinite turns.

Hoarding Enablers and Synergy

Breya's putting all her focus into hoarding those lovely lovely artifacts and artifact tokens. Here's how:

Anointed Procession - Any time you make a token, make two!
Brass's Bounty - This can almost be seen as a winning "combo" piece with Mechanized Production, Revel in Riches, and possibly even with Hellkite Tyrant, suddenly popping you BUCKETS of trasure tokens. Especially if Anointed Procession is out!
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer - This dude not only spits out a token each turn but he can suddenly turn ALL of your tokens into any one of the others. Got loads of thopters and not enough treasure with Revel in Riches? Now they're ALL TREASURE!
Currency Converter - Not sure about this one yet, but it's a way to filter out some unwanted lands and turn them into treasures.
Loyal Apprentice - As long as Breya is out, this is an extra thopter each turn.
Myrsmith - A simple way to generate a bunch of artifact tokens.
Myr Battlesphere - A handy little blocker that comes with his own army of 4 Myr tokens. With Anointed Procession on the board you'd get 8!
Pitiless Plunderer - Considering you should be dripping with thopters this guy can end up generating you LOADS of treasure while you sac them for Breya, Ashnod's, etc.
Sharding Sphinx - Turn flying thopter damage into more thopters!
Smothering Tithe, Monologue Tax, and Tempting Contract - These could go in the "ramp" section but it's all about making treasure!
Shiny Impetus - Goad a dangerous creature and get some treasure out of it!
Thopter Assembly - Running out of Thopters? This will make 5 new ones and then you can cast it again!
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer - The magic pirate monkey!

Preservation (Counterspells, Removal, and Wipes)

Seeing as Breya is too busy hoarding her lovely artifacts to worry about petty things like life totals, she's going to need some ways to stay alive and answer problems on the board.

Counterspell, Arcane Denial, and Negate - Simple counter spells to help you deny/control your enemies!
Blasphemous Act - I love this spell, the more you need it, the less it costs!
Cyclonic Rift - This card needs no introduction.
Cleansing Nova - Destroy everything!
Phyrexian Rebirth - This not only destroys everything but provides you with a huge artifact token in the process.
Dispatch, Swords to Plowshares, Disenchant, Dreadbore, and Path to Exile - Solid spot removal.

Tutors, Draw, Graveyard Return

Not drawing what you need? Tutor for them! Not drawing enough? Draw more! Has it died? Bring it back!

Goblin Welder - You can swap out a "free" 1/1 Thopter for something meaty that ended up in your graveyard.
Baleful Strix - All around great card that gives you an artifact, a flying deathtouch blocker, and draws you a card to boot.
Ancestral Vision - It's a classic (and I owned a foil one!).
Consecrated Sphinx - Are your friends drawing? Draw more!
Reverse Engineer - Card draw with improvise!
Skullclamp - The best card in the game to pop onto 1/1 Thopters to get yourself 2 new shiny cards to play with.
Shimmer Dragon - This fella will let you tap all those tokens for card draw.
Tezzeret, Artifice Master - Not only can he make thopters, he can also draw you a card!
Thopter Spy Network - A free Thopter every turn, plus, if you can hit someone with one, you get to draw a card too.
Trash for Treasure - Lets you swap out a cheap token for something valuable in your graveyard.
Ichor Wellspring - Some card draw that also synergises well with the Trash for Treasure!
Windreader Sphinx - A little expensive but can draw plenty once you have some thopters out.

Rocks and Ramps

You need some rocks and you need some ramps. This is EDH after all... Plus, some mana fixing for 4 colours is always lovely.

Arcane Signet - We're running 4 colours so this will always be useful.
Ashnod's Altar - There are going to be a lot of artifact creature tokens knocking about so if you need some mana, here you go!
Azorius Signet, Izzet Signet, and Savai Crystal - Very useful colour fixing.
Etherium Sculptor - Makes the artifacts cheaper!
Chromatic Lantern - Important colour fixing staple.
Inspiring Statuary - Now all those non-artifact spells have improvise too!
Master Transmuter - I've put this under "Ramp" because you can use her to swap out a thopter token for any artifact in your hand.
Mind Stone - Cheap and useful.
Ornithopter of Paradise - A thopter Birds of Paradise!
Saheeli, the Gifted - She can make an expensive artifact spell into a VERY cheap one.
Sol Ring - If you need me to justify this card, you need to go back to EDH 101.
Storm the Vault - So this is almost a Hoarding Enabler as it grants you Treasure for attacking, however it's likely to flip really fast so acts as a Tolarian Academy. That card is so good it's banned!

Other Stuff

Eldrazi Displacer - This is a handy creature that you can use to re-trigger ETB effects!
Ghirapur AEther Grid - A little janky, but you are hoping to have TONS of artifacts lying around. About to be your untap phase? Tap them all and ping some people/creatures!
Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice - There are so many uses for this card.
Unwinding Clock - Untap all those artifacts every turn (including the artifact lands)!

Thanks for reading and if you liked it, put it in a folder, or feel like commenting then please do and please don't forget to UPVOTE and comment!!

EDIT 7th Dec 2017

So first reasonable edit. The main objective here was (after some playtesting) I needed to drop the mana curve a little to speed things up a bit and to focus the deck a touch. Thanks to comments from Betulas and Stefouch.

Hedron Archive out for Thought Vessel - The archive is good but it's expensive.
Gilded Lotus out for Fellwar Stone - As above.
Metallic Rebuke out for Swan Song - Improvise is nice but 3 mana is easy to come by in EDH, especially late game. Swan song is cheap and works well.
Sharuum the Hegemon out for Pongify - Sharuum was only really here as expensive GY recursion and so some cheaper instant spot-removal is much more useful I think.
Sydri, Galvanic Genius out for Cranial Plating - More versatile (and harder to remove) buff for your little Thopter blockers.
Herald of Anguish out for Paradox Engine - The Herald is a great card but it's slow, expensive, and the Engine just seems to fit better.

EDIT 9th Dec 2017

Just a little edit to tweak the preservation and via lands.

Sequestered Stash out for Mystifying Maze - I've never actually found myself using the Stash for anything other than colourless mana, so the Maze might help with staying alive.
Azorius Chancery out for Strip Mine - I'm still unsure about slow bounce lands so this one's been swapped for some targeted land hate. Just in case....

EDIT 12th Jan 2018

A reasonably large tweak exchanging out 13 cards. I won't go through each change individually but the overall process was to streamline the deck, reduce average CMC, and speed the whole thing up without losting potency. A couple of the removals were underperforming cards and the deck just felt a bit slow. This is a tweak before RIX release, which I am sure will lead to some more treasure cards that should be suitable for inclusion later!

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EDIT 14th Jan 2018

I was given a Brass's Bounty at the RIX pre-release so that has gone in the deck in place of Curse of Opulence, which has yet created me any treasures in all my playtesting to date. I think this sorcery is pretty awesome if you combo it with Revel in Riches or Mechanized Production!

EDIT 4th Feb 2018

A few changes due to some singles purchases/trades and pulls from some boosters.

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EDIT 14th Jan 2018

MAJOR EDIT 2nd Oct 2018

This was a pretty major rebuild and I have archived the discussion up to this point. I removed most of the typical Breya infinite combos but left in those that synergise with the thopter theme.

The idea of this update was to turn the deck into something a little more unique and a bit more fun to play, as well as to run some of the more interesting cards from C18!

EDIT 19th Nov 2018

Swapped out Vedalken Orrery for Master Transmuter. I've wanted this card for ages as it's the original printing of a card with Breya in the art. It's also brilliant.

EDIT 26th Feb 2019 THE REBREW UPDATE

I was previously using a "shared cards folder" to enable the use of medium and high cost cards in multiple decks. Having decided to stop using this folder I have had to make some modifications to all of my decks to fit the cards in. I also took this opportunity to make a few minor tweaks to my decks, which are also included in this update.

REMOVED:

ADDED:

Smothering Tithe
Ichor Wellspring
Saheeli s Directive

EDIT 5th May 2019 THE FOILING UPDATE

I have made the dubious decision to foil the deck as it's my oldest and most played/most fun deck. As of this date I'm 39% foiled out with the changes made below. It's going to be a long road but I think it's worth it :)

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EDIT 14th May 2019

REMOVED:

Mind's Eye

ADDED:

Windreader Sphinx

Plus swapped some foils for non-foils.

EDIT 18th September 2019

REMOVED:

Saheeli's Directive

ADDED:

Mirrodin Besieged

Plus swapped some foils for non-foils.

EDIT 22nd March 2020

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ADDED:

Plus swapped some foils for non-foils.

EDIT 7th July 2020

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EDIT 16th August 2020

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Also swapped Baleful Strix for a foil printing.

EDIT 16th August 2020

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Also swapped a bunch of cards for foil printings, including adding all of the Bob Ross Secret Lair lands (including Evolving Wilds)! I love Bob Ross.

EDIT 2nd July 2021

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EDIT 26th August 2021

REMOVED:

Etherium Sculptor

ADDED:

Ornithopter of Paradise

EDIT 5th January 2023

REMOVED:

Hullbreacher

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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

EDIT 3rd February 2025

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+1	Currency Converter	main
-1	Dockside Extortionist	main
+1	Etherium Sculptor	main
-1	Mana Crypt	main

Top Ranked	Achieved #17 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 weeks
Exclude colors	G
Key combos	Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve Ashnod's Altar + Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry + Time Sieve
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Horror X/X C, Phyrexian Myr 2/1 U, Rogue 2/2 B, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U, Treasure
Folders	commander 2016, Cool Decks, Interesting, EDH Artifacts Variations, My Built Decks, edh decks, EDH, Breya, Interesting Commander Decks, Breya
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