Illusionary Artifacts

Casual Aggro Combo

thewankis

Creature (29)

• 4x Grand Architect
• 3x Jace's Phantasm
• 4x Lord of the Unreal
• 4x Phantasmal Bear
• 2x Phantasmal Dragon
• 4x Phantasmal Image
• 2x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 4x Treasure Mage

Land (20)

• 4x Buried Ruin
• 16x Island

Artifact (2)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Contagion Engine

Instant (2)

• 1x Cancel
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal

Sorcery (7)

• 4x Artful Dodge
• 3x Ponder

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Adaptive Automaton

Instant (3)

• 3x Mana Leak

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Mana Leak

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This deck uses a combination of low cost blue illusions to field a large amount of creatures reasonably quickly, combined with the lord of illusions to provide Hexproof and a nice plus one bonus. I'm also using the Grand Architects in conjunction with the Treasure Mage to field some rather powerful artifacts pretty early on. Using the multiple copy spells to either multiply my illusions if i fail to pull any artifacts or Treasure Mage or to multiply my artifacts to secure a win situation. The Artful Dodge went in to provide a no miss hit for the Steel Hellkite as well as any other artifacts (although for anything other than the hellkite its just a nice damage option) i may have on the field. Although they are rather useless in conjunction with most the illusions due to the "target" feature of the spell causing them to be sac'd but i feel they are rather effective all the same considering the Phantasmal Bear ends up mainly a blocker late game taking a back seat to more powerful hitters. This deck provides me with a nice average turn four or five win.

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 4 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.58