Merchant Aquisitionist

Commander / EDH

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Artifact (23)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Decoction Module
• 1x Encroaching Mycosynth
• 1x Fabrication Module
• 1x Goldvein Pick
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Moonsilver Key
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Replicating Ring
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (9)

• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Depths of Desire
• 1x Hornswoggle
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant

Creature (12)

• 1x Breya, Etherium Shaper
• 1x Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 1x Deadeye Plunderers
• 1x Djinn of Infinite Deceits
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Treasure Nabber
• 1x Zedruu the Greathearted *f-etch*

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 8x Island
• 7x Mountain
• 5x Plains
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Treasure Vault

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Confusion in the Ranks
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip
• 1x Trove of Temptation

Commanders (2)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Contract Killing
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Pirate's Prize
• 1x Thieves' Auction
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Warp World

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Creature (5)

• 1x Daring Thief
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Perplexing Chimera
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

Artifact (5)

• 1x Prying Blade
• 1x Skyship Weatherlight
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Tamiyo's Journal
• 1x Thran Temporal Gateway

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Puca's Mischief

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Legerdemain

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A fun janky deck meant to play like a hoarding "Merchant" or "Trader". Basically, there are cards like Djinn of Infinite Deceits which can be combined with cards like Breya to allow the player to "exchange" cards with other players, thereby "trading". Of course, the player can behave in a grouphug way (with cards like Zedruu) or in a 'acquisitionist' way (forcefully acquiring other players' cards).

So why use Akiri and Silas Renn as commanders? Technically, you can use Breya too (would probably be stronger), but my reasoning for them is 1) Akiri looks like a pirate, 2) Silas Renn looks like a thief up to no good, so 3) they're both very flavorful. And also, they come out early enough to protect your stuff and can get artifacts back from the graveyard.

In practice, both commanders combo well with various parts of the deck. For example, Silas Renn's recursion can help with cards like Moonsilver Key, allowing you to fix mana or find other combo pieces like Ashnod's Altar or Treasure Vault. Akiri also combos with a variety of artifact producing cards in the deck, getting stronger and stronger to protect your board state while you get your wincon ready.

The wincons are mostly to do with artifact collection (e.g. get lots of money aka treasures) or acquisition rather than trying to take out other players' life totals. Thus, the goal is bide your time with your commanders or to cause as much chaos as possible for everyone with things like Thieves Auction and Confusion in the Ranks while building up your artifacts for the win. And as added flavor, you can, of course, use certain cards to "buy" (i.e. exchange) or forcefully acquire other players' stuff.

Again, this is meant to be a fun janky deck. Not win by turn 4 deck. Or even win by turn 10 deck.

Will continue to update this decklist along with new ideas that come to mind or new cards are released.

Combos:

Memnarch + Mycosynth Lattice = Gain control of anything!

Thieves Auction + Teferi's Protection = Everyone else's stuff is up for grabs, but not ours!

Warp World + Teferi's Protection = Chaos for everyone else!

Animation/Decoction/Fabrication Modules + Ashnod's Altar = Infinite Mana + Infinite tokens (no haste)

Padeem + Mycosynth Lattice/Encroaching Mycosynth + Confusion in the Ranks = Other players are forced to exchange permanents they play with each other, but not you.

Hellkite Tyrant + Mycosynth Lattice = acquire all their stuff!

Mechanized Production + Mycosynth Lattice = duplicate any permanent you control...heh...

Dockside Extortionist + Mycosynth Lattice = that's a lot of treasures

Brudiclad + Mechanized Production = tokens of whatever you want, basically

If you want the entire acquisition factory line package:

Padeem + Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice + Confusion in the Ranks + Animation/Decoction/Fabrication Modules = your stuff has almost complete protection from others, while you can generate tokens to acquire other people's stuff. This is as janky as janky gets (7 card combo), but honestly pretty amazing if you can actually assemble it.

Anyways...

Any on-theme suggestions are welcome!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.82
Tokens	Clue, Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Energy Reserve, Goat 0/1 W, Gold, Myr 2/1 U, Replicated Ring, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U, Treasure