Paradox Arcum WiP

Commander / EDH

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Artifact (22)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Citanul Flute
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Guardian Idol
• 1x Jeweled Amulet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Land (31)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 17x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Tolaria West

Creature (21)

• 1x Arcbound Ravager
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hedron Crawler
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Manakin
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Timetwister
• 1x Transmute Artifact

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Mystic Remora

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Snap
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention

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Useful lines

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.

Un-utilized line:

Sensei's Divining Top+Paradox Engi ne+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.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.83
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Thopter 1/1 C
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