Sydri the Artifact Cheeser

Commander / EDH Artifact WUB (Esper)

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Land (35)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Celestial Colonnade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Power Artifact
• 1x Rhystic Study

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Artifact (26)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Caltrops
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Thopter Foundry
• 1x Voltaic Key

Instant (9)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Hanna, Ship's Navigator
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Sphinx Summoner
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Sorcery (7)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Terminus

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Sideboard

Land (7)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Flagstones of Trokair
• 1x Seachrome Coast
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Wasteland

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Maybeboard

Creature (10)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Voltaic Construct

Land (1)

• 1x Vault of the Archangel

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Soulscour
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (4)

• 1x Forcefield
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Scourglass
• 1x Time Sieve

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Thopter Spy Network

Instant (3)

• 1x Assert Authority
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Whir of Invention

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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Sydri with a variety of value creatures and artifacts to perform different kinds of shenanigans, multiple ways to search and cheat into play large artifacts like darksteel forge to help grow your board. Lots of mana rocks and ramp to build up to large plays with Sydri, activating multiple large indestructible artifacts in a turn to attack. Finally A large number of removal spells to clear the board while your stuff stays around. Worst comes to worst the Sword of the Meek and Thopter Foundry combo creates infinite 1/1 fliers and infinite life. Adding in Disciple of the Vault for an additional black mana creates an infinite pinger that can win you the game. To power this effect you will need infinite colorless mana, which can be created by Power Artifacting Basalt Monolith. The infinite colorless Mana can also be used to tap and untap Staff of Domination. Disciple of the Vault can also go infinite by Combining Sharuum the Hegemon with Phyrexian Metamorph to create a second Sharuum that dies and revives itself infinitely thanks to the Legends rule.

Aetherflux Reservoir exists in this (and many other Sydri decks) as a 1 card, 4 mana win the game. If all of your lifelinking deathtouch artifacts manage to push you to 50 health this card can be given lifelink, allowing its 50 damage cannon to heal you for 50 every time you fire it.

The deck has three of the best counterspells in the game to make sure the big plays don't get interrupted. Force of Will was only excluded because you won't always have the blue card you need to pitch to activate it.

The deck runs 5 different board clears of various shapes and sizes for a solution to clear any board. Merciless Eviction, Scourglass, and Soulscour are all excellent clears that I didn't put in my deck for various reasons, but are completely reasonable includes over any of the 5 currently in the deck.

The three Cheaters are crazy good for really obvious reasons (cheating Mana Cost is S tier), and rings of brighthearth allows their abilities to be doubled. Rings also just allows Sydri to work on twice as many artifacts at a time, by paying 2 colorless for the second trigger instead of the much more expensive WUB.

The Deck's total win conditions are: creating either infinite Damage with Disciple of the Vault, 50 life for Aether Reservoir to fire, Infinite Colorlesse Mana with the thopter or staff of domination to grant infinite life, or finally beating people down with big, indestructible, flying artifacts. All is Dust and Cylonic Rift are excellent board clears that keep our artifacts up and blow away everyone else's board to make it easy to connect with our damage.

All in all this deck has lots of different little packages, and ways to use and abuse many different powerful effects. Lots of good alternate options in the maybe-board like infinite turns, full table mill, and table lockdown. Hopefully there's something here for everyone.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 6 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Copy Clone, Thopter 1/1 U, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Based on	Sydri and her metal army JWiley129 EDH