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Synopsis:
This deck is all about making Thopter 1/1 C tokens. It looks to do this through two infinite loops. Other than the pieces for the loops it contains removals and counters to try to control the board while you set up one of the combos. Most of the individual pieces of the combos are fairly powerful so it should be able to win without going infinite.
The main win conditions are to get one of the two infinite loops going.
The most surefire way to win is the Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge + Karn, the Great Creator + Sai, Master Thopterist + Ancestral Statue infinite loop. In order to get this to work you must have Sai, Karn, and Tezzeret on the battlefield at the same time. This can be made easiest if Tezzeret is on before Karn as Karn can then be played for free as long as there are four or more artifacts on the battlefield (which there should be because of the artifact lands and thopter production) due to Karn's intrinsic ability of giving creatures and planeswalkers affinity for artifacts. You then use Karn's minus two ability to grab an Ancestral Statue from your sideboard. You play Ancestral Statue for free which will create a thopter from Sai, and because of Ancestral Statue's etb ability, you grab Karn and put him into your hand. You then play Karn again for free, minus two him again, grab the other Ancestral Statue, play it for free, create a thopter from Sai, pick up the first Ancestral Statue, play that again, thopter from Sai, repeat until you have enough thopters to use Tezzeret's plus two to deal lethal direct damage to your opponent.
The other loop involves Urza, Lord High Artificer+Thopter Foundry+Sword of the Meek. You have to get all three out on the battlefield but it doesn't matter in what order. Because of Urza's ability to tap any artifact for you can tap Sword of the Meek for one mana, then use that mana and sacrifice it to activate Thopter Foundry's ability and create a thopter and gain a life. Because a 1/1 creature came onto the battlefield you can return Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to the thopter. You can then tap Sword of the Meek again to create , sacrifice it, and start the loop over again. You can do this an infinite amount of times to gain as much life as you want and create as many thopters as you want. If the construct created by Urza's etb ability is still on the battlefield it will also be huge. Since these abilities work at instant speed, you can start the loop either during or at the end of your opponent's turn to make sure you can swing in for lethal during your turn. As an added bonus this would work with Tezzeret if he is out there as another infinite artifact source to get enough to plus two him to deal the damage to your opponent. I have found this loop to be pretty easy to pull off.
This deck mixes control with combo building. Since there are two combos, and the individual parts are pretty powerful on their own, you can slowly build up the combo as the game goes on. In the meantime use the removal cards to throw your opponent off and give yourself time to assemble your pieces.
The other thing I made is a 3D model of this thopter design. I used it to glue to a deck box but it can be used as a token or just have a thopter buddy chilling. Or whatever really.
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98% Competitive
| Date added | 5 months |
| Last updated | 1 week |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 7 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 5 Rares 12 - 7 Uncommons 14 - 2 Commons |
| Cards | 61 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.23 |
| Tokens | Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U |
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