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Commander / EDH Affinity Artifact Budget Casual Combo Mill Mono-Blue Thopter

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Get More Cards (25)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Cephalid Broker
• 1x Curate
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Hidden Cataract
• 1x Karn, Living Legacy
• 1x Machinate
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Network Terminal
• 1x Orazca Puzzle-Door
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x The Antiquities War
• 1x The Bath Song
• 1x The Surgical Bay
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Transplant Theorist
• 1x Urza's Bauble

Counters and Removal (13)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Argentum Masticore
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Override
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Ramp (1)

• 1x Glaring Fleshraker

Land (33)

• 1x Archway of Innovation
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hidden Cataract
• 13x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rivendell
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x The Surgical Bay
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower

Utility and Combos (18)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Thought Dissector
• 1x Urza's Bauble
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Witch's Oven

Commander (1)

Threats (18)

• 1x Broodstar
• 1x Cyberdrive Awakener
• 1x Etched Champion
• 1x Glaring Fleshraker
• 1x Karn, Living Legacy
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x The Antiquities War
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Mana Artifacts and Ramp (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Karn, Living Legacy
• 1x Network Terminal
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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Maybeboard

Get More Cards (24)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Candlestick
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forging the Anchor
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Hylda's Crown of Winter
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Living Lectern
• 1x Merfolk Mesmerist
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x One with the Machine
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Reality Heist
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Witching Well

Mana Artifacts and Ramp (6)

• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Replicating Ring
• 1x Slagstone Refinery
• 1x Vedalken Engineer

Utility and Combos (23)

• 1x Artificer Class
• 1x Chief Engineer
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Hisoka, Minamo Sensei
• 1x Inverted Iceberg  ^Flip
• 1x Lumengrid Sentinel
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Mirage Mockery
• 1x Myr Sire
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Perilous Myr
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Stolen Identity
• 1x Stone of Erech
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Threats (17)

• 1x Body Double
• 1x Case of the Filched Falcon
• 1x Chromescale Drake
• 1x Ensoul Artifact
• 1x Frogmite
• 1x Gearseeker Serpent
• 1x Grizzled Angler  ^Flip
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lodestone Myr
• 1x Magnetic Flux
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Enforcer
• 1x Sojourner's Companion
• 1x Urza's Command
• 1x Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp

Counters and Removal (12)

• 1x AEtherize
• 1x Assert Authority
• 1x Dramatic Accusation
• 1x Ephara's Dispersal
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Goblin Firebomb
• 1x Leadership Vacuum
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x River's Rebuke
• 1x Silent Dart
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah

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Lady of the Loch

This my first commander deck, and my first deck of any significance after a very long time away from Magic. My initial goal here was to revisit some of the affinity fun I remember from the Mirrodin block, and I used an EDHRec article (https://edhrec.com/articles/mechanically-minded-affinity/) as a starting point. That being said, I think it's lost some of the affinity focus as I've iterated on it, but maybe that's okay. The other goal here was to not spend a ton of money, which is part of why I hadn't seriously played Magic in so long.

With Emry, Lurker of the Loch, the main trick here is that your graveyard is just another place to keep your artifacts when you're not using them. There are opportunities to sacrifice things and reuse them, self-mill, and card draw spells with the "drawback" of discarding more artifacts. Mirran Spy and Chakram Retriever make this much, much better since you can untap Emry every time you use her.

Cards like Thopter Assembly and Sai, Master Thopterist help you get a ton of artifacts on the board, as do Foundry Inspector and friends that let you cast more of them for cheap or free. These fuel the affinity cards, and the major win conditions: Broodstar, Master of Etherium, and The Antiquities War, which can dish out a lot of damage as you struggle to fit everything on your playmat.

Oh, and if you get hit by a board wipe? Try to get out Mirrodin Besieged and win off the second option once your graveyard is full of artifacts. It's not super reliable, but it's great when it happens.

Improvements

Like I said, this is my first commander deck, so I think it could use a lot of polish. I have a ton of stuff in the Maybeboard--even with 100 cards, it's hard to narrow it down! My major concerns right now are:

1. Are my win conditions solid enough? It's easy to just get out a ton of artifacts, but turning that into a win sometimes requires pieces I don't have. Do I need more big creatures or ways to get them through, or stronger combos? Or more ways to find the things I need?
2. Is the deck fast enough? I've seen similar decks with more 0- and 1-cost artifacts. I feel like this hasn't been a big problem so far, but it could get things moving quicker.
3. It's easy to get artifacts out of the graveyard, but not everything else. It's sometimes hard to decide if I should self-mill with abandon for Emry's sake, or hold back lest I dump a Broodstar or Mirrodin Besieged that I really need. This may just be a matter of figuring out how to use what I have.
4. Do I need more removal? More ramp? Irrespective of everything else, I'm still figuring out what makes a solid backbone for a commander deck.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	3 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 33 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Karn, Living Legacy, Food, Manifest 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Powerstone, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U
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