Guiding Light by Zedicius

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Azorius deck revolves around Mendicant Core, Guidelight, using low-cost artifacts to build speed, power up the commander, and copy artifact spells at maximum speed. The deck accelerates through a dense package of 2-mana rocks and cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and Cloud Key. Once artifact critical mass is reached, it pivots to combat lethality through scaling beaters including Cephalopod Sentry, Kappa Cannoneer, and Filigree Attendant. Game finishes are facilitated by wide combat overruns via Cyberdrive Awakener or asymmetric burst damage utilizing Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought and Stuffy Doll. The deck provides sturdy mid-game resilience through protection pieces like Mithril Coat and flexible countermagic, but operates largely at sorcery speed and remains susceptible to artifact board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Automated Artificer
  • 1 Avishkar Raceway
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Cephalopod Sentry
  • 1 Chief of the Foundry
  • 1 Chromatic Sphere
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Desculpting Blast
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Filigree Attendant
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Guidelight Synergist
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Honest Work
  • 1 Hydraulic Helper
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Mechan Assembler
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 Meticulous Excavation
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Myr Scrapling
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Perilous Snare
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Steelswarm Operator
  • 1 Stormbeacon Blade
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swooping Lookout
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Ugin's Nexus
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 We Say Thee Nay!
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Wizard Replica
  • 1 Workshop Assistant