Ashad Artifact Combo by mikeb

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashad, the Lone Cyberman

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

Ashad, the Lone Cyberman leads a high-power Grixis artifact combo deck built around mana velocity, token generation, and multi-card graveyard loops. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using efficient mana rocks like Sol Ring, Mana Vault, and Talisman of Dominance. It leverages Ashad, the Lone Cyberman to duplicate impactful nonlegendary artifacts via casualty while assembling dedicated artifact engines. The primary victory condition involves drawing the entire library through Mystic Forge, Sensei's Divining Top, and a cost reducer like Etherium Sculptor, or generating infinite colorless mana and recursion loops with Krark-Clan Ironworks, Scrap Trawler, and Myr Retriever. These loops feed win outlets such as Blasting Station for lethal table-wide damage or Grinding Station for library depletion in a single turn. With dense artifact recursion from Goblin Welder and Scrap Mastery, the deck recovers swiftly from disruption, presenting high-velocity combo threat on Turn 4.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Arcum Dagsson
  • 1 Ashad, the Lone Cyberman
  • 1 Ashnod the Uncaring
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Biotransference
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dross Scorpion
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Imotekh the Stormlord
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Junk Diver
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Metallic Rebuke
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Salvaging Station
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrap Mastery
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Summoning Station
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Trash for Treasure
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention