Dr. Madison Li by ImmenseRaptor79

Format: Commander

Commander: Dr. Madison Li

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact midrange engine that uses energy counters to fuel card draw, recursion, and combat buffs. Led by Dr. Madison Li, the strategy focuses on casting low-cost artifacts to generate energy, which powers activated abilities and accelerates high-impact threats. In the early game, cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and utility artifacts establish a mana base and stock energy reserves. By the mid game, the deck leverages engines such as Satya, Aetherflux Genius, Aetherworks Marvel, and Automated Assembly Line to build a wide board of artifact creatures. Win conditions center on overwhelming combat steps powered by Liberty Prime, Recharged, Salvation Colossus, and extra combats from Lightning Runner. While the deck generates strong value and resilient recursion from the graveyard, it lacks fast tutors and instant-speed combo finishes, relying instead on compounding board presence and combat damage to close out games over multiple turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Hub
  • 1 Aether Refinery
  • 1 Aether Spike
  • 1 Aetherflux Conduit
  • 1 Aethergeode Miner
  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Aethersquall Ancient
  • 1 Aetherworks Marvel
  • 1 Amped Raptor
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assaultron Dominator
  • 1 Aurora Shifter
  • 1 Automated Assembly Line
  • 1 Behemoth of Vault 0
  • 1 Brotherhood Scribe
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confiscation Coup
  • 1 Conversion Apparatus
  • 1 Dr. Madison Li
  • 1 Electrosiphon
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Era of Innovation
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Filigree Racer
  • 1 Galvanic Discharge
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glimmer of Genius
  • 1 Gonti's Aether Heart
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 HELIOS One
  • 1 Harnessed Lightning
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Generatorium
  • 1 Jolted Awake
  • 1 Liberty Prime, Recharged
  • 1 Lightning Runner
  • 1 Localized Destruction
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Phyrexian Ironworks
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Razorfield Ripper
  • 1 Rex, Cyber-Hound
  • 1 Riddle Gate Gargoyle
  • 1 Roil Cartographer
  • 1 Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls
  • 1 Salvation Colossus
  • 1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sentry Bot
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Transformer
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sphinx of the Revelation
  • 1 Static Prison
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stone Idol Generator
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Suppression Ray // Orderly Plaza
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synth Eradicator
  • 1 Synth Infiltrator
  • 1 T-45 Power Armor
  • 1 Tempest Harvester
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Tune the Narrative
  • 1 Vault 112: Sadistic Simulation
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Wheel of Potential
  • 1 Wrath of the Skies