science time by antiasama

Format: Commander

Commander: Ironheart, Clever Champion

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This mono-blue artifact deck is helmed by Ironheart, Clever Champion, who grants all noncreature spells improvise. The strategy focuses on accelerating mana through cheap artifact mana rocks, cost-reducing creatures, and utility tokens such as Clues, Food, and Treasures. In the midgame, the deck establishes card advantage engines like Vedalken Archmage and Forensic Gadgeteer while accumulating a critical mass of artifacts. It closes the game through explosive combat finishes, animating its artifact board into lethal flying threats via Cyberdrive Awakener or an overloaded Rise and Shine, or by generating massive Construct tokens with Simulacrum Synthesizer. Defensive interaction, including Desynchronization, Counterspell, and Padeem, Consul of Innovation, safeguards the board state while keeping opposing threats in check until the artifact swarm overwhelms the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Confirm Suspicions
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Ethereal Investigator
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Hard Evidence
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Man, Bleeding Edge
  • 1 Ironheart, Clever Champion
  • 27 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Metallic Rebuke
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrodin Besieged
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Moonsnare Prototype
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Reverse Engineer
  • 1 Rise and Shine
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Universal Surveillance
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Welding Jar
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm