all mighty thopter rush by BlaccSalmon

Format: Commander

Commander: Sai, Master Thopterist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue artifact token swarm strategy led by Sai, Master Thopterist. The primary game plan focuses on deploying low-cost artifacts, mana rocks, and cost reducers to assemble a wide army of 1/1 flying Thopter tokens while maintaining card flow through Sai's sacrifice ability, Vedalken Archmage, and combat-based draw engines like Research Thief. By Turn 6, the deck converts its airborne presence into a game-ending clock using mass stat modifiers such as Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut and Forsaken Monument, or tall threats like Kappa Cannoneer and Master of Etherium. Defensive interaction consists of efficient blue counterspells, targeted removal, and Propaganda to deter crackbacks. While resilient to targeted removal thanks to Padeem, Consul of Innovation and go-wide redundancy, the deck is vulnerable to artifact sweepers and mass exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chief of the Foundry
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cryogen Relic
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Juggernaut
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Foundry of the Consuls
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 28 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mind's Eye
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Pithing Needle
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Steelswarm Operator
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thopter Fabricator
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Witching Well