Tetzin, Gnome Champion by user3675983

Format: Commander

Commander: Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Jeskai artifact-token deck is helmed by Tetzin, Gnome Champion, a commander built around double-faced artifacts (DFCs) and the Craft mechanic. The primary plan is to deploy a critical mass of DFC artifacts - Thousand Moons Smithy, Brass's Tunnel-Grinder, Master's Guide-Mural, Inverted Iceberg, and more - to trigger Tetzin's mill-three-and-grab-artifact dig, then craft or transform them into their powerful back faces. The Golden-Gear Colossus back face transforms other DFCs and creates Gnome tokens on entry and attack. The deck wins through a wide board of artifact creatures boosted by anthem effects like Tempered Steel, Chief of the Foundry, and Illustrious Wanderglyph, with exponential token engines in Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon and Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation. There are no infinite combos; the deck grinds out inevitability through artifact density, recursion via Fabrication Foundry, and one-sided wipes like Organic Extinction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
  • 1 Adaptive Gemguard
  • 1 Akal Pakal, First Among Equals
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bonder's Ornament
  • 1 Braided Net // Braided Quipu
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Captivating Cave
  • 1 Chief of the Foundry
  • 1 Clay-Fired Bricks // Cosmium Kiln
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Digsite Conservator
  • 1 Dinotomaton
  • 1 Dowsing Device // Geode Grotto
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabrication Foundry
  • 1 Forgotten Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glaring Spotlight
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Hidden Cataract
  • 1 Hidden Courtyard
  • 1 Hidden Volcano
  • 1 Highland Lake
  • 1 Hoverstone Pilgrim
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Inverted Iceberg // Iceberg Titan
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Lodestone Needle // Guidestone Compass
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Market Gnome
  • 1 Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mirrodin's Core
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Oltec Archaeologists
  • 1 Oltec Cloud Guard
  • 1 Orazca Puzzle-Door
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 1 Pit of Offerings
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reconstruction
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spring-Loaded Sawblades // Bladewheel Chariot
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Tempered Steel
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Tetzin, Gnome Champion // The Golden-Gear Colossus
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Tinker's Tote
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unstable Glyphbridge // Sandswirl Wanderglyph
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow