The art of fects by user2431821

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

UW artifact value deck built around Mendicant Core, Guidelight as a copy engine. The primary plan is to flood the board with cheap artifacts and token producers, use cost reducers and draw engines to chain artifact spells, then finish with Cyberdrive Awakener or overloaded March of Progress. Speed is the commander's enabler, so evasive early attackers such as Gingerbrute, Skrelv, Defector Mite, and Esper Sentinel are used to raise max speed quickly. Secondary paths include Urza, Lord High Artificer as a mana engine and recursion through Dance of the Manse, Brilliant Restoration, Emry, and Scrap Trawler. There is no hidden commander; Urza is a powerful lieutenant, not a partner.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brilliant Restoration
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 March of Progress
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Monumental Henge
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Whir of Invention