Nick's on the case by user2675571

Format: Commander

Commander: Nick Valentine, Private Eye

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue artifact midrange strategy piloted by Nick Valentine, Private Eye. The game plan revolves around deploying efficient artifact ramp, cost reducers, and token generators to accumulate a wide board of Clues, Thopters, and Treasures. Nick Valentine, Private Eye provides built-in evasion and steady card advantage by investigating whenever your artifact creatures die. In the mid-game, the deck leverages high-impact mana engines like Five Hundred Year Diary and Forsaken Monument to fuel massive card draw and deploy decisive finishers. Win conditions include turning Clue tokens into 6/6 beaters with Tangletrove Kelp, swinging with an unblockable commander equipped with Nettlecyst, resolving Kappa Cannoneer, or triggering Mechanized Production. Backup infinite mana via Basalt Monolith and Forsaken Monument provides an alternate path to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Ravager
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Burden of Proof
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curie, Emergent Intelligence
  • 1 Curious Inquiry
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 ED-E, Lonesome Eyebot
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Five Hundred Year Diary
  • 1 Flitwing, Lyev Detective
  • 1 Follow the Bodies
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 27 Island
  • 1 Junk Diver
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Magnifying Glass
  • 1 March of the Machines
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nerd Rage
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Nick Valentine, Private Eye
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Pip-Boy 3000
  • 1 Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Senator Peacock
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 1 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
  • 1 Tamiyo's Journal
  • 1 Tangletrove Kelp
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore