Mendicant core artifact by user6705997

Format: Commander

Creator: user6705997

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact midrange build commanded by Mendicant Core, Guidelight. The strategy revolves around assembling an army of synergistic artifact creatures, discounting their casting costs with staples like Etherium Sculptor and Foundry Inspector, and scaling up combat pressure. Mendicant Core starts your engines, growing in power with every artifact on the battlefield and eventually copying artifact spells once max speed is reached. The deck achieves a critical must-answer board around Turn 6 by landing massive threats such as Cybermen Squadron, Kappa Cannoneer, or Bronze Guardian, which turn modest boards into lethal combat swings. While the deck boasts strong on-board protection via ward and hexproof, it relies primarily on natural draws and lacks instant-speed counterspells, making it susceptible to non-targeted sweepers. Nevertheless, its deep threat density allows it to sustain continuous combat pressure and close out games reliably by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Synthoids
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assembly-Worker
  • 1 Assimilation Aegis
  • 1 Automated Artificer
  • 1 Automated Assembly Line
  • 1 Behemoth of Vault 0
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cathodion
  • 1 Celestial Armor
  • 1 Chief of the Foundry
  • 1 Chronomaton
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Diamond City
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Ecologist's Terrarium
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Foundry of the Consuls
  • 1 Gargoyle Castle
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Hydraulic Helper
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Junktroller
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mirror of Galadriel
  • 1 Mirrorworks
  • 1 North Pole Gates
  • 1 Oaken Siren
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Osgood, Operation Double
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Archivist
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Redemptor Dreadnought
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restricted Office // Lecture Hall
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Rex, Cyber-Hound
  • 1 Runaway Trash-Bot
  • 1 Salvager of Ruin
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Self-Assembler
  • 1 Sentry Bot
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Steel Exemplar
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stone Retrieval Unit
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Yes Man, Personal Securitron