New Untitled Deck by whoanelly

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

Mendicant Core, Guidelight leads an Azorius artifact synergy deck designed to leverage the Start Your Engines mechanic and build overwhelming board presence through Vehicles, Construct tokens, and scaling artifact power. The early game focuses on accelerating mana with dense 2-drop artifacts while casting low-cost robots and token generators to rapidly increase Speed. By Turn 4, the engine is fully assembled, enabling Mendicant Core to pressure life totals and reach Max Speed to copy incoming artifact spells. Between Turns 6 and 9, the deck converts this board into a lethal combat clock using evasive enablers like Whirler Rogue, Mechanical Glider, and Rogue's Passage, alongside haymakers like Riptide Gearhulk and Guidelight Synergist. While resilient to targeted removal thanks to boots and efficient countermagic, the deck relies primarily on fair combat steps and remains vulnerable to artifact board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aether Syphon
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Aetherjacket
  • 1 Air Response Unit
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avishkar Raceway
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Camera Launcher
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Detention Chariot
  • 1 Diversion Unit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fountainport Bell
  • 1 Fugitive Droid
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Guidelight Matrix
  • 1 Guidelight Optimizer
  • 1 Guidelight Pathmaker
  • 1 Guidelight Synergist
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Hulldrifter
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mechanical Glider
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nesting Bot
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Snare
  • 1 Pit Automaton
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Racers' Scoreboard
  • 1 Rangers' Refueler
  • 1 Reef Roads
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scrap Compactor
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slick Imitator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spikeshell Harrier
  • 1 Spotcycle Scouter
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Starting Column
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thopter Fabricator
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Tune Up
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Voyager Glidecar
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Walking Sarcophagus
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whirler Rogue