Fusion Core by SearingLumber

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact midrange engine commanded by Mendicant Core, Guidelight. It leverages low-cost artifact acceleration, cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and Foundry Inspector, and token generators like Sai, Master Thopterist and Illustrious Wanderglyph to flood the board with artifacts. As your artifact count grows, your commander scales in power and eventually copies every cast artifact spell once max speed is unlocked. The primary route to victory converts broad board states into lethal aerial combat damage via Cyberdrive Awakener, The Antiquities War, or Master of Etherium buffs, alongside tall threats like Kappa Cannoneer and Bronze Guardian. The deck is reinforced by an efficient interaction suite including Dispatch, Swords to Plowshares, and Dovin's Veto, alongside defensive shielding from Flawless Maneuver, Padeem, Consul of Innovation, and Defense Grid. While vulnerable to mass artifact sweepers, its dense redundancy and recursion ensure steady board presence and relentless combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Leonardo da Vinci
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Oaken Siren
  • 1 Oltec Matterweaver
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Patchwork Automaton
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Retrofitter Foundry
  • 1 Reverse Engineer
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
  • 1 The Antiquities War
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Whirler Rogue