Ashad Counter Artifacts by mikeb

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashad, the Lone Cyberman

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an artifact combo-control list helmed by Ashad, the Lone Cyberman, functioning as a versatile artifact engine with multiple redundant paths to infinite mana, card draw, and game-ending payoffs. While Ashad offers casualty duplication for nonlegendary artifacts and grows with creature sacrifices, the core strategy operates largely independently of the command zone. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using efficient mana rocks, cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor, and utility lands before deploying sustained card-flow engines such as Mystic Forge, The Reality Chip, or Emry, Lurker of the Loch. Win conditions center around modular infinite loops, including Metalworker with Voltaic Construct, Sensei's Divining Top with Mystic Forge, and Krark-Clan Ironworks recursion loops. These engines draw the entire library and produce infinite mana to terminate the game immediately via Glaring Fleshraker, The Cyber-Controller, or Blasting Station. Robust stack interaction and extensive graveyard recursion provide resilience against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Reclaimer
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Arcum Dagsson
  • 1 Ashad, the Lone Cyberman
  • 1 Ashnod the Uncaring
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Biotransference
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Imotekh the Stormlord
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Metallic Rebuke
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
  • 1 Salvaging Station
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrap Mastery
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Scrapyard Recombiner
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Summoning Station
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Voltaic Construct
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Withering Torment