Oswald by user6238709

Format: Commander

Commander: Oswald Fiddlebender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive artifact toolbox strategy commanded by Oswald Fiddlebender. Oswald acts as a repeatable Birthing Pod for artifacts, converting low-cost fodder like Memnite and Arcbound Worker into high-impact engine pieces such as Steel Overseer, The Ozolith, and Skullclamp. The deck leverages modular creatures to distribute +1/+1 counters continuously across the board, ensuring that spot removal simply transfers power to surviving threats. As the artifact chain climbs, heavy hitters like Bronze Guardian, Traxos, Scourge of Kroog, and Thousand Moons Smithy apply immense combat pressure, while Abzan Falconer grants evasion to close games out. A resilient recursion suite featuring Scrap Trawler, Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle, and Myr Retriever ensures that destroyed pieces quickly return to hand or battlefield. While the deck lacks stack interaction and fast infinite combos, its dense synergy, redundant tutor chains, and board-wide resilience make it a potent, compounding combat engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Crusher
  • 1 Arcbound Lancer
  • 1 Arcbound Mouser
  • 1 Arcbound Overseer
  • 1 Arcbound Prototype
  • 1 Arcbound Ravager
  • 1 Arcbound Reclaimer
  • 1 Arcbound Slith
  • 1 Arcbound Stinger
  • 1 Arcbound Worker
  • 1 Auriok Salvagers
  • 1 Autonomous Assembler
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Chromatic Star
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Crystalline Giant
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Dawn of a New Age
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Frogmite
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Junk Diver
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mindless Automaton
  • 1 Myr Enforcer
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 20 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Salvaging Station
  • 1 Scourglass
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Scrapyard Recombiner
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Sheltering Light
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Steel Seraph
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tempered Steel
  • 1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Welding Jar