SPEEDY BOY (budget edition) by Syldarion

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact-centric strategy led by Mendicant Core, Guidelight. The primary plan leverages low-cost mana rocks, cost reducers, and artifact lands to establish an early board presence by turn 4. Once assembled, the deck increases its speed counter through early combat chip damage while flooding the battlefield with artifact tokens via Sai, Master Thopterist, Efficient Construction, and Digsite Engineer. This token swarm simultaneously inflates the power of the commander and redundant artifact-scaling threats like Master of Etherium, Bronze Guardian, and Kappa Cannoneer. The critical onset arrives around turn 6, utilizing mass evasion or overrun effects like Cyberdrive Awakener and March of Progress to close out the table across turns 6 to 8. Robust targeted protection and powerful mass recursion spells give the deck strong mid-game resilience against spot removal and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Brilliant Restoration
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Cephalopod Sentry
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Digsite Engineer
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Diversion Unit
  • 1 Efficient Construction
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fugitive Droid
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Guidelight Optimizer
  • 1 Guidelight Pathmaker
  • 1 Guidelight Synergist
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 March of Progress
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nesting Bot
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Snare
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Whirler Rogue