The Mechanist, The Quick Thinker by FatedHour2710

Format: Commander

Commander: The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This is a mono-blue artifact-token control deck led by The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan. Noncreature spells create Clues, and the commander can animate one artifact token as a 3/1 flying Construct. The main supported finish is Mechanized Production enchanting a Clue. Its upkeep copies eventually create eight Clues with the same name and win the game on turn 12 if the engine survives. The deck has good access to cheap selection, a substantial counterspell package, bounce, and several artifact mana sources. Its main problems are the lack of tutoring for the singleton win Aura, limited early acceleration, and the long exposure window after the Aura resolves. Creature attacks can provide pressure, but the list does not reliably produce enough power or haste to replace the alternate win. The deck can play a reasonable draw-go game at casual and mid-power tables, but it cannot consistently race fast combo decks or protect a twelve-turn setup against concentrated interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Amazing Acrobatics
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Argentum Masticore
• 1 Atmosphere Surgeon
• 1 Automated Artificer
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Bewitching Leechcraft
• 1 Blade of Shared Souls
• 1 Brineborn Cutthroat
• 1 Cancel
• 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
• 1 Chronic Flooding
• 1 Clinquant Skymage
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Curious Inquiry
• 1 Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths
• 1 Deny Entry
• 1 Dictate of Kruphix
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Dissipate
• 1 Eaten by Piranhas
• 1 Escaped Experiment
• 1 Essence Capture
• 1 Ever-Watching Threshold
• 1 Experimental Augury
• 1 Geistwave
• 1 Haunted Fengraf
• 1 Into the Roil
• 30 Island
• 1 It'll Quench Ya!
• 1 Jace Reawakened
• 1 Jaded Analyst
• 1 Lost in the Spirit World
• 1 Malcator's Watcher
• 1 Mechanized Production
• 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1 Mesmerizing Dose
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mischievous Mystic
• 1 Network Terminal
• 1 Opt
• 1 Peel from Reality
• 1 Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
• 1 Procrastinate
• 1 Quick Study
• 1 Reasonable Doubt
• 1 Reject Imperfection
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Secrets of the Key
• 1 Seer's Lantern
• 1 Seer's Sundial
• 1 Serum Snare
• 1 Sky Diamond
• 1 Slate of Ancestry
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Starlight Snare
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Syncopate
• 1 Tamiyo's Compleation
• 1 Tamiyo's Logbook
• 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
• 1 The Surgical Bay
• 1 Trail of Evidence
• 1 Triskaidekaphile
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 Ur-Golem's Eye
• 1 Vivisection
• 1 Wishing Well
• 1 Wizard Replica