Tinker Time

Format: Commander

Commander: Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Temur artifact midrange deck leverages Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy to turn diverse artifact token production into a growing army of trampling Gremlins. The deck runs a wide array of token generators that produce uniquely named artifacts, including Clues, Food, Treasures, Servos, Thopters, and Blood. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost rocks and establishing 2 to 4 distinct token types. Once Gimbal enters on Turn 5, each subsequent end step produces an increasingly large trample threat. The deck converts this token mass into a table finish around Turns 6 to 8 using mass pump spells, token animation like overloaded Rise and Shine, or evasive beaters like Hellkite Igniter and Sharding Sphinx. While resilient to single-target removal thanks to redundant token producers, the deck lacks dedicated spell tutors and cheap stack protection, leaving it reliant on natural card flow and susceptible to sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aid from the Cowl
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Combine Chrysalis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crack Open
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Cutthroat Negotiator
  • 1 Dance with Calamity
  • 1 Echo Storm
  • 1 Everquill Phoenix
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fractured Powerstone
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghirapur Aether Grid
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Hedron Detonator
  • 1 Hellkite Igniter
  • 1 Ichor Elixir
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Masterful Replication
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Pain Distributor
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of the Animist
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
  • 1 Rashmi and Ragavan
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Replicating Ring
  • 1 Reverse Engineer
  • 1 Rise and Shine
  • 1 Root Out
  • 1 Saheeli's Artistry
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Sandsteppe War Riders
  • 1 Schema Thief
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 1 Struggle // Survive
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thopter Assembly
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Vampires' Vengeance
  • 1 Vedalken Humiliator
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Weirding Wood
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Workshop Elders