Final Mendicant Deck by Deadsolitude

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact midrange build commanded by Mendicant Core, Guidelight. It accelerates its mana using low-cost mana rocks, artifact lands, and cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and Foundry Inspector. The deck maintains exceptional card flow through engines like Vedalken Archmage, Fateful Discovery, and Mystic Forge. After building a dense board of utility artifacts and tokens, it transitions into lethal combat threats around Turn 6. Key closers include Cyberdrive Awakener turning all noncreature artifacts into 4/4 flying constructs, Kuldotha Forgemaster cheating out Blightsteel Colossus, and Krang, Utrom Warlord providing team-wide evasion, trample, and indestructible. The deck controls opposing creature boards with efficient single-target exile like Swords to Plowshares and Dispatch, as well as one-sided board wipes like Organic Extinction and Desynchronization. While vulnerable to mass artifact exile effects and lacking stack counterspells, the deck boasts high redundancy, swift recovery, and compounding artifact value.

Decklist (105 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Artificer Class
  • 1 Avishkar Raceway
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Buzz Bots
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fugitive Droid
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Grand Architect
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Iron Man, Bleeding Edge
  • 1 Iron Man, Modern Marvel
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Machine God's Effigy
  • 1 Malcator's Watcher
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Oaken Siren
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Racers' Scoreboard
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Column
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Steelswarm Operator
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Swooping Lookout
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm