Mendicant, Budget by user8437874

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Mendicant Core, Guidelight captains a Blue/White artifact-token value deck. The plan is to establish a critical mass of artifacts, reach max speed with cheap attackers, and then pay {1} to copy artifact spells, doubling up on ramp, draw, and board presence. Sai, Master Thopterist, Efficient Construction, and Thopter Spy Network generate a steady stream of Thopters, while cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor, Foundry Inspector, and Cloud Key allow multi-spell turns. The deck wins by animating the board with Cyberdrive Awakener or The Antiquities War, or by using Mechanized Production on a Thopter or Myr token and reaching eight same-name artifacts. The commander is a high-value amplifier rather than a required combo piece; the 99 is dense with artifact recursion, draw, and value engines that function independently.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Efficient Construction
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fugitive Droid
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Guidelight Pathmaker
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Memories of Nibelheim
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nesting Bot
  • 1 Orbital Vibranium Bomb
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Snare
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Racers' Scoreboard
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
  • 1 The Antiquities War
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder