[Video Guide] This Commander BREAKS Artifacts! ⚙️🔧🤖

Format: Commander

Commander: Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact engine strategy built around Mendicant Core, Guidelight. The primary plan uses cheap evasive attackers and chip damage to rapidly reach Max Speed. Once Max Speed is active, the commander duplicates every artifact spell cast for a single mana. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents with massive board states generated by Construct and Gnome token engines like Simulacrum Synthesizer and Thousand Moons Smithy, or by animating artifacts using Cyberdrive Awakener. Alternatively, the deck can draw into an infinite cast loop using Sensei's Divining Top, Mystic Forge, and cost reducers to cast the entire library and overwhelm the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Artificer's Assistant
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Digsite Engineer
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Diversion Unit
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fabrication Foundry
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gingerbrute
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hope of Ghirapur
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 K-9, Mark I
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Lonely Arroyo
  • 1 March of Progress
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Oltec Matterweaver
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reality Heist
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Silver Raven
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Unctus, Grand Metatect
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm