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Bant Robots
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Est deck cost: $602.76
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Commander

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Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ishai. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker (cm2) 12
Kamahl, Heart of Krosa

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. {1}{G}: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes a 1/1 Elemental creature with vigilance, indestructible, and haste. It's still a land. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kamahl, Heart of Krosa (cmr) 237

Commander

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Draw

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Aether Channeler

When this creature enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying. • Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Creature
Aether Channeler (j25) 283
Dour Port-Mage

Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying, draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Dour Port-Mage (blb) 47
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (j25) 373

Draw

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Ramp

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Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (blc) 250
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 159
Farhaven Elf

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Farhaven Elf (ltc) 243
Scampering Surveyor

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Scampering Surveyor (lci) 260
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (drc) 138
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (ltc) 263

Ramp

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Tutor

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Brightglass Gearhulk

First strike, trample When this creature enters, you may search your library for up to two artifact, creature, and/or enchantment cards with mana value 1 or less, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Brightglass Gearhulk (dft) 191
Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Chord of Calling (rvr) 134
Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52
Step Through

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands. Wizardcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Step Through (mh2) 66
Transit Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 4 or 5, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Transit Mage (dft) 70
Treasure Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Treasure Mage (plst) DDU-40
Trinket Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trinket Mage (plst) DDU-41
Vedalken Aethermage

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand. Wizardcycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Vedalken Aethermage (fut) 61
Wargate

Search your library for a permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Wargate (plst) ARB-129
Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49

Tutor

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Land

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (2xm) 309
Bountiful Promenade

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Bountiful Promenade (clb) 348
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (blc) 296
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lrw) 301
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (drc) 159
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (drc) 160
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lrw) 287
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (drc) 166
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (lrw) 282
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (drc) 167
Razortide Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (mh2) 252
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (mkc) 288
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Sunpetal Grove

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (blc) 335
Tanglepool Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Tanglepool Bridge (mh2) 257
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 290
Thornglint Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Artifact Land
Thornglint Bridge (mh2) 258
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235

Land

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Recursion

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (j25) 285
Archaeomender

When this creature enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomender (jmp) 9
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) When Emry enters, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (brc) 81
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (voc) 90
Redress Fate

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Miracle {3}{W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Redress Fate (dsc) 9
Scholar of the Lost Trove

Flying When this creature enters, you may cast target instant, sorcery, or artifact card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If an instant or sorcery spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (blc) 157

Recursion

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Copy

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Sculpting Steel

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

Artifact
Sculpting Steel (moc) 374

Copy

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Lifegain

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (fdn) 137
Filigree Angel

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 3 life for each artifact you control.

Creature Artifact
Filigree Angel (plst) ARB-6

Lifegain

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Angel of the Ruins

Flying When this creature enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Angel of the Ruins (blc) 134
Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Vigilance When this creature enters, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature Artifact
Cataclysmic Gearhulk (moc) 176
Frilled Mystic

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

Creature
Frilled Mystic (rvr) 183
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (woc) 94
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (dsc) 247
Riptide Gearhulk

Double strike Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, put up to one target nonland permanent that player controls into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature Artifact
Riptide Gearhulk (dft) 219
Scourglass

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate only during your upkeep.

Artifact
Scourglass (ala) 25
Solitude

Flash Lifelink When this creature enters, exile up to one other target creature. That creature's controller gains life equal to its power. Evoke—Exile a white card from your hand.

Creature
Solitude (mh2) 32
Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (drc) 139
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (snc) 66

Removal

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Counters

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Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (pip) 200
The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237
Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample When this creature enters, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Verdurous Gearhulk (mic) 145

Counters

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Protection

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Clever Concealment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Instant
Clever Concealment (onc) 5
Gandalf the White

Flash You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Gandalf the White (ltr) 19
Guardian of Faith

Flash Vigilance When this creature enters, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Creature
Guardian of Faith (afr) 18
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

Flash Flying You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.

Creature Artifact
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter (bro) 237
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 317

Protection

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Tokens

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Canoptek Scarab Swarm

Flying Feeder Mandibles — When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard. For each artifact or land card exiled this way, create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Canoptek Scarab Swarm (40k) 150
Illustrious Wanderglyph

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Other artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Illustrious Wanderglyph (lcc) 9

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Maybeboard

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Arcanist's Owl

Flying When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact or enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature Artifact
Arcanist's Owl (nec) 135
Galepowder Mage

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Galepowder Mage (clb) 694
Golden Argosy

Whenever Golden Argosy attacks, exile each creature that crewed it this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Golden Argosy (dmu) 230
Niko, Light of Hope

When Niko enters, create two Shard tokens. (They're enchantments with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Scry 1, then draw a card.") {2}, {T}: Exile target nonlegendary creature you control. Shards you control become copies of it until the next end step. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Niko, Light of Hope (dsk) 224

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Deck Info

Deck stats

37 pips - 24 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
34 pips - 27 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
18 pips - 12 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
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3 mana - 2 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Idea for the deck was to originally build around the Gearhulks - Brightglass Gearhulk opened up interesting options as a new toolbox, and Riptide Gearhulk is a bit of a house as removal. \n\nWith the base as the Gearhulks, I looked into ways of reusing their ETBs and settled on both a flicker package, as well as a flash package. \nThe general gameplan is to use the suite of conditional tutors in the deck to either find outs to particular problems, or to set up momentum plays with flash enablers or repeated ETB engines.\n\nThe new Transit Mage gave a key MV to play around in the 4 and 5 slot, tutoring all the Gearhulks in the deck, as well as a flash enabler, ETB engine, ramp, removal potential wincons. Brightglass played with the 1 MV slot, and some redundancy in Trinket Mage, to pull some silver bullets. Treasure Mage rounded the package with some top end resiliency.\n\nWith the mages set, I added the 2 wizard cycling cards in Vedalken Aethermage and Step Through to increase consistency of primarily Transit mage. This also let me add a small wizard package, either directly contributing to the gameplan in Dour Port-Mage or Kykar, Zephyr Awakener, or providing recursion / interaction with Archaeomender / Frilled Mystic. In particular, Gandalf the White acts as another key piece, being a flash enabler with a trigger doubler attached for our artifacts.\n\nCreature and Artifact tutors that either put to hand or directly onto the battlefield, as well as some good ETB ramp and mass blink rounded out the list. Almost every card is directly tutorable or interacts with the engine directly, with the exceptions being Teleportation Circle as another blink enabler, and the instants like Eerie Interlude for protection or value. \n\nWith the deck fleshed out, I chose Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker and Kamahl, Heart of Krosa as a partner pairing for the command zone. This pairing added an evasive beater as an early game threat for my opponents to deal with, as well as a late game finisher which I felt the deck lacked. I tossed up using Kodama of the East Tree but it didn't solve a problem I think the deck had. \n\nIt also let me add a small +1/+1 counter package, tutorable off either Brightglass / Trinket Mage / Transit mage, letting me increase the threat of Ishai or Verdurous Gearhulk if I felt the table was weak to either option\n"}]}
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