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A lesson in Artifice
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Est deck cost: $615.56
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Commander

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Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Tap an untapped nontoken artifact you control: Add {G}. Tap two untapped nontoken artifacts you control: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.

Creature
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity (dmu) 206

Commander

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Land

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Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (jmp) 491
Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (blc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
Commercial District

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Commercial District (mkm) 259
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (c18) 241
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (bro) 287
Game Trail

As this land enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Game Trail (blc) 306
Great Furnace

{T}: Add {R}.

Artifact Land
Great Furnace (plst) C18-250
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (bro) 284
Rockfall Vale

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (inr) 282
Rootbound Crag

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

Land
Rootbound Crag (drc) 168
Slagwoods Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Slagwoods Bridge (drc) 171
Spire Garden

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

Land
Spire Garden (clb) 361
Spire of Industry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

Land
Spire of Industry (drc) 172
Stomping Ground

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

Land
Stomping Ground (gtc) 247
Tree of Tales

{T}: Add {G}.

Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (dsc) 319
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
Wooded Foothills

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

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 361

Land

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Removal

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Anger of the Gods

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Sorcery
Anger of the Gods (2x2) 102
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (lcc) 233
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (sta) 36
Dragonspark Reactor

Whenever this artifact or another artifact you control enters, put a charge counter on this artifact. {4}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target player and that much damage to up to one target creature.

Artifact
Dragonspark Reactor (neo) 137
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
Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Meteor Golem (m20) 232
Pyrite Spellbomb

{R}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to any target. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Pyrite Spellbomb (plst) DDU-60
Shatterskull Smashing

Sorcery
Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass (znr) 161Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass (znr) 161
Shrapnel Blast

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to any target.

Instant
Shrapnel Blast (ddu) 48

Removal

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Combo pieces

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (brr) 65
Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Basalt Monolith (2xm) 232
Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Artifact
Mystic Forge (brr) 99
Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (plst) EMA-232
Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap this artifact. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life. {3}, {T}: Untap target creature. {4}, {T}: Tap target creature. {5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Artifact
Staff of Domination (brr) 119

Combo pieces

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Protection

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Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 214
Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant

Flash If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. {4}, {T}, Exile Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant: Return to the battlefield tapped all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Artifact
Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant (dmc) 17
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Snakeskin Veil (sta) 57
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Veil of Summer (plst) M20-198
Welding Jar

Sacrifice this artifact: Regenerate target artifact.

Artifact
Welding Jar (2xm) 307

Protection

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Stax

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Lodestone Golem

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature Artifact
Lodestone Golem (brr) 92
Phyrexian Revoker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Revoker (brr) 103
Vexing Bauble

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Vexing Bauble (mh3) 212

Stax

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Creatures

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Rootwire Amalgam

Prototype {1}{G} — 2/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) {3}{G}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Create an X/X colorless Golem artifact creature token, where X is three times this creature's power. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Rootwire Amalgam (bro) 203
Shimmer Myr

Flash You may cast artifact spells as though they had flash.

Creature Artifact
Shimmer Myr (cmm) 409
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (aer) 181
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (brr) 126

Creatures

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Blinkmoth Urn

At the beginning of each player's first main phase, if this artifact is untapped, that player adds {C} for each artifact they control.

Artifact
Blinkmoth Urn (c18) 197
Gruul Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Artifact
Gruul Signet (blc) 273
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Sarinth Greatwurm

Trample Whenever a land enters, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Creature
Sarinth Greatwurm (bro) 220
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
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
Talisman of Impulse

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Impulse (blc) 287

Ramp

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Trinkets

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Chromatic Sphere

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card.

Artifact
Chromatic Sphere (jmp) 462
Chromatic Star

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Chromatic Star (brr) 74
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (c14) 239
Ichor Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Ichor Wellspring (brr) 84
Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Manifold Key (m20) 230
Mishra's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Artifact
Mishra's Bauble (brr) 97
Mycosynth Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Mycosynth Wellspring (c16) 262
Ornithopter

Flying

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter (dmr) 233
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 (brr) 117
Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (m21) 241

Trinkets

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Dig

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Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying, haste Whenever Chiss-Goria attacks, exile the top five cards of your library. You may cast an artifact spell from among them this turn. If you do, it has affinity for artifacts.

Creature
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant (onc) 25
Saheeli's Directive

Improvise (Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Saheeli's Directive (c18) 26
Sarinth Steelseeker

Whenever an artifact you control enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature
Sarinth Steelseeker (bro) 189
Thran Spider

Reach When this creature enters, you and target opponent each create a tapped Powerstone token. {7}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact 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
Thran Spider (bro) 254

Dig

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Goblin Welder

{T}: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.

Creature
Goblin Welder (cm2) 101
Myr Retriever

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

Creature Artifact
Myr Retriever (plst) CM2-203
Scrap Trawler

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Creature Artifact
Scrap Trawler (brr) 112

Recursion

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Tutor

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Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 433
Goblin Engineer

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. {R}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Goblin Engineer (plst) MH1-128
Reckless Handling

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, shuffle, then discard a card at random. If an artifact card was discarded this way, Reckless Handling deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Reckless Handling (mat) 19

Tutor

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Draw

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Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact
Howling Mine (brr) 83

Draw

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Reduction

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Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Cloud Key (brr) 75
Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (brr) 79
Jhoira's Familiar

Flying Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature Artifact
Jhoira's Familiar (2xm) 265
The Immortal Sun

Players can't activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities. At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Artifact
The Immortal Sun (cmm) 393

Reduction

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Untap

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Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (brr) 124

Untap

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