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Machinist Y'shtola (Artifacts)
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Commander

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Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Vigilance At the beginning of each end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, you draw a card. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed (fic) 215

Commander

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Ramp/Reducer

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (p30m) 1P
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (brr) 73
Chromatic Orrery

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}{C}. {5}, {T}: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

Artifact
Chromatic Orrery (m21) 228
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
Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (m3c) 287
Etherium Sculptor

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

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (ala) 42
Foundry Inspector

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

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (brr) 16
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (3ed) 263
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (peld) 54s
Semblance Anvil

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Semblance Anvil (brr) 52
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pfdn) 1
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 (m21) 319
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
The Celestus

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as The Celestus enters. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {3}, {T}: If it's night, it becomes day. Otherwise, it becomes night. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, you gain 1 life. You may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Artifact
The Celestus (dbl) 252
The Mightstone and Weakstone

When The Mightstone and Weakstone enters, choose one — • Draw two cards. • Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. {T}: Add {C}{C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. (Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.)

Artifact
The Mightstone and Weakstone (bro) 238a
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (pip) 251
Urza, Lord Protector

Artifact, instant, and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {7}: If you both own and control Urza, Lord Protector and an artifact named The Mightstone and Weakstone, exile them, then meld them into Urza, Planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Urza, Lord Protector (bro) 225

Ramp/Reducer

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Utility/Copy

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Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Artifact
Lithoform Engine (znr) 245
Master Transmuter

{U}, {T}, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Master Transmuter (plst) CON-31
Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Mendicant Core's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control. Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Max speed — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)

Creature Artifact
Mendicant Core, Guidelight (dft) 213
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 503
The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {X}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

Land
The Mycosynth Gardens (pone) 256p
Unwinding Clock

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

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (brr) 124
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (m15) 248
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 399

Utility/Copy

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Card Advantage

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (plst) ORI-221
Chimil, the Inner Sun

Spells you control can't be countered. At the beginning of your end step, discover 5. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Artifact
Chimil, the Inner Sun (plci) 249p
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play historic lands and cast historic spells from the top of your library. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass (acr) 15
Curiosity

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Curiosity (isd) 49
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 328
Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Creature
Forensic Gadgeteer (mkm) 57
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 25
Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Creature
Sai, Master Thopterist (cmm) 118
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 (2x2) 398
Shorikai, Genesis Engine

{1}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card. Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 8 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 8 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) Shorikai, Genesis Engine can be your commander.

Artifact
Shorikai, Genesis Engine (nec) 4
The Aetherspark

As long as The Aetherspark is attached to a creature, The Aetherspark can't be attacked and has "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage during your turn, put that many loyalty counters on The Aetherspark." +1: Attach The Aetherspark to up to one target creature you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. −5: Draw two cards. −10: Add ten mana of any one color.

Artifact Planeswalker
The Aetherspark (dft) 231
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
The Reality Chip

You may look at the top card of your library any time. As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
The Reality Chip (neo) 374
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 (mkc) 121

Card Advantage

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Recursion

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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
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 (mul) 74
Tameshi, Reality Architect

Whenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {X}{W}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tameshi, Reality Architect (neo) 375
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (m13) 220

Recursion

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Wincons

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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
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (pwar) 79
Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Displacer Kitten (mb2) 27
Grafted Exoskeleton

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Whenever Grafted Exoskeleton becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent. Equip {2}

Artifact
Grafted Exoskeleton (som) 162
Portal to Phyrexia

When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Portal to Phyrexia (bro) 240
Simulacrum Synthesizer

When this artifact enters, scry 2. Whenever another artifact you control with mana value 3 or greater enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Artifact
Simulacrum Synthesizer (big) 6
Thousand Moons Smithy

Artifact
Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand (lci) 357Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand (lci) 357
Urza, Lord High Artificer

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}. {5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Urza, Lord High Artificer (dmr) 296

Wincons

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (uma) 236
Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (40k) 264
Archway of Innovation

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
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 (ktk) 233
Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand. {T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Land
Gemstone Caverns (tsr) 280
Glimmervoid

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Glimmervoid (mrd) 281
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (gtc) 242
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 (rna) 251
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 288
Marsh Flats

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

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Muraganda Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Muraganda Raceway (dft) 426
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 507
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (m3c) 365
Raffine's Tower

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

Land
Raffine's Tower (psnc) 254p
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (sld) 301
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 (nec) 178
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (mkc) 299
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 509
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (gtc) 249

Land

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Removal/Interaction

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (ltc) 265
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 281
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rtr) 35
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 507
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 365
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (cmm) 624
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (cmr) 80
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (woe) 33

Removal/Interaction

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Protection

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Conqueror's Flail

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Conqueror's Flail (c16) 53
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (thb) 236
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 58
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (sld) 1691

Protection

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Tutors

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 412
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 (kld) 247
Tezzeret the Seeker

+1: Untap up to two target artifacts. −X: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. −5: Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Planeswalker
Tezzeret the Seeker (mm2) 62
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (wc99) js161

Tutors

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Maybeboard

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Phyresis

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment
Phyresis (mbs) 49
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (mkc) 116

Maybeboard

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Tokens & Extras

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Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (tsoi) 11
Construct

This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.

Creature Artifact Token
Construct (tbro) 5
Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tclb) 19
Elephant

Creature Token
Elephant (tcma) 10
Gnome Soldier

This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts and/or creatures you control.

Creature Artifact Token
Gnome Soldier (tlci) 3
Human

Creature Token
Human (twoe) 2
Pilot

This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater.

Creature Token
Pilot (tdft) 1
Thopter

Flying

Creature Artifact Token
Thopter (tkld) 8
Urza, Planeswalker

You may activate the loyalty abilities of Urza twice each turn rather than only once. +2: Artifact, instant, and sorcery spells you cast this turn cost {2} less to cast. You gain 2 life. +1: Draw two cards, then discard a card. 0: Create two 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature tokens. −3: Exile target nonland permanent. −10: Artifacts and planeswalkers you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Destroy all nonland permanents.

Planeswalker
Urza, Planeswalker (bro) 238b

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Deck Info

Deck stats

14 pips - 12 cards
21 mana - 18 cards
29 pips - 24 cards
31 mana - 28 cards
8 pips - 6 cards
21 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
28 mana - 17 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"\tHello! Welcome to my Y'shtola artifact deck, currently everything is a work in progress as I learn and play more with this commander. You may notice I don't heavily lean into dealing 4 damage every turn as other decks, this is because I don't want to fully rely on my commander. \n\n\tThis deck is around a 4 with the new system, we run lots of fast mana, tutors, and some free counter spells though we typically avoid instant wins and infinites (It's an artifact deck so there are plenty of infinites hidden within that I generally avoid.)\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"General playstyle"},{"insert":"\n\tThis deck focuses on early ramp artifacts, plus cost reducers to let us play tons of powerful spells. Once we have that going we can play Y'shtola for card draw/burn, and try to use our good card draw to find heavily game changing effects like Bolas Citadel, Displacer Kitten, Portal to Phyrexia, or almost any card value engines. Once you get big enough it almost becomes to hard to fail unless opponents use their removal well. This deck is incredibly resilient with a subtle graveyard theme, and can generally recover pretty well from targeted hate. Our Removal is decent but more on the light side as I prefer to hold removal very selfishly. Truthfully our deck does not do much turn 1/2, we may have some plays but our deck starts to really come to life around turn 3 unless we hit some early fast mana. To be fair this deck could be stronger but I personally love big silly legendary artifacts and thats what I choose to build around for the 3+ cmc spells of choice, nothing is more fun than dropping big silly artifacts and watch everyone struggle to stop you.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Wincons"},{"insert":"\nBolas Citadel + Y'shtola/Sensei's Diving Top: Casts spells for free and gain most of it back from our commander, letting us vomit cards onto the board until we hit lands. This is fixed with the top letting us cast most our library"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nGrafted Exoskeleton: This card gives our commander infect, meaning every 3+ cmc spell gives all our opponents two infect counters. Play 5 spells and boom everyone's poisoned to death :3 Thankfully this artifact is easy to recur unless exiled."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nCombat Damage: This one is a bit more vague but using cards like Simulacrum synthesizer while playing spells or bouncing artifacts with Displacer kitten lets us make a massive army, throw in Urza, High Lord Artificer, and Urza's Saga to make even more constructs. Portal to Phyrexia can also let us borrow creatures for victory, and bouncing it with Displacer kitten becomes a very evil mass creature removal. Almost forgot to add that Tezzeret the Seeker's -5 lets us make our entire board into 5/5's. (Added) Thousand Moon Smithy is also another amazing combat damage card."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nAetherflux Reservoir: We all know it, we all hate it. This is the storm wincon ever, play cheap artifacts to build up life. Then just fucking laser people in the face for 50, it can be a little tough at times to play 10+ spells a turn in this deck but still the artifact recursion makes it a tough target to permanently remove barring exile effects. Throw in a paradoxical outcome to draw tons of cards and bounce a bunch of cheap artifacts back letting us vomit them back out stacking our burn with Y'shtola or Life gain with Aetherflux."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Important Cards to Mention"},{"insert":"\nDisplacer Kitten: Kind of the MVP, this deck is filled with enter the battlefield effects and this card is a literal beast. Bounce cards like Thought Monitor/Coveted Jewel/The Mightstone/The One Ring to draw tons of cards, Bounce cards like Portal to Phyrexia to decimate opponents creatures, Bounce Tezzeret or any mana rock to make tons of extra mana, and of course you can bounce Urza, Lord high Artificer, and Simulacrum Synthesizer + a 3+cmc artifact to make a insanely high power army."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nEmry, Lurker of the Loch: While not our only artifact recursion card no one does it better that the lil fish girl, having access to your graveyard with just the tap of a creature feels insanely nice making any destroy effects less powerful against us. Honorable Mentions to Academy Ruins, and Yawgmoth's will for letting us also recur some important artifacts. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nUnwinding Clock: Untapping on other players turns? Well of course we'd have seedborn in colorless, this card can let us grind so much extra value. Set up a few mana rocks, and every untap you can tap out to sink mana into Urza, Lord High Artificer, Chromatic Orrery, Staff of Domination, Sai, Master Thopterist, Clue Tokens, or any spell that's been given flash!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nCuriosity: Probably the one of the strongest effects that benefit from our commander doing direct damage, now every 3+ cmc spell we play draws us up too three cards as a MAY trigger meaning you have control of the triggers. This on Y'shtola becomes a must remove card."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nShadow Spear: Similar to Curiosity, once equipped all 3+ cmc spells now gain us up too 6 life which is crazy good with Aetherflux/Bolas Citadel and at worst gives us more time to find wincons."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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