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($80) Dr. Madison Li: A Theoretical Degree in Physics (6)
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Est deck cost: $118.66
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Dr. Madison Li

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay {E}: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample and haste until end of turn. {T}, Pay {E}{E}{E}: Draw a card. {T}, Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}{E}: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Dr. Madison Li (pip) 3

Commander

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Synergy Etc.

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Aether Theorist

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). {T}, Pay {E}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Aether Theorist (kld) 37
Aetherstorm Roc

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you get {E} (an energy counter). Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {E}{E}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it and tap up to one target creature defending player controls.

Creature
Aetherstorm Roc (kld) 3
Assaultron Dominator

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Whenever an artifact creature you control attacks, you may pay {E}. If you do, put your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or trample counter on that creature.

Creature Artifact
Assaultron Dominator (pip) 54
Automated Assembly Line

Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you get {E} (an energy counter). Pay {E}{E}{E}: Create a tapped 3/3 colorless Robot artifact creature token.

Artifact
Automated Assembly Line (pip) 10
Brotherhood Scribe

Metalcraft — {T}: You get {E} (an energy counter). Activate only if you control three or more artifacts. Whenever you get one or more {E} during your turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Brotherhood Scribe (pip) 13
Brotherhood Vertibird

Flying Brotherhood Vertibird's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control. Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or greater: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Brotherhood Vertibird (pip) 128
Decoction Module

Whenever a creature you control enters, you get {E} (an energy counter). {4}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Artifact
Decoction Module (kld) 205
Elder Owyn Lyons

Artifacts you control have ward {1}. (Whenever an artifact you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) When Elder Owyn Lyons enters or dies, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Elder Owyn Lyons (pip) 103
Glassblower's Puzzleknot

When this artifact enters, scry 2, then you get {E}{E}. (You get two energy counters. To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) {2}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Scry 2, then you get {E}{E}.

Artifact
Glassblower's Puzzleknot (kld) 217
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (pip) 233
Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Enchantment
Mechanized Production (pip) 178
Open the Vaults

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)

Sorcery
Open the Vaults (pip) 168
Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick

Vigilance, lifelink Exile Paladin Danse: Each creature you control that's an artifact or Human gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick (pip) 20
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (pip) 237
Reckless Fireweaver

Whenever an artifact you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Reckless Fireweaver (kld) 126
Rex, Cyber-Hound

Whenever Rex deals combat damage to a player, they mill two cards and you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Pay {E}{E}: Choose target creature card in a graveyard. Exile it with a brain counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery. Rex has all activated abilities of all cards in exile with brain counters on them.

Creature Artifact
Rex, Cyber-Hound (pip) 117
Sentry Bot

Flash This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature attacking you. When this creature enters, you get {E} for each creature attacking you. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay {E}{E}{E}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Sentry Bot (pip) 24
T-45 Power Armor

When this Equipment enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {E}. If you do, untap equipped creature, then put your choice of a menace, trample, or lifelink counter on it. Equip {3}

Artifact
T-45 Power Armor (pip) 145
The Prydwen, Steel Flagship

Flying Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, create a 2/2 white Human Knight creature token with "This token gets +2/+2 as long as an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn." Crew 2

Artifact
The Prydwen, Steel Flagship (pip) 22
Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (one) 288
Wake the Past

Return all artifact cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Wake the Past (pip) 221
Whirler Virtuoso

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature
Whirler Virtuoso (kld) 190

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Arcade Gannon

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Put a quest counter on Arcade Gannon. For Auld Lang Syne — Once during each of your turns, you may cast an artifact or Human spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to the number of quest counters on Arcade Gannon.

Creature
Arcade Gannon (pip) 92
Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Chart a Course (lci) 48
Glimmer of Genius

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters).

Instant
Glimmer of Genius (pip) 176
Liberty Prime, Recharged

Vigilance, trample, haste Whenever Liberty Prime attacks or blocks, sacrifice it unless you pay {E}{E} (two energy counters). {2}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: You get {E}{E} and draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Liberty Prime, Recharged (pip) 416
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 (pip) 236
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (xln) 65
Runaway Boulder

Flash When this artifact enters, it deals 6 damage to target creature an opponent controls. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Runaway Boulder (lci) 259
Struggle for Project Purity

As this enchantment enters, choose Brotherhood or Enclave. • Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way. • Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.

Enchantment
Struggle for Project Purity (pip) 380
The Key to the Vault

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. Equip {2}{U}

Artifact
The Key to the Vault (otj) 373
Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (pip) 180
Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (pip) 193
Vault 112: Sadistic Simulation

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters). III — Pay any amount of {E}. If you paid one or more {E} this way, shuffle your library, then exile that many cards from the top. You may play one of those cards without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Vault 112: Sadistic Simulation (pip) 123

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Aethersquall Ancient

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay eight {E}: Return all other creatures to their owners' hands. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Aethersquall Ancient (kld) 39
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (pip) 156

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Land

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Aether Hub

When this land enters, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay {E}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Aether Hub (kld) 242
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (pip) 253
Buried Ruin

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

Land
Buried Ruin (pip) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (pip) 259
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (pip) 263
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (pip) 264
Ferrous Lake

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

Land
Ferrous Lake (pip) 148
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (pip) 266
HELIOS One

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: You get {E} (an energy counter). {3}, {T}, Pay X {E}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value X. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
HELIOS One (pip) 149
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (pip) 268
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (kld) 255
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (pip) 319
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (pip) 320
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (one) 275
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pip) 323
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pip) 324
Mystic Monastery

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

Land
Mystic Monastery (pip) 275
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 (pip) 279
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (pip) 317
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (pip) 318
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (pip) 280
Razortide Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (pip) 281
Rustvale Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Rustvale Bridge (pip) 285
Seachrome Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Seachrome Coast (one) 258
Silverbluff Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Silverbluff Bridge (pip) 290
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (pip) 291
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 (pip) 293
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (pip) 304
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (pip) 313
Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (pip) 526

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (pip) 224
Endurance Bobblehead

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {3}, {T}: Up to X target creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn, where X is the number of Bobbleheads you control as you activate this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Endurance Bobblehead (pip) 132
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 (pip) 230
Intelligence Bobblehead

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {5}, {T}: Draw X cards, where X is the number of Bobbleheads you control.

Artifact
Intelligence Bobblehead (pip) 134
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (pip) 235
Nuka-Cola Vending Machine

{1}, {T}: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Whenever you sacrifice a Food, create a tapped Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Nuka-Cola Vending Machine (pip) 137
Oaken Siren

Flying, vigilance {T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source.

Creature Artifact
Oaken Siren (lci) 66
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pip) 239
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 (pip) 240
Talisman of Conviction

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

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (pip) 243
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (pip) 244
Talisman of Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (pip) 249
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (pip) 251
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

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Crush Contraband

Choose one or both — • Exile target artifact. • Exile target enchantment.

Instant
Crush Contraband (pip) 158
Dispatch

Tap target creature. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

Instant
Dispatch (pip) 159
Electrosiphon

Counter target spell. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to its mana value.

Instant
Electrosiphon (pip) 104
Out of Air

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a creature spell. Counter target spell.

Instant
Out of Air (lci) 69
Plasma Caster

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Pay {E}{E}: Choose target creature that's blocking equipped creature. Flip a coin. If you win the flip, exile the chosen creature. Otherwise, this Equipment deals 1 damage to it. Equip {2}

Artifact
Plasma Caster (pip) 64
Siren Stormtamer

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Creature
Siren Stormtamer (xln) 79
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (xln) 81
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (pip) 173
Synth Eradicator

Haste Whenever this creature attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may get {E}{E} (two energy counters). If you don't, you may play that card this turn. {T}, Pay {E}{E}{E}: This creature deals 3 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Synth Eradicator (pip) 67
Synth Infiltrator

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Synth artifact creature in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Synth Infiltrator (pip) 40
The Motherlode, Excavator

When The Motherlode enters, choose target opponent. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls. Whenever The Motherlode attacks, you may pay {E}{E}{E}{E}. When you do, destroy target nonbasic land defending player controls, and creatures that player controls without flying can't block this turn.

Creature Artifact
The Motherlode, Excavator (pip) 62
Vault 13: Dweller's Journey

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — For each player, exile up to one other target enchantment or creature that player controls until this Saga leaves the battlefield. II — You gain 2 life and scry 2. III — Return two cards exiled with this Saga to the battlefield under their owners' control and put the rest on the bottom of their owners' libraries.

Enchantment
Vault 13: Dweller's Journey (pip) 26

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Deck Info

Deck stats

22 pips - 18 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
28 pips - 23 cards
29 mana - 29 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
14 pips - 12 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
14 mana - 13 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Largely an upgrade to the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Science! "},{"insert":"pre-con with some added utility and some old cards from Kaladesh (one of my favorite blocks). It's a bit faster than the original pre-con, and uses an accumulation of energy counters to substitute a lot of need for later (turn 5+) game mana sink. You can swap the commander out with Liberty Prime depending on what you're encountering, but a couple of the cards will lose their ETB utility... and in general you will have "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"a bit"},{"insert":" more of a top deck fueled engine. \n"}]}
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