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Esper Affinity - July Deck Building Contest
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Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Flying, ward {3} Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token. While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Creature
Tivit, Seller of Secrets (ncc) 10

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Finisher

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Arcbound Ravager

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Ravager (mma) 198
Broodstar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying Broodstar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Creature
Broodstar (plst) MRD-31
Cyberdrive Awakener

Flying Other artifact creatures you control have flying. When this creature enters, until end of turn, each noncreature artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4.

Creature Artifact
Cyberdrive Awakener (nec) 12
Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Ward {4} Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Kappa Cannoneer (mh3) 401
March of Progress

Choose target artifact creature you control. For each creature chosen this way, create a token that's a copy of it. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Sorcery
March of Progress (brc) 8
Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Marionette Master (brc) 109
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 (mkc) 109
Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way. Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Rise and Shine (moc) 233
Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

Artifact
Time Sieve (plst) ARB-31

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Recursion

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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
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

Deathtouch Whenever Silas Renn deals combat damage to a player, choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature Artifact
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept (brc) 129

Recursion

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (7ed) 325★
Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (brc) 172
Ancient Tomb

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

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
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
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (me4) 243
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (brc) 180
Deserted Beach

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

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 260
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (brc) 185
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
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 (rvr) 277
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
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (cmm) 442
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) 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
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (cmm) 439
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 (snc) 254
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
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (brc) 198
Shattered Sanctum

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

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
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 (brc) 203
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (cmm) 444
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (otc) 338
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Vault of Champions

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

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (brc) 211
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 (rvr) 291

Land

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Removal

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Arcbound Condor

Flying Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.) Whenever another artifact you control enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Condor (mh3) 81
Armix, Filigree Thrasher

Whenever Armix attacks, you may discard a card. When you do, target creature defending player controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control plus the number of artifact cards in your graveyard. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature Artifact
Armix, Filigree Thrasher (brc) 103
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
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 (rvr) 40
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (moc) 322
Ethersworn Adjudicator

Flying {1}{W}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature or enchantment. {2}{U}: Untap this creature.

Creature Artifact
Ethersworn Adjudicator (brc) 83
Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Flying At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Herald of Anguish (brc) 108
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (brc) 152
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (brc) 110
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mkc) 88

Removal

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Clones

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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

Clones

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (otc) 260
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) 121
Thran Power Suit

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it and has ward {2}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Thran Power Suit (bro) 253

Protection

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Tokens

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Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Creature Artifact
Academy Manufactor (otc) 251
Officious Interrogation

This spell costs {W}{U} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose any number of target players. Investigate X times, where X is the total number of creatures those players control.

Instant
Officious Interrogation (mkm) 222
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
Sharding Sphinx

Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Sharding Sphinx (moc) 235
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) 36

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Drain

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Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Creature
Disciple of the Vault (2xm) 86

Drain

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Pump

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All That Glitters

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.

Enchantment
All That Glitters (cmm) 622
Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. {B}{B}: Attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip {1}

Artifact
Cranial Plating (brc) 136
Nettlecyst

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Nettlecyst (mkc) 233
Steel Overseer

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Steel Overseer (brc) 164

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
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) 12
Ethersworn Sphinx

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature Artifact
Ethersworn Sphinx (mh2) 195
Ichor Wellspring

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

Artifact
Ichor Wellspring (brc) 143
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking artifact creatures you control. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar (brc) 73
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
Reverse Engineer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Reverse Engineer (f17) 7
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (brc) 159
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (j22) 800
Thirst for Knowledge

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

Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (brc) 96
Thopter Spy Network

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchantment
Thopter Spy Network (brc) 97
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 (brc) 98
Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Thoughtcast (brc) 99

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Ramp

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Aether Vial

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Aether Vial (2x2) 391
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (brc) 132
Etherium Sculptor

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

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (brc) 82
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (brc) 141
Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Artifact
Inspiring Statuary (brr) 85
Krark-Clan Ironworks

Sacrifice an artifact: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Krark-Clan Ironworks (5dn) 134
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 385
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (sld) 1057
Talisman of Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (brc) 168

Ramp

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Deck Info

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12 pips - 11 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
35 pips - 29 cards
30 mana - 26 cards
15 pips - 11 cards
26 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
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0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
19 mana - 14 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is inspired by the Mirrodin Affinity set of decks, especially leaning in to Esper. This deck tries to capture that feeling of having constant opportunities via your artifacts. The deck has transitioned more in to the battle cruiser play style, but we're looking to get plenty of value from consistently getting artifacts on to the field. We are then able to use our commander to ensure that we draw in to big win cons of the deck, or have the mana to play them. \n"}]}
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