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Steel Sharpens Steel
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Est deck cost: $402.50
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Commander

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Peri Brown

The first historic spell you cast each turn has convoke. (Your creatures can help cast it. Each creature you tap while casting it pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature
Peri Brown (who) 26
The Eighth Doctor

When The Eighth Doctor enters, mill three cards. Once during each of your turns, you may play a historic land or cast a historic permanent spell from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "If this permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."

Creature
The Eighth Doctor (who) 124

Commander

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Draw

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Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Instant
Hindering Light (ala) 173
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 (10e) 325
Origin Spellbomb

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {W}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Origin Spellbomb (som) 189
Riddlesmith

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Riddlesmith (som) 40
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (dst) 140
Spy Network

Look at target player's hand, the top card of that player's library, and any face-down creatures they control. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Instant
Spy Network (ons) 115
Traverse Eternity

Draw cards equal to the highest mana value among historic permanents you control. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Sorcery
Traverse Eternity (who) 60

Draw

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Lifegain

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Golem's Heart

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Golem's Heart (plst) SOM-161
Whitesun's Passage

You gain 5 life.

Instant
Whitesun's Passage (som) 27

Lifegain

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Removal

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Demystify

Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Demystify (10e) 14
Divine Offering

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Instant
Divine Offering (mbs) 5
Icy Manipulator

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Artifact
Icy Manipulator (10e) 326
Liquimetal Coating

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Coating (som) 171
Lux Cannon

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Destroy target permanent.

Artifact
Lux Cannon (som) 173
Perilous Myr

When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Perilous Myr (som) 192

Removal

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Tutor

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Fabricate

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

Sorcery
Fabricate (hop) 9
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 (5dn) 39

Tutor

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Anthem

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Master of Etherium

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Master of Etherium (hop) 11

Anthem

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Evasion

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Golem Artisan

{2}: Target artifact creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. {2}: Target artifact creature gains your choice of flying, trample, or haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Golem Artisan (som) 159
Ornithopter

Flying

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter (mrd) 224

Evasion

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Protection

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Darksteel Forge

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Artifact
Darksteel Forge (dst) 110
Darksteel Myr

Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Darksteel Myr (som) 151
Darksteel Sentinel

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Vigilance Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Darksteel Sentinel (som) 152
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Creature
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (bok) 40
Orbs of Warding

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) If a creature would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Artifact
Orbs of Warding (ori) 234
Pariah

Enchant creature All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

Enchantment
Pariah (10e) 33

Protection

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Stax

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Telepathy

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

Enchantment
Telepathy (10e) 113

Stax

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Untap

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Cerulean Wisps

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Cerulean Wisps (shm) 31
Pili-Pala

Flying {2}, {Q}: Add one mana of any color. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Creature Artifact
Pili-Pala (shm) 258
Voltaic Key

{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.

Artifact
Voltaic Key (m11) 219

Untap

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Artifact

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Glint Hawk Idol

Whenever another artifact you control enters, you may have this artifact become a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn. {W}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Artifact
Glint Hawk Idol (som) 156

Artifact

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Finisher

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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 (hop) 8
Lodestone Myr

Trample Tap an untapped artifact you control: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Lodestone Myr (hop) 117

Finisher

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Ramp

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Etherium Sculptor

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

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (ala) 42
Gold Myr

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature Artifact
Gold Myr (hop) 114
Memnite

Creature Artifact
Memnite (som) 174
Mox Opal

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Artifact
Mox Opal (som) 179
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 (nph) 145
Myr Enforcer

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

Creature Artifact
Myr Enforcer (hop) 120
Myr Moonvessel

When this creature dies, add {C}.

Creature Artifact
Myr Moonvessel (dst) 133
Myr Reservoir

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast Myr spells or activate abilities of Myr. {3}, {T}: Return target Myr card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Myr Reservoir (som) 183
Palladium Myr

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

Creature Artifact
Palladium Myr (som) 190
Paradise Plume

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Paradise Plume (tsp) 260
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (nph) 151
Scuttlemutt

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Scuttlemutt (shm) 263
Silver Myr

{T}: Add {U}.

Creature Artifact
Silver Myr (hop) 126
Stenn, Paranoid Partisan

As Stenn enters, choose a card type other than creature or land. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. {1}{W}{U}: Exile Stenn. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Stenn, Paranoid Partisan (dmu) 320
Vedalken Engineer

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Creature
Vedalken Engineer (hop) 15
Walking Atlas

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Walking Atlas (wwk) 131
Wanderer's Twig

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wanderer's Twig (lrw) 265

Ramp

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Theft

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Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Creature
Thada Adel, Acquisitor (wwk) 40

Theft

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Creature

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Court Homunculus

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control another artifact.

Creature Artifact
Court Homunculus (con) 6
Skill Borrower

Play with the top card of your library revealed. As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, this creature has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Creature Artifact
Skill Borrower (ala) 56
Suntouched Myr

Sunburst (This enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Creature Artifact
Suntouched Myr (plst) HOP-128
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

Trample Traxos enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you cast a historic spell, untap Traxos. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature Artifact
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog (dmc) 195

Creature

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Land

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Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (hop) 130
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 (roe) 228
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (m10) 226
Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (wwk) 137
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 280
Kabira Crossroads

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Kabira Crossroads (zen) 216
Phyrexia's Core

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: You gain 1 life.

Land
Phyrexia's Core (nph) 165
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (blb) 264
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (who) 295
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (hop) 136
Sejiri Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sejiri Refuge (zen) 224
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (afc) 261
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 (10e) 360

Land

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Recursion

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Auriok Salvagers

{1}{W}: Return target artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Auriok Salvagers (2xm) 6
Myr Welder

Imprint — {T}: Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. This creature has all activated abilities of all cards exiled with it.

Creature Artifact
Myr Welder (mbs) 118
Salvaging Station

{T}: Return target noncreature artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a creature dies, you may untap this artifact.

Artifact
Salvaging Station (5dn) 148

Recursion

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Tokens

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Golem Foundry

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Create a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

Artifact
Golem Foundry (som) 160
Master's Call

Create two 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.

Instant
Master's Call (mbs) 13
Myr Sire

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Myr Sire (mbs) 116
Myriad Construct

Kicker {3} If this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each nonbasic land your opponents control. When this creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it and create a number of 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature tokens equal to its power.

Creature Artifact
Myriad Construct (znr) 246
Myrsmith

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Creature
Myrsmith (som) 16
Precursor Golem

When this creature enters, create two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.

Creature Artifact
Precursor Golem (som) 194
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 (som) 223

Tokens

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Maybeboard

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Carnage Altar

{3}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Artifact
Carnage Altar (zen) 198
Culling Dais

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Culling Dais (som) 148
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (zen) 201
Fountainport Bell

When this artifact enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Fountainport Bell (blb) 245
Imperial Recovery Unit

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, return target creature or Vehicle card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Imperial Recovery Unit (neo) 18
Kraken's Eye

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Kraken's Eye (m12) 211
Lurebound Scarecrow

As this creature enters, choose a color. When you control no permanents of the chosen color, sacrifice this creature.

Creature Artifact
Lurebound Scarecrow (shm) 256
Mana Cylix

{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mana Cylix (con) 138
Marching Duodrone

Whenever this creature attacks, each player creates a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Marching Duodrone (clb) 321
Quicksilver Fountain

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land they control of their choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Artifact
Quicksilver Fountain (mrd) 233
Shimmering Grotto

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Shimmering Grotto (lrw) 273
Spectral Searchlight

{T}: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color they choose.

Artifact
Spectral Searchlight (rav) 271
Spreading Seas

Enchant land When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted land is an Island.

Enchantment
Spreading Seas (zen) 70
Trial of a Time Lord

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Exile target nontoken creature an opponent controls until this Saga leaves the battlefield. IV — Starting with you, each player votes for innocent or guilty. If guilty gets more votes, the owner of each card exiled with this Saga puts that card on the bottom of their library.

Enchantment
Trial of a Time Lord (who) 29
Vivisection

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Vivisection (mbs) 38

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24 mana - 23 cards
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{"ops":[{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"(Background: This deck was one of the first Commander decks I've constructed with mostly old cards when re-entering MTG mid-2024, having last seriously played in 2011. These are cards I had already owned as a high-schooler with not much money, buying old packs from grocery stores to beef up my Constructed decks, with a few extras I've obtained over the years since then.)"},{"insert":"\n\nThis deck focuses primarily around artifacts and utilizing cost reduction and protection to flood the board with cheap artifact spells. Cards like Orbs of Warding, Pariah and Darksteel Reactor are means to protect both the board and player from damage and boardwipes. One of this deck's primary weaknesses is lack of card draw, and will often topdeck when playing due to the massive amount of cheaper cards to play, as well as artifact-focused destruction before preventatives like Kira, Great Glass-Spinner and Darksteel Reactor can be played. The current commander and partner, The Eighth Doctor and Peri Brown, allow for artifacts to return from the graveyard each turn or to cast larger spells with help from otherwise static permanents. The alternate commander, Stenn, Paranoid Partisan, can bring out artifacts at {1} less cost and flicker itself as needed to avoid being removed for less cost than bringing him back through the command zone.\nFor big finishers, Broodstar or Master of Etherium are recommended, due to the large amount of artifacts that should be on the field at any time. \n"}]}
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