☥ Welcome to the Machine ☥

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Mishra, Artificer Prodigy is an incredibly unique commander with an ability that will confuse, befuddle, and amaze your opponents.

Mishra reads: "Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card with the same name as that spell and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle it."

It is at this point that you may be asking yourself, "Huh? How does that work in a singleton format?"

The essential "trick" to making Mishra work for us is the clever management of triggered abilities, combined with some seemingly-symmetrical Stax effects that we will leverage to punish our opponents more than ourselves. Want to know more? Then enter the Workshop below to see how all the cogs of this machine fit together:

☥ Key Concepts ☥


Mishra is both a janky combo deck and a "light" Stax deck.

Stax refers to a deck archetype that uses cards such as Smokestack, Stasis, or Sphere of Resistance to "lock down" one's opponents, denying them resources and disrupting their ability to execute their gameplans. These decks can win because they are specifically constructed around these Stax pieces, choosing cards and commanders that break the parity of these effects.

Parity is an important concept in Magic: The Gathering, especially in the Stax archetype. Parity simply refers to a state of balance or equality. Many of the most efficient and most powerful Stax pieces in Magic are designed around the idea of parity — that is, they are designed to be symmetrical, affecting all players equally. Stax decks, however, are built so that their tax, disruption, and chaos effects hurt their opponents much more than they hurt themselves.

Mishra is no different: By leveraging the way our commander's ability interacts with certain Stax pieces, we can turn some otherwise symmetrical disruption effects in our favor, locking out our opponents and helping to ensure that our path to victory is clear. What makes Mishra so unique is that he allows us to gain advantage from some otherwise unplayed Stax cards, cards which might be totally unfamiliar to many of our opponents. This novelty factor, combined with the double-takes our opponents will do when reading our commander for the first time, make Mishra an especially interesting and fun Stax deck.

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Date added 4 years
Last updated 2 months
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

51 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

11 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.66
Tokens Construct 0/0 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
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