Aetherflux Sydri

Commander / EDH Artifact Casual Combo WUB (Esper)

JMCraig

Ramp (20)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Metalworker

Draw (17)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Time Spiral

Interaction (19)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Force of Will

Tutors (10)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Arcum Dagsson

Wincons & Recursion (4)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will
• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir

Commander (1)

Lands (29)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 12x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Watery Grave

---

Introduction and Resources

This is a Sydri Artifact combo deck built for a high-power casual meta featuring experienced players and well-built (but not fullon cEDH) decks. My approach was to build as competitive a deck as possible given a few constraints; in this case I'm using a suboptimal Esper commander and sticking to Artifact-based wincons rather than a more powerful Consultation + Oracle or Ad Nauseam + Doomsday package. This allows the deck to "feel" a lot like a true cEDH list while still maintaining some unique flavor.

Strategy

This deck typically wins by rushing Bolas's Citadel into play as fast as possible, usually turn 3-4, then playing off the top of the deck. The Dramatic Scepter combo serves as decent redundancy, as does Sydri herself.

Wincons

• Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Aetherflux Reservoir = win. Reservoir is technically a 1-card combo with Sydri herself, but it's extremely mana-intensive and requires 51 Life to start. Still, Sydri makes Reservoir wins a lot easier if we are limited by casts rather than life.

• Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top = draw or cast through the whole deck. This combo will win games with Aetherflux Reservoir, which can rapidly replace all the life lost. It can also be used to set up a Dramatic Scepter combo.

• Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal (with 2+ mana worth of untappable rocks in play) = infinite untaps and usually infinite mana. This combo will win games with Aetherflux Reservoir or draw the whole deck with Sensei's Divining Top. It's also possible to copy Scepter with Copy Artifact thereby allowing infinite casts of any 1-2CMC instant, but these lines are pretty fringe.

Conclusion

Sydri is decisively outclassed by a few other Commanders, but she has a unique gimmick that can be super fun to play with. This list won't hold up at fullon cEDH tables, but it works great in high-power casual with the right support. It's more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car slow!

Future Upgrades

Fetches & Duals

Mana Crypt & Mox Diamond

Imperial Seal

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	RG
Splash colors	WB
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.94
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U
Folders	JMCraig's Decks