Cheating Artifacts

Modern Artifact Colorless Combo Competitive Theme/Gimmick

MrSilk

Creature (23)

• 2x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Filigree Angel
• 4x Master Transmuter
• 4x Ornithopter
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Scarecrone
• 4x Sphinx Summoner
• 3x Treasure Mage
• 2x Vedalken Engineer

Land (21)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 3x Flooded Strand
• 3x Hallowed Fountain
• 8x Island
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 2x Steam Vents
• 3x Watery Grave

Instant (2)

• 2x Thirst for Knowledge

Artifact (8)

• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 3x Everflowing Chalice
• 3x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Scourglass

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Saheeli Rai
• 1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Fabricate

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sundering Titan

Artifact (4)

• 3x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Witchbane Orb

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Maybeboard

Artifact (5)

• 2x Cranial Plating
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Panharmonicon

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Mechanized Production

Creature (5)

• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sen Triplets
• 1x Sharuum the Hegemon
• 2x Tidehollow Sculler

Instant (4)

• 2x Gifts Ungiven
• 2x Hurkyl's Recall

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*---- CHEATING ARTIFACTS ----*

This deck is an absolute beast with the chance for early game wins and the survivability to last the long game. This is an artifact deck build around synergy with various forms to achieve its wincon.

Priority #1 - Getting Master Transmuter out as soon as possible. She is the most important card in the deck and will aid in cheating out your survivability and wincon.

Priority #2 - Protecting her with Darksteel Forge, Lightning Greaves and/or Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Priority #3 - Start building your wincon by cheating out creatures like Blightsteel Colossus, Filigree Angel, Platinum Angel (will make you unable to lose) and Sphinx Summoner.

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Tutor

The deck also contains tons of cards to enable said wincon with large amounts of tutor such as:

Treasure Mage - Tutor for your wincon or for Platinum Angel/Darksteel Forge, Blightsteel Colossus or Filigree Angel. This card is our wincon tutor card.

Fabricate - Tutor for anything, but it's important to tutor for Darksteel Forge/Master Transmuter/Platinum Angel (depending on what you have in hand) first.

Sphinx Summoner - Tutor for Platinum Angel first, then your wincon creature Blightsteel Colossus

Card Advantage

Thirst for Knowledge - A great draw card, it gives us the potential to draw into the artifact we want as well as set up recursion with Academy Ruins or Scarecrone due to discarding an artifact

Padeem, Consul of Innovation - Hexproofing your indestructible creatures is extremely important. It gives you hexproof against Path and other exile effects!

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas - Also a secondary wincon, use time to search the top 5 of your deck every turn for answers!

Saheeli Rai - Tutor and card advantage, scry 1 every turn, instantly -2 her and get a third copy of Blightsteel Colossus on the field for a turn for a wincon!

Recursion and Artifact Survivability

Academy Ruins - A requirement in all artifact decks

Scarecrone - Like academy ruins, except you can put artifact creatures from the graveyard onto the battlefield!

Lightning Greaves - Use to hasten Master Transmuter, but also give her shroud. Platinum Angel also can benefit from shroud. If they have Greaves on with Darksteel Forge out, they are essentially un-removable unless your opponent has -x/-x spells that effect the entire board

Scourglass - How about a one-sided board wipe? You can also bring it back with Academy Ruins every turn!

Other Choices

Filigree Angel - A great flyer and even greater synergy with the deck. Expect tons of lifegain.

Ornithopter - Free fodder to return with Master Transmuter, also perfect blocker when darksteel forge is out

Everflowing Chalice - More fodder to return with master trasnmuter as well as some decent mana gain early game. kicking this once turn two will allow you to play Master Transmuter turn 4 and if you have Lightning Greaves out, start lining up your wincon!

Blightsteel Colossus = This list's main wincon. Cheat him out and you suddenly have an 11/11 indestructable creature with trample and infect. Get them both out and make a third with Saheeli Rai's -2 ability!

Vedalken Engineer - One of these babies allows us to get our Transmuter out on turn 3 and out wincons to start coming online turn 4!

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Please let me know if you like the deck or if you have suggestions.. I'm trying to make it as strong as it possibly can be. No budget restraints here..

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 1 Mythic Rares 25 - 6 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.59
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Favorite