EDH Sydri: Permanent Lockdown

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Infinite Combo WUB (Esper)

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Land (37)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 5x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 5x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Consulate Crackdown
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (21)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Caltrops
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Meek
• 1x Thopter Foundry
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Wrath of God

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Whir of Invention

Creature (9)

• 1x Dross Scorpion
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Voltaic Construct

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Artifact (3)

• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Voltaic Key

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The goal of the deck is to use one of the combos listed below to gain total control of the board state, after which your opponents will probably just concede.

Custom Categories

• Land: All lands.
• Ramp: Non-land cards that either create mana or help cast things faster.
• Draw: Put more cards into your hand.
• CreatureRemoval: Remove creatures from the battlefield.
• OtherRemoval: Remove non-creature permanents from the battlefield.
• Tutor: Search for specific cards and put them into your hand or onto the battlefield.
• Combo: Specific cards mainly used as part of one or more combos.
• Protection: Protect yourself from attacks, or protect your permanents from removal effects.

Combos

Grand Architect + Pili-Pala: Infinite Mana of All Colors

Cards Required: 2

Card Combinations: Grand Architect + Pili-Pala

Steps:

1. Turn Pili-Pala into a blue artifact creature with Grand Architect 's first ability.

2. Use Grand Architect 's second ability to tap Pili-Pala for .

3. Use mana from step 2 for Pili-Pala 's ability to untap it and get one mana of any color.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for infinite mana of all colors.

Result: Infinite mana of all colors

Infinite Mana with 3-Mana Rock

Cards Required: 3

Card Combinations:

• Basalt Monolith + Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Voltaic Construct

• Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Thran Dynamo + Voltaic Construct

• Gilded Lotus + Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Voltaic Construct

Steps:

1. Have all 3 cards of a combo on the field.

2. Tap Basalt Monolith / Thran Dynamo / Gilded Lotus for 3 mana. Note: If the card has become a creature through step 3, it must not have summoning sickness to repeat this step.

3. Use Sydri 's ability to turn Basalt Monolith / Thran Dynamo / Gilded Lotus into a creature.

4. Use 2 of the mana from step 2 to untap Basalt Monolith / Thran Dynamo / Gilded Lotus using Voltaic Construct .

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for infinite mana (of all colors if Gilded Lotus ; colorless otherwise).

Result: Infinite mana (possibly colored)

Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry: Tokens, Life, and Possibly Mana

Cards Required: 3

Card Combinations: Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry

Steps:

1. Sacrifice Sword of the Meek to Thopter Foundry and get a blue thopter plus 1 life. When repeating this step, you should have mana from step 3 to use.

2. Use Sword of the Meek 's trigger from the 1/1 blue thopter in step 1 to bring Sword of the Meek back to the battlefield.

3. Sacrifice the thopter to Krark-Clan Ironworks to get .

4. Repeat steps 1 to 3 for infinite mana.

5. Use the infinite mana to repeat just steps 1 and 2 without sacrificing thopters.

Result: Infinite colorless mana, infinite blue thopters, and infinite life gain (or without Krark-Clan Ironworks , get X blue thopters and gain X life by paying )

Note: If you don't have Krark-Clan Ironworks , you can do just steps 1 and 2. Do them X times by paying X mana to get X blue thopters and gain X life.

Total Board Wipe (Except You)

Cards Required: 3

Card Combinations: Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice + Nevinyrral's Disk

Steps:

1. Have all three cards in combo on the field, and Nevinyrral's Disk untapped.

2. Activate Nevinyrral's Disk . Since all permanents are artifacts with Mycosynth Lattice , your permanents are indestructible from Darksteel Forge and all your opponent's permanents will be destroyed (unless they had Darksteel Forge of course).

Result: Destroy all permanents except yours.

Total Board Wipe (Except You), V2

Cards Required: 2

Card Combinations: Consulate Crackdown + Mycosynth Lattice

Steps:

1. Put Mycosynth Lattice onto the field (without Consulate Crackdown ).

2. Put Consulate Crackdown onto the field. Since all permanents are artifacts with Mycosynth Lattice , this will exile all permanents except yours.

Result: Exile all permanents except yours.

Land Destruction

Cards Required: 2-3

Card Combinations:

• Mycosynth Lattice + Sydri, Galvanic Genius

• Dross Scorpion + Mycosynth Lattice + Sydri, Galvanic Genius

Steps:

1. Have all cards from a combo on the field.

2. Pay for Sydri 's ability to turn an opponent's land into an artifact creature. Since lands have CMC 0, this will make the land a 0/0 and destroy it. You can use any mana because of Mycosynth Lattice .

3. If Dross Scorpion is on the field, untap one of your artifacts that taps for mana (like what you used for step 2; remember: everything's an artifact with Mycosynth Lattice ).

4. If possible, repeat steps 2 and 3 for each opponent's land.

Result: Destroy target/each land your opponent controls.

Aetherflux Reservoir + Sydri

Cards Required: 2

Card Combinations: Aetherflux Reservoir + Sydri, Galvanic Genius + over 50 life

Steps:

1. Turn Aetherflux Reservoir into an artifact creature with Sydri, Galvanic Genius ' first ability.

2. Give Aetherflux Reservoir lifelink (and deathtouch) with Sydri, Galvanic Genius ' second ability.

3. Use Aetherflux Reservoir 's activated ability (paying 50 life) to deal 50 damage to an opponent. Since Aetherflux Reservoir has lifelink, you will then gain 50 life.

4. Repeat step 4 until your opponents have 0 life.

Result: Bring opponents to 0 life (and likely win the game)

Ways to Use Infinite Mana

1. Use Planar Bridge to get all permanents from your deck onto the battlefield. This can be done by turning Planar Bridge into a creature with Sydri, Galvanic Genius , and untapping it with Voltaic Construct . If Planar Bridge would have summoning sickness, one of the first cards to get would probably be Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots , so you can equip it to Planar Bridge . Since Lightning Greaves gives Shroud, you'll have to equip it to a different creature when you want to untap using Voltaic Construct , then re-equip to tap it again.

2. Use Memnarch to take control of every permanent. The activated abilities require blue mana, so the combos for infinite colorless mana won't be enough unless you have Mycosynth Lattice to spend mana as if it were any color.

3. Use tutor spell(s) to get artifact(s) for combos, including Planar Bridge or Memnarch for ways 1 and 2.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Grand Architect + Pili-Pala Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry Darksteel Forge + Mycosynth Lattice + Nevinyrral's Disk Mycosynth Lattice + Sydri, Galvanic Genius Gilded Lotus + Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Voltaic Construct Aetherflux Reservoir + Sydri, Galvanic Genius Basalt Monolith + Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Voltaic Construct Sydri, Galvanic Genius + Thran Dynamo + Voltaic Construct Consulate Crackdown + Mycosynth Lattice Dross Scorpion + Mycosynth Lattice + Sydri, Galvanic Genius
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U
Folders	Artifacts