Jhoira's Artifacts STORM into Battle!

Commander / EDH UR (Izzet)

lordsauron

0-CMC (13)

• 1x Dark Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Relic
• 1x Fountain of Youth
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Urza's Bauble
• 1x Welding Jar

Repeat (7)

• 1x Displacement Wave
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Rebuild
• 1x Retract

Protection (6)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Unwind

Draw (5)

• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Quicksmith Genius
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Talisman of Creativity

Reducers (7)

• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Herald of Kozilek
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Semblance Anvil

Win-Cons (7)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Ignite Memories
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver
• 1x Walking Ballista

Filter (4)

• 1x Arcum's Astrolabe
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Golden Egg
• 1x Prophetic Prism

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Sandstone Needle
• 1x Saprazzan Skerry
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 13x Snow-Covered Island
• 12x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Spire of Industry

Tutors (6)

• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Trophy Mage

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This an artifact based storm deck! General game plan is to get one piece of cost reduction, one piece of draw, Jhoira, and a couple low/0 drop spells. This generally should be enough to get you started to storm out!

Tutors

This is a combo deck, and we need to get our combo pieces ASAP. Tutors enable us to do that!

• Drift of Phantasms can get Foundry Inspector , Herald of Kozilek , Quicksmith Genius , Cloud Key , Semblance Anvil or, in a pinch, Rebuild . If you need to get a cost reducer, get Herald of Kozilek or Semblance Anvil during set up, depending on if you can spare the card, or Cloud Key during storm. Foundry Inspector is the most flexible thing we can tutor for. Herald of Kozilek isn't as good of a draw during storm, so we want to get it out of the deck and have the more reducible cards left.
• Imperial Recruiter can get Herald of Kozilek , Foundry Inspector , Etherium Sculptor , Jhoira's Familiar , Riddlesmith , or Vedalken Archmage . For cost reducers, either get Herald of Kozilek or Etherium Sculptor . If you can play either or neither this turn and don't have any artifact draw/dig, Herald of Kozilek . If you can only play Etherium Sculptor or have artifact draw/dig, get it.
• Muddle the Mixture can get Helm of Awakening , Etherium Sculptor , or Riddlesmith
• Trophy Mage can get Cloud Key , Semblance Anvil , or Foundry Inspector , depending on if you can spare a card.
• Merchant Scroll and Gamble are both super flexible. Just get whatever you need in the current situation, whether it's reduction/draw or another tutor during set up, a bounce effect midstorm, or anything else.

0-CMC

These cards are the primary source of fuel for the storm. There are slim pickings for 0-CMC artifacts, so a few of these are here just for being that, and the rest of the text can pretty much be ignored. Generally, you'll want to save these in hand until your storm turn, but there are a few scenarios in which you may want to play one early.

• Dark Sphere , Memnite , Ornithopter , Phyrexian Walker , and Shield Sphere can all help wall out a bit of early aggression if it's enough of a threat.
• Urza's Bauble and Mishra's Bauble can help you dig a little bit for tutors or set-up pieces, especially if you have a draw/dig or Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain on field.
• Paradise Mantle can filter mana if you're screwed for one color and have a creature on field.
• Tormod's Crypt can deter or prevent any graveyard nonsense.

Ramp

Ramp can be played in one of two ways in this deck. It can either accelerate you into playing your combo pieces, or be storm fuel. There are a lot of cards in here that are "mana positive" by default, but there are also a lot that can become mana positive or mana neutral when combined with cost reducers. You're generally going to want to save your mana positive rocks for your storm turn, rather than ramping into combo. The exception to this is if you're getting mana or color screwed.

• Mana positive at zero reduction: Chrome Mox , Lotus Petal , Mana Vault , Mox Amber , and Sol Ring .
• Mana neutral at one reduction, positive at two: Arcane Signet , Everflowing Chalice , Fellwar Stone , Mind Stone , and Talisman of Creativity . With Lotus Petal , you don't want to sacrifice unless you desperately need the mana. Bouncing it back to your hand to replay for extra storm count and dig/draw.
Mind Stone can be sacced to draw a card if you need storm fuel or get combo pieces/tutors. Krark-Clan Ironworks can turn your artifacts into extra mana if necessary, in addition to being a combo piece.

Filter

These cards can filter your colorless mana from artifacts to cast a bounce or finisher, or fix you early game. A lot of these also draw cards to help you dig for stuff early game or make the storm more consistent.

• Arcum's Astrolabe : Only costs 1, but cannot be cost reduced.
• Chromatic Sphere : Only costs 1, but needs to be sacced to draw a card.
• Golden Egg : Needs to be sacced to filter.
• Prophetic Prism : The generic one.

Reducers

• Cloud Key : Declare artifacts, unless you already have 3 other reducers out and are struggling to get the mana for a bounce or finisher.
• Etherium Sculptor : Only costs 2, but one is colored mana, and more flexible to tutor for.
• Foundry Inspector : More flexible to tutor for since it's a creature.
• Helm of Awakening : Only costs 2 and reduces non-artifacts. However, it also helps your opponents' stuff.
• Herald of Kozilek : Costs colored mana, does not trigger artifact synergies, and cannot be cost reduced by most things.
• Jhoira's Familiar : Flexible to tutor for and reduces commander cost, but costs 4 mana.
• Semblance Anvil : Reduces by two, but costs an extra card. Worth it early game if it's your only option or if you have a lot of stuff you can cast for free with it out.

Draw

Riddlesmith , Quicksmith Genius , and Vedalken Archmage all serve a very similar purpose. We need to get one of them out early to ensure we're digging through as much of our deck as possible to avoid fizzling.

• Riddlesmith : Only costs 2. You can stack the triggers so that Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain resolves first, drawing you a card before you decide whether you want to loot. You don't always want to. If you've got a hand full of gas, there's no need, and you risk having to discard gas. You also want to ensure you get as high of a storm count as possible before having to stop to prevent milling yourself out.
• Quicksmith Genius : Very similar to Riddlesmith , except it costs 3 and you need to pitch before drawing.
• Vedalken Archmage : The most expensive at 4, but it doesn't require you discard. It also is not a may, which can make it riskier than the other two, as you're more likely to mill out.
Sensei's Divining Top is a combo piece, in addition to helping dig a little early on. Ichor Wellspring draws us extra cards to dig either midstorm or during setup.

Protection

Pact of Negation and Swan Song protect the board anybody trying to dismantle your set up or disrupt the storm. They also provide Chrome Mox fodder. Swiftfoot Boots and Lightning Greaves protect our setup pieces and provide storm fuel.

Repeat

Most of these are mass bounce effects to return all your artifacts back to your hand to play them again, dig further, and increase storm count. Retract , Hurlyk's Recall, and Rebuild all function very similarly. Rebuild and Hurlyk's Recall can hit your opponents if you need to slow them down before you go off, but Retract is only 1 mana. Displacement Wave and Paradoxical Outcome are much better, since they let you leave your cost reducers on field or even bounce Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain if you have enough fuel and don't want to mill out. Junk Diver and Myr Retriever are combo pieces and storm fuel.

Win-Cons

• Ignite Memories and Grapeshot both use our insanely high storm count to do a ton of damage to our opponents. However, Grapeshot usually won't be able to win without having some other incremental damage on board if your opponents aren't already low and Ignite Memories relies on them having stuff in hand.
• Aetherflux Reservoir is cost reducible and utilizes our storm count to gain a bunch of life and then nuke all your oponents
• Psychosis Crawler and Reckless Fireweaver both repeatedly ping our opponents as we storm off. The earlier we can play them, the better, but that's not always practical due to the Reckless Fireweaver being irreducible and Psychosis Crawler costing 5.
• Laboratory Maniac makes us just win the game if we mill ourselves out. This makes for a great backup plan, but it is particularly vulnerable to making you just lose instead if something goes wrong.
• Walking Ballista is a combo piece and storm fuel.

Combos

• Sensei's Divining Top + Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain +reducer+ Quicksmith Genius / Vedalken Archmage . Cast top. Draw from Jhoira. Resolve top. Activate top in response to ETB trigger. Draw a card, and place top on library. Draw from ETB trigger. Repeat for draw and storm until you run out of deck.
• Krark-Clan Ironworks + Junk Diver + Myr Retriever +reducer. Sac Diver and Retriever to KCI. Put one into hand off death trigger. Cast. Sac to KCI. Put other into hand. Repeat for infinite colorless mana and storm. Combine with Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain for infinite draw.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.75
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U