pie chart

Lantern Control / Mystic Forge Combo [ToE]

Modern* Artifact Combo Control Mono-Blue Storm

Saljen


This deck functions similarly to Lantern control in the early game, but blows the game out with a combo win as early as turn 4. No more 25 turn games if you want to play Lantern! The idea is to use Lantern of Insight to control the top card of your opponent's library to ensure that your opponents draws are as bad as possible. You really only need to do this until you can land an Ensnaring Bridge onto the battlefield. This deck aims to have Bridge in play by turn 3 as consistently as possible, hence the Goblin Engineer, netting us essentially 8 copies of Ensnaring Bridge. Once Bridge is in play, you need to start digging for combo pieces, meaning you'll be milling yourself until you see what you're looking for. Buried Ruin and Codex Shredder let us return any of our artifacts from our graveyard to our hand, while Goblin Engineer can put anything up to Ensnaring Bridge into play. He can also search out our 4+ CMC artifacts and put them in the yard for Codex or Ruin to grab later.

What makes all this possible you ask? None other than Mystic Forge, spoiled for M20. Mystic Forge lets us play the top card of our library if it's an artifact card. Since 40 out of 60 cards in this deck are artifacts, we have pretty good odds to have one sitting on top of our library. You may be asking, "Sure, playing from the top of your library is great and all, but aren't you still limited by your mana pool?" This is where our cost reducers come into play. Foundry Inspector and Semblance Anvil lower the cost of artifacts, making the majority of our deck free to cast. This lets us storm off artifacts from the top of our library until we see an Aetherflux Reservoir. Once you grab that, play it (hopefully you've ran into a few cost reducers to make it free by this point) and continue storming from the top of your library. The best part is, the part that makes this work so well, is that we can use our Lantern library control package to keep lands and goblins off of the top of our library, literally letting us play the whole deck in a single turn. Every time we storm off a Lantern style card, that's one more land or goblin we can throw in our graveyard to continue our storm chain.

Suggestions

Updates Add

Comments

Attention! Complete Comment Tutorial! This annoying message will go away once you do!

Hi! Please consider becoming a supporter of TappedOut for $3/mo. Thanks!


Important! Formatting tipsComment Tutorialmarkdown syntax

Please login to comment

Revision 5 See all

(2 years ago)

+4 Etherium Sculptor main
Top Ranked
Date added 4 years
Last updated 2 years
Legality

This deck is not Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

8 - 0 Mythic Rares

20 - 0 Rares

15 - 0 Uncommons

10 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.09
Votes
Ignored suggestions
Shared with
Views