Michael Skane, an Emry EDH Deck

Commander / EDH* Artifact Combo Mono-Blue

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Artifact (25)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Genesis Chamber
• 1x Grinding Station
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Urza's Bauble
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Reshape
• 1x Thoughtcast

Creature (23)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Chief Engineer
• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Memnite
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Myr Moonvessel
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Land (33)

• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 29x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Seat of the Synod

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Whir of Invention

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aura of Dominion
• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Pemmin's Aura

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Echo Storm

Artifact (1)

• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Creature (1)

• 1x Trinket Mage

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Who is Michael Skane though? I guess you'll have to play the deck to find out!

I'm actually gonna write a deck description for this one. I feel like that's an important thing to do...

This deck combos off fast! It's going to do it different pretty much every time because there are so many possible loops in the deck. Almost everyone is going to kill everyone by sacrificing a lot of artifacts to Grinding Station or a lot of artifact creatures to the Altar of Dementia. These creatures may be tokens, or they may be the same poor Memnite eating it 400 times. Just because you've found a loop it doesn't mean you win though. Being there are around 2000 different loops in this deck, not all of them, are winning loops. Good thing is most loops will give you something if you have the proper enabler. Mainly, inf mana, card draw or mill. The mill is the winner but the other 2 will probably get you to the third one.

There are several main parts you need to build a loop in this deck. You can sort by custom to look at the categories that I've created. The first is the untap category. This has stuff like Chakram Retriever, Mirran Spy (the best two) and Mind Over Matter that let you untap Emry repeatably to continue casting artifacts out of your graveyard.

The next essential component is a sacrifice outlet. There are 4 cards that provide a sacrifice outlet in this deck, 2 that mill, Grinding Station and Altar of Dementia, and 2 that make mana Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar. If you can't get a sac outlet or tutor for one that's alright! there are plenty of cards that sacrifice themselves all on their own like lotus petal, commander sphere (surprisingly crazy in this deck) and both baubles.

The the last important component is a way to either go equal on mana or net mana for each casting cycle. You can do this with the reduction cards like Semblance Anvil, and Foundry Inspector or by creating lots of tokens to sac to an Altar of your choice with something like Genesis Chamber or Mirrodin Besieged. There is a loop as well with Genesis Chamber, a copy of it where you sacrifice Emry over and over and her cast trigger reduces her CMDR tax, but this is an atypical combo in this deck, and doesn't fit the standard flow chart, just thought I'd bring it up.

Along with all these integrated combo pieces we have other cards that serve to keep you alive and protect you for a little bit. This deck goes wicked fast so there's a pretty light counter magic suite and some pretty good chump blockers. you can chump block for quite a while if need be because Emry regenerates your guys as well as being very recastable. This deck will often just win by turn 4-6 though so just keep a counterspell or two in hand for when you know your about to play your Mirran Spy and win.

That's pretty much the deck! Its ultra degenerate and sure to make 0 friends! It doesn't interact with anyone aside from countering things, it wins unexpectedly and instantly and is overall a huge fried asshole! but I love it anyway. Play this deck if you want to make your friends upset and bring a backup in case the game ends instantly and people want a game 2.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 1 Rares 26 - 1 Uncommons 15 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.88
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Manifest 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure