Sai, Thopter Guy

Commander / EDH* Artifact Mono-Blue Multiplayer

JK27

Value (19)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Argivian Restoration
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Whir of Invention

Draw (8)

• 1x Bident of Thassa
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Thopter Spy Network
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Beater (2)

• 1x Arcbound Crusher
• 1x Myr Battlesphere

Control (15)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Swan Song

Ramp (10)

• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Chief Engineer
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Thopter Generator (3)

• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Blinkmoth Well
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Foundry of the Consuls
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 26x Island
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon

Thopter Boost (6)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Chief of the Foundry
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Obelisk of Urd
• 1x Steel Overseer

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Other (5)

• 1x Aligned Hedron Network
• 1x Arena of the Ancients
• 1x Brittle Effigy
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Trinket Mage

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This Deck should start doing work in Turn 4, then it will blast out quickly, giving you tons of options and synergies each turn.

By turn 6-9 you should have a swarm of flyers, harrasing your oppnents and/or some giant beaters and/or a position where you can control the game with little threats, while always drawing into more gas.

This will be realised by Sais Main ability, additional thopter multipliers like Sharding Sphinx or Efficiant Construction and tutoring or cheating in Darksteel Forge and Platinum Angel.

Sai provides you with a draw option in itself but Skullclamp and Bident of Thassa are a lot more efficient and can both be tutored for easily.

A great synergy to control the board is Opposition and Unwinding Clock, letting you tap out any threat each turn or the classic Darksteel Forge/Nevinyrral's Disk combo, that blows up the board each turn with your artifacts surviving.

Wincons are:

• A Thopter overrun with Coat of arms and/or other Token Booster
• Control the board while attacking with giant Beaters like Altar Golem or Arcbound Crusher
• Winclocks like Mechanized Production & Throne of the God-Pharaoh (if you manage to control the board enough)

Surprisingly, the decks biggest problem its quickness, having 10+ permanents by turn 5 will always make the other players believe, that you are the number one threat and therefore focussing their resources against you. So the key to success is, to play low key and make sure to use your resources wisely, as a wrath or a few key removals early in the game will set you pretty far behind. Keep in mind that the game usually is not decided until turn 10+. By then you should have enough ramp and control to get to a dominant board position within one or two turns, so you don't need to hurry for position in turns 1-7. If you decide to go for the win, make sure that you have access to Darksteel Forge and a counter spell before committing to swing big. It will also be a lot easier to do this later in the game, as your opponents used most of their answers on each other and should have lower life totals in general.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Morph 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U
Folders	Under 400