Servo Trafficking - Villainous Aetherborn Tribal

Standard* Artifact Budget Casual Mono-Black Tokens Tribal

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Entourage (13)

• 4x Aetherborn Marauder
• 4x Gifted Aetherborn
• 2x Midnight Entourage
• 3x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Spells/Artifacts (8)

• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 4x Metalspinner's Puzzleknot

Land (23)

• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 20x Swamp

ShadyBusiness (16)

• 4x Animation Module
• 4x Servo Schematic
• 4x Syndicate Trafficker
• 4x Weaponcraft Enthusiast

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Maybeboard

Other (45)

• 1x Aligned Hedron Network
• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Battle at the Bridge
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Complete Disregard
• 1x Edifice of Authority
• 1x Eliminate the Competition
• 1x Filigree Familiar
• 1x Fragmentize
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Harsh Scrutiny
• 1x Hidden Stockpile
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Impeccable Timing
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lawless Broker
• 1x Lay Bare the Heart
• 1x Lost Legacy
• 1x Midnight Oil
• 1x Murder
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Pick the Brain
• 1x Pressure Point
• 1x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Resourceful Return
• 1x Rush of Vitality
• 1x Scarab Feast
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Scrapheap Scrounger
• 1x Skywhaler's Shot
• 1x Sram's Expertise
• 1x Subtle Strike
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x To the Slaughter
• 1x Trespasser's Curse
• 1x Underhanded Designs
• 1x Unnatural Endurance
• 1x Untethered Express
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Vengeful Rebel
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

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Variants of the deck I just had fun thinking about - glad to hear opinions on these as well: Aetherborn Variant 1 (OGW-AKH), Aetherborn Variant 2 (KLD-AKH).

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Decks of the like already exist on the platform. Nevertheless I applied changes and will track them here, since I very much like this refreshing tribe and the synergies that are most prominent in use with them.

• This deck is utilizing the servo-counter-synergy that can best be fuelled by Syndicate Trafficker, Weaponcraft Enthusiast , Animation Module and Servo Schematic. (Not sure who came up first with this, I noticed it on the Mana Source's Youtube-channel. But no Metallic Mimic here for price reasons, sure I am keen on getting a playset.)
• This deck wants to be cheap, let's say under $30.
• It does want to be a tribal deck, not highly competitive but fun to play and not too easy to lose with. Nevertheless it's obvious how nice a Herald of Anguish can work here, if you have one why don't let it slip in.

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Starting and running the business

Trafficker, Animation Module, 1/1 Servos and open mana are your friend. You only need a window to get the damage in. Hopefully Marauder will do. Otherwise you could get things out of your way with Grasp of Darkness or even Gifted Aetherborn, which will hopefully grant Yahenni a token from time to time too.

Besides that there are a few minor tricks available. Since you're flexible with your Weaponcraft Enthusiast you can adjust pretty nicely when to activate Yahenni or the Trafficker. You can get wide early and block him away, mid game maybe even benefiting in a card draw thanks to Midnight Entourage .

Metalspinner's Puzzleknot works ok for card draw from time to time, which I would like to have more of.

Next I'd like to look into consistency. I guess therefore it is needed to thin out the entourage and add insurances that we have 1/1 Servos, counters and are able to remove threats and not only to withstand them with indestructible. I'd like to pose a reliable threat with the Marauder too if he comes into play and get in a bit of carddraw.

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Minor and major changes (not strictly upgrades)

I would call this a pool for Sideboard-cards. I mostly include removal and card draw since we're short on those.

• As long as they're in Standard, Altar's Reap and Bone Splinters are my favorite utility options.
• Battle at the Bridge and Underhanded Designs may work well too. All thanks to our 1/1 Servo production.
• Resourceful Return and Supernatural Stamina could both get us key creatures back for cheap mana.
• Harsh Scrutiny, Pick the Brain and Transgress the Mind could come in handy in game two sometimes, maybe sideboardable.
• Never//Return and Murder as additional removal. Maybe sideboardable too.
• Vampiric Rites may be suitable for carddraw. I like the idea of Morbid Curiosity since sometimes we can just recycle our Weaponcraft Enthusiast , but most of the time our spare creatures should be 1/1 Servos.
• I'd take into account swapping the Midnight Entourage for two Untethered Expresses because of the counters and it's cheap Crewcost, after which we could still sac the 1/1 Servo and get as much value as possible out of it. Nevertheless this is a budget option, this deck really goes off when adding Metallic Mimics.

Major changes following, these would need to evolve into more reliable ideas:

• Splashing for Hidden Stockpile. That way you don't need to use extra mana on Animation Modules (no matter how many you can use, you will save ) to keep 1/1 Servos. You can spend that mana on activating the Trafficker. Maybe there could be other useful cards to splash for?
• Using another strategy. Revolt ing could be fun if you get to activate Vengeful Rebel to pump your Yahenni. This would also work out with Hidden Stockpile. Morbid Curiosity would be granted a second cause here (although still too expensive) and Lawless Broker could bring the two strategies together, but I don't feel like this works out well.
• Getting an energy theme going. In that case I'd consider Gonti's Aether Heart , Live Fast, Glint-Sleeve Siphoner .
• Simply getting the Trafficker to be unblockable? If your opponent is going to murder the Marauder.

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You're welcome to discuss some tuning possibilities of the deck!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.41
Tokens	Servo 1/1 C
Folders	Budget Decks, Ideas