Thopter Skunk Works

Modern Artifact Budget Tokens UR (Izzet)

Moby_Copperfield

Creature (25)

• 4x Chief of the Foundry
• 3x Esperzoa
• 4x Etherium Sculptor
• 2x Foundry Inspector
• 2x Master of Etherium
• 3x Ornithopter
• 2x Shimmer Myr
• 3x Thopter Engineer
• 2x Whirler Rogue

Land (20)

• 2x Buried Ruin
• 4x Darksteel Citadel
• 2x Inventors' Fair
• 4x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 4x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon

Instant (9)

• 3x Galvanic Blast
• 2x Ghostly Flicker
• 2x Metallic Rebuke
• 2x Stoic Rebuttal

Artifact (6)

• 1x Aligned Hedron Network
• 2x Panharmonicon
• 2x Prophetic Prism
• 1x Silverskin Armor

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Maybeboard

Artifact (10)

• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Inventor's Goggles
• 1x Liquimetal Coating
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Paradise Mantle
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Renegade Map
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Welding Jar

Creature (8)

• 1x Alloy Myr
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Lumengrid Sentinel
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Signal Pest

Instant (8)

• 4x Ceremonious Rejection
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Machinate
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Shrapnel Blast

Land (12)

• 4x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Contested War Zone
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 3x Spire of Industry
• 1x Tectonic Edge

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Cowardice

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This deck is based around Thopter generators, the trusty Ornithopter and Artifact creature lords Master of Etherium/Chief of the Foundry to create a wave of souped up Thopters to swarm the opponent with.

Suggestions welcome! I'm particularly interested in any one drops or enchantment removal that'd work in this deck.

Panharmonicon and Ghostly Flicker are there to double up the Thopter count and provide protection.

The Esperzoa is a beater/lightning rod for removal. It can also get extra cards out of the Prophetic Prism with the bounce of an artifact at upkeep.

Shimmer Myr enables mana to be held up for the counterspells/Galvanic Blast and eventually allows for "surprise" Lords.

The utility lands provide further support. Buried Ruin and Inventors' Fair dig cards out of the graveyard or library respectively. Tomb of the Spirit Dragon can produce significant lifegain once the board is filled with Thopters.

I've inadvertently avoided artifacts with activated abilities , which gets round the popular artifact hate that is Stony Silence. Apart from Prophetic Prism, which is more for the card draw, metal craft and being tapped by the Whirler Rogue.

The deck has been through various iterations and will go through more!

I am contemplating placing Signal Pest into the mix, but not sure if it would be replacing the Chief of the Foundry or the Ornithopter.

There are some obvious upgrades that are out of my budget (e.g. Mox Opal and Academy Ruins and possibly Spellskite).

I've taken the name from the Lockheed Martin aircraft design facilit in case you're wondering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.58
Tokens	Thopter 1/1 C