Sydri Artifact Animator

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (10)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Land (36)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Blinkmoth Well
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 33x Island

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Artificer's Intuition
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Overburden
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Tainted AEther

Artifact (32)

• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dispeller's Capsule
• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Portcullis
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Salvaging Station
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Ward of Bones
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Instant (1)

• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault

Sorcery (12)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Catastrophe
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Rout
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Tinker
• 1x Wrath of God

Commander (1)

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Fabricate

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This deck is meant to stall and control the board to lead to a victory with Sydri's animated artifacts, big swings in from a sphinx, or Tezzeret ultimates. I am not looking to include instant win combo scenarios, unless they are extremely well deserved. The idea is to slow the game down with Propaganda like effects and cards like Lethal Vapors to give me time to build a board presence. Before dropping a card like Ward of Bones, it will be necessary to wipe the board, probably on multiple occasions, hence the many wrath effects. Lethal Vaprs, Tainted Aether, and the like are mostly one sided effects. Here's some of the key card interactions, most are obvious...

Rite of Replication: The idea of animating a lotus, spine, etc... and then creating five copies of it on the battlefield was too whack to pass up.

Master Transmuter: Pretty obvious, but makes a reusable magister sphinx, spine, etc...

Staff of Nin: Deathtouch ping with Sydri.

Artificer's Intuition: Many things to fish out, like a meekstone, spellmbomb, or even chromatic star if I have a salvaging station coming into play.

Prototype Portal: The inclusion of so many 1 mana artifacts made this seem worth it. I would gladly attach a chromatic star to the portal.

Unwinding Clock, omens, staff: All hopefully draw artifact hate. These will get ridiculous if they stick.

Static Orb I am a little nervous about. I'll have to see how often I can get it tapped down before the start of my turn.

I'm concerned about a few things, firstly artifact wrath. Getting Darksteel into play will be essential. Additionally, I am concerned about the lack of card draw. I imagine I'll often be forced to tinker for a Mind's Eye over something more enticing. Finally, I'd like to include some sorcery/instant recursion to reuse wrath and tinker effects, but can't figure out the cuts for it.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.88
Tokens	Copy Clone
Folders	Artyfacts examples