08 Arcum Blues

Commander / EDH Artifact Casual Mono-Blue Multiplayer

MWE_Hunter

Artifact (30)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Darksteel Reactor
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Energy Chamber
• 1x Gemstone Array
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magistrate's Scepter
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Myr Matrix
• 1x Myr Turbine
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Voltaic Key

Instant (2)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift

Land (35)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Gargoyle Castle
• 1x Glimmervoid
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 16x Island
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shimmering Grotto
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Omniscience
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Thopter Spy Network
• 1x Training Grounds

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Creature (19)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Colossus of Akros
• 1x Coretapper
• 1x Etched Champion
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Lighthouse Chronologist
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Mycosynth Golem
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Steel Overseer
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Rite of Replication

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This deck started out as a home-brew of mine back in 2014.

I wanted a Memnarch/Artifact Commander deck, as the card's stealing ability struck me as worth building a deck around. As I favor Artifacts anyway, it was quite enjoyable assembling, testing, and reassembling the deck under Memnarch's command. It won its share of multiplayer games in my play group. As to be expected, the more I played it, the more my friendly opponents added answers for it to their own decks.

The casting cost of Memnarch meant it was usually late to the battlefield, and with all opponents now waiting for it, it was often chased from the battlefield upon casting, and when recast, often chased away again.

I judged it was well past time to change the Commander, and I selected Arcum Dagson in late 2018. The deck itself had to be modified to better fit the new Commander, so what you see here are the results so far. This deck can go nuts in a big way, and is still surprising me with the synergies that occur during games.

A recent victory was in a 5 player game, where this deck survived an attack by Emrakul, the Promised End. I had a superior board state to that point and wasn't too worried, but I forgot that my latest add to the deck, Sai, Master Thopterist was on my battlefield. When the Emrakul player took over my turn, I had enough Mana available for her to sacrifice nearly all of my board state: 16 of my best Artifacts. Even so, I pulled out a win 3 turns later due to the 8 cards I drew from the Sai sacrifices.

Lots of Mana generation, an infinite combo or two, and this deck can make for a very fun night (for me, anyway!) This is also one of my more popularly requested "loaner" decks at my local game store. I've gotten a lot of valuable feedback from other "pilots", much of which went into the deck.

"The more boats on the lake, the more disturbed the waters." -- proverb cited in the texts of both Meditative Mastery, and The Principles of War.

EdIT: This was dethroned as the highest competitive rated deck, as my deck 04a Nature of the Egg (deck 04 with a new Commander) now tops this one.

EDIT JULY 11 2019: Removed Paradox Engine per ban list. Replaced with Nevinyrral's Disk.

This is deck 8 of 15 decks I have posted here.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Tamiyo, the Moon Sage, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Gargoyle 3/4 C, Marit Lage, Myr 1/1 C, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink