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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
PreDH Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Retract

Instant

Return all artifacts you control to their owner's hand.

hootsnag on Jhoira Draw Fast Win

2 months ago

In all of my playtesting, I actually dump my hands very quickly. I usually have very few cards. If I did have larger draw cards or run more cards like Retract, I would probably try running Gamble. I just wind up having so few cards in hand as the deck is currently designed. This design limits the amount of non-artifact cards in the deck so I rely on fewer spells. Urza's Saga also can pull a 1 mana artifact. This includes cards like Conjurer's Bauble or Sensei's Divining Top which can draw on their own even if my commander is dead or not played yet.

EchoSpice on Jhoira Draw Fast Win

2 months ago

Love Jhoira! one of my favorite decks. good combo is Aetherflux Reservoir + Retract. basically, bounce a ton of artifacts back to your hand, then cast them for basically free if you have any cost reducers out. gains you a ton of life, you can one-shot someone with aetherflux, or draw a massive amount of cards and win with Thassa's Oracle or Laboratory Maniac.

SaberTech on Dissident Storm

4 months ago

Alright. It's harder to pull off a storm deck in Commander but there are things you can do.

The easiest way to storm in Commander is with the Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal combo. The Scepter copies the imprinted spell, but you cast the copy so it counts towards your storm count. Running this combo requires you to run a bunch more mana rocks though, because you need to be able to produce at least 2 mana off of the rocks just to get the engine going, plus more mana if you want to produce infinite mana off of the combo. I don't know what your budget is like or if your group allows proxies, but at higher level tables you'd be looking to run cards like Mana Vault and Grim Monolith since those produce 3 mana all on their own. Beyond that though, you would definitely want to be running the talismans like Talisman of Dominance. Everflowing Chalice is another good option for storm because it's on rate if you only kick it once or you can just play it for free un-kicked to increase your storm count. Whichever rocks you end up running, you'll need a good number in the deck to support the combo.

The Dramatic Scepter combo also works well with Wishclaw Talisman. Activate the Talisman, then with the ability on the stack you activate the Scepter to untap the Scepter, the Talisman, and your mana rocks. While the first ability is still on the stack, activate the Talisman again and repeat the cycle. You'll be able to use up all 3 wish counters yourself and in the end you just pass a useless Talisman to the opponent, although after tutoring three cards you should just be winning that turn. The combo also just kills if Guttersnipe is out.

Running a bunch of mana artifacts (that don't enter tapped) has another benefit in that you can run cards like Paradoxical Outcome, Hurkyl's Recall, and Retract. You get to tap your rocks for mana, bounce them back to hand, and then recast them to increase your storm count and hopefully even net extra mana, although that requires more artifacts that produce more mana than they cost like Sol Ring, Mana Vault, and Grim Monolith.

Another combo card you could be running is Chain of Smog, which combos with Professor Onyx as long as you keep targeting yourself with the Chain and its copies. The copies won't count towards your storm count, but they will get you a bunch of treasure tokens off of Storm-Kiln Artist. You would have an empty hand, but you would have the mana to cast Kess and then cast a card from your graveyard. Ideally, you would be running wheel effects like Wheel of Fortune to immediately refill your hand and keep your plays going. Storm decks typically like to run wheel effects. On the more budget end of things, you could at least be running Windfall and similar effects so that you can match your opponents' hand sizes after emptying your own.

Chain of Smog + Archmage Emeritus will basically let you mill through your deck at the cost of emptying your hand. You'll be forced to discard the cards that you draw off of Emeritus. However, If you run a copy of Unearth in the deck then you can draw and discard your deck, use Kess to cast Unearth from your graveyard, and bring back Thassa's Oracle for the win. It's a risky line though because you won't have access to any counterspells to protect it.

Unearth is still worth considering for the deck in general since it can get back several relevant creatures in case they are countered, it's a 1 mana spell for storm count, and at worst you can cycle it away to draw a card.

Another combo I can think of based off of cards already in your deck is God-Eternal Kefnet + Scroll Rack + Time Warp (or any other extra turn card that doesn't exile itself). You use Scroll Rack to make sure that Time Warp is the top card of your deck. When you draw, Kefnet sees it and copies it. You cast the copy, and then before the end of your turn you use Scroll Rack to put Time Warp from your hand back on top of your library. Rinse and repeat for infinite turns.

Beyond that is typical storm stuff:

If all of that is sounding really expensive, Stella Lee, Wild Card and Veyran, Voice of Duality are known commanders for their own unique storm decks. You can find lists at various budget point for them online. Zada, Hedron Grinder can also play as a budget, glass-cannon style goblin storm deck.

EchoSpice on Robit time

1 year ago

Cool deck! I love artifact storm, I've got a similar deck with Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain. Jhoira loves her trinkets

A spell I really like in Jhoira is Retract, you could get a TON of value from it if you've got some cost reducers and token producers out, and it can also help dodge boardwipes. Broodstar is also a good Flying beater for 2 mana if you're gonna be casting a bunch of artifacts anyways.

Krark-Clan Ironworks would also go amazing in here, as you essentially net 1 free colorless mana every time you copy an artifact with your commander. I'm sure there's some crazy combo loops you could do with KCI and retriever effects like Junk Diver and Myr Retriever

Fila_Mindbender on Flubs Has $20 in Quarters

1 year ago

EchoSpice

Thanks for commenting I appreciate your time! I will be adding Retract and Birgi, God of Storytelling  Flip to the deck to act as more fuel to the fire, nice suggestions. Saheeli, Sublime Artificer Efficient Construction and Reckless Fireweaver are all cool cards since they give me value based off of my deck style. However the value only seems to be impactful once I storm enough to win the game anyways. Trying to keep the deck to 0-1 drops + cards that fuel by providing mana/the ability to play more lands per turn.

EchoSpice on Flubs Has $20 in Quarters

1 year ago

cool deck! it seems to play A lot like my Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain deck Jhoira loves her trinkets

because of the amount of artifacts you're running, stuff like Saheeli, Sublime Artificer & Efficient Construction can help build up a board state

if you've already got Aetherflux out, playing Retract and dumping all your 0 drops onto the board can easily gain you 100 life and kill 2 players. I'd also recommend Reckless Fireweaver for the same reason

Birgi, God of Storytelling  Flip can help you storm off even longer

GetZombified on Fblthp's Cheerios

1 year ago

TheOfficialCreator I had most of those in the build already. I still have Hurkyl's Recall and Retract. Though the others didn't make the cut. Are there any recommendations on what you would swap out for the ones you recommended?

DeinoStinkus on Fblthp's Cheerios

1 year ago

Surge of Brilliance would be HUGE in this deck. You also appear to be missing Memnite. Hurkyl's Recall, Retract, and Rebuild are incredibly helpful in artifact-heavy storm decks. Also Gitaxian Probe, Mishra's Bauble, and Urza's Bauble.

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