Thopter Foundry

Artifact

{1}, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life.

Discussion (50)

lagotripha on Oni-Cult Reactor

1 month ago

Thopter Foundry as a second synergy set? There is a lot that can be done with artifact combos, its all about finding the line you want to take so it dodges whatever hate cards are present.

nbarry223 on Different Milk

2 months ago

There's also Bonesplitter and Sigil of Distinction as an option for 0 CMC equipment.

I would also consider a transforming sideboard (where you change up your path to victory) instead of a traditional one. You have something resembling hammertime as an option, since Colossus Hammer is always an option when running Puresteel Paladin, especially with all the card draw going on.

There's also Time Sieve + Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek which would work, especially with Paradise Mantle + Puresteel Paladin to enable it.

DawnsRayofLight on Breya treasures

4 months ago

Adds:

Ashnod's Altar: combo piece

Time Sieve: combo and utility

Thopter Foundry: Combo and utility

Thopter Assembly: combo

Pili-Pala: Combo

Grand Architect: Combo and utility

Thopter Spy Network: tokens and fuel

Monologue Tax: Tax and tokens

Vindicate: Control

Despark: control

Utter End: Control

Render Silent: control

Counterflux: control

Mana Drain: control and utility

Wash Away: control

Damn: spot removal and wipe

Possible adds

Bronze Guardian: beater and protection

Ethersworn Adjudicator: Control

Marionette Master: token and some burn, a bit better impact tremors-combo

Angel of Invention: tokens and combo

Rhystic Study: Draw

Tezzeret, Artifice Master: draw, tokens, utility

Mirrodin Besieged: can make tokens or be a win con

Mechanized Production: Win con and utility

DawnsRayofLight on Breya treasures

4 months ago

The First comment I am going to make is about combos you can run, some of it working with cards you are already running:

Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry + Ashnods alter/Krark-Clan Ironworks: this generates infinite life and mana. you start the loop by sacing the sword with the foundry to make a thopter, the sword comes back in attached to the thopter. sac the thopter to alter/iron-works maiking two mana, pay (1) sac the sword, make a thopter and gain a life, repeat ad nauseum netting 1 life and 1 mana each loop. You obviously can pair this with other cards like Pitiless Plunderer

Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve: infinite turns, time sieve on its own works well with the treasure tokens you are making.

Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnods alter/Krark-Clan Ironworks + Breya/Myr Battlesphere/Angel of Invention/Marionette Master/Wurmcoil Engine: You will after a few loops start netting tokens and mana, obviously this ties in to other combos, You could also run Impact Tremors, use Skull clamp on the net tokens, etc.

Ashnods alter/Krark-Clan Ironworks + Wurmcoil Engine/Breya/Myr Battlesphere/Angel of Invention/Marionette Master + Nim Deathmantle: Net tokens and infinite mana as well

Pili-Pala + Grand Architect: Infinite mana

DawnsRayofLight on Breya treasures

4 months ago

The First comment I am going to make is about combos you can run, some of it working with cards you are already running:

Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry + Ashnod's Altar/Krark-Clan Ironworks: this generates infinite life and mana. you start the loop by sacing the sword with the foundry to make a thopter, the sword comes back in attached to the thopter. sac the thopter to alter/iron-works making two mana, pay (1) sac the sword, make a thopter and gain a life, repeat ad nauseum netting 1 life and 1 mana each loop. You obviously can pair this with other cards like Pitiless Plunderer

Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve: infinite turns, time sieve on its own works well with the treasure tokens you are making.

Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnod's Altar/Krark-Clan Ironworks + Breya/Myr Battlesphere/Angel of Invention/Marionette Master/Wurmcoil Engine: You will after a few loops start netting tokens and mana, obviously this ties in to other combos, You could also run Impact Tremors, use Skull clamp on the net tokens, etc.

Ashnod's Altar/Krark-Clan Ironworks + Wurmcoil Engine/Breya/Myr Battlesphere/Angel of Invention/Marionette Master + Nim Deathmantle: Net tokens and infinite mana as well

Pili-Pala + Grand Architect: Infinite mana

BlaineTog on Combo'ing on a budget for fun and profit

5 months ago

@Lucas88: Thanks!

You can actually go off with Sword of the Meek + Thopter Foundry instead. You sacrifice Sword to Foundry to make a 1/1 flyer, then since you made a 1/1 creature, Sword returns itself from the yard to the battlefield attached to that flyer. Do that 5 times and you have enough artifacts to activate Time Sieve each turn, or you can pour more mana into it to make an ever-growing army of thopters as you take your extra turns. Cheaper to pull off than Thopter Assembly each turn, plus you don't have to wait until you get back around to your upkeep to go off.

Sword/Foundry also lets you grind out a ton of value on its own even without Time Sieve, converting mana into thopters and life at a 1:1 ratio. Plus all three artifacts cost 2 mana, which means Shred Memory and Tribute Mage hit whichever piece you need (and you can use Drift of Phantasms to get Tribute Mage in a pinch).

wallisface on Lobotomy

5 months ago

Wabbajacke a typical Lanturn control list would look something like this:

Typical Decklist

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

• 1x The Underworld Cookbook

• 1x Grafdigger's Cage

• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb

• 2x Pyxis of Pandemonium

• 2x Pithing Needle

• 4x Codex Shredder

• 4x Ensnaring Bridge

• 4x Lantern of Insight

• 4x Mishra's Bauble

• 3x Thoughtseize

• 4x Inquisition of Kozilek

• 4x Prismatic Ending

• 4x Ancient Stirrings

• 4x Urza's Saga

• 1x Swamp

• 2x Razorverge Thicket

• 3x Concealed Courtyard

• 3x Blooming Marsh

• 4x Spire of Industry

• 4x Glimmervoid

So, if you're wanting to keep to just blue and black, and include Circu, Dimir Lobotomist, then I would suggest a list that looks something like this (you'll note the deck can be a lot more tool-boxy than the above because Whir of Invention lets us search for whatever we want, so for example we only need 2 bridges):

Suggested Decklist

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

• 1x Witchbane Orb

• 2x Circu, Dimir Lobotomist

• 2x Pyxis of Pandemonium

• 1x Pithing Needle

• 1x Torpor Orb

• 4x Codex Shredder

• 2x Ensnaring Bridge

• 2x Talisman of Dominance

• 4x Lantern of Insight

• 4x Mishra's Bauble

• 2x Thoughtseize

• 3x Inquisition of Kozilek

• 1x Welding Jar

• 1x Relic of Progenitus

• 2x Collective Brutality

• 1x Sword of the Meek

• 1x Thopter Foundry

• 4x Whir of Invention

• 2x Urza's Saga

• 19x other lands

hungry000 on Lead Guy Ale (BW AsmoraBlade)

9 months ago

Goblin Engineer is interesting. I remember seeing a UW Urza, Lord High Artificer deck that used Vial and Oswald Fiddlebender to help assemble the Thopter Foundry/Sword of the Meek combo; maybe a Jeskai Urza deck with Oswald and Engineer could be in the cards somewhere?

I don't think I'd play Charming Prince over another card in the main here. The deck only runs 9 creatures that get any value at all from flickering, and of those Ranger-Captain of Eos is the only one without severely diminishing returns. For example, you only need Stoneforge Mystic's etb to resolve once to get your most powerful equipment, Kaldra Compleat; the second Stoneforge gets Nettlecyst which is okay, but after that flickering it isn't very good. Thanks for the suggestion, though.