Thran Dynamo

Artifact

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}

Combos

• Teferi, Temporal Archmage + The Chain Veil + Thran Dynamo
• Brago, King Eternal + Strionic Resonator + Thran Dynamo
• Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter + Thran Dynamo

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

lohow9608 on Faceless Menace PreCon

1 month ago

Remove: Apex Altisaur, Bounty of the Luxa, Exotic Orchard, Foul Orchard, Golgari Guildgate, Great Oak Guardian, Grismold, the Dreadsower, Hex, Jungle Hollow, Mire in Misery, Pendant of Prosperity, Rayami, First of the Fallen, Road of Return, Sagu Mauler, Scaretiller, Simic Guildgate, Strionic Resonator, Tempt with Discovery, Tezzeret's Gambit, Thelonite Hermit, Thespian's Stage, Thought Sponge, Thran Dynamo, Urban Evolution, Voice of Many, Volrath, the Shapestealer, Vraska the Unseen, Woodland Stream

Card count 29

DreadKhan on Even The Demon Slayer Corps Fear This Deck

3 months ago

Are you aiming for a Bracket 3 deck? I'm going to go ahead and assume yes, based mostly on the budget and 2 Game Changers already included.

First off I'm going to list off some cards that I think you might cut, along with some reasons why: Rakdos Charm (none of these seem worth a card, I'd look into Abrade unless people run weird token decks that flood the board), Bedevil (it's nice to have some versatility, but paying that much for it seems harsh, it's also awkward to hold up due to it's fixing requirements), Dark Ritual (I might be missing something, but I feel like getting your Commander out a couple turns early isn't going to matter that much if people can kill them before you can follow up with other demons), Archfiend of Despair (the effect is strong but it seems hard to actually get out), Blood Speaker (4 mana per tutor doesn't sound that good to me when you already have a decent density of demons to draw into, I also think search effects are usually worse includes than lower to the ground draw effects, both in terms of how they play in games and how people react to them).

Possible cards you might want to add: Saw in Half (this is usually better than a flicker, but why not run both?), Thran Dynamo (really strong ramp to get your Commander out or recast him, if you're worried about it getting blown up then perhaps Skyclave Relic), Night's Whisper/Painful Truths (both of these are very low to the ground draw that are easy to cast, they are very able to turn a hand you'd have to mulligan into a strong keep), Burnt Offering (this is probably a stronger effect in here than Dark Ritual; there's also Sacrifice and Soldevi Adnate if the effect seems to work, the idea is you'd chain ETBs this way, and possibly use them to recast your Commander to draw cards in a pinch).

DreadKhan on Lightning Bolts shoot from my fingertips

9 months ago

It's a bit pricey, but Exquisite Blood is generically very good with burn effects. If you don't mind a combo potentially showing up you can also use Sanguine Bond, which also happens to love your Commander's Lifelink (and fwiw unlike most decks that just throw that in you are VERY able to burn people to actually win on the spot).

I think if you want to use Manabarbs maybe you should look at more Artifact type ramp that won't trigger it? There are some easy ones like Rakdos Signet, Talisman of Indulgence that can even give you coloured mana, and some like Worn Powerstone and Thran Dynamo that can help keep your Commander on the table. Also, maybe I'm missing a ton of them, but IMHO you should have more artifacts if you want to use a Mox Opal.

Some other random goodies you might like: Maddening Hex (this would be HILARIOUS with some doublers), Chandra's Ignition (if you target something with lifelink remember it's the CREATURE doing the damage, so you can gain a TON of life off of this if the board is fairly full, and it's great with a Deathtouch source like Gift of Doom), Fire Covenant (one of the best burn spells ever), and MAYBE a Rionya, Fire Dancer since you've got all those Sorceries.

YMMV but I love having some small card draw effects in a deck like this, maybe Night's Whisper, Winds of Change, Humble Defector, and/or Phyrexian Arena? I feel like Sign in Blood's BB might be awkward.

It's not exactly 'lightning from your fingers', but Brash Taunter is one of the funniest creatures in Magic, just having the little guy out can make you much harder to attack into, and before your turn if you didn't need to remove/burn something you can use mana you're holding up to pick a fight with the biggest creature on board. It's nutso with all your damage doublers IMHO. One of my favorite interactions in all of Magic is how good Scavenged Brawler is with Taunter, it's the kind of thing you won't pull off often, but if people aren't running enough Swords to Plowshares family effects it's amazing.

austintayshus on Color Segregation

11 months ago

Great colorless build! +1

Infiltration Lens is great card draw with Eldrazi.

Thran Dynamo for ramp.

Coward_Token on Gishath Spared No Expense!!!

1 year ago

While I'm normally a fan of 2 mana ramp, what you got here is an 8 mana commander in a 4.32 MV deck. I feel like this is the time to go big or go home.

Overgrowth Somberwald Sage Thran Dynamo Shadow in the Warp Semblance Anvil

You already mentioned Smothering TitheGC but I don't see enough of a reason to skip it, it can easily let you get a turn 5 Gish

NV_1980 on Gyruda, Doom of Clones

1 year ago

Interesting build. Some more mana sources would do you some good though, as the average mana cost of spells in your deck is relatively high. Some ideas on this would be Coldsteel Heart, Fellwar Stone and/or Thran Dynamo. Next to the Animate Dead spell you've already included, I would recommend to add Dance of the Dead as well; it's almost as good.

NV_1980 on commander mill

1 year ago

Hi opencorners! Please consider adding some more mana-options to the deck. Right now, all you have for that are lands and compared to the average commander deck, this will make your deck painfully slow. Options I'd recommend include Arcane Signet, Dimir Signet, Fellwar Stone, Talisman of Dominance, Thran Dynamo and most especially Sol Ring. Dark Ritual can also be extremely useful at times.

You could also do with some more card-advantage (draw) to increase the deck's speed. Notion ThiefGC, Phyrexian Arena, Ponder and Preordain could all be great additions for this.

Aside from this, I'd recommend giving the following cards a shot (I've tried to keep them budget):

• Breach the Multiverse: strong mill-spell that's potentially game-ending in terms of the sudden advantage you can gain (especially if you play against multiple opponents).
• Freed from the Real/Pemmin's Aura: allows you to untap your strongest millers (when Phenax is around) for next-to-nothing cost, and use them to mill again.
• Memory Erosion: quite deadly against decks that try to overwhelm you with the amount of spells that can cast per turn (this card is the death of prowess and storm decks).
• Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker: great mill potential with every successful attack.
• Nighthowler: a second Wight of Precinct Six.
• Sphinx's Tutelage: an incredibly effective mill card as it's triggered by your draw (which makes having more draw in your deck even more beneficial).

Hope this helped. In case you need some more insights, have a look at my own Phenax deck. Good luck with the deck.

Veghelia on Combat Superiority

1 year ago

Hey Crow_Umbra, sorry for the radio silence. Become a bit more busy with non-MTG stuff, so I got less time for brewing, sadly.

"Support" suspicions are just going to be part of playing this deck, so I've accepted that's going to be something I'm gonna run into. I do mostly play with a relatively consistent group of friends (read: like 5 different groups, some with some overlapping players, but all with similar vibes), and they do look at me with suspicion, but are most of the time greedy enough that they'll take advantage of my almost-symmetrical support cards. If they ever choose to destroy them or otherwise turn them off for the others, that tends to draw the table's ire, so most of the time they don't unless everyone agrees they're becoming an issue, in which case I can hardly blame them. I'm currently still mostly feeling that I'm going to try to leave goad out of it as much as possible, safe for a few choice cards (Taunt from the Rampart hasn't shined yet, but I'm feeling it will at some point).

Alright, now on to the card discussions.

• I'm leaving Xantcha, Sleeper Agent and Emberwilde Captain in the maybeboard. Your arguments are very valid, but I do feel like the don't vibe enough with the "support" idea.

• I had Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser in my deck before and removed her, because she's an odd play. With my lack of goad or other ways to force attacks, I have very little control over the amount of cards I draw with her, if I draw any. I imagine she'd work great as a commander, since you can reliably have her on the field in the early to mid game, where plenty of people attack each other, but I think she does a lot worse as a late-game topdeck.

• Kambal, Profiteering Mayor feels like a "one step too far" kinda card. If my entire point was to give my opponents tokens, then he'd be amazing, but I feel like he's going to not do anything far too often (although I will admit that I don't quite now how often my playgroups play tokens).

• Master Warcraft has one mayor flaw that I'm pretty sure a good chunk of my playgroup will notice: I can force an attack, but I can't force them to not attack me, and my playgroups are spiteful enough that that is exactly what will happen :P

• Batwing Brume is interesting. It's going on the maybeboard for now, since I'm not sure if the problem it fixes is one I run into all that often, but it does feel like a beautiful blindside.

Currently, Ghostly Prison and Brutal Hordechief are most likely going to be in the next version.

Besides that, I'm reviewing:

1. The beaters I have in the deck, since they don't feel strong enough. It's not like I didn't know Skysovereign, Consul Flagship and Tajic, Blade of the Legion weren't the best in slot, but the little hope I had for them has been dashed.
2. Different graveyard hate (I'm recently formed the opinion that Bojuka Bog really only works in a lands deck), and Kutzil's Flanker is currently my most considered option.
3. Lands and ramp. Thran Dynamo was way better when Endbringer was going to be a part of the deck, and the deck feels too color-heavy to run it otherwise. Similar thoughts about the pain-lands. Also, I've adopted the "Chromatic Lantern is bad" position.