Jhoira's Recycling Depot

Commander / EDH UR (Izzet)

Greyhame888

Creature (24)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Hellkite Igniter
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Voltaic Construct
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (6)

• 1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1x Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• 1x Saheeli, the Gifted
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip
• 1x Thopter Spy Network

Land (34)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 8x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 7x Mountain
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Volcanic Island

Instant (8)

• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Whir of Invention

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Rite of Replication

Commander (1)

Artifact (20)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock

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Artifacts have always been a favorite archetype of mine, and to be honest I didn't want to build another Breya deck.

Ramp, Acceleration, Card Advantage

Being in Izzet doesn't give us a ton of land-based ramp, but being in artifacts gives us plenty!

Mana Rocks

• Everflowing Chalice
• Mox Opal

Other Mana Generators

• Ancient Tomb generates additional mana, which can be amazing early game.
• Manifold Key can help any rock that generates 2 or more mana tap a second time.
• Unwinding Clock we can generate this mana on every opponent's turn too!
• Burnished Hart can also be used to get us two extra lands straight to the field.
• Storm the Vault   gets special mention here because there is rarely a time where we won't have 5 or more artifacts on the field. When it flips into Vault of Catlacan , we essentially made our own Tolarian Academy !
• Krark-Clan Ironworks can also generate us mana by saccing artifacts if necessary. Especially with the amount of cheap tokens we should have.
• Urza, Lord High Artificer turns every artifact we have into a mana rock!
• Metalworker will often net us a large amount of extra mana, especially early game.

It should also be noted that we have 2 infinite mana combos in the deck. Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith will generate infinite colorless mana. If you have 2 artifacts in hand, Metalworker + Voltaic Construct will generate infinite colorless mana.

Etherium Sculptor makes all our artifacts cheaper to cast, and Ugin, the Ineffable makes everything colorless cheaper to cast! Ugin combos especially well with Mycosynth Lattice as that makes our entire deck cheaper! And we can't forget our Commander, Saheeli, the Gifted . Her second +1 makes our next spell cheaper based on the number of artifacts in play. Nothing like casting Blightsteel Colossus or Darksteel Forge for free.

For card advantage, we focused mainly on stuff that synergizes with artifacts, but not all of it. Rhystic Study goes in every blue deck in my opinion. In my meta, people will often not pay the 1 and this nets us cards. At worst it's a good tax effect. The rest of our card advantage is also listed below.

• Thopter Spy Network
• Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• Vedalken Archmage
• Sai, Master Thopterist
• Daretti, Scrap Savant
• Ugin, the Ineffable
• Staff of Domination
• Skullclamp
• Urza, Lord High Artificer

Token Generators

One of the main themes of this deck is to generate a bunch of small 1/1 tokens, either Thopters, Servos or Myr, and then use them for value. We can use them for cards, mana, or just to cheat out other good artifacts or creatures.

Saheeli, the Gifted , Saheeli, Sublime Artificer , Thopter Spy Network , Hangarback Walker , Myr Battlesphere , Sai, Master Thopterist , and Sharding Sphinx all make us a bunch of small tokens. Wurmcoil Engine can generate us a couple bigger tokens as well. Urza, Lord High Artificer makes us a nice Karnstruct on ETB.

These tokens have many purposes in this deck. We can use:

• Skullclamp to turn them into card advantage
• Arcum Dagsson or Kuldotha Forgemaster to sacrifice them and tutor for something better
• Goblin Welder to sac them and recur an artifact from our graveyard
• Master Transmuter to drop out any other artifact from our hand
• Use Saheeli, the Gifted to make them into something big and scary for a turn.
• Or even just have a bunch of them out to win with Mechanized Production

Removal and Disruption

Being in blue, we have access to some of the best removal: Counterspells! What better way to remove something than to stop it ever hitting the board? (in most cases anyway) Counterspell , Disallow , Mana Drain , Stoic Rebuttal , and Swan Song all help us stop threats before they stick.

Cyclonic Rift and Blasphemous Act serve as our boardwipes. Nevinyrral's Disk can also clear the board, and can be a nasty one-sided wipe if we have Darksteel Forge on the field.

Steel Hellkite can help us to destroy troublesome permanents after dealing combat damage to an opponent. Ugin, the Ineffable and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon have abilities that can function as removal.

One piece of removal I am especially fond of in the deck is Spine of Ish Sah . Yes, it's 7 mana, but it's also unconditional removal in Izzet. One of my favorite scenarios is to have Ugin, the Ineffable + Etherium Sculptor + Krark-Clan Ironworks out. Cast the Spine for 4 mana, sac it to KCI to generate 2 mana and return to hand, then cast again for 2 mana. Repeat as necessary.

Goblin Welder can actually function as situational removal too. Force an opponent to sacrifice a threatening artifact and return something less useful.

Karn, Silver Golem has a pretty entertaining use. You can activate him targeting an opponent's equipment to cause it to fall off.

Protection

Always nice to be able to protect our own board, so we have a couple ways to do it. Our Counterspell package is strong on its own, but we have some permanents to do the job too.

• Darksteel Forge makes all our artifacts indestructible.
• Master Transmuter can bounce an artifact (including itself) and return it to the field, causing targeted spells to fizzle.
• Padeem, Consul of Innovation gives all our artifacts hexproof.
• Spellskite can redirect any kill spell to itself to protect a better artifact/creature.
• Krark-Clan Ironworks can save our artifacts from exile by sacrificing them in response to being targeted for exile.
• Lightning Greaves helps protect one creature.

Tutors, Mana Cheats, and Recursion

We have some pretty great tutor options in the deck.

• Fabricate gets us any artifact to hand, while Whir of Invention gets us any artifact straight to the field.
• Arcum Dagsson and Kuldotha Forgemaster both let us sacrifice our little tokens (or any other artifact) to get better pieces straight from our library. One of my favorite plays is saccing a thopter to Arcum to put Darksteel Forge into play for free.
• Tezzeret the Seeker also has a minus ability that let's us tutor for an artifact and put it straight into play.
• Tolaria West grabs us any other land, or Walking Ballista .
• Master Transmuter is another great card in the deck. Bounce a cheap artifact back to hand, then drop Darksteel Forge or Blightsteel Colossus out instead.
• Inventors' Fair can be sacced to go find an artifact too.

We don't have a ton of graveyard recursion, but what we do have is really good.

• Goblin Welder and Daretti, Scrap Savant can both let us trade artifacts on the field for artifacts in the graveyard.
• Academy Ruins is great as well, allowing us to redraw destroyed or sacrificed artifacts.
• If we can get Daretti, Scrap Savant to Ultimate, we never have to worry about artifacts hitting the graveyard.

Wincons, Combos, and Major Interactions

While not a combo deck per-se, we have a few game-ending combos available. Rings of Brightheath + Basalt Monolith will generate infinite colorless mana. From there, we have a few options:

• Cast Walking Ballista with a billion +1/+1 counters, then remove them to kill the table.
• Use Staff of Domination to gain infinite life, draw as many cards as you want, or keep all your opponent's creature tapped down permanently.
• Not an immediate win, but cast Hangarback Walker with a billion +1/+1 counters and then sacrifice it to get a ton of thopters.
• Play pretty much our entire deck with Urza, Lord High Artificer .

Combat Oriented Wincons

• Hellkite Tyrant can win us games. Not only does he steal our opponent's artifacts when he connects, it's not uncommon for us to have 20 artifacts out on our own. If we get to our upkeep, we win.
• Hellkite Igniter is gross for a similar reason. For just 1R, we can buff him by a massive amount, and can do this more than once!
• Blightsteel Colossus needs no explanation. One unblocked hit kills an opponent.

Rogue's Passage and Manifold Key helps us make sure all of these connect too.

Sneaky Wincon Most people see Mechanized Production as too slow, but we have a couple ways to win with it. Slapping it onto Myr Battlesphere can win outright. If you can protect it and your Myr tokens until your upkeep, you will win outright by having 8 Myr tokens. It's not hard to have 8 Thopters or Servos out at once either.

Mycosynth lattice Mycosynth Lattice gets it's own section here. This card can enable so many things in the deck it's crazy.

• With Karn, Silver Golem we can turn any opponent's land into a creature, causing it to die instantly.
• With Hellkite Tyrant and any 20 permanents, we win on upkeep.
• With Hellkite Igniter we can get MASSIVE swings very easily.
• With Darksteel Forge and Nevinyrral's Disk we can blow up everyone else's permanents. All of them.
• With Padeem, Consul of Innovation our entire board will be hexproof.
• With Darksteel Forge , our entire board will be indestructible.
• If we ult Tezzeret the Seeker with it out, we can swing out ENTIRE board at someone for stupid amounts of damage.

It's just so very good.

Utility and Goodstuff

• Karn, Silver Golem is great for shenanigans. Turn opponent's artifacts into creatures before a boardwipe resolves, turn your own big artifacts into surprise blockers, turn equipment into creatures so it falls off, and more!
• Shimmer Myr giving all our artifacts flash is just great to have.
• Rite of Replication is just a great spell, either for making more of our own creatures (5 Blightsteel Colossus anyone?) or copying opponent's stuff.
• Saheeli, Sublime Artificer is great for turning those little tokens she makes into something bigger and scarier for a turn.
• Paradox Engine needs no introduction. It's broken, and does WORK in the deck, especially with the amount of mana rocks we run.
• Minamo, School at Water's Edge can be used to let us activate things like Arcum Dagsson and Academy Ruins more than once per turn. It can also be used politically to help out an ally that needs a blocker.
• Rings of Brighthearth let's us double our planeswalker abilities, which we have quite a few of.

Tweaks and Modifications

May 30, 2019 - Dropped a mountain, added a Scalding Tarn .

June 8, 2019 - Dropped Shrine of the Forsaken Gods and Temple of the False God for Prismatic Vista and Fiery Islet to upgrade mana base a bit. Replaced Sky Diamond with Talisman of Creativity as it is strictly better and comes in untapped. Dropped Chief of the Foundry for Urza, Lord High Artificer . He just does so much good for the deck. Tolaria West in, Arch of Orazca out. A tutor on a land is great, and grabs our wincons or any good land.

June 29, 2019 - Trinket Mage out, Mox Opal in. I seem to have enough tutor options and fast mana is never a bad thing. Also swapped Temple of Epiphany out for Volcanic Island . I’ve been slowly acquiring duals, and even though the scary is good, an untapped fetchable dual is almost always better.

July 9, 2019 - Manifold Key swapped in to replace Voltaic Key . It’s a strict upgrade as it does the same thing, but can also enable unblockable. Myr Retriever out, Metalworker in. I found the retriever was underperforming, and Metalworker is a great mana source.

August 1, 2019 - Platinum Emperion and Master of Etherium out, replaced with Voltaic Construct and Comet Storm . Combined with Metalworker, Voltaic Construct is another infinite mana producer. And Comet Storm provides another wincon and mana sink.

I also decided to try Jhoira at the helm instead of Saheeli. As much as the cost reduction and tokens of Saheeli are good, the card advantage Jhoira provides is super powerful.

September 25, 2019 - Dropped Buried Ruin for a Mana Crypt .

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.65
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Emblem Daretti, Scrap Savant, Myr 1/1 C, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Commander Decks