Lu Xun, Scholar General - Budget Voltron (RETIRED)

Commander / EDH Artifact Budget Mono-Blue Voltron

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Artifact (16)

• 1x Butcher's Cleaver
• 1x Colossus Hammer
• 1x Empyrial Plate
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Haunted Cloak
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mask of Avacyn
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Sigiled Sword of Valeron
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trepanation Blade
• 1x Blackblade Reforged

Instant (10)

• 1x Clockspinning
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Engulf the Shore
• 1x Insidious Will
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x No Escape
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Rewind
• 1x Unsummon

Creature (12)

• 1x Brass Squire
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Ixidron
• 1x Wall of Frost
• 1x Wall of Stolen Identity
• 1x Wonder

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Crab Umbra
• 1x Drake Umbra
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Octopus Umbra
• 1x Parallel Thoughts
• 1x Pendrell Flux
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Steal Artifact
• 1x Steal Enchantment
• 1x Thought Reflection

Land (37)

• 32x Island
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Coral Atoll
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Skyline Cascade

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Aether Gale
• 1x Baral's Expertise
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Crush of Tentacles
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Finale of Revelation
• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Hands of Binding
• 1x Hidden Strings
• 1x Library of Lat-Nam
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Wash Out

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Narset, Parter of VeilsGC
• 1x Teferi, Master of Time

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Enchantment (3)

• 1x Coastal Piracy
• 1x Reconnaissance Mission
• 1x Sigil of Sleep

Artifact (1)

• 1x Bident of Thassa

Instant (1)

• 1x Void Shatter

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Budget Voltron with HORSEMANSHIP!

This was my first deck from scratch. I can laugh AT this deck knowing how ridiculous horsemanship is as well as laugh WITH because he can dish it out when no one is expecting him too.

Update: I've been able to play my friends a few times with this now. Lu Xun does cost 4 CMC and he starts as a 1/3 so the first 3-5 turns no one at the table expects much from me and then start fighting between themselves. It's hard to ramp out with blue but when I get traction on my wheels and I start rolling, it starts turning into archenemy because they can't block and they're all searching for removal.

Update: 3-way game last night over quarantine webcam. Outmatched by higher budgets. One player kept removing him and he was taxed high while stealing control of my sitting equipment so I couldn’t have it. Other player did huge cascade combos and we agreed to scoop. I think he needs more ramp, haste, and protection. Basics.

Update: Another webcam quarantine 3-way game. Drew an optimal hand. Turn 1 Sol Ring. Played Lu Xun on turn 2. Gave him hexproof of turn 3. Nobody could muster any answers in time before I knocked them both out.

Update: Played 2 more games with Lu Xun. He can still have some scary turns but they're inconsistent and he lost both games. My next step is to put like $25 into him to slowly upgrade bits and pieces.

Update: Got Teferi in a booster pack. Instant include.

Update: I have retired this deck. Loved it but never saw another interesting escalation path other than adding extra turns. I have since combined a lot of the cards into a new Alela voltron deck. Also listed under my profile.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 19 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.13
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Manifest 2/2 C, Octopus 8/8 U
Folders	EDH, Decks for tts