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Commander / EDH Affinity Artifact Bracket 3 Casual Combo Mill Mono-Blue Thopter

EscapingBurger

Get More Cards (23)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Cephalid Broker
• 1x Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
• 1x Essence Anchor
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Found Footage
• 1x Hidden Cataract
• 1x Karn, Living Legacy
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Orazca Puzzle-Door
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Secrets of the Dead
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x The Antiquities War
• 1x The Surgical Bay
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Transplant Theorist
• 1x Urza's Bauble

Utility and Combos (20)

• 1x Aura of Dominion
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x Urza's Bauble
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Witch's Oven

Land (34)

• 1x Archway of Innovation
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hidden Cataract
• 12x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rivendell
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Secluded Starforge
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x The Surgical Bay
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower

Counters and Removal (12)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Argentum Masticore
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sink into Stupor  ^Flip
• 1x Stoic Rebuttal
• 1x Twist Reality
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Commander (1)

Threats (21)

• 1x Broodstar
• 1x Cyberdrive Awakener
• 1x Essence Anchor
• 1x Glaring Fleshraker
• 1x Kappa Cannoneer
• 1x Karn, Living Legacy
• 1x Master of Etherium
• 1x Mirrodin Besieged
• 1x Nettlecyst
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Secluded Starforge
• 1x Sharding Sphinx
• 1x Shoreline Looter
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1x The Antiquities War
• 1x Thopter Assembly
• 1x Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
• 1x Vedalken Shackles
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Mana Artifacts and Ramp (12)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Glaring Fleshraker
• 1x Karn, Living Legacy
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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Maybeboard

Get More Cards (22)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Candlestick
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forging the Anchor
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Living Lectern
• 1x Machinate
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Network Terminal
• 1x One with the Machine
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Reality Heist
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Rook Turret
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Witching Well

Utility and Combos (17)

• 1x Artificer Class
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Hisoka, Minamo Sensei
• 1x Inverted Iceberg  ^Flip
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Stone of Erech
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

Counters and Removal (6)

• 1x Aetherize
• 1x Assert Authority
• 1x Dramatic Accusation
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Goblin Firebomb
• 1x Meteor Golem

Threats (9)

• 1x Case of the Filched Falcon
• 1x Chromescale Drake
• 1x Gearseeker Serpent
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Magnetic Flux
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Rook Turret
• 1x Sojourner's Companion

Mana Artifacts and Ramp (7)

• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Network Terminal
• 1x Slagstone Refinery
• 1x Vedalken Engineer

Land (1)

• 1x Phyrexia's Core

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Lady of the Loch

This my first commander deck, and my first deck of any significance after a very long time away from Magic. My initial goal here was to revisit some of the affinity fun I remember from the Mirrodin block, and I used an EDHRec article (https://edhrec.com/articles/mechanically-minded-affinity/) as a starting point. That being said, I think it's lost some of the affinity focus as I've iterated on it, but maybe that's okay. The other goal here was to not spend a ton of money, which is part of why I hadn't seriously played Magic in so long.

With Emry, Lurker of the Loch, the main trick here is that your graveyard is just another place to keep your artifacts when you're not using them. There are opportunities to sacrifice things and reuse them, self-mill, and card draw spells with the "drawback" of discarding more artifacts. Mirran Spy and Chakram Retriever make this much, much better since you can untap Emry every time you use her.

Cards like Thopter Assembly and Sai, Master Thopterist help you get a ton of artifacts on the board, as do Foundry Inspector and friends that let you cast more of them for cheap or free. These fuel the affinity cards, and the major win conditions: Broodstar, Master of Etherium, and The Antiquities War, which can dish out a lot of damage as you struggle to fit everything on your playmat.

Oh, and if you get hit by a board wipe? Try to get out Mirrodin Besieged and win off the second option once your graveyard is full of artifacts. It's not super reliable, but it's great when it happens.

Improvements

Like I said, this is my first commander deck, so I think it could use a lot of polish. I have a ton of stuff in the Maybeboard--even with 100 cards, it's hard to narrow it down! My major concerns right now are:

1. Are my win conditions solid enough? It's easy to just get out a ton of artifacts, but turning that into a win sometimes requires pieces I don't have. Do I need more big creatures or ways to get them through, or stronger combos? Or more ways to find the things I need?
2. Is the deck fast enough? I've seen similar decks with more 0- and 1-cost artifacts. I feel like this hasn't been a big problem so far, but it could get things moving quicker.
3. It's easy to get artifacts out of the graveyard, but not everything else. It's sometimes hard to decide if I should self-mill with abandon for Emry's sake, or hold back lest I dump a Broodstar or Mirrodin Besieged that I really need. This may just be a matter of figuring out how to use what I have.
4. Do I need more removal? More ramp? Irrespective of everything else, I'm still figuring out what makes a solid backbone for a commander deck.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	6 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Karn, Living Legacy, Food, Manifest 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Powerstone, Robot 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 U, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie Druid 2/2 B
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