{"ops":[{"insert":"Overview and Key Cards "},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"By the end of this primer, you will be able to pilot this deck just as well as I. Maybe better. It is, after all a Pilot Deck. Let's look over the commander: \n[Kotori, Pilot Prodigy] is a 2/4 for 1 W U. Gives vehicles crew 2 and at the beginning of my combat, target artifact creature I control gains lifelink and vigilance until end of turn. \nThe main attractive factor, of course, is the crew 2, but the keywords are certainly useful. Our main items of attention, with high crew costs, will be our [[Salvation Engine]], [[Parhelion II]], and [[The Prydwen, Steel Flagship]]. Parhelion II, of these, is the best. Easily. \nWe will further emphasise creature of power 2, for ease of crewing, and vehicle based ramp and draw. Let's now go over our best cards: \n[[Urza, Prince of Kroog]] gives all artifact creatures (including vehicles), +2/+2. Further, you can pay 6 generic to create a 1/1 copy of target artifact. Ideally, this would be Parhelion. Suddenly, you don't have to crew it, it has built in evasion from flying, and you get 2 4/4 fliers every attack. \nAnother anthem is present in [[Salvation Engine]]. Giving all your artifacts the same buff of +2/+2 and recurs a dead artifact every turn. Oh, and it's a 6/10. Cause why not? \nTo protect these artifacts, we stick in [[Losheel, Clockwork Scholar]]. Preventing all combat damage to our attacking artifacts, and drawing a card every turn an artifact enters. Beautiful in this deck, protecting our big 6/10 attackers. \nFinally in this section, let's give a mention to [[Rise and Shine]]. Making one of your vehicles a permanent 4/4 attacker with no need to crew, OR overload it to make your whole board alive. Magnifique. This card is the ideal we are going for. \nKey Card Packages "},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ramp: \nCause we aren't in green, our ramp is all artifacts. But all the better for it. \n[[Colossal Plow]] is there to help us, with an early crew target that is reduced a ton by Kotori, providing essentially 6 free life and 3 extra mana every turn from turn 3 with Kotori's lifelink.\n[[Cultivator's Caravan]] is further here as a mana rock, a good payoff for our vehicle strategem.\n[[Voyager Quickwelder]], [[Foundry Inspector]] and [[Etherium Sculptor]] all reduce our artifact costs, and the former two can crew our vehicles.\n[[Cosima, God of the Voyage]] is secretly excellent, broken in landfall and all sorts of artifact strategies. Pick one up when you can, you won't regret it.\n[[Palladium Myr]] accelerates us and helps crew vehicles, great.\n[[Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass]] accelerates a turn and permanently gives us access to the top of our library as a card. Nice.\n[[Reckoner Bankbuster]] also synergises with the vehicle theme and is all around just good.]]\n[[Sol Ring]] and [[Arcane Signet]] are staples for a reason.\nDraw: \nWe all love card draw. And I have a LOT of card draw in this deck. Let's surmise: \nO.K. draw: \n[[Board the Weatherlight]], [[Thought Monitor]], [[Thopter Spy Network]]. \n[[Board the Weatherlight]] helps us dig for more vehicle to put in to play and is decently prices.\n[[Thought Monitor]] can give you 2 cards for as little as 1 mana and a crewing body, so that's nice.\n[[Thopter Spy Network]] is more here for the tokens it creates, but a card every turn cycle is nice.\nGood Draw: \n[[Universal Surveillance]] is usually very nice and can grab us tons of cards for very little.\n[[Voyage Home]] gives us three cards and three life, and at 5 artifacts in play is essentially Healing Salve and Ancestral Recall stapled together.\n[[Losheel, Clockwork Scholar]] is more here for the protection, but the cards are very nice as a bonus. \n[[Sai, Master Thopterist]] can get us cards but the having to sack artifacts is a bit annoying. Fortunately, we are up to our ears in recursion.\n[[Mu Yanling, Wind Rider]] granting our vehicles flying is just great, and a card a turn doesn't go unappreciated.\nGreat Draw: \n[[Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh]] provides good filtering for a +1, permanently crews a vehicle for -2, and has a buster ult. It lets us tap all our vehicles to crew each other and draw 500 cards on the end step before our turn. Incredible.\n [[Cosima, God of the Voyage]], as well as providing good ramp, is a huge help in drawing a load of cards when she returns. If we draw lands, that is.\n [[Miles \"Tails\" Prower]] only draws cards on our flying vehicles entering, but pair with Mu Yanlign and we are drawing up a storm.\n [[Sram, Senior Edificer]] is straight up cantriping our vehicles. Great in so many strategies. \n [[Weatherlight]] gives us a [[Board the Weatherlight]] every time it connects. Now that's flavorful.\n [[Reckoner Bankbuster]], like Cosima, provides good ramp and good card draw. Lovely.\n [[The Indomitable]]. Note the lack of \"One or more\" if we connect with 5 creatures, we draw 5 cards. Add in built-in recursion and you have got one helluva card.\n [[Smuggler's Copter]] broke standard for a time because it was so good. And it's even better in a vehicle deck!\nRemoval/Interaction: \nNot as much removal as I perhaps should have. \nI have the staples, in [[Generous Gift]], [[Swords to Plowshares]], [[Dovin's Veto]], [[Counterspell]] and [[Witch Enchanter]]. \nThen, of course the synergy pieces: \n[[Skysovereign, Consul Flagship]], [[Organic Extinction]] and [[Dispatch]] Skysovereign picking off their dorks, Organic Extinction being a generally great board wipe for this kinda deck, and Dispatch straight up exiling for 1 mana if i have any kind of board at all are all great. \nRemaining Categories \nWe have three Tutors in [[Deadeye Quatermaster]], [[Guidelight Pathmaker]] and [[From Father to Son]]. Of these, I like From Father to Son the best, but happy day to see any of 'em in my hand. \nWe have 4 card recursion cards: [[Salvation Engine]], [[Dance of the Manse]], [[Hanna, Ship's Navigator]] and [[Ironsoul Enforcer]]. \nOf these, Dance of the Manse is preferred after a board wipe and Hanna otherwise as it doesn't have to risk attacking. \nWe further have 5 cards I would classify as \"Finishers\", though opinions and definitions may vary. Namely; [[Rise and Shine]], [[The Prydwen, Steel Flagship]], [[Parhelion II]], [[Valor's Flagship]] and [[Urza, Prince of Kroog]]. I like Parhelion II the best, but The Prydwen is nothing to scoff at. These cards can all finish games, and they are all the better for it. \nPossible Upgrades to make \nMost of these I won't have done for price reason or for bracket reason, but if you have enough feel free to give these a go: \n[[Enlightened Tutor]], to tutor up our next card mainly, in \n[[Simulacrum Synthesizer]]. Broken in any artifact deck, and this is no exclusion. \n[[Urza, High Lord Artificer]] is also excellent in this deck for obvious reasons. \n[[Illustrious Wanderglyph]] is awesome and I love the art. Finally, we have \n[[Karn, Legacy Reforged]]. March of the Machines: The Aftermath produced so many great cards, Karn chief among them.\n"}]}