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{"ops":[{"insert":"It's a delight when a commander and unrelated mechanic mesh so well, especially when they're both deep cuts. This deck is meant to leverage "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Senator Peacock"}},{"insert":" by combining her abilities with the Modular keyword, turning an otherwise classic mono-blue artifact deck into an aggressive beatdown strategy.\n\nPeacock makes every artifact a Clue, providing a sacrifice outlet that gives card draw and makes things unblockable when used. Modular creatures are perfect for these abilities, as easily sacrificing them for cards can also make the recipient of their counters guaranteed to connect. This interaction is the core of the deck, which is why nearly every Modular card is included, plus the honorary "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Iron Apprentice"}},{"insert":". Some standouts are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcbound Crusher"}},{"insert":" to passively build counters, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcbound Overseer"}},{"insert":" to buff other Modular creatures, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcbound Reclaimer"}},{"insert":" alongside recursion like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Academy Ruins"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bilbo, Thief in the Night"}},{"insert":" to constantly bring back creatures.\n\nThis plan is supplemented by 5 "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Coastal Piracy"}},{"insert":"-type effects as backup draw that leverages unblockable creatures, and a few forms of card selection like Transmute to find critical game pieces. Mutagen tokens are also invaluable as sacrifice fodder and for counters, so cards able to make them offer a lot of value.\n\nTurning this Modular engine into a win just requires a good supply of payoffs. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hangarback Walker"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Big Mother Mouser"}},{"insert":" turn counters into a flood of tokens, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Giggling Skitterspike"}},{"insert":" quickly builds to explosive damage. My favorite is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tangletrove Kelp"}},{"insert":": with so many creatures being base 0/0s, this plant is often a huge +6/+6 anthem.\n\nA weak point of this deck is having an essential and high-cost commander, requiring her to stay safe. 8 sources of low-cost ramp with a large land count help ensure she is cast on-curve or earlier. She's protected by sources of hexproof as well as interaction like counterspells (some of which are on sacrificial artifact bodies, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Diversion Unit"}},{"insert":"). Explosive late-game ramp like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Uthros, Titanic Godcore"}},{"insert":" can offset her high casting costs, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Geode Golem"}},{"insert":" can bypass nontax costs entirely. In a pinch, a few cards can approximate her role, with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Radiant Lotus"}},{"insert":" for sacrificing and evasive keywords still helping get damage through.\n\nRemoval against the 99 tends to be a far lesser setback, as artifacts can be sacrificed for value in response. Still, Vehicles like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Indomitable"}},{"insert":" or lands like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inkmoth Nexus"}},{"insert":" can be safer destinations for counters, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Virulent Silencer"}},{"insert":" turns evasive creatures into a win even if counters or combat damage can't stick.\n"}]}
Senator Peacock
Artifacts you control are Clues in addition to their other types and have "
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Senator Peacock (clu) 2

Commander

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (blc) 162
Co-Option Adjutant
Artifact creatures you control have "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
Creature Artifact - Borg
Co-Option Adjutant (trc) 39
Enduring Curiosity
Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Cat Glimmer
Enduring Curiosity (pdsk) 51p
Here Comes a New Hero!
Target player draws X cards. Create a token that's a copy of up to one target creature with mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Here Comes a New Hero! (tmc) 11
The Indomitable
Trample
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Crew 3
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control three or more tapped Pirates and/or Vehicles.
Legendary Artifact - Vehicle
The Indomitable (lcc) 75
Thopter Spy Network
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Enchantment
Thopter Spy Network (fdc) 79
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (fdc) 317

Card Draw

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Tamiyo's Journal
At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Tamiyo's Journal (soi) 265
Tolaria West
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Land
Tolaria West (plst) FUT-173

Card Selection

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Arcbound Bruiser
Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Arcbound Bruiser (dst) 94
Arcbound Crusher
Trample
Whenever another artifact enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Juggernaut
Arcbound Crusher (hop) 105
Arcbound Fiend
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto this creature.
Modular 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Horror
Arcbound Fiend (dst) 96
Arcbound Hybrid
Haste
Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Beast
Arcbound Hybrid (dst) 97
Arcbound Lancer
First strike
Modular 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Beast
Arcbound Lancer (dst) 98
Arcbound Overseer
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with modular.
Modular 6 (This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Arcbound Overseer (dst) 99
Arcbound Ravager
Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Beast
Arcbound Ravager (pza) 14
Arcbound Reclaimer
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Arcbound Reclaimer (dst) 101
Arcbound Slith
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Slith
Arcbound Slith (dst) 102
Arcbound Stinger
Flying
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Insect
Arcbound Stinger (dst) 103
Arcbound Worker
Modular 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Arcbound Worker (ddf) 40
Drannith Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Put two +1/+1 counters on target non-Human creature that entered this turn.
Land
Drannith Ruins (mat) 50
Iron Apprentice
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When this creature dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target creature you control.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Iron Apprentice (neo) 248
Scrapyard Recombiner
Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for a Construct card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Scrapyard Recombiner (mh1) 227
Steel Overseer
: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Steel Overseer (fdc) 290
Subterranean Schooner
Whenever this Vehicle attacks, target creature that crewed it this turn explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Crew 1
Artifact - Vehicle
Subterranean Schooner (plci) 80p

Counters

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Desynchronization
Return each nonland permanent that's not historic to its owner's hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Instant
Desynchronization (acr) 16
Diversion Unit
Flying
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature Artifact - Robot
Diversion Unit (dft) 41
Fugitive Droid
This creature can't be blocked if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell that targets an artifact or creature you control.
Creature Artifact - Scientist Robot
Fugitive Droid (tmt) 40
Hydroelectric Specimen
Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.
Creature - Weird
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Muddle the Mixture
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Muddle the Mixture (plst) RAV-60
Null Elemental Blast
Choose one —
• Counter target multicolored spell.
• Destroy target multicolored permanent.
Instant
Null Elemental Blast (mh3) 12
Ooze Spill
Counter target spell. Create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Instant
Ooze Spill (tmt) 48
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (fdc) 311
Selective Obliteration
Each player chooses a color. Then exile each permanent unless it's colorless or it's only the color its controller chose.
Sorcery
Selective Obliteration (m3c) 35
Soul-Guide Lantern
When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (fdn) 680
Three Steps Ahead
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Counter target spell.
+
— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+
— Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Three Steps Ahead (potj) 75p
Warping Wail
(
represents colorless mana.)
Choose one —
• Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less.
• Counter target sorcery spell.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Instant
Warping Wail (ogw) 12

Interaction

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Archway of Innovation
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
: Add
.
,
: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Command Beacon
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Land
Command Beacon (trc) 520
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ori) 260
Karn's Bastion
: Add
.
,
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Land
Karn's Bastion (pwar) 248p
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (soc) 388
Power Depot
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.
Modular 1
Artifact Land
Power Depot (mh2) 251
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (plst) MIC-179
Scene of the Crime
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Artifact Land - Clue
Scene of the Crime (mkm) 267
Seat of the Synod
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (mrd) 283

Land

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April O'Neil, Human Element
Whenever a player casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, you create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Legendary Creature - Human Detective
April O'Neil, Human Element (tmc) 107
Big Mother Mouser
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of 1/1 colorless Robot artifact creature tokens equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature Artifact - Robot
Big Mother Mouser (tmc) 37
Hangarback Walker
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Hangarback Walker (plst) ORI-229
Phantom Steed
Flash
When this creature enters, exile another target creature you control until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Whenever this creature attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.
Creature - Illusion Horse
Phantom Steed (afc) 18
The Mycosynth Gardens
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.
Land - Sphere
The Mycosynth Gardens (eoc) 168
The Ooze
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it leaves the battlefield, create a Mutagen token for each +1/+1 counter on it. (A Mutagen token is an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
: Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a Mutagen token.
Legendary Artifact
The Ooze (tmt) 177

Mass Production

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Giggling Skitterspike
Indestructible
Whenever this creature attacks, blocks, or becomes the target of a spell, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
: Monstrosity 5. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
Creature Artifact - Toy
Giggling Skitterspike (dsc) 39
Inkmoth Nexus
: Add
.
: This land becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Land
Inkmoth Nexus (mbs) 145
Kappa Cannoneer
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Ward

Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Warrior Turtle
Kappa Cannoneer (fdc) 64
Tangletrove Kelp
Ward

At the beginning of each combat, other Clues you control become 6/6 Plant creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn.
, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Plant Clue
Tangletrove Kelp (mkc) 24
Virulent Silencer
Whenever a nontoken artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Creature Artifact - Assassin Robot
Virulent Silencer (eoe) 248

Payloads

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Giant's Amulet
When this Equipment enters, you may pay
. If you do, create a 4/4 blue Giant Wizard creature token, then attach this Equipment to it.
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped."(It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Giant's Amulet (khm) 59
Lost in the Maze
Flash
When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.
Enchantment
Lost in the Maze (mkm) 64
Planar Incision
Exile target artifact or creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Instant
Planar Incision (neo) 72
Welding Jar
Sacrifice this artifact: Regenerate target artifact.
Artifact
Welding Jar (mrd) 274

Protection

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Everflowing Chalice
Multikicker
(You may pay an additional
any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
: Add
for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (mm2) 212
Five Hundred Year Diary
Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped.
: Add
for each Clue you control.
, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.
Legendary Artifact - Clue Book
Five Hundred Year Diary (who) 42
Geode Golem
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Geode Golem (clb) 316
H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, surveil 1.
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Scout Robot
H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot (msc) 106
Ornithopter of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Thopter
Ornithopter of Paradise (drc) 133
Prized Statue
When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Artifact
Prized Statue (clb) 334
PuPu UFO
Flying
: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
: Until end of turn, this creature's base power becomes equal to the number of Towns you control.
Creature Artifact - Construct Alien
PuPu UFO (fin) 266
Radiant Lotus
, Sacrifice one or more artifacts: Choose a color. Target player adds three mana of the chosen color for each artifact sacrificed this way. (Activate only as an instant.)
Artifact
Radiant Lotus (pdft) 240p
Silver Myr
: Add
.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Silver Myr (fdc) 284
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 286
Treasure Vault
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.
Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (drc) 180
Uthros, Titanic Godcore
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |
,
: Add
for each artifact you control.
Land - Planet
Uthros, Titanic Godcore (peoe) 260p

Ramp

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Academy Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Academy Ruins (trc) 512
Bilbo, Thief in the Night
Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost
less to cast.
Whenever Bilbo attacks, you may cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If an instant or sorcery spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Bilbo, Thief in the Night (hob) 33
Buried Ruin
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Buried Ruin (fdc) 298
Dollhouse of Horrors
,
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's a 0/0 Construct artifact in addition to its other types and it has "This token gets +1/+1 for each Construct you control." It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Dollhouse of Horrors (pvow) 255p
Doom's Time Platform
Whenever you attack, exile target nonland card from your graveyard with two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
Artifact
Doom's Time Platform (msc) 103
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Emry enters, mill four cards.
: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (eoc) 71
Scrap Trawler
Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Scrap Trawler (aer) 175

Recursion

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Deck Info

Deck stats

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0 mana - 6 cards
35 pips - 25 cards
35 mana - 34 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
4 pips - 3 cards
18 mana - 17 cards
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Description

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