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{"ops":[{"insert":"So first of all, this deck as written is PRICEY and meant for a group that is happy to see proxies. Alternatively, some of the cards that are the most expensive in the deck can be swapped out for alternatives without too much of a fuss. Some of the moxes, for instance, can be replaced with a few other 0-cost noncreature artifacts that didn't make this list.\n\nWith that out of the way, I wanted to do something unique with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sydri, Galvanic Genius"}},{"insert":" that wasn't just vehicles or generic artifact good stuff. This deck aims to activate her first ability on a bunch of 0-cost noncreature artifacts in order to go crazy with death triggers on our other permanents. The deck is running 25 of these artifacts, along with a number of permanents that want creatures to die, ways to get our artifacts back and some interaction. \n\nAmong the cards in the deck that want to see creatures dying, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cruel Celebrant"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zulaport Cutthroat"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Al Bhed Salvagers"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bastion of Remembrance"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rakish Crew"}},{"insert":" all drain opponents. Meanwhile, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pawn of Ulamog"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sifter of Skulls"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ogre Slumlord"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blight Mound"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Open the Graves"}},{"insert":" all make creature tokens and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grim Haruspex"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Midnight Reaper"}},{"insert":" draw cards. Any of these effects are extremely dangerous if you manage to sacrifice a lot of artifacts en masse with Sydri. I'm also running a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grave Pact"}},{"insert":" to hose opposing creature decks and my two personal favorite death trigger cards in the deck, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pitiless Plunderer"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nick Valentine, Private Eye"}},{"insert":", which both provide noncreature artifact tokens, essentially giving you endless replacement fodder for Sydri every single activation. \n\nThis deck really wants ways to recur artifacts en masse. I'm running "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faith's Reward"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brilliant Restoration"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Redress Fate"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Open the Vaults"}},{"insert":". The best recursion in the deck however are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Luminous Broodmoth"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Liesa, Forgotten Archangel"}},{"insert":" which both immediately recur all of our artifacts as they die, allowing us to keep sacrificing them to Sydri's ability. \n\nHere are some other cards of interest in the deck. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Time Sieve"}},{"insert":" can function as a repeatable extra turn generator and potentially a win-con if we can recur artifacts enough. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirrodin Besieged"}},{"insert":" has an alternate win-con that isn't difficult to achieve in this deck, though it's first mode is also very strong in a deck that can cast so many artifact spells for free. Finally, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urza, Lord High Artificer"}},{"insert":" is simply the best card in the deck (unsurprisingly). The ability to pay for Sydri's ability activation by using the artifacts we're about to have die is too powerful. \n\nI'm still working on finding the right amounts of card draw and interaction in this deck, and I do still have a decent maybeboard of cards I think are worth consideration for the deck. If I was going to make the deck any stronger, I would likely add some more tutors to find cornerstone cards like Urza, Liesa and Pitiless Plunderer. Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions for this brew!\n"}]}
Commander
Commander
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Drain
Rakish Crew
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with ": Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
Whenever an outlaw you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
Whenever an outlaw you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
Enchantment

Drain
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Draw
Nick Valentine, Private Eye
Nick Valentine can't be blocked except by artifact creatures.
Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever Nick Valentine or another artifact creature you control dies, you may investigate. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legendary Creature Artifact - Detective Synth

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Land
Inventors' Fair
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
: Add .
, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
: Add .
, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Legendary Land

Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's

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Lifegain
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Protection
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Pump
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Ramp
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost less to cast for each artifact you control.)
+2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.
+2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.
Legendary Planeswalker - Tezzeret

Urza, Lord High Artificer
When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add .
: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add .
: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

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Recursion
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Removal
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Tokens
Mirrodin Besieged
As this enchantment enters, choose Mirran or Phyrexian.
• Mirran — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.
• Phyrexian — At the beginning of your end step, draw a card, then discard a card. Then if there are fifteen or more artifact cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses the game.
• Mirran — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.
• Phyrexian — At the beginning of your end step, draw a card, then discard a card. Then if there are fifteen or more artifact cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses the game.
Enchantment

Tokens
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Maybeboard
Archangel Elspeth
+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.
−2: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types and gains flying.
−6: Return all nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−2: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types and gains flying.
−6: Return all nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Planeswalker - Elspeth

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

Gate to the Afterlife
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.
Artifact

Grave Venerations
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment

Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

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{"ops":[{"insert":"So first of all, this deck as written is PRICEY and meant for a group that is happy to see proxies. Alternatively, some of the cards that are the most expensive in the deck can be swapped out for alternatives without too much of a fuss. Some of the moxes, for instance, can be replaced with a few other 0-cost noncreature artifacts that didn't make this list.\n\nWith that out of the way, I wanted to do something unique with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sydri, Galvanic Genius"}},{"insert":" that wasn't just vehicles or generic artifact good stuff. This deck aims to activate her first ability on a bunch of 0-cost noncreature artifacts in order to go crazy with death triggers on our other permanents. The deck is running 25 of these artifacts, along with a number of permanents that want creatures to die, ways to get our artifacts back and some interaction. \n\nAmong the cards in the deck that want to see creatures dying, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cruel Celebrant"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zulaport Cutthroat"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Al Bhed Salvagers"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bastion of Remembrance"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rakish Crew"}},{"insert":" all drain opponents. Meanwhile, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pawn of Ulamog"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sifter of Skulls"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ogre Slumlord"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blight Mound"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Open the Graves"}},{"insert":" all make creature tokens and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grim Haruspex"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Midnight Reaper"}},{"insert":" draw cards. Any of these effects are extremely dangerous if you manage to sacrifice a lot of artifacts en masse with Sydri. I'm also running a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grave Pact"}},{"insert":" to hose opposing creature decks and my two personal favorite death trigger cards in the deck, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pitiless Plunderer"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nick Valentine, Private Eye"}},{"insert":", which both provide noncreature artifact tokens, essentially giving you endless replacement fodder for Sydri every single activation. \n\nThis deck really wants ways to recur artifacts en masse. I'm running "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faith's Reward"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brilliant Restoration"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Redress Fate"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Open the Vaults"}},{"insert":". The best recursion in the deck however are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Luminous Broodmoth"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Liesa, Forgotten Archangel"}},{"insert":" which both immediately recur all of our artifacts as they die, allowing us to keep sacrificing them to Sydri's ability. \n\nHere are some other cards of interest in the deck. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Time Sieve"}},{"insert":" can function as a repeatable extra turn generator and potentially a win-con if we can recur artifacts enough. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirrodin Besieged"}},{"insert":" has an alternate win-con that isn't difficult to achieve in this deck, though it's first mode is also very strong in a deck that can cast so many artifact spells for free. Finally, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urza, Lord High Artificer"}},{"insert":" is simply the best card in the deck (unsurprisingly). The ability to pay for Sydri's ability activation by using the artifacts we're about to have die is too powerful. \n\nI'm still working on finding the right amounts of card draw and interaction in this deck, and I do still have a decent maybeboard of cards I think are worth consideration for the deck. If I was going to make the deck any stronger, I would likely add some more tutors to find cornerstone cards like Urza, Liesa and Pitiless Plunderer. Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions for this brew!\n"}]}






















































































