How it grades
Fundamentals 80/100. Plays like Artifacts.
This reads as Artifacts, built around Kotori, Pilot Prodigy. An artifact engine deck: cost reducers and cheap trinkets snowball into board states and card advantage that scale with the artifact count itself. The pieces are individually weak but the whole is far more than the sum, and a single well-timed Vandalblast is the scariest card in the room. Its strongest fundamental is land count (37 lands. About 37 fits this curve for Artifacts, with your cost reduction counted); the first thing to tighten is commander synergy: Only 27 of 62 spells play into your commanders' plan; they want lifegain, Vehicles support. Counts the builds players run with your commanders (Vehicles, Artifacts; from EDHREC).
- A+Mana reliability
- A+Land count
- A+Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- ACard draw
- A+Interaction
- B-Commander synergy
- AWin conditions
- ACard quality
- A+Legality & size
Where it falls short
- B-Commander synergyOnly 27 of 62 spells play into your commanders' plan; they want lifegain, Vehicles support. Counts the builds players run with your commanders (Vehicles, Artifacts; from EDHREC).
Strong on mana reliability, land count, mana curve, ramp, card draw, interaction, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
73 cards graded: A 1, A- 14, B+ 26, B 31, B- 1. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Made together, they take Buckle Up from B to A+.
Thought Monitor6U$0.30
In place of Armed and Armored: weakest slot in the deck (56/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (33 producers). Fuels your go-wide payoffs (11 in deck). Fits the artifact build players run with your commanders.
Scrap Trawler3$3.08
In place of Arcanist's Owl: weakest slot in the deck (60/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (10 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. EDHREC Artifacts staple.
Padeem, Consul of Innovation3U$2.41
In place of Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage: weakest slot in the deck (61/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (33 producers). Fuels your go-wide payoffs (11 in deck). Fits the artifact build players run with your commanders.
Forensic Gadgeteer2U$2.91
In place of Dance of the Manse: weakest slot in the deck (61/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (33 producers). Fuels your go-wide payoffs (11 in deck). Fits the artifact build players run with your commanders.
Bronze Guardian4W$1.46
In place of Imperial Recovery Unit: weakest slot in the deck (61/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (33 producers). Fuels your artifact payoffs (10 in deck). Fits the artifact build players run with your commanders.
The Wind Crystal2WW$7.48
In place of Aeronaut Admiral: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Pays off your token engine (9 producers). Pays off the commanders' lifegain plan. Fuels your artifact payoffs (10 in deck).
Alhammarret's Archive5$10.52
In place of Crush Contraband: conditional removal: dead against some boards (62/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (10 in deck). Pays off the commanders' lifegain plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
The Reality Chip1U$4.12
In place of Raiders' Karve: weakest slot in the deck (63/100)
Suits up the commanders. Fuels your go-wide payoffs (11 in deck). Fuels your artifact payoffs (10 in deck).
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar2W$2.80
In place of Myrsmith: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Keeps the commanders alive. Fuels your go-wide payoffs (11 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Skullclamp1$5.18
In place of Hanna, Ship's Navigator: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fuels your artifact payoffs (10 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Suits up the commanders.
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 27
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- A
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- B
- B
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Planeswalkers 1
- B
Instants 8
- B+
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- B-
- B
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- A-
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Sorceries 4
- B+
- B
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- B
Artifacts 20
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- B
- B
- B
- B+
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- B
- B+
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- A-
- B
Enchantments 2
- B
- A-
Lands 37
- B
- B
- B+
- B
- B
- B
- B+
- B×8
- B×7
- B×8
- B×7
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