At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Cid, Timeless Artificer
- Colors: White / Blue (WU)
- Archetype: Azorius Artifacts-matter
- Power tier: mid-high
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Flood the board with cheap artifacts and artifact creatures, then turn the corner with payoffs that scale off your artifact count. Cid pumps every artifact creature and Hero token by the number of Artificers you control, and the deck is packed with Artificers and Job-select Equipment that spit out Hero tokens, so a wide board snowballs fast. Ramp on mana rocks and Powerstones to deploy ahead of curve, then close with affinity/improvise finishers (Valkyrie Aerial Unit, Voyage Home) and token engines (Mechan Assembler, Threefold Thunderhulk). Azorius interaction keeps the board clear: cheap counters protect the engine and white removal answers anything that gets under it.
Upgrade path
LAND REVAMP 2026-07-11: manabase rebuilt to kill taplands (cut guildgates/temples/gainlands); now runs shock + verge (+painland in Brawl) untapped duals + basics. Land crafts this pass: Adarkar Wastes, Floodfarm Verge. Every card here is OWNED (owned_qty>0) and the manabase leans on the owned Hallowed Fountain shock plus owned Azorius duals/taplands and basics. No crafts required. UPGRADE MENU (rare/mythic Mik COULD craft later, not in this list): (1) Urza, Lord High Artificer - the premier WU artifact commander/engine, turns rocks into mana + makes a Construct army; (2) The Mightstone and Weakstone // Urza, Planeswalker or Karn, Scion of Urza for raw artifact card advantage; (3) Static Prison / additional clean white exile removal, or Cyberdrive Awakener as an artifact-creature overrun finisher.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Cid, Timeless Artificer
Deck
1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
1 Mechan Assembler
1 Voyager Quickwelder
1 Powerstone Engineer
1 Weapons Vendor
1 Cloudsculpt Technician
1 Ironheart, Clever Champion
1 Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel
1 Threefold Thunderhulk
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Valkyrie Aerial Unit
1 Buzz Bots
1 Camera Launcher
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
1 Stone Retrieval Unit
1 Sterling Hound
1 Utrom Scientists
1 News Helicopter
1 A-Circuit Mender
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
1 Henchbots
1 Survey Mechan
1 Diversion Unit
1 Fugitive Droid
1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Springleaf Drum
1 Coldsteel Heart
1 Guardian Idol
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Machinist's Arsenal
1 Paladin's Arms
1 Dragoon's Lance
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Lodestone Needle
1 Cryogen Relic
1 Found Footage
1 Sewer-veillance Cam
1 Synthesizer Labship
1 Voyage Home
1 Quick Study
1 Chart a Course
1 Landscape Painter
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Spell Pierce
1 Essence Scatter
1 Negate
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Banishing Betrayal
1 Stroke of Midnight
1 Stasis Snare
1 White Auracite
1 Repel Calamity
1 Make Your Move
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 University Campus
1 Command Tower
1 Conduit Pylons
1 Rumble Arena
1 Capital City
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Rising Chicane
1 Floodfarm Verge
1 Adarkar Wastes
15 Island
8 Plains
1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 Enduring Curiosity
1 Exalted Sunborn
1 Sage's Nouliths
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal keeps Cid’s wide-artifact/Artificer + Hero-token plan but swaps low-impact UB/TMNT-set filler (Buzz Bots, News Helicopter, Camera Launcher, Survey Mechan, etc.) for Arena’s best Azorius artifact engines and premium interaction. Adds true build-arounds: Urza, Lord High Artificer and both Tezzerets for card+mana engines, Simulacrum Synthesizer/Steel Overseer/Sai for token snowball, Mondrak to double Hero/Thopter/Construct tokens, Foundry Inspector to cheapen the shell, and improvise/affinity finishers Kappa Cannoneer + Cyberdrive Awakener + Wurmcoil/Skysovereign. Removal upgraded to Get Lost, Fateful Absence, March of Otherworldly Light, Portable Hole, Static Prison. Top craft priorities: Urza, Lord High Artificer; Mondrak, Glory Dominus; Simulacrum Synthesizer; Karn, Scion of Urza; Get Lost.
Crafts to reach the ideal: 20 (10 mythic, 7 rare, 3 uncommon)
- Mythic: Cyberdrive Awakener, Karn, Scion of Urza, Lita, Mechanical Engineer, Mondrak, Glory Dominus, Simulacrum Synthesizer, Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, Urza, Lord High Artificer, Wurmcoil Engine
- Rare: Fateful Absence, Get Lost, Kappa Cannoneer, March of Otherworldly Light, Sai, Master Thopterist, Steel Overseer, The Mightstone and Weakstone
- Uncommon: Foundry Inspector, Portable Hole, Static Prison
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Cid, Timeless Artificer
Deck
1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
1 Mechan Assembler
1 Voyager Quickwelder
1 Powerstone Engineer
1 Weapons Vendor
1 Cloudsculpt Technician
1 Ironheart, Clever Champion
1 Living Brain, Mechanical Marvel
1 Threefold Thunderhulk
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Valkyrie Aerial Unit
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
1 Henchbots
1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Springleaf Drum
1 Coldsteel Heart
1 Guardian Idol
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Machinist's Arsenal
1 Paladin's Arms
1 Sage's Nouliths
1 Dragoon's Lance
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Lodestone Needle
1 Synthesizer Labship
1 Voyage Home
1 Quick Study
1 Chart a Course
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Spell Pierce
1 Essence Scatter
1 Negate
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Into the Flood Maw
1 Banishing Betrayal
1 Stroke of Midnight
1 Stasis Snare
1 White Auracite
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 University Campus
1 Command Tower
1 Conduit Pylons
1 Rumble Arena
1 Capital City
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Rising Chicane
1 Floodfarm Verge
1 Adarkar Wastes
15 Island
8 Plains
1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
1 Karn, Scion of Urza
1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
1 Sai, Master Thopterist
1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
1 Lita, Mechanical Engineer
1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
1 Steel Overseer
1 Foundry Inspector
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
1 Kappa Cannoneer
1 Cyberdrive Awakener
1 Get Lost
1 Fateful Absence
1 March of Otherworldly Light
1 Portable Hole
1 Static Prison
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