Architect of Illusion

by TheElSalvador on 18 July 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (5)


Enchantments (3)

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Deck Description

Undercosted Creatures and lots of Lord effects. Copy your good stuff(or theirs) with Image and Metamorph.

Turn 3 Wurmcoil easy. And able to cast another and clone it twice the following turn for an even bigger, 7/7 versions if Lord of the Unreal is one of your early creatures.

Was going to include Adaptive Automaton but I don't think he fits.

Sideboard is full of artifact goodies for architect casting.

Maybe I'll slide in the Mimic Vat/Sundial trick into the sideboard.

Deck Tags

  • Aggro

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

046000

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Architect of Illusion

take out caged sun for adaptive automaton. you don't need the ramp with caged sun. and adaptive automaton does almost the same bonus for half the mana. i'd put only 2 wurmcoil engine. maybe some counters.

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Posted 18 July 2011 at 14:41

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I already have 8 creatures with a +1/+1 bonus and 8 clones so I'm not worried about that so much as I like the mana from Caged Sun.

Take this example into consideration:
T1 Island, Phantasmal Bear
T2 Island, Lord of the Unreal
T3 Island, Grand Architect, tap all creatures for Caged Sun
T4 Tap all creatures for Wurmcoil Engine, tap 3 land for Phantasmal Dragon and Image(copy Wurmcoil) for,I believe, 30 power across 6 creatures.

I like getting Wurmcoil out on T3 better but that's not a bad play either. And yes, board wipes, but at that point you have a caged sun and can cast anything in the deck with ease. But I agree, I do need some sort of counter or possibly bounce in the deck. My original version had some but I went very single-mindedly into a more creature based build.

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Posted 19 July 2011 at 10:55

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i like this deck
i run tower of calamities in mine instead of caged sun =]
check it out

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=213408

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Posted 29 July 2011 at 19:56

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I changed this deck up a lot over the weeks since I posted it. I'll post a current version soon.

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Posted 08 August 2011 at 10:14

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