Art by Brad Rigney
Commander deckRU
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
Cast cheap historic spells and artifact cost-reducers to churn through your library with Jhoira, pinging opponents down with burn triggers or swarming them with artifact creature tokens.
Asked for“Powerful artifact blue red deck”
Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 61 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
2URLegendary Creature — Human Artificer
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
11
Thought Vessel
2Artifact
Provides mana and unlimited hand size for huge draw turns
Everflowing Chalice
0Artifact
Flexible mana rock that can be cast for zero to trigger Jhoira
Ornithopter of Paradise
2Artifact Creature — Thopter
Artifact creature providing fixing and Jhoira triggers
Etherium Sculptor
1UArtifact Creature — Vedalken Artificer
Cost reduction enables chain-casting artifacts
Card Draw
9
Reverse Engineer
3UUSorcery
Improvise lets tap-happy artifacts draw three cards cheaply
Thirst for Knowledge
2UInstant
Instant-speed card draw synergizing with artifact discard
Quicksmith Genius
2RCreature — Human Artificer
Filters cards with every artifact that enters the battlefield
Vedalken Archmage
2UUCreature — Vedalken Wizard
Provides a redundant draw engine alongside Jhoira
Removal
10
Threats/Wincons
22
Reckless Fireweaver
1RCreature — Human Artificer
Pings each opponent every time an artifact enters
Ingenious Artillerist
2RCreature — Human Artificer
Deals massive damage to opponents as artifacts enter
Kappa Cannoneer
5UArtifact Creature — Turtle Warrior
Grows huge quickly with ward and unblockability
Sai, Master Thopterist
2ULegendary Creature — Human Artificer
Creates flying Thopter blockers and attackers while sacrificing for cards
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
1URURLegendary Planeswalker — Saheeli
Spits out Servo tokens on every noncreature spell
Mirrodin Besieged
2UEnchantment
Provides steady token production or alternate win condition
Mechanized Production
2UUEnchantment — Aura
Generates artifact copies and offers an alternate win condition
Sharding Sphinx
4UUArtifact Creature — Sphinx
Snowballs combat damage into a swarm of Thopter tokens
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
4URLegendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Artificer
Converts all token creations into your strongest artifact creature
Hellkite Igniter
5RRCreature — Dragon
Can pump itself to lethal power easily in high-artifact boards
Psychosis Crawler
5Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Weaponizes Jhoira's massive card draw directly into damage
Cyberdrive Awakener
5UArtifact Creature — Construct
Overrun effect turning noncreature artifacts into 4/4 flyers
Steel Hellkite
6Artifact Creature — Dragon
Repeatable targeted board wipe on a flying threat
Efficient Construction
3UEnchantment
Creates flying Thopters for every cast artifact
Master Transmuter
3UArtifact Creature — Human Artificer
Bounces cheap artifacts to cheat high-cost threats onto the field
Thopter Assembly
6Artifact Creature — Thopter
Generates five Thopter tokens repeatedly
Herald of Kozilek
1URCreature — Eldrazi Drone
Reduces generic casting costs of all your colorless artifacts
Foundry Inspector
3Artifact Creature — Construct
Key artifact cost reducer that powers storm-style turns
Jhoira's Familiar
4Artifact Creature — Bird
Reduces costs of historic spells by one
Enthusiastic Mechanaut
URArtifact Creature — Goblin Artificer
Flying creature that discounts artifact spells
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
4Legendary Artifact Creature — Dragon Construct
Massive trampling beater that untaps whenever an artifact is cast
Myr Battlesphere
7Artifact Creature — Myr Construct
Brings multiple artifact bodies and hits hard on attack
Utility
9
Swiftfoot Boots
2Artifact — Equipment
Grants hexproof and haste to protect Jhoira
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
Free equip protection to keep Jhoira alive immediately
Goblin Engineer
1RCreature — Goblin Artificer
Tutors key artifacts to the graveyard and recurs them
Goblin Welder
RCreature — Goblin Artificer
Swaps cheap tokens for powerful artifacts in the graveyard
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
2ULegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Meters and recasts key artifacts directly from the graveyard
Scrap Trawler
3Artifact Creature — Construct
Recovers lower-cost artifacts from graveyard when artifacts die
Unwinding Clock
4Artifact
Untaps your entire artifact base on each opponent's turn
Whir of Invention
XUUUInstant
Instant-speed tutor that puts any artifact straight onto the battlefield
