Artifact Illusions

by tinytone on 27 September 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

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Deck Description

An Illusion deck coupled with some artifact creatures.

This deck is very versatile and has a couple of cool combos namely:

Phastasmal Image and Phyrexian Metamoroph (8 clone cards) can then clone either your biggest creatures or alternatively your opponent's creatures to create some nasty threats.

Other Cards:

Buried Ruin lands - Can be sacrificied to return any artifact creatures in your graveyard to your hand stretching your wurmcoils and Phyrexian metamorphs even further!

Vapor Snag - Bounce card to boomerang threats (creatures with counters/token creatures/equipped creatures) back to your opponents hand messing him around!

Mana Leak / Psychic Barrier - Counter spells

Ponder - Dig into your library to look into the future to setup your hand

Overall, this deck has been very successful and has won me some epic battles against very strong decks. Good luck with it. As always, feedback and critisim is welcomed.

This deck is based on this "Illusion deck Primer" guide found at: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=339568

How to Play

Combo 1:

Turn 1: Bear
Turn 2: Lord of the Unreal
Turn 3: Phantasmal Image clones the Lord of the Unreal

This creates a Hexproof 4/4 Illusion Lord of the Unreal which can't be easily removed which both protects and buffs your illusion army! By this stage, the Bear will also be 4/4 as 2 wizard Lords are buffing him.

Combo 2:

Turn 1: Bear
Turn 2: Lord of the Unreal
Turn 3: Grand Architect + Wurmcoil Engine (Grand Architect taps himself, the Lord and the Bear to generate 6 clear mana and out comes the Wurmcoil Engine! On turn 3... this is phantastic !)

Deck Tags

  • Mono Blue
  • Artifact
  • Illusion

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

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 Artifact Illusions

If you are going for standard then you need to change some cards, like Preordain and Clone. I do like the deck though. I really like Neurok Commando but I think it only works in a counterburn deck : (

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Posted 02 October 2011 at 18:59

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Not a bad illusion deck, got my like.

But for some suggestions id recommend bumping your Grand Architect to 4, bumping up your Lord of the Unreal to 4, maybe adding in 3 or 4 Phantasmal Bears, bumping your Phantasmal Image to 4, removing Frost Titan, clone, and Aether Adept. Maybe move Frost Titan into the sideboard if your set on it though.

Mind Control is not a bad card but im personally not fond of it myself. For the artifacts id remove Precursor Golem, Spined Thopter, and Porcelain Legionnairre. Steel Hellkite is a great card such a game changer!! Maybe check into Wurmcoil Engine that is a nasty card to include in an illusion deck its hard to deal with. Maybe check into Adaptive Automaton it could really benefit this deck out!

For spells maybe look into Negate, Counterspell, Redirect, Spell Pierce just to name a few.

I also run an illusion deck if you would like to check it out and comment on it.

Realm Of The Illusions: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=235523

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Posted 09 October 2011 at 08:06

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Many thanks for the feedback Here2Save. I've taken what you said into account and modified the deck quite a bit. Version 2.0 is now ready

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Posted 12 January 2012 at 23:16

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