Glacian/Armit- cEDH Primer

Commander / EDH UB (Dimir)

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Artifact (28)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Imposter Mech
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sphere of Resistance
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Weathered Runestone
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Creature (10)

• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Orcish Bowmasters
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Walking Ballista

Land (27)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Fomori Vault
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Mishra's Workshop
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Treasure Vault
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Beseech the Mirror
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Mnemonic Betrayal
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Transmute Artifact

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Counterbalance
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Commanders (2)

Instant (23)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Borne Upon a Wind
• 1x Chain of Vapor
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x March of Swirling Mist
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Creature (5)

• 1x Faerie Mastermind
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Riddlesmith
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Vedalken Archmage

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Doomsday

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils

Artifact (1)

• 1x Chimil, the Inner Sun

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Glacian, Powerstone Engineer and Armix, Filigree Thrashser is an artifact based control deck, leveraging the dimir color combination for a good control shell ad using Armix for removal and Glacian for repeatable card advantage, allowing you to keep mana open as necessary.

So, artifacts. Artifacts are a large part of the deck and make up 2 of your 3 wincons, those being Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter and Etherium Sculptor + Sensei's Divining Top + The Reality Chip . They also are built around your commanders with Armix, Filigree Thrasher giving you creature removal and Glacian, Powerstone Engineer giving you card advantage/selection.

So, into the artifacts.

We have your normal cEDH auto includes for your mana rocks, but are also running more than usually, including Dimir Signet, Fellwar Stone, Thought Vessel and Sapphire Medallion. We want as many artifacts as we can and running these additional rocks gives us greater consistency to power out Glacian in the midgame.

We have a suite of stax pieces as well, as this is a control deck at heart even though it is able to turbo out wins in the right situation. Trinisphere, Sphere of Resistance and Conqueror's Flail also impede our opponent's ability to build out their boards and interact with our win attempts. Then we get into the more targeted stax effects, Grafdigger's Cage and Weathered Runestone do a wonderful job of shutting down Underworld Breach lines and Torpor Orb stifles all the important etb effects such as Dockside or Thoracle.

Expedition Map is a powerful non basic land tutor, allowing us to find Ancient Tomb, Mishra's Workshop, or any other land you may need. The One Ring and Wishclaw Talisman are classic cEDH pieces that we take great advantage of, leveraging both the card advantage and the artifact card type. Sensei's Divining Top is part of a 3 card combo and we are on CounterTop as well. And Aetherflux Reservoir is an outlet for either a Iso-Rev combo or a Top/Reality Chip/Sculptor loop.

Creatures- We are on some of the common dimir creatures, Thassa's Oracle, Dauthi Voidwalker Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters, but we're also on some creatures that some lists probably won't be on. Talion, the Kindly Lord is a fantastic card advantage engine and Phyrexian Metamorph is both a clone and an artifact. Etherium Sculptor and The Reality Chip make up two parts of a 3 card combo along with Sensei's Diving Top and both pieces are solid enough to not be entirely dead cards without it. Spellskite is in the list for redirection and to protect our board and Walking Ballista is another infinite combo outlet that can also be used to shoot down X/1s similar to a Bowmasters.

We are only on 3 enchantments, the ever classic Mystic/Rhystic as well as Counterbalance, making the powerful CounterTop soft lock.

Date added	3 months
Last updated	1 week
Key combos	Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter Etherium Sculptor + Sensei's Divining Top + The Reality Chip
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.93
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct 0/0 C, Orc Army, Treasure