#breya etherium shaper

Kaladesh is the kind of plane I can really get behind, as it inspires innovation and creation. For the purposes of this I’m leaving out legendary creatures and cards I intend to put into other decks (hope to get to those in weeks to come). So what has got my creative juices going in Aether Revolt?

1] Mechanized Production
What an epic card for our format! Enchant something with an ETB effect like Spine of Ish Sah, or any of the Gearhulks. Then use artifact counters like clues, gold, thopters, myr or servos to win the game from nowhere. For maximum win power combine the two with Myr Battlesphere. Very powerful in most artifact decks but I could easily see Sharuum or Breya using this to its greatest effect.

2] Scrap Trawler
I love to sacrifice my artifacts for fun and profit, and with Breya now as my go to artifact commander I want to be sacrificing more and more. Scrap Trawler turns such decks into engines, as cards go in and out of graveyards gaining value each cycle. Combine with Krark-Clan Ironworks, the Wellsprings and AER’s own Implements.

3] Trophy Mage
I love to try and build decks with odd restrictions, so how about a deck a deck around the Artifact Mages - Trinket, Treasure and Trophy - and every other card is an artifact that costs either 1, 3 or 6 mana? Best 3-drops include the Swords, Coalition Relic, Ashnod’s Altar and Burnished Hart. I’d love to see a Padeem deck based on this concept.

4] Call for Unity + Hidden Stockpile - token blink
There are lots of creatures in black and white that make tokens on entering the battlefield - Marsh Flitter, Sengir Autocrat and Grave Titan are some of my personal favourites. Mix in all the Fabricate creatures from Kaladesh, and a bunch of blink/flicker effects - Conjurer’s Closet probably being the best. Then blink a creature, and Hidden Stockpile makes another token, and Call for Unity pumps the whole team by more each time. Combine with Blue for more blink effects like Mistmeadow Witch. Teysa, Orzhov Scion might be a good commander for this deck, or Ravos + X to expand your colours.

5] Aid from the Cowl
Lurking Predators has been a powerhouse of EDH since its printing, so doubling up the effect with Aid from the Cowl is very powerful, and expanding the effect to all permanents turns this into a really effective engine. Fetchlands are probably the best way to trigger Revolt, but I could also imagine a token sacrifice deck like Mazirek or Meren generating a lot of value from the Cowl. One of my favourite things to do in EDH is try to cheat cards into play off the top of my deck using Intet the Dreamer, Descendant’s Path or Call of the Wild together with scry or Hua Tuo to fix the top card of your deck.

That’s just a brief glimpse of what Aether Revolt has to offer. What cards are you excited to brew around?