The Founding Thopters:
1 x
Kytheon, Hero of Akros3 x
Fiery Impulse4 x
Perilous Myr3 x
Artificer's Epiphany3 x
Thopter Engineer3 x
Chief of the Foundry2 x
Flameshadow Conjuring2 x
Thopter Spy Network3 x
Juggernaut3 x
Whirler Rogue2 x
Pia and Kiran Nalaar3 x
Thunderclap Wyvern2 x
Angelic Edict1 x
Tragic Arrogance23 creatures / 13 non creatures / 24 Land
10 white sources / 12 red sources / 17 Blue sources
4-4-9-15-3 mana curve
2 x
Izzet Guilgate2 x
Azorius Guildgate2 x
Boros Guildgate2 x
Sulfur Falls2 x
Glacial Fortress2 x
Clifftop Retreat2 x
Foundry of the Consuls4 x
Island3 x
Mountain3 x
PlainsThis is a Jeskai thopter airbeats midrange deck. My initial feel is I am trying to do too many things at once, going for both thopters and adding a third colour without any benefit other than late game removal and 3 x more lords for my thopters. With
chief of the foundry and
thunderclap wyvern I have a total of six lords to buff the thopters with.
Flameshadow Conjuring is here to assist
pia and kiran nalaar and
whirler rogue. This essentially lets me put 4 thopters on the field for 5 mana plus a 2/2 bear. With six lords in the deck they will likely be 2/2 artifacts at least with flying. Some considerations I made were
valor in akros and
aeronaut tinkerer. Valor would give me a field wide buff of +6/+6 when i get the ultimate combo off with chandra's parents or whirler rogue + flameshadow. It would also give me a +2/+2 any time I paid an extra red meaning if i used it on a lord coming into play creatures would get +4/+4 until end of turn as well. The list just seemed too packed at the 4 cmc to have a slot for it though. The Tinkerer didn't seem to hold the early game well enough for me. The threat of [card]perilous myr[card] is too great vs aggro for him to be rewarded my early game creature slots. Let me know what you guys think and may the founding thopters be with you.
Edit: I did consider replacing the [card]Thopter spy network[/card] for
valor in akros but again not sure what to replace for it.
I think you should remove 2x
Pia and Kiran Nalaar, 2x
Angelic Edict, 1x
Tragic Arrogance, 1x
Fiery ImpulseInstead, I would recommend adding the 3x
Valor in Akros that you were considering and add 3x
Reclusive Artificer.
I feel that this deck should focus mostly on aggro, making
Valor in Akros more useful than the control spells.
Reclusive Artificer seems like it should be an auto-include in this deck because it is both a creature and creature control for 4 mana.
My main reason for preferring the
Reclusive Artificer over
Pia and Kiran Nalaar is that
Pia and Kiran Nalaar is a legendary creature. If you try to combo this with
Flameshadow Conjuring, you will only get the 4 Thopter tokens (not a bad deal, but
Whirler Rogue is far better in the long run).
Lastly, this deck seems to be very heavy with 4-drops. You may want to consider replacing some of the
Juggernauts with
Bonded Constructs