Sai, Master Thopterist leads a mono-blue artifact engine deck: every artifact spell cast makes a flying Thopter, and Sai turns pairs of spare artifacts into cards. Cost reducers, cheap mana rocks and free-cast effects let it chain artifact spells for a wide board of Thopters. Sacrifice outlets and recursion creatures loop that board back into cards and mana, while a heavy counterspell suite protects the engine. How it wins: It overwhelms opponents with a growing flying artifact army, or assembles a combo kill: a Krark-Clan Ironworks recursion loop with Glaring Fleshraker pings, Aetherflux Reservoir, an empty-library win with Thassa's Oracle or Jace, or Mechanized Production's eight-copy win. Key roles: - Artifact chaining: Cost reduction, flash and free-cast effects let the deck cast many artifact spells per turn, multiplying Sai's Thopter triggers and other cast payoffs. (Etherium Sculptor, Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor, Mystic Forge) - Artifact card engines: Payoffs that turn artifact casts, entries and sacrifices into a steady stream of cards alongside Sai's own draw ability. (Vedalken Archmage, Fateful Discovery) - Sacrifice and recursion loop: Death-trigger artifact creatures return each other while a sacrifice outlet makes mana. With Glaring Fleshraker this becomes an infinite damage and storm loop. (Krark-Clan Ironworks, Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever) - Thopter army and beaters: The token swarm is pumped, converted into bigger bodies, or backed by evasive artifact threats that end games in combat. (Leonardo da Vinci, Retrofitter Foundry, Kappa Cannoneer) - Tutored alternate wins: Tutors fetch the combo pieces, and huge draw finds empty-library or copy-count victories. (Enter the Infinite, Thassa's Oracle, Mechanized Production) - Counter wall: Many counterspells and bounce effects shield the artifact engine and combo turns. Access Denied adds Thopters while doing it. (Counterspell, Access Denied, Cyclonic Rift)

Sai, Master Thopterist decklist

• Access Denied
• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Aetherize
• All Is Dust
• Arcane Signet
• Beacon of Tomorrows
• Bribery
• Buried Ruin
• Call to Mind
• Cancel
• Chandra, Chill of Compliance
• Cloud Key
• Commit
• Counterspell
• Cyclonic Rift
• Darksteel Citadel
• Darksteel Colossus
• Desynchronization
• Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
• Dramatic Reversal
• Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• Enter the Infinite
• Etherium Sculptor
• Fateful Discovery
• Fellwar Stone
• Flow of Ideas
• Foundry Inspector
• Foundry of the Consuls
• Gilded Lotus
• Glaring Fleshraker
• Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut
• Grand Architect
• Hangarback Walker
• Hinder
• Inventors' Fair
• 27× Island
• Isochron Scepter
• Jace, Reality Sculptor
• Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• Jhoira's Familiar
• Junk Diver
• Kappa Cannoneer
• Karn's Temporal Sundering
• Krark-Clan Ironworks
• Kuldotha Forgemaster
• Laboratory Maniac
• Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
• Last Word
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leyline of Anticipation
• Lonely Sandbar
• Mass Polymorph
• Master Transmuter
• Mazemind Tome
• Mechanized Production
• Memnarch
• Memnarch, the Warden
• Memorial to Genius
• Merchant Scroll
• Midnight Clock
• Mind's Eye
• Mirage Mirror
• Mirran Spy
• Mishra's Bauble
• Misleading Signpost
• Myr Retriever
• Mystic Forge
• Mystic Sanctuary
• Narset's Reversal
• Omniscience
• Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• Pili-Pala
• Plunder the Trollshaws
• Propaganda
• Proteus Staff
• Psychosis Crawler
• 2× Pull from Tomorrow
• Reality Shift
• Redirect
• Reliquary Tower
• Remote Isle
• Research Thief
• Reshape
• Retrofitter Foundry
• Rewind
• Rings of Brighthearth
• Scrap Trawler
• Sculpting Steel
• Shark Typhoon
• Shimmer Dragon
• Shimmer Myr
• Silver Myr
• Skullclamp
• Sky Diamond
• Sol Ring
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Soul-Guide Lantern
• Spelljack
• Stoic Rebuttal
• Sublime Epiphany
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Synthetic Destiny
• Tamiyo's Logbook
• Thassa's Oracle
• The Reality Chip
• Thopter Fabricator
• Thought Monitor
• Thought Vessel
• Three Steps Ahead
• Tormod's Crypt
• Trading Post
• Treasure Mage
• Trophy Mage
• Universal Surveillance
• Vedalken Archmage
• War Room
• Workshop Assistant
• Worn Powerstone
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Urza's Bauble
• Basalt Monolith
• Myriad Landscape