Edgar, Master Machinist

Edgar, Master Machinist is a recursion-focused commander that turns your graveyard into a second hand. The core gameplan is to fill your graveyard with cheap artifacts, then cast them repeatedly from the bin while Edgar swings in for increasingly larger chunks of damage. Every attack, Edgar scales with your best artifact's mana value, so you're naturally incentivized to run a mix of mana rocks, token generators, and utility pieces. As the game progresses, you'll have a steady stream of artifacts coming back and hitting the battlefield, which fuels both your board presence and Edgar's damage output.

The deck wins through commander damage paired with artifact synergies. By mid-game, you'll have a critical mass of artifacts in the graveyard and several on the battlefield, making Edgar a legitimate threat while also advancing your position with recursion. The Tools mechanic rewards you for going wide with artifacts—each attack pumps Edgar's power, so you're essentially playing a tempo game where every turn cycle gets better. Think of it as a recursive aggro-midrange shell that pivots into a resilient grind-out if games go long.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.