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Leonardo da Vinci
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
{3}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, Thopters you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. {2}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If the discarded card was an artifact card, exile it from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 0/2 Thopter artifact creature with flying in addition to its other types.
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“Artifact Thopter lord that scales with hand size and creates copies via discard.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Artifact
Strategy
Leonardo da Vinci is a creative artificer who turns your hand into a resource and your Thopters into threats. The core gameplan revolves around cycling through cards with his tap ability—drawing and discarding lets you filter your hand while creating artifact Thopter tokens from discarded artifacts. You'll build a deck packed with cheap artifacts and card draw to keep your hand full, which makes his first ability a devastating lord effect that turns your flying tokens into oversized threats. Win by swinging in with a army of Thopters that scale with your hand size, or go deeper with artifact synergies for value.
The deck thrives on artifact density and velocity. Play mana rocks and cantrips to trigger Leonardo repeatedly, and include artifacts that do something even when discarded (or that you're happy exiling). Cards like Pongify and bounce spells protect you while keeping Thopters flowing. Your secondary win condition is grinding value: each activation fuels your board while improving your hand, so you'll naturally pull ahead in resources. With the right setup, a single combat turn with a full hand can end the game.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Replace expensive rocks like Mana Crypt with Thought Vessel or Everflowing Chalice; use basic cantrips like Opt and Peek instead of pricey draw spells.
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Efficient Construction
Inclusion = % of Leonardo da Vinci decks running this card. +lift = percentage-point boost over the format average.
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