Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

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The Commander

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

When Emry enters, mill four cards.

{T} : Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Guide

Gameplan

Emry is a mono-blue artifact engine: she enters cheaply thanks to affinity, fills your graveyard, then recurs artifacts every turn so you can replay value pieces and combo loops. You flood the board with cheap and free artifacts, generate card advantage and mana, then assemble an infinite combo or grind to victory. Each turn you tap her to recast a key artifact from the yard, building toward a lock or kill.

Strengths

Extremely cheap and easy to recast commander thanks to affinity, surviving removal cheaply
Powerful artifact recursion engine that turns the graveyard into a second hand
Enables a huge number of compact two- and three-card infinite combos
Deep, well-supported card pool in mono-blue artifacts with strong card draw

Weaknesses

Heavily commander-dependent; loses tempo badly if Emry is repeatedly removed or taxed
Vulnerable to artifact sweepers like Vandalblast, Bane of Progress, and Cyclonic Rift
Mono-blue means weak interaction with resolved permanents and no reliable removal for creatures
Graveyard hate (Bojuka Bog, Rest in Peace) shuts off her recursion entirely

Key Cards

Sensei's Divining Top — Self-recurring cantrip that loops with Emry for card selection and combo enablement.
Mind Stone — Cheap ramp that lowers Emry's cost and can be recurred and cashed for cards.
Sword of the Meek — Combos with Thopter Foundry for infinite tokens and life, recurred by Emry.
Thopter Foundry — With Sword of the Meek and a sac outlet or mana, generates infinite thopters and life.
Ashnod's Altar — Free sac outlet that fuels mana combos and powers Emry loops.
The Reality Chip — Cheap artifact that gives sustained card advantage off the top once attached.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana like Mana Crypt, Mox Opal, and Mox Amber to power explosive starts and reduce Emry's cost further. Tighten the combo package (Time Sieve, Thopter Foundry, Sword of the Meek, Ashnod's Altar) and add tutors like Whir of Invention, Muddle the Mixture, and Reshape to find pieces. Round out with strong counterspells (Force of Will, Mana Drain) and protection like Lightning Greaves to keep your engine online.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek + sac/mana outlet for infinite tokens and life, then attack
▸Time Sieve + Thopter Foundry for infinite extra turns
▸Beating down with cheap artifact creatures and equipped threats
▸Mill or grind opponents out with overwhelming recursive card advantage and an X-spell artifact finisher

Archetypes

Artifact Combo — Emry recurs combo pieces like Sword of the Meek and Time Sieve to assemble infinite loops.
Spellslinger/Value — Recasting cantrip artifacts and mana rocks generates relentless card and mana advantage.
Stax/Control — She rebuys lock pieces such as Static Orb effects and recurs counters' worth of utility artifacts.
Affinity Aggro — Cheap artifacts power out an early board and turn artifact creatures sideways.