Thopter Foundry, Sword Of The Meek Join Double Masters Roster

Courtesy of Wizards of the Coast (WotC) and Luis Scott-Vargas, a combo that’s been rocking Magic for more than a decade is back in Double Masters — Sword of the Meek and Thopter Foundry!

Sword of the Meek debuted in Future Sight and is getting its first reprint. The card flew under the radar until the printing of Thopter Foundry in Alara Reborn, immediately creating an incredibly powerful combo for eternal formats. The foundry has been reprinted in Commander 2013 and Commander 2016 as well as Mystery Booster.

Gerry Thompson pioneered the Thopter Depths deck in Extended long before the combo showed up in decks of all shapes and sizes from control to prison.

Thopter Depths

Gerry Thompson

Test deck on 01-31-2010

Extended

Creatures (8)

• 4 Dark Confidant
• 4 Vampire Hexmage

Lands (22)

• 2 Swamp
• 4 Dark Depths
• 1 Academy Ruins
• 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4 River of Tears
• 3 Tolaria West
• 4 Sunken Ruins

Spells (30)

• 2 Island
• 4 Thirst for Knowledge
• 4 Chrome Mox
• 1 Engineered Explosives
• 4 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Slaughter Pact
• 2 Sword of the Meek
• 4 Thoughtseize
• 3 Beseech the Queen
• 3 Thopter Foundry
• 1 Doom Blade
• 1 Into the Roil

Sideboard

• 3 Duress
• 1 Hurkyl's Recall
• 1 Tormod's Crypt
• 1 Chalice of the Void
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 3 Deathmark
• 3 Extirpate
• 1 Sword of the Meek
• 1 Thopter Foundry

Recently the combo has shown up in Urza decks in Modern. Harlan Firer popularized a four-color build with Goblin Engineer while Eli Kassis took down a Team Constructed Open in 202 with a Dimir variant.

Four-Color Whirza

Harlan Firer

1st Place at Star City Games Open on 08-31-2019

Modern

Creatures (7)

• 4 Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 3 Goblin Engineer

Lands (20)

• 4 Polluted Delta
• 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
• 4 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 4 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 2 Spire of Industry

Spells (33)

• 1 Ensnaring Bridge
• 1 Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1 Welding Jar
• 2 Pithing Needle
• 4 Mishra's Bauble
• 2 Chromatic Star
• 2 Sword of the Meek
• 4 Thopter Foundry
• 4 Mox Opal
• 2 Galvanic Blast
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 3 Whir of Invention
• 4 Arcum's Astrolabe
• 1 Mystic Forge

Sideboard

• 2 Thoughtseize
• 2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
• 2 Collective Brutality
• 3 Ceremonious Rejection
• 2 Fatal Push
• 1 Damping Sphere
• 3 Assassin's Trophy

Dimir Whirza

Eli Kassis

1st Place at Star City Games Team Open on 02-01-2020

Modern

Creatures (4)

• 4 Urza, Lord High Artificer

Lands (24)

• 4 Polluted Delta
• 2 Flooded Strand
• 6 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Watery Grave
• 2 Misty Rainforest
• 2 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 2 Field of Ruin
• 3 Mystic Sanctuary

Spells (32)

• 2 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 4 Mishra's Bauble
• 1 Sword of the Meek
• 2 Cryptic Command
• 2 Thoughtseize
• 2 Thopter Foundry
• 1 Deprive
• 2 Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 3 Whir of Invention
• 3 Fatal Push
• 3 Archmage's Charm
• 4 Arcum's Astrolabe
• 1 Drown in the Loch

Sideboard

• 1 Engineered Explosives
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 3 Ceremonious Rejection
• 1 Torrential Gearhulk
• 2 Battle at the Bridge
• 2 Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1 Dead of Winter
• 2 Aether Gust