Ironheart, Clever Champion
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Flying Noncreature spells you cast have improvise.
How Ironheart decks play in EDH
Ironheart, Clever Champion is a mono-blue commander costing 4U, and its legendary artifact creature - human hero line shapes the whole deck around it. Artifacts drive the deck, so cheap mana rocks and artifact recursion do double duty. Built-in evasion means damage gets through reliably, so effects that scale that damage are worth more than extra bodies. The cards below are the ones Ironheart, Clever Champion decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $31.72Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (2)
Card draw (6)
Removal (3)
Counterspells (2)
Creatures (1)
Synergy & payoffs (6)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Ironheart, Clever Champion decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Ironheart, Clever Champion deck?
Ironheart, Clever Champion has a mono-blue colour identity, so every card in the deck must be blue or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Ironheart, Clever Champion?
The cards played most often in Ironheart, Clever Champion decks include Fateful Discovery, Geist of Saint Thalia, Giant's Boulder. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Ironheart, Clever Champion deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $31.72 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Ironheart, Clever Champion deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.