Converting every creature tap event into free card selection while granting Phyrexian artifact typing on demand makes for an explosive Mono-Blue combo setup. On Moxfield’s high-power and cEDH charts, Unctus, Grand Metatect from Phyrexia: All Will Be One stands out as a rapid looting engine that effortlessly digs through entire libraries to assemble deterministic wins.
As a 2/4 Phyrexian Vedalken legend costing three mana (), Unctus buffs your blue and artifact creatures by +1/+1 while granting a trigger whenever another blue creature becomes tapped: draw a card, then discard a card. By spending just 1 blue mana or 2 life, Unctus can turn any creature into a blue artifact creature, enabling untap synergies with cards like Aphetto Alchemist or Grim Monolith to loop infinite draws and discards instantly.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Unctus list, detailing how to execute infinite tap/untap looter loops, maximize card selection, and lock in game-ending wins.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with Unctus requires fast artifact acceleration, tap-enabler untappers, cheap blue creatures, and instant-speed countermagic protection.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Deploy fast mana rocks like Sol Ring or Chrome Mox and set up low-cost tap-ability creatures like Aphetto Alchemist or Llanowar Elves proxies.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Cast Unctus. Use his activated Phyrexian ability to turn untap creatures into blue artifacts, triggering Unctus’s draw-and-discard ability every time they tap.
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Late Game (Turns 4+): Loop untappers to sculpt your ideal hand or dump your library into the graveyard. Finish the game immediately using Thassa’s Oracle or Laboratory Maniac.
2. Moxfield Highlights: Infinite Loot Loops & Untap Engines
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Unctus by pairing his tap-trigger Loot ability with self-untapping artifact creatures and cheap interaction.
Aphetto Alchemist / Seeker of Skybreak
The core infinite looter combo squad. Turning these untap creatures blue with Unctus allows them to target themselves (or an Illusionist’s Bracers equipped setup) to infinitely tap, untap, and draw/discard through your whole deck.
Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal
Classic Mono-Blue infinite untap line. Generates infinite mana while continuously tapping and untapping your entire board of blue creatures to loot for your exact win condition.
Thassa’s Oracle / Laboratory Maniac
Primary game-ending payoffs. Unctus’s infinite loot loop empties your deck in a single turn, setting up guaranteed wins upon casting Oracle or drawing a final card with Lab Maniac.
Fierce Guardianship / Force of Will
Free Mono-Blue protection suite. Safeguards Unctus and your untapper pieces on your turn without sacrificing open mana.
3. Copy & Paste Unctus, Grand Metatect 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Unctus, Grand Metatect
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Academy Ruins
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Aphetto Alchemist
1 Arcane Signet
1 Back to Basics
1 Brainstorm
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Traitors
1 Command Beacon
1 Consider
1 Copy Artifact
1 Counterspell
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Dispel
1 Dramatic Reversal
1 Fabricate
1 Fierce Guardianship
1 Flooded Strand
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Force of Will
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Grim Monolith
1 High Tide
1 Illusionist's Bracers
1 Intuition
1 Invention Fair
1 Isochron Scepter
1 Jeweled Lotus
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Vault
1 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Misdirection
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Amber
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Opal
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Mystic Remora
1 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Pact of Negation
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ponder
1 Power Artifact
1 Preordain
1 Reshape
1 Rhystic Study
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Seeker of Skybreak
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Spell Pierce
1 Stern Scolding
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Swan Song
1 Tangle Wire
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Thoughtcast
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Urza's Saga
1 Voltaic Key
1 Whir of Invention
1 Windfall
1 Winter Orb
1 Tidewater Minion
1 Fatestitcher
1 Kelpie Guide
20 Island
Summary: Tap, Loot, Win
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Unctus, Grand Metatect because his ability to grant Phyrexian artifact status and tap-trigger looting converts basic untap synergies into instant-win deck filtering. By pairing untap creatures, infinite mana loops, and free blue protection, Unctus digs straight to victory with surgical precision. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, loot your library, and dominate your next Commander pod.
