Idris, Soul of the TARDIS

Gameplan

Idris enters and imprints one of your artifacts, becoming a beater that wears that artifact's activated and triggered abilities while gaining +X/+X equal to its mana value. You ramp into a big artifact (Equipment, mana rocks with abilities, or busted artifact engines), then leverage Idris as both a value engine and an evasive threat. The catch is Vanishing 3, so you're racing a clock and want recursion or ways to recast and re-imprint each turn.

Key Cards

• Lightning Greaves — Cheap imprint that gives Idris haste and shroud, protecting your timer-bound commander while letting it attack immediately.
• Aetherflux Reservoir — Imprint it and Idris gains the life-gain trigger and the 50-life laser, turning storm-y turns into a wincon you carry in the command zone.
• Sword of the Animist — Imprinting an Equipment grants its combat-damage trigger to Idris itself with no equip needed, ramping you each swing.
• Mind's Desire — Not artifact, but as an example of explosive payoffs—better to note: Idris loves high-MV artifacts for the big +X/+X.
• Mystic Forge — Imprint grants top-of-library artifact/colorless casting, turning Idris into a card-advantage engine.
• Inspiring Statuary — Provides improvise so you can pay the rising commander tax and recast Idris repeatedly.

Upgrade Path

Add cheap artifact tutors (Whir of Invention, Inventors' Fair, Reshape) to consistently find the right imprint, plus protection and haste enablers like Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots. Build around the Vanishing clock with blink/flicker and recast enablers (Inspiring Statuary, cost reducers) so re-imprinting is seamless, and lean into a dedicated artifact combo finish such as Aetherflux Reservoir with cheap spell chains or Isochron Scepter loops.