For the new standard format I am looking to build a Midrange/Big Red style deck. The deck below is a rough example of what I am trying to build. What inspired me to build this deck was actually Wily Goblin. I think playing Chandra, Torch of Defiance or Glorybringer a turn early can be an effective strategy. I built an artifact sub-theme around this strategy. I do not have a sideboard yet because I do not know what decks to expect in the upcoming standard format. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions on how I can improve this deck please let me know!
I have built a RB Midrange goodstuff deck recently, and while I like your decklist, there are a few things that I would personally change. For starters, I would run 2 (3 definitely max) Aethersphere Harvester. It's a great card, it just never ends well to draw nothing but ships with no sailors. Secondly, I would only run 2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance maindeck, and possibly 1 or 2 in the board. Again, drawing a number of copies of this card isn't that great most of the time. I would cut 1 Unlicensed Disintegration as when facing low-to-the-ground decks you want a little cheaper removal. Then I would run a few more artifact creatures to make sure Disintegration is always on.
Maybe some Dhund Operative a 2/2 that becomes a 3/2 with deathtouch as long you control an artifact.
While I do like pushing the artifact theme further, Gifted Aetherborn is so much better. Doesn't die to Shock or Magma Spray which a lot of decks are playing right now, can survive blocking 2 power attackers, has deathtouch and lifelink. In fact, I play a full set of Gifted Aetherborn in every deck I play in Standard that has any black mana in it.
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Creatures/Vehicles: 22 Cards
Inventor's apprentice x4
Wily Goblin x4
Scrapheap Scrounger x4
Aethersphere Harvester x4
Pia Nalaar x2
Glorybringer x4
Spells/Planeswalker: 14 Cards
Shock x2
Lightning Strike x4
Unlicensed Disintegration x4
Chandra, Torch of Defiance x4
Lands: 24 Cards
Dragonskull Summit x4
Aether Hub x4
Canyon Slough x4
Ramunap Ruins x2
Mountain x10
Maybe a little more like this:
04 Inventor's apprentice
04 Wily Goblin
04 Scrapheap Scrounger
04 Glorybringer
04 Walking Ballista
02 Pia Nalaar
02 Aethersphere Harvester
Spells/Planeswalker(12):
04 Lightning Strike
03 Shock
03 Unlicensed Disintegration
02 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
10 Mountain
04 Dragonskull Summit
04 Aether Hub
02 Canyon Slough
02 Ramunap Ruins
02 Ifnir Deadlands
04 Abrade
03 Doomfall
02 Crook of Condemnation
02 Never // Return
02 Sweltering Suns
02 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
While I do like pushing the artifact theme further, Gifted Aetherborn is so much better. Doesn't die to Shock or Magma Spray which a lot of decks are playing right now, can survive blocking 2 power attackers, has deathtouch and lifelink. In fact, I play a full set of Gifted Aetherborn in every deck I play in Standard that has any black mana in it.