MTG Salvation

-History/Introduction-
As of writing this, I'm a sophomore in college and I've been playing Commander/EDH for a bit over a year now. I arrived at college a Yu-Gi-Oh player and then discovered that there was a Magic playgroup in my dorm - by the end of freshman year I had made the switch over. Being used to YGO, the least casual-friendly TCG in terms of the playing/enjoying ratio, I immediately gravitated towards the strongest colors and Commanders - I had my sights set on Arcum Dagsson - but my more casual playgroup told me to step back a bit, to start with something goofier, to not go full Spike right away. Still, even in this playgroup with decks mostly under $200-$300, I couldn't bring myself to dial back all the way. Wanting Artifacts for easy synergies and blue for the most powerful answers (gotta have those Trap cards) I ended up settling on Muzzio, Visionary Architect.

-Why Muzzio?-
I'm just going to say this now: if I wanted to tutor up the same wins and setting up the same consistent win from game to game, go for Arcum Dagsson. He's decidedly a much more consistent commander and overall much faster and more deadly. But can he cheat out Blightsteel Colossus on turn four? I don't think so.

The win cons here are really just big stompy robots - sometimes copies of big stompy robots, sometimes my opponents' big stompy robots - but mostly this deck wins via accumulating advantage over the course of the game and then slamming my opponents one by one in the face with usually impossible-to-answer scenarios. Early game is focused mostly on ramping, setting up protection for Muzzio, and bluffing so that people don't bother me. Not going to lie - the deck can be sort of slow if you don't start off nice enough, but if people don't bother you, then you're definitely not out of the game yet. Not by a long shot. That Thran Dynamo you've got on your field with no creatures could net you a Platinum Angel or a Spine of Ish Sah, taking out one of your opponents' threats. That Vedalken Orrery could become a Staff of Nin. Sol Ring could become anything! Imagine the possibilities.

TL;DR: Muzzio is random and powerful and I think that's fun.

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Artifacts (28) 1x Akroma's Memorial 1x Basalt Monolith 1x Bident of Thassa 1x Caged Sun 1x Darksteel Forge 1x Expedition Map 1x Extraplanar Lens 1x Gilded Lotus 1x Illusionist's Bracers 1x Lightning Greaves 1x Mind's Eye 1x Mindslaver 1x Mirrorworks 1x Neurok Stealthsuit 1x Nevinyrral's Disk 1x Pithing Needle 1x Rings of Brighthearth 1x Scroll Rack 1x Sculpting Steel 1x Sensei's Divining Top 1x Sol Ring 1x Spine of Ish Sah 1x Staff of Nin 1x Thousand-Year Elixir 1x Thran Dynamo 1x Trading Post 1x Unwinding Clock 1x Vedalken Orrery	Creatures (16) 1x Arcbound Reclaimer 1x Blightsteel Colossus 1x Burnished Hart 1x Darksteel Colossus 1x Duplicant 1x Etherium Sculptor 1x Karn, Silver Golem 1x Master Transmuter 1x Memnarch 1x Phyrexian Metamorph 1x Platinum Angel 1x Scarecrone 1x Spellskite 1x Steel Hellkite 1x Vedalken Archmage 1x Wurmcoil Engine Instants (13) 1x Blue Sun's Zenith 1x Brainstorm 1x Counterspell 1x Cyclonic Rift 1x Dissipate 1x Forbid 1x Hinder 1x Long-Term Plans 1x Mystical Tutor 1x Reality Shift 1x Spell Crumple 1x Stoic Rebuttal 1x Thirst for Knowledge	Sorceries (3) 1x All is Dust 1x Fabricate 1x Reshape Enchantments (2) 1x Rhystic Study 1x Training Grounds Planeswalkers (1) 1x Tezzeret the Seeker Lands (36) 1x Academy Ruins 1x Arcane Lighthouse 1x Buried Ruin 1x Darksteel Citadel 1x Halimar Depths 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord 1x Lonely Sandbar 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge 1x Myriad Landscape 1x Reliquary Tower 1x Remote Isle 1x Scrying Sheets 1x Seat of the Synod 22x Snow-Covered Island 1x Temple of the False God

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Muzzio's Tools (6) 2 Illusionist's Bracers 3 Rings of Brighthearth 2 Scroll Rack 1 Sensei's Divining Top 3 Thousand-Year Elixir 1 Training Grounds Muzzio's Friends (4) 5 Karn, Silver Golem 4 Master Transmuter 7 Memnarch 5 Tezzeret the Seeker The Robots (6) 12 Blightsteel Colossus 11 Darksteel Colossus 6 Mindslaver 7 Platinum Angel 6 Steel Hellkite 6 Wurmcoil Engine The Lair (2) 7 Akroma's Memorial 9 Darksteel Forge Protection (3) 2 Lightning Greaves 2 Neurok Stealthsuit 2 Spellskite Copies, Recursion, Misc (8) 4 Arcbound Reclaimer 5 Mirrorworks 1 Pithing Needle 4 Phyrexian Metamorph 3 Scarecrone 3 Sculpting Steel 4 Trading Post 4 Unwinding Clock	Counterspells (5) 2 Counterspell 3 Dissipate 3 Forbid 3 Hinder 3 Stoic Rebuttal Removal/Board Wipes (6) 7 All is Dust 2 Cyclonic Rift 6 Duplicant 4 Nevinyrral's Disk 2 Reality Shift 7 Spine of Ish Sah Ramp/Mana Doublers (8) 3 Basalt Monolith 3 Burnished Hart 6 Caged Sun 3 Extraplanar Lens 2 Etherium Sculptor 5 Gilded Lotus 1 Sol Ring 4 Thran Dynamo Tutors (5) 1 Expedition Map 3 Fabricate 3 Long-Term Plans 1 Mystical Tutor 2 Reshape	Lands (36) 1x Academy Ruins 1x Arcane Lighthouse 1x Buried Ruin 1x Darksteel Citadel 1x Halimar Depths 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord 1x Lonely Sandbar 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge 1x Myriad Landscape 1x Reliquary Tower 1x Remote Isle 1x Scrying Sheets 1x Seat of the Synod 22x Snow-Covered Island 1x Temple of the False God

-Strengths/Weaknesses-
The current build is pretty potent - it can easily cheat out big things turn 4 provided that no one blows up Muzzio, although that's entirely dependent on what's on the top of your library. Because of the high artifact/other cardtype ratio you rarely whiff with Muzzio's ability (you can even get the Artifact lands) but it can still happen.

My big problem is that the deck has a lot of trouble recovering in multiplayer if people shut Muzzio down early. In games of over three players Muzzio usually gets blown out and it's not that fun to play. So since this deck is still definitely in what I would call "early stages" even though it's been my sole EDH deck for about a year, I'm really hoping for a lot of feedback on how to keep the deck going even after losing the commander, better card choices, and so on.

Please give me your suggestions! This is much a display of something that I'm proud of/a model for other players looking to pick up the general as it is a call for support, so if you have comments/criticisms, I would love to hear them.

This list looks really good.

I'm putting Muzzio together here in November '16 and this definitely helps.

Only thing I'd say is maybe your list is a tad threat-dense, at the expense of less rocks. You also might want at least 1 untap artifacts effect like Clock of Omens or Voltaic Key or Alphetto Alchemist.

Thanks for posting this.