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I really like Phyrexian Dreadnought and I think it's neat that Trinket Mage can grab it for you. I just can't think of a blue deck where I'd actually want that to happen. I've only ever wanted it in Ghoulcaller Gisa and Kresh the Bloodbraided.

Does anyone have a deck that does this routinely?

Definitely a thing that could be done in Mimeoplasm.

Unless you're playing something like Affinity in EDH I don't see you meeting its drawback often enough to just tutor it up often.

Its going to come down to the playgroup honestly. If your meta is slower and doesn't wipe the board that often, I would probably test it.

It's good for the cards that like big things in the graveyard.

To answer your actual question, no, I don't tutor Phyrexian Dreadnought with Trinket Mage nor have I ever seen anyone do that in EDH. However, aside from cards which care about power/toughness there's

• Voidslime
• Stifle
• Trickbind
• Torpor Orb
• Hushwing Gryff
• Illusionary Mask

and these also work well with some other creatures, like Hunted Horror, etc. Maybe you could brew up something to exploit that?

Riku of Two Reflections can make a copy, which you can sac the original to. There's also Pandemonium and Warstorm Surge to burn something for a lot.

Not that I could use Trinket Mage in the deck but I used it in my old Varolz, the Scar-Striped deck. Its really amusing to scavange it onto really anything and I used to drop it into Greater Good or Momentous Fall it in response to its ETB effect.

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It's good for the cards that like big things in the graveyard.

You mean like the mimeoplasm?

Ya know, this used to be a go-to move in an old Legacy deck called Stifle-naught back in the day before it got outclassed. I currently use it in Mimeoplasm, where Trinket Mage can fetch it, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, or one or two other things.