MTG Salvation

Wanted to build one of the Un-manders. Grusilda is overdone, Baron is cute but highly susceptible to literally any form of interaction, and Mary o'Kill is 60-card bait. So that leaves our favorite egghead. Built this as a tokens deck with two hefty subthemes to celebrate the spirit of Un: dice rolling and Contraption assembling. Bit heavier on the tutors than I'd normally like, but it's because the deck naturally plays weaker cards due to being silver-bordered. There's also one infinite combo, in Lobe Lobber + Squirrel-Powered Scheme + Mirage Mirror copying Scheme = infinite damage.



And since I can't show which variants I intend:

I'm really liking the idea! I'm assuming that the main goal is to crank out as many brainiac tokens as possible? Since The Big Idea's second ability requires tapping untapped brainiacs, maybe add in Conspiracy in order to make all your creatures brainiac? That would also allow you to take greater advantage of cards like Cavern of Souls, Path of Ancestry, Patriarch's Bidding, and Kindred Charge (this one being a great finisher). If you go that route, you could also add Chancellor of the Forge which would give you a ridiculous amount of tokens if you already have a bunch of tokens in play. Although, either way Chancellor of the Forge is broken in a tokens deck regardless if you're going to be running Conspiracy or not.

Since most red cards that assemble contraptions are goblins, maybe add cards like Goblin Matron, Goblin Recruiter, and Goblin Ringleader? You can also continue a goblin subtheme and add Zada, Hedron Grinder to take advantage of all those tokens and Krenko, Mob Boss to make even more.

I've been working on many ways to abuse contraptions in decks and I've found that the one-time spells that assemble contraptions aren't very efficient at it; riggers are the way to go. Consistently cloning the ones withe ETB assembling abilities was a way better thing to do.

EDIT:
Here are some suggestions on swaps based on what I can assess from your deck and strategy:
Finders, Keepers -> Chancellor of the Forge
Work a Double -> Goblin Ringleader
Strategy, Schmategy -> Goblin Recruiter
Baron von Count -> Goblin Matron
Painiac -> Steamflogger Boss
Box of Free-Range Goblins -> Krenko, Mob Boss
Sword of Dungeons & Dragons -> Conspiracy
Mountain -> Path of Ancestry
Mountain -> Cavern of Souls

Your average converted mana cost is pretty high. So maybe add ways to take advantage of tokens like Phyrexian Altar and/or Ashnod's Altar so you can have a steady steam of mana. If someone wraths you could also sacrifice some tokens (and the rest of your creatures if you want to as well) to Spawning Pit and at least get half of them back in the form of 2/2 artifact creature tokens. Free sacrifice outlets with Garbage Elemental are great because it had undying. If you give it a -1/-1 counter with The Scorpion God, you could potentially assemble your entire contraption deck.

Have you thought about making a custom die, but with numbers ranging from 1,000 to 6,000? (or more if you're greedy, because why not?).

So seriously left a question on Blogatog about this, as "six-sided die" is a bit of a loophole without rules.

Tooks some of the ideas from DementedKirby and added in a few more removal spells and a couple of spicy finishers.

Adds:

• Ashnod's Altar
  
• Burn at the Stake
  
• Chancellor of the Forge
  
• Chaos Warp
  
• Conspiracy
  
• Damnation
  
• Dictate of Erebos
  
• Goblin Chieftain
  
• Goblin Rabblemaster
  
• Krenko, Mob Boss
  
• Unlicensed Disintegration
  

Cuts:

• Clock of DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
  
• Divergent Transformations
  
• Finders, Keepers
  
• Hellrider (want to add this back in)
  
• Neheb, the Eternal
  
• Painiac
  
• Panharmonicon
  
• Raid Bombardment
  
• Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
  
• Sword of Dungeons & Dragons
  
• Thousand-Year Elixir
  

Quote from darrenhabib »

Have you thought about making a custom die, but with numbers ranging from 1,000 to 6,000? (or more if you're greedy, because why not?).

So seriously left a question on Blogatog about this, as "six-sided die" is a bit of a loophole without rules.

Nope. That seems lame, haha.

I'm surprised you cut Panharmonicon being as most of your creatures do something when entering the battlefield. In any case that'd be the one artifact I'd constantly have Mirage Mirror become a copy of in order to make things even more epic.

Quote from DementedKirby »

I'm surprised you cut Panharmonicon being as most of your creatures do something when entering the battlefield. In any case that'd be the one artifact I'd constantly have Mirage Mirror become a copy of in order to make things even more epic.

I only counted eight permanents in this list with relevant ETB triggers: Wrench-Rigger, Steady-Handed Mook, Ogre Battledriver, Purphoros, Solemn Simulacrum, Garbage Elemental B, Steamflogger of the Month, and Chancellor of the Forge. Purphoros and Battledriver are enticing but I don't think the two of them alone are worth playing it. :/