I have been playing with Grimgrin as commander since he was released. I have built every major variation including combo / tribal, good stuff and aristocrat. While looking over my last aristocrat build I wondered if could put more iron in his diet. Using artifact creature tokens to feed Grimgrin would let me run Marionette Master in addition to usual package of Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat.
As I started to put the deck on paper, I found myself moving away from a pure aristocrat build. I had already planed to incorporate a Salvaging Station package. Grimgrin makes it easy to trigger. Since Salvaging Station usually accompanies a stax package, I began to look at some of those staples. Through that research, I began to see a pattern. Many of the best stax artifacts involving keeping your opponents tapped down. In effect I could share Grimgrins weaknesses with my opponents and turn his untap cost into a boon.
This is my first pass. Are there any obvious combo's I may be missing? Sub optimal choices? I am very open to suggestions.
As I started to put the deck on paper, I found myself moving away from a pure aristocrat build. I had already planed to incorporate a Salvaging Station package. Grimgrin makes it easy to trigger. Since Salvaging Station usually accompanies a stax package, I began to look at some of those staples. Through that research, I began to see a pattern. Many of the best stax artifacts involving keeping your opponents tapped down. In effect I could share Grimgrins weaknesses with my opponents and turn his untap cost into a boon.
This is my first pass. Are there any obvious combo's I may be missing? Sub optimal choices? I am very open to suggestions.
1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
Creature
1 Cemetery Puca
1 Marionette Master
1 Pitiless Plunderer
1 Sai, Master Thopterist
1 Trinket Mage
1 Whirler Rogue
1 Vedalken Humiliator
1 Grand Architect
Enchantment
1 Thopter Spy Network
1 Revel in Riches
1 Phyrexian Scriptures
Land
1 Bad River
1 Rootwater Depths
1 Waterveil Cavern
1 Underground River
1 Academy Ruins
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Esper Panorama
1 Polluted Delta
1 Arcane Lighthouse
1 Buried Ruin
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Mirrorpool
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Fetid Pools
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Field of Ruin
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Morphic Pool
1 Watery Grave
8 Island
6 Swamp
1 Meekstone
1 Static Orb
1 Darkwater Egg
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Chromatic Sphere
1 Salvaging Station
1 Orb of Dreams
1 Voyager Staff
1 Chromatic Star
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Ward of Bones
1 Expedition Map
1 Amulet of Vigor
1 Mimic Vat
1 Codex Shredder
1 Glaring Spotlight
1 Strionic Resonator
1 Skullclamp
1 Winter Orb
1 Terrarion
1 Animation Module
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Argentum Armor
1 Smokestack
1 Damping Sphere
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Retrofitter Foundry
1 Silent Arbiter
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Puppet Conjurer
1 Leaden Myr
1 Silver Myr
1 Plague Myr
1 Myr Retriever
1 Baleful Strix
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Palladium Myr
1 Jhoira's Familiar
1 Scrap Trawler
1 Meteor Golem
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
1 Stifle
1 Echoing Truth
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Whir of Invention
1 Thrilling Encore
Sorcery
1 Fabricate
1 Hidden Strings
1 Saheeli's Artistry
1 Fortuitous Find
Planeswalker
1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master