Trading post is played as a one-of curve-topper jack-of-all-trade engine in the Tezzeret AoB UBx Control deck. It's good at doing [everything] when you're hiding behind Ensnaring Bridge.
But it's always pretty efficient to sac a late top-deck Nihil Spellbomb to it.
Yeah, I recommend mycosynth wellspring and ichor wellspring. Probably make a Myr deck, using Myr Welder and Myr Reservoir to get some recursion going. Ultimately, you probably just want to equip an Umbral Mantle to Myr Welder with a Myr Reservoir and/or aPili-Pala imprinted to make a huge creature and/or infinite mana.
Oh yeah, and Skullclamp is awesome with Trading Post, mainly because Skullclamp is Skullclamp. Also, Springjack Pasture lets you sacrifice the Goats for fun and profit (although the only real net outcome of using Trading Post to make a Goat and sacrificing the Goat to Springjack Pasture in the same turn is filtering one mana and tapping both of those permanents.
Oh, and while you're at it, might as well Cytoshape their dude into a 0/1 Goat, playGoatnapper to steal it, and sacrifice it to Springjack Pasture. Take that, card efficiency!
Prophetic Prism if you're heavily multicolor. If not, Signets would be better for mana ramp if you've got enough card draw. Elixir of Immortality - you can respond to activating the Elixir by sacrificing it to draw a card. I've used it with Codex Shredder in Standard for constant recursion of anything, but that's probably too slow for even casual Modern.
Hate cards like Spellskite, Ethersworn Canonist, Torpor Orb, Pithing Needle, etc. are much harder to get rid of when you can Post them back. Needle is especially good because you can sac it for a card if/when it becomes irrelevant, then recur it to name something new.
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Wurmcoil Engine. Sacrifice, draw a card. Sacrifice one of the tokens, get back Wurmcoil.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
But it's always pretty efficient to sac a late top-deck Nihil Spellbomb to it.
EDIT: Ah, yes! It's over the top with Rings of Brighthearth.
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Solemn Simulacrum too I guess, but both occupy the same slot on the curve.
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Oh yeah, and Skullclamp is awesome with Trading Post, mainly because Skullclamp is Skullclamp. Also, Springjack Pasture lets you sacrifice the Goats for fun and profit (although the only real net outcome of using Trading Post to make a Goat and sacrificing the Goat to Springjack Pasture in the same turn is filtering one mana and tapping both of those permanents.
Oh, and while you're at it, might as well Cytoshape their dude into a 0/1 Goat, playGoatnapper to steal it, and sacrifice it to Springjack Pasture. Take that, card efficiency!
Elixir of Immortality - you can respond to activating the Elixir by sacrificing it to draw a card. I've used it with Codex Shredder in Standard for constant recursion of anything, but that's probably too slow for even casual Modern.
Engineered Explosives, Ratchet Bomb or Oblivion Stone for killing things. Executioner's Capsule for targeted killing.
Hate cards like Spellskite, Ethersworn Canonist, Torpor Orb, Pithing Needle, etc. are much harder to get rid of when you can Post them back. Needle is especially good because you can sac it for a card if/when it becomes irrelevant, then recur it to name something new.