I like making cumulative effects work in Commander for whatever reason having a big bunch of the same thing in a format that says you should only have one of a thing. Shadowborn Apostle decks Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant decks (she is remarkably fun if you want to try a very distinct mono-g experience that transforms into a very powerful one when your Commander activates).
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer was spoiled and was IMO the most interesting card spoiled in that set there are so many ways to construct this a lot of people soon looked towards Helm of the Host to make possible a lot of lot of !Legendary Tokens.
I wanted something not necessarily creature based so I started looking into artifacts that would provide interesting cumulative effects.
The first thing I came to was Amulet of Vigor used very well in Amulet Titan but what if instead you had 10 Amulets in Play or 20 it would just produce 2x the Number of Amulets you have in Mana off a single Izzet Boilerworks
Then I thought of Locus' specifically Cloudpost but thinking about actually putting that into practice it would require a Liquimetal Coating or a full on Mycosynth Lattice followed up by a token maker. So while possible it feels like a lot of steps, thankfully I did remember that Dominaria printed a curiosity for limited mostly that would be of use here.
Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.
Now this is exactly what I was looking for. A straight simple equation of Number of Shards multiplied by itself to create the amount of mana they all produce 1 is 1, 5 is 25, 10 is 100, 20 is 400 and on and on.
Ixalan provided Pirate's Pillage and Brass's Bounty two cards that when paired with the explosive Ravnica Thousand-Year Storm can produce a number of tokens to fuel the efforts we want to produce with assembling some Powerstone Shards. The rest of the deck produces tokens or acts as control or can feed into separate combos in case of emergencies.
It may need more big X things to pay off the mana unsure but I think there are enough things to sink mana into when the time is right.
Current EDH Generals: WAvacyn, Angel of Hope|UAzami, Lady of Scrolls|B| Ob Nixilis, the Fallen|R Daretti, Scrap Savant|GEzuri, Renegade Leader|WUBrago, King Eternal|UBGrimgrin, Corpse-born|BR Wort, Boggart Auntie|RGUlasht, the Hate Seed|GW Captain Sisay|WBGhost Council of Orzhova|BGGlissa, the Traitor|GUExperiment Kraj|URMelek, Izzet Paragon RWJor Kadeen, the Prevailer|WBRKaalia of the Vast|GWBGhave, Guru of Spores|UBRMarchesa, the Black Rose
Retired WDarien, King of Kjeldor|RJaya Ballard, Task Mage|RNorin the Wary|GBMomir Vig, Simic Visionary|WUBRGSliver Overlord
Is Walking Ballista the wincon here? I guess Hangarback Walker counts as well. Pretty cool deck, I like the idea. I personally didn't know what to do with Brudiclad and gave up after a couple games with it.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer was spoiled and was IMO the most interesting card spoiled in that set there are so many ways to construct this a lot of people soon looked towards Helm of the Host to make possible a lot of lot of !Legendary Tokens.
I wanted something not necessarily creature based so I started looking into artifacts that would provide interesting cumulative effects.
The first thing I came to was Amulet of Vigor used very well in Amulet Titan but what if instead you had 10 Amulets in Play or 20 it would just produce 2x the Number of Amulets you have in Mana off a single Izzet Boilerworks
Then I thought of Locus' specifically Cloudpost but thinking about actually putting that into practice it would require a Liquimetal Coating or a full on Mycosynth Lattice followed up by a token maker. So while possible it feels like a lot of steps, thankfully I did remember that Dominaria printed a curiosity for limited mostly that would be of use here.
Now this is exactly what I was looking for. A straight simple equation of Number of Shards multiplied by itself to create the amount of mana they all produce 1 is 1, 5 is 25, 10 is 100, 20 is 400 and on and on.
The thing I also didn't realize was how new/rare the creating of artifact tokens was the first card was Stolen Identity and then not until Kaladesh did we get more of these effects in Cogwork Assembler, Saheeli Rai, Saheeli's Artistry and Mechanized Production. Last years Commander deck also thankfully provided one reasonable outlet in Echo Storm.
The deck looks like this at the moment:
1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
Creature
1 Goblin Welder
1 Murmuring Mystic
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Young Pyromancer
1 Docent of Perfection
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Walking Ballista
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Cogwork Assembler
1 Dross Scorpion
Enchantment
1 Copy Artifact
1 Stranglehold
1 Thousand-Year Storm
Land
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Academy Ruins
1 Mana Confluence
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Arid Mesa
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Buried Ruin
1 Halimar Depths
1 Command Tower
1 City of Brass
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Steam Vents
8 Island
6 Mountain
1 Mana Vault
1 Mind Stone
1 Scroll Rack
1 Voltaic Key
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Myr Turbine
1 Sol Ring
1 Izzet Signet
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 Chrome Mox
1 Isochron Scepter
1 Treasure Map
1 Powerstone Shard
Instant
1 High Tide
1 Arcane Denial
1 Force of Will
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Intuition
1 Frantic Search
1 Brainstorm
1 Seething Song
1 Remand
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Fated Infatuation
1 Cackling Counterpart
1 Paradoxical Outcome
1 Dramatic Reversal
1 Whir of Invention
1 Mana Drain
1 Cryptic Command
1 Flusterstorm
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Swan Song
1 Pact of Negation
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Time Spiral
1 Fabricate
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Tempt with Vengeance
1 Rite of Replication
1 Mizzix's Mastery
1 Saheeli's Artistry
1 Brass's Bounty
1 Pirate's Pillage
1 Echo Storm
Planeswalker
1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Dack Fayden
1 Saheeli Rai
Ixalan provided Pirate's Pillage and Brass's Bounty two cards that when paired with the explosive Ravnica Thousand-Year Storm can produce a number of tokens to fuel the efforts we want to produce with assembling some Powerstone Shards. The rest of the deck produces tokens or acts as control or can feed into separate combos in case of emergencies.
It may need more big X things to pay off the mana unsure but I think there are enough things to sink mana into when the time is right.
Thanks for taking a look.
W Avacyn, Angel of Hope|U Azami, Lady of Scrolls|B | Ob Nixilis, the Fallen|R Daretti, Scrap Savant|G Ezuri, Renegade Leader|WUBrago, King Eternal|UB Grimgrin, Corpse-born|BR Wort, Boggart Auntie|RG Ulasht, the Hate Seed|GW Captain Sisay|WB Ghost Council of Orzhova|BG Glissa, the Traitor|GU Experiment Kraj|UR Melek, Izzet Paragon
RW Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer|WBR Kaalia of the Vast|GWB Ghave, Guru of Spores|UBR Marchesa, the Black Rose
Retired
WDarien, King of Kjeldor|R Jaya Ballard, Task Mage|R Norin the Wary|GB Momir Vig, Simic Visionary|WUBRG Sliver Overlord
GWUBAtraxa, Praetor's Voice PrimerGWUB
GWURoon Bant Blink WhateverGWU
BRGLord Windgrace LandsBRG