Based around the Cogwork Assembler + Powerstone Shard
infinite mana combo. Still figuring out the list exactly but any input would be appreciated.
Combos
There are a few different mini-combos in the deck once you get your main infinite mana combo online:
Cogwork Assembler + Prophetic Prism
- draw your whole deck
Cogwork Assembler + Noxious Gearhulk
- Wrath of God + healing
Cogwork Assembler + any creature - infinite hasted attackers
Card Choices
Blink of an Eye is great utility for 3 reasons. You can use it to bounce your opponents big threats, you can use it to bounce your own combo pieces to evade removal, and you can kick it to draw extra cards.
Cogwork Assembler is the key of the deck. Allows you to copy all your different artifacts depending on your needs.
Mastermind's Acquisition can tutor up missing combo pieces or your wincons. Also can grab situational removal cards out of your sideboard mid game.
Metalwork Colossus has great synergy with the deck. Because of token copy rulings each copied artifact token has the original CMC so they can also help lower the cost. You should almost always be able to cast this for 0. On top of that you can just create artifact tokens as sacrifice fodder to return them from the graveyard for free.
Mirage Mirror is another key card to the combo. You will almost always use this to copy Powerstone Shard.
Noxious Gearhulk can be copied with Assembler and each copy triggers the ETB giving you unlimited creature removal and healing. You can also kill off your own copied creature tokens for infinite life.
Phyrexian Scriptures is a great board wipe and hard counter to graveyard-based decks. A cool trick you can do with this is cast it on your Trophy Mage (which also happens to be your only non-artifact creature) and then you can copy your mage with Assembler so you can tutor up every 3 CMC artifact from your deck.
Powerstone Shard needs no explanation.
Prophetic Prism also has great synergy with the deck. It gives access to infinite card draw and infinite mana of any color by duplicated them to cycle your Powerstone mana into a color of your choice.
Trophy Mage one of the best cards in the deck. Allows you to tutor up every one of your combo pieces since they are all 3 CMC artifacts.
Torment of Hailfire secondary wincon. Upon reaching your infinite mana combo you can either tutor this card directly or draw your whole deck with Prism which is why you only need one.
Yahenni's Expertise is a great dual purpose card. Since all your combo pieces are 3 cost this is essentially a -3/-3 for 1 because of the freebie.
Wincon
The main wincon's are either attacking with tons of hasted token creatures or Torment of Hailfire for infinite mana. I'd also like to try and work in Mechanized Production since getting 8 copies of any card will be easy.
Sideboard is mostly situational counters and removal but with Mastermind's Acquisition in your maindeck your sideboard is basically part of your deck as well.
Sideboard
Sideboard is fairly simple and still being worked on. Bontu's, Fatal Push, and the 3rd Yahenni's are great against aggro. Negate, Rebuke, Padeem, and Spyglass are good against control.
