LoneDart if you had to pick between 2 copies of Reverse Engineer or Tezzeret's Gambit, which one would you prefer?

SaSSolino8 I think that's a question of preference. For me, I choose reverse engineer strictly because most often it's going to cost 2 and you get more draw. I ran reverse engineer in this deck for a bit and the extra card makes a bigger difference than it seems it would

SaSSolino8 MusicMaster these matchups all depend on hand with this deck. Tron and valakut are speed-dependent decks. If you can interrupt a big play you can win. Pillow fort is the same. If you can outpace an opponent or play smart with ravager you can win, although it is one of the more difficult matchups, along with kind. Against Tron, we can dominate after sideboard as long as we can remove engineet d explosives. Cheers

AwezomePozzum thanks! Spire can be used in place of glimmervoid to cut about $100 cost. Cheers

what about Etched Champion as alternative wincon?

Hmm... a few things:

You are running both Hardened Scales and Walking Ballista, so you might as well add Rite of Passage to combo off.Metallic Rebuke is nice and all... But Stoic Rebuttal is generally a better counter in artifact heavy decks. Animation Module is a great card if used in the right deck... But without an infinite mana combo is kind of lackluster.

Your sideboard could use some work, as you have nothing against titanshift, only one card against dredge, nothing against affinity aside from Pithing Needle, and most importantly in this meta, no consistent and effective ways of dealing with infect. May I recommend Tormod's Crypt, Hurkyl's Recall something along the line of Shadow of Doubt and Melira, Sylvok Outcast?

On a side note, you did beat me to creating the idea, I found yours under the 'similar decks' tab

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+1_** Very nice, man. I'd deffs be playing play this if I had the cash. Someday!

Hot damn. I'm pretty new to this site and started looking for an affinity deck to play a while ago, but this is SO INTERESTING! I'm going to start building it slowly, as soon as I finish my current modern deck. It's really nice to see Hangarback Walker in a deck again, i don't see that to often.

Jelly-On-Toast Daddy1ong1egs13 thanks guys.

With your current mana sources, you can only get a turn 1 Hardened Scales with 5 lands, Glimmervoid + Mox Opal, or Darksteel Citadel + Mox Opal + 1-drop artifact. Isn't it too little for your best turn 1 play?

Best turn 1 play is dark steel citadel animation module mox Opal and then hardened scaled. Any game you should be either casting hardened scales, animation module or ancient stirrings to search

But still, it's pretty inconsistent to cast the Scales turn 1.

It's as consistent as an inquisition of kozilek in jund, expedition map in tron, opt in blue moon, springleaf drum in affinity, search for tomorrow in valakut...... so I am not seeing your point. Plus there's 12/16 other 1-drops that are still progressive in terms of the strategy.

I used mtggoldfish metagame decklists as a reference and:

Jund has 17 black sources for a turn 1 Inquisition.

Tron has 19 lands, and all of them produce mana for the Expedition.

Blue Moon has 21 blue sources for a turn 1 Opt.

These are not set in stone obviously, but it's still a lot more consistency than you have for a turn 1 Scales. It seems a little weird to me, so I'm asking why you decided to go this way.

SaSSolino8 not sure but have you even tried playing this deck? It functions very well.

I play with quite a lot actually