this combo kinda makes me think of Insurrection

Saddly I don't. I went through my phone a few weeks ago and deleted all of the old decks I had saved, to make space. If people are interested, it might be worth going through the old shorts and flushing out a full decklist again. Stay tuned! 🙂

Oh dang! You're completely right! Nice catch. Maybe I would use someone like Padeem, Consul of Innovation then. Still a shame though.

​@@StragetyMTG You could use Muzzio Visionary Architect or Arcum Dagsson

​@@DDrizzinmaybe even Slobad or Oswald Fiddlebender

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I'm always looking for good non-eldrazi colorless decks, would you mind posting a list?

@VinceOfAllTrades sure, though I should warn you that this thing is riddled with pet cards. As I said, it is scarily effective, but that's in my meta, which I wouldn't exactly call competitive. I love this deck, but I just want to be clear that it was entirely concepted as a home for janky soft win cons like the station and module cycles, I'm sure there are far better pure colorless artifact decks out there. I should also say that this is the list I originally concepted the deck with so it is both slightly idealized as well as out of date, I never actually got my hands on a copy of Urza's Saga for example, and I have since swapped Traxos for Urza's Battlethopter as the commander and am toying with swapping again to the newly desparked Karn, but I haven't gotten around to it.Anyways, with that heavy grain of salt, here's the list: www.mtgvault.com/matanui606/decks/the-machine/

Nice list, I love a good titan forge.

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So I read the deck list and still don't get how it's a 7.5 or a threat to anyone? Feels like you'd always be treading water to get more lands, even with the several cards that get you lands if your opponents control more. What am I missing?!

The deck has a bulky amount of lands so hitting land drops is less of an issue, plus there's enough land recursion from the graveyard to be pulling lands if you need. As far as appearing as a threat, the deck is designed in such a way that its threat assessment level is low (funny enough, your own testimony is credence to this). At the same time, the deck makes use of very value removal (boardwipes, Orin's Thunder, etc.) as a means of resource denial. If my opponents have 12 lands and I have 6, I let them play out their hand. Then, when I cast Akroma's Vengence or Perilous Vault they lose access to everything they just played. If you've ever been in a game where you had 13 lands and nothing to do for the turn, then you understand how having a surplus of lands doesn't usually translate directly to being an actual threat. With all that graveyard recursion as well, any utility land can be repeatedly used each turn. And on top of that, you can pick and choose which land TO reuse every turn. A blast zone every turn can be VERY oppressive, not to mention another Dark Depths whenever you want, or a Command Beacon so I never have to pay commander tax again. As far as wincons go, I generally win with Call for Unity or just a Dark Depths' Merit Lage token. Basalt Monolith goes infinite with Zirda, but I didn't feel the need to throw in a way to translate that mana into damage. If you wanted to though, you certainly could. You could swing out with a huge army using Goblin Trenches, or just keep making your Zirda huge and indestructible with Tyrite Sanctum, or do 20 damage to each opponent when Cavalier of Flame dies, there's a whole lot that can be done. It's almost like every card is an ingredient, and you're the chef just cooking something unique and deadly every game.

I also forgot to mention that lands are notoriously hard to interrupt. You can't counterspell someone for playing a land for turn. And without a Stifle effect, you can't stop the activated abilities of my lands from activating. I love Blast Zone for this reason. You have one turn before I blow up whatever permanent I want, so long as I can pay the price (which is reduced by 2 if Zirda is out).

@@StragetyMTGgreat explanation, honestly would love to see a video breakdown of it. I know all you MTG KZbin only apparently wants precon content but damn "Zirda Broso Lands" would pull me in.