Sydri's Toys

[Gorzo]

The land base here seems a bit slow, maybe add more untapped lands?

It's true, the land base is quite slow. To be honest, I just threw the land base together in about 20 seconds based purely on what I have available without making any trades or buying cards. It's just how I do lands in EDH it's a slow, casual format for fun, so I don't spend on things that don't excite me. And while better land certainly makes deck a LOT stronger, it's rarely exciting, and almost always very hard on a budget. I'll happy add better lands as I see them in trade binders and nab them, though!

I feel like {guilded lotus} should just be {thran dynamo}...I mean it is a deck full of artifacts :p

That's a really good point. It's kind of a toss-up still in my eyes. Dynamo costs 1 less to cast, which is really nice, but that also means it's slightly weaker as a creature animated by Sydri. If that were the only factor, I'd say for sure dynamo was still better, but there is still a lot of color in the deck, and the lotus being able to help cover all the {U}{U} and {W}{W}{W} costs that pop up in the deck give it a slight edge. That and, once again, I actually have a lotus, and would need to aquire a dynamo

does {steel overseer} interact with anything? cause this deck doesnt care that much about attacking does it. i would say switch that with {eon hub}.

also, do you respond to {wrath of God}s by turning people's {sol ring}s into creatures? because that is both hilarious and evil.

edit: and is {mycosynth lattice} a possibility?

Steel overseer is too good! I care a lot about attacking, and Overseer even gives counters to my non-creature artifacts if I've animated them for the turn! Those don't fall off when they stop being creatures, either, and will still be there the next turn that I animate that thing. Imagine being attacked by a 9/9 {Blinkmoth Urn}! How terrifying is that?

You bet I'll be responding to wraths by animating as many artifacts of my opponents as possible I also look forward to the political taunt of "Hey, Jim! I see you have Terminate mana up and you're eying my {Enigma Sphinx} with that 'this would be such a waste of a kill' look. Let me offer you a better option! -animate someone else's {Veldaken Orrery}"

I thought about Mycosynth. I'm still kind of on the fence with it. I don't think I really need it here - I'm not too worried about color fixing, and I obviously don't care about making my permanents into artifacts (that all already are except for Sydri and Muzzio )

[Gorzo]

I'm really anxious to make the final cuts and put this deck together! After a few tweaks, I still need to cut 4 (5 would be even better so I can fit in {Cranial Plating}).

Here are a couple cards I'm thinking of cutting and why. Let me know if I'm crazy.

I think I can cut {Spinal Embrace}. It's a great trick, but it's a lot of mana to leave open and I shouldn't need the life gain with Sydri giving me lifelink on a whim.

I am thinking of cutting {Memnarch}. That sound crazy, I know, but he's... He's TOO good. It's not a very fun card to play with, and it's a very unfun card to play against. My cutting him would be purely based on him sucking fun out of the game, not based on it being a good card (because the card is really, really good lol)

[Nymuera]

If you are putting in {Eon Hub} then I would drop {Staff of Nin}

[blackychan1]

But {mycosynth lattice}+{march of the machines}...
And {mycosynth lattice}+ animating opponents lands with sydri.....

[Gorzo]

I did it! I finally made cuts! So many thanks to everyone who offered me advice and helped me slim it down - this may have been the hardest one to cut to 100 yes. +1's to all of you who helped! Any additional comments are of course still welcome

Thanks again, everyone!