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They work well together in my experience; metalworker pays for bridge and dumps the hand, also grants enough mana to Inventors' Fair a bridge+dump it. With 4 Fair and 4 Metalworker it's not unlike...

Sure, it does a lot of damage at parity. Problem is that most of the better decks are very good at getting (and staying) ahead on board, ie DRS + Strix, which has lead to a lot of my games feeling...

Ghost Quarter sets the deck back on mana for no effect vs most of the legacy meta, in a deck loaded with 3 and 4 drops; by the time it's worth activating our opponent should have scarier things to...

Even better, if you sacrifice a clue to smokestack Tireless Tracker gets the +1/+1 counter :smile:

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Last night I played the list I posted earlier at FNM. Went 3-1, beating Esper...

At that point I think the deck is just Stompy/Sylvan Plug. I've wanted to make something like that though, like:

4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
8 Forest
3 Foothills
1 Dryad Arbor

4...

Thinking of testing this vs 4C Pile this coming Friday:

4 Wasteland
4 Rishadan Port
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Inventors' Fair
3 Buried Ruin
1 Dunes of the Dead
1 Mishra's Factory

Well then you're just exploring old ground; was tinkering a bit, ended up with this, seems like fun.

1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Qasali Pridemage
4 Knight of the Reliquary

4...

First thought: Knight is going to rot in hand a lot. However, some GSZ with a ramunap and maybe scooze to boot (plus friends post-board) alleviates this issue quite a bit.

In the metalworker version (can't speak for the other versions) I find Nic-Fit to be unwinable, Jund/Aggro Loam is also generally very difficult to win. Elves can be a pain if you're not prepared. ...

I find Port odd in a deck running Crucibles, seems like Ghost Quarter would be better most of the time. Dunes is interesting, not killing DRS had me worried about it, but maybe it's worth a go.

I...

Just played a few games with Stax vs Loam yesterday, and one thing sticks out: Metalworker must die. Between Inventors' fair and just being able to overwhelm the board, games where Metalworker lives...

This deck is very incredibly mana hungry, and metalworker fuels that hunger. This is especially true of any play involving Inventors' Fair or Buried Ruin, which is a large part of the incentive for...

Usually if i've had a bridge/cloister out, I've also resolved a trinisphere or chalice; retrospectively, one of those was usually involved in a victory along with the bridge lock.

Will reiterate...

Aside from T1 Trinisphere, Bridge+Cloister is basically a lock, game 1 at least (I run two cloister partially to beat infect)

I also have been running 4 Walking Ballistae, and have not been...

The lifeloss of spellskite has always worried me off of running it; between ancient tomb and my opponent, it's not uncommon to stabilize at 1-3 life. This is aside from Welding Jar being phenomenal...

Stacks: basically any deck that doesn't run abrupt decay; in retrospect, I managed to dodge all the abrupt decay decks; decks without abrupt decay tend to just scoop to lock pieces, and it's a game...

List should be same with edits posted at the end of the post a weekish ago. This:

-25 Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Inventors Fair
3 Buried Ruin
3 Mishra’s Factory
1 Gods’ Eye,...

Did some thinking, trying to write up a sideboard plan for my current stax build so that I can loan out the deck to people and give them some help. Was hoping to receive some harsh criticism.
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Played the following for this friday night legacy:

4 Mox Diamond
4 Metalworker
2 Mind Stone

4 Walking Ballista
1 Staff of Domination

3 Crucible of Worlds

I've had somewhat mixed feelings with ballista, thought maybe it's that I've simply not run into enough matchups where it is relevant. I did recently manage to go double metalworker->ballista to...

So this is where I am currently, taking some ideas from http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=14688&d=288269&f=LE:

4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
4 Inventors' Fair
3 Buried Ruin
1 Gods' Eye, Gate to...

Where were you planning on slotting them in? I'm between taking out tangle wires or hiding them in the sideboard.

The main draw I see in Daretti is both his immunity to abrupt decay, and his capacity to recover other artifacts that have been decayed (in addition to his ability to dig). The mono-brown version...

I've been playing with the list for the past month or so. Mainboard is generally identical to Dicebox's list (one week I ran Trading Post instead of Orrery, was good, deserves another run). I've...

I've been playing the Inventors' list vs Jund off and on for the past week and losing pretty horribly. Any ideas on what could make the match winnable? I've been pondering if Wurmcoils are worth...