This is dedicated to the black splash spin-off of Strawberry Shortcake, the R/W Grindstone-Painter combo. This thread can be open to an R/B/x builds of painter.
To start off, here is a starting list that I have been working on:



Devil's Cake

Land
1 Swamp
2 Mountain
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
2 Great Furnace
1 Vault of Whispers
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Badlands
1 Plateau

Creatures
4 Goblin Welder
4 Goblin Engineer
3 Painter's Servant
1 Sundering Titan

Spells
4 Lotus Petal
2 Mox Opal
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
3 Grindstone
4 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Enlightened Tutor
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Wishclaw Talisman
1 Tangle Wire
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Blood Moon
2 Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
4 Karn, the Great Creator

Sideboard
1 Glass Casket
1 Grindstone
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Mycosynth Lattice
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Painter's Servant
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Liquimetal Coating
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Plague Engineer
2 Angrath's Rampage
1 Wurmcoil Engine


This is a starting point. It takes the basic design of R/W Painter, strips away recruiters and instead adds Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast and Wishclaw Talisman as a varying tutor package. It will typically also play the full 4/4 goblin welder/engineer split to fully abuse the graveyard for more explosive early lines of play. Some people will elect to play a straight B/R version of the deck, while others will also try a snow-version of the deck, adding Arcum's Astrolabe and snow lands. These are all reasonable choices. And this thread will explore all options within this basic idea. Looking forward to hearing about some new and interesting ideas regarding this flavor of our favorite 1-2 combo. Paint on!