Nuke-tified, could you please share your list?
I think additional CA will be great for affinity (and Confidant is one of the best draw engines in existence) and very interested in every opinion on that topic.
As far as it goes, did anyone tried
Standstill in Affinity? With the deck's current speed (
Mox Opal gives powerfull and consistent acceleration), we can shit lots of dudes and back it up with standstill extremely early, forcing opponent to break it.
Another strong effect we can now abuse is
Winter Orb +
Vedalken Certarch + nonland mana. This literally locks out opponent's mana while we still can play our cheap/free creatures with
Mox Opal/
Springleaf Drum.
It's like the old Armageddon White Weenie (and its evolution Angel Stompy) - drop some dudes and cast Armageddon to keep early board advantage. Both
Standstill and
Winter Orb do the same thing for Affinity. Man, even Artifact land,
Mox Opal,
Memnite,
Standstill is good.
Here's the list I'm going to test soon:
4
Seat of the Synod4
Ancient Den/
Vault of Whispers4
Darksteel Citadel4
Wasteland4
Mox Opal2
Springleaf Drum4
Memnite4
Ornithopter4
Vedalken Certarch4
Steel Overseer4
Master of Etherium2
Frogmite2
Dispeller's Capsule/
Executioner's Capsule4
Cranial Plating3
Winter Orb3
Standstill4
Thoughtcast
The main issue is Executioner's Capsule vs Dispeller's Capsule. The first one kills manadorks and everything else you want, but the second one solves the worst problem for both Orb and Still plan:
Aether Vial, and also destroys moxes, jittes and other bad things you might see.
Steel Overseer is the star 'cause he works extremely good under both Still and Orb.
Another star is
Vedalken Certarch. This guy + Orb is like one-sided
Stasis and he can also tap everything on the way of your robots (i.e acts as pseudo-removal).
Another thing to consider is the returning of
Aether Vial to the deck to be able to play under
Standstill.