I blame nedleeds for this. When reviewing Conspiracy 2 on Tusk Talk 10 he mentioned Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast could be played with Entomb and Goblin Welder & in last weeks Tusk Talk 13 he mentioned again playing him (I think in Vintage) and I got thinking there must be a shell which needed a win con in pure BR.

The obvious artifact based shell in BR is Painter Grindstone & wondered if it had been done before. I did some googling and found this - http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/br-painter/

Clearly this is a just an inferior Painter deck to the Mono R version but with a little tweaking this deck is a Welder control deck. I tweaked last week and came up with:

3 Ancient Tomb
3 Badlands
1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
2 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Entomb
4 Goblin Welder
3 Great Furnace
3 Grindstone
4 Imperial Recruiter
2 Mountain
3 Mox Opal
3 Painter's Servant
1 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Swamp
2 Vault of Whispers
2 Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
1 Daretti, Scrap Servant
Sideboard

4 Blood Moon
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroclasm
1 Manic Vandal
1 Spellskite
2 Surgical Extraction
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Kolaghan's Command

I will say the board is ropey as all hell, lets ignore that for now. I sleeved this up for our 18 man Legacy on Sunday, 5 rounds and went 3-2.

R1 - Ryan playing BUG Delver. I loaned Ryan this 75 so I'm pretty sure I know his list. He wins the roll, gets ahead G1 and rides 2 Goyfs to the win while I do nothing. G2 I board in and land a T2 Moon but he has got a T1 DRS so just grips it, Delvers and Goyfs beat me to death.

0-1

R2 - Brendan RG Combo lands - Loaned him this deck as well.... G1 I land ensnaring bridge which gives me plenty of time to assemble painter / stone. G2 we go to turns, I grind him out in T5 of 5 and he concedes to me at that point like a gentleman. Welder did massive work this game, I was able to contrive a board where my opp was forced to keep p-firing my new Darretti while I assembled mana with welder etc to land new old daretti, weld in the grindstone and activate it all on one turn around his wastelands / ghost quarters.

1-1

R3 - Luke on Merfolk - G1 therapy naming vial and see a force, I land then land a welder, Grindstone (countered), Painter, untap and weld in the stone and kill him, he was never in this game. G2 he mulls to 5? Opens on vial, I open on pithing needle, his next 3 draws are his remaining 3 vials..... needless to say I assemble the combo easily.

2-1

R4 - Platinum pro on Miracles - interested to play this, normally mono red painter has a fantastic miracles match up so am interested to play this. G1 I get ahead as he's stuck on 2 lands and assemble the combo with welder but he's managed to top deck the StP to stay alive, he assembles Jace to kill me. G2 I get surgical'd and snapcaster sugical'd, after some time he blows up my Ensnaring Bridge and kills me with 2 snapcasters.

2-2

R5- Ethan playing Sneak n Show - As I sit down I say I hope you're not on the Omni version, I cannot beat that which luckily he can't. G1 he T1 SnT -> Emrakul's. G2 we end up in a wrangled position where I have a welder and bridge in play & he has a Griselbrand but he's stone cold dead to the bridge so he scoops to G3 knowing he doesn't have a single way in his deck to avoid getting decked. G3 we end up in this complex situation were I have welder / stone / bridge on the table, I grind him & surgical Emrakul, he forces, I flip top to REB force. Winner! It did turn out after that he had surgical in hand and could have surgical and fail to find the remaining Emrakul.

3-2

So thoughts: This deck is a welder deck, not a Imperial Recruiter deck & I'll cut them for the future. I also want to up the artifact count for metal craft as I got stuck with useless mox opals a few times.

This is what I think I would run back:
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Badlands
2 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Entomb
4 Goblin Welder
3 Great Furnace
3 Grindstone
2 Mountain
3 Mox Opal
3 Painter's Servant
2 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Swamp
2 Vault of Whispers
2 Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
1 Daretti, Scrap Servant

-1 Jaya, Ballad
-4 Imperial Recruiter

5 Flex slots, a draw / discard would be nice? Faithless looting? Good artifacts? - Sundering Titan could be fun? Mindslaver? This is what I think we need help for?

Thoughts?