That being said, this is a cheap version. It would play optimally with a 12 post land base instead of Urza tron. It was originally built with artifact lands and that seems to work quite nicely as well, especially as they add to untapped artifact counts for both Lodestone Myr and Clock of Omens.
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Pretty well. It's good at generating an explosive board state. If you swap it to casual so you can include a sol ring (and a tolarian academy if you really want people to hate you) then you can often combo off turn 1 for 4 cards on the field and 6+ available mana on turn 2. It's good at holding up at almost any tempo as well. It can sit and generate board presence to stall even against very aggro decks or it can simply try to combo off quickly and deal as much damage as possible in a single turn.
Nice, I didn't even know about Ajani's Welcome yet. I actually made this deck a while back but just recently made the last revisions and made it public. I'll make this change now.
I actually got the idea from a friend who really enjoyed mana myr. Sat down on TCGPlayer and built what later became this decklist in my shopping cart. At the time we weren't worried about it being modern legal, so we used artifact lands. Switched to Urza tron lands for modern legality.
Yeah, I've considered Sphere of Resistance instead, but I'm unsure which will prove better. In Vintage, Trinisphere was much more powerful, hence its restriction, though I'm not sure how well that translates into Legacy. I may put Sphere of Resistance in here and sideboard the Trinispheres in case I'm up against a deck I know is filled with 0 and 1 CMC cards. As for Battlesphere, I'm aware, I run a Myr deck where I heavily abused Battlesphere, but I'm not sure I want to run it here. Battlesphere truly shines when in a deck with the ability to create large numbers of tokens. The only benefit to Battlesphere would be the ability to sac the Myr tokens it brings with it to forgemaster if something happens to the Battlesphere, so this may be another sideboard option depending on what I'm up against.
Yeah, I should swap out Buried Ruin for Academy Ruins for sure. As for why I use Phyrexian Colossus, read the description I just added for the deck. His low CMC usually means I can cheat him out for free on the same turn I drop Mycosynth and Unwinding Clock negates his untap cost. If I've locked my opponent down correctly and am picking off creatures with Lux Cannon, Phyrexian should be unblockable and do some pretty nice damage along with having pseudo-vigilance from the Clock just like the rest of my beaters. He's just quicker to cheat out if I don't have Forgemaster at the moment and unblockable instead of trample.I do like the Sundering Titan idea though. I may tinker with that idea a bit, but the issue there might be the low amount of basic lands played in Legacy.