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The goal of this page is to build a deck around the combo involving the following four cards:Liquimetal CoatingSculpting SteelPrototype PortalParallel LivesThe interaction goes like this:Prototype Portal comes out imprinted with sculpting steel.Activate Liquimetal Coating targeting Parallel LivesActivate Prototype Portal making a token of Sculpting steel and have it come in as a copy of Parallel Lives (a legal target as it is now an artifact)Now you have the ability to make hundreds of copies of parallel lives and do something really cool with it.I'm expecting the combo to be rather slow as it requires four cards but I thought it would be fun to build a casual deck around it.NOTE: Sideboard is currently a maybe board. Essentially a stream of different ideas that might work in the deck while I figure out how it should run.Any suggestions are welcome!
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+1There are some things that come to my mind when seeing this combo. Tribute Mage or Trophy Mage could be used to search 2 of your 4 pieces, tough you would need some other artifacts with cmc 2 and 3 to make real use of them. Fabricate would be another option to search what you need. Confront the Unknown would produce you 8 clue tokens and give a creature +8/+8 for only 1 mana, if you have 3 Parallel Lives on the battlefield. Would be a good carddraw/ finisher. Urza, Lord High Artificer, golem splicers, Myr Propagator, Myriad Construct. White also has some good token-producing spells, which would have quite an impact with the combo on the field.
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I like some of your suggestions here but I think Tribute Mage or Trophy Mage would be a bit too heavy for just searching it to hand. Urza, Lord High Artificer seems like a really good choice since it allows 0 drop artifacts to produce blue. Could be good to include the myr galvanizer / mana myr combo for mana.I like fabricate, I also think reshape could be good but I need to test a bit lol
Personally I'm using Cockatrice for testing my pauper decks. You can play against yourself, or use the servers to find games. or open games for others to join. Tribute Mage and/ or Trophy Mage only would make real sense to me, if you would add other artifacts, that you could search for, like another combo (like Myr Galvanizer and Silver Myr or Alloy Myr, Palladium Myr) Without anything other to search for that you really need, it would be wasted cards.
Agreed, Yeah I'll play around with it and see what I can come up with. Thanks!
What is your target format? I'd expect different outcomes on different formats and maybe some mana ramp. Voltaic Key for example could make a difference, what if you create a lot of those tokens to just burn them into mana like the Thopter Foundry deck did with Crank-Clan Ironworks and so on
I was thinking something like march of the machines, but Crank-clan ironworks could be a good one. the target format is more of a casual thing. I feel like this combo itself is too slow for a format like legacy. Maybe with enough ramp it could pull it off, but for now I'm just trying to get it in a working condition.What kind of cards would you recommend for ramp here? I was thinking the myr galvanizer combo or some mana rocks or both, but I'm not sure.
Few cards that could help:Ancient Stirrings - can be used to search for artifacts, lands, or other colorless cards.Muddle the Mixture - can be used to counter or search.Time Sieve - infinite turns.Inventors' Fair - artifact search.Tolarian Academy - lots of mana.Academy Ruins - artifact recovery. Krark-Clan ironworks - mana.Disciple of the Vault - win con with Krark-Clan ironworks.
Thanks for the suggestions!I put together a tentative list that I can tweak and build off of.I'll play test it and see what can be improved as I go.