Aether and Science (EDH / Commander)

Play Notes

• Do not play Lightning Runner until you are ready to kill. People will kill-on-sight this as soon as they realize how much energy we can generate.
• With Daretti, Scrap Savant, sacing our good artifacts like The Motherlode, Excavator is a nice way to get ETB triggers every turn when paired with Dr. Madison Li's reanimate.
• We can go infinite if we have Whirler Virtuoso or Automated Assembly Line if we have some combinations of Decoction Module, Gonti's Aether Heart and Panharmonicon, or relevant duplicators like
  Mechanized Production, and Phyrexian Metamorph. This is far from a two card combo and is disreputable but damn is it fun to pull off.

Removal Explanations:

• Arcade Gannon is slow and still makes us pay mana.
• Brotherhood Vertibird actually decent to put on pressure, but if we are going wide enough for this to be lethal, we are probably wide enough that we dont need it. I could be convinced to give it another go tho.
• Curie, Emergent Intelligence not evasive or sneaky, and requires us to dome another of our creatures before its threatening, which just sets up an opponent to dunk two-for-one special us.
• Elder Owyn Lyons in niche situations not a bad card, but most of the time we'd rather be casting artifact creatures than supporting them the tinest bit. Getting cards back from the bin can be nice tho.
• Endurance Bobblehead & Intelligence Bobblehead had a game where I Mechanized Production 'd an Int Bobblehead and got lots of draw. Then lost. Maybe should have cast it on the Assaultron Dominator because bobbleheads are slow.
• Nerd Rage We don't want no maximum hand size, if we draw a ton we want to fill are graveyard with big artifacts to reanimate later and discarding to hand size is a nice way to do that.
• Overencumbered good political card if your table believes in favors. A bad way of stopping an aggro player from smashing your teeth in.
• Plasma Caster this card is comically bad in play. Way too slow and the mildest inconvenience to a board ready to block.
• Red Death, Shipwrecker Great funny political card, play in deck if you dont have another home for it and you like political comedy. "The crab gives you a card, now you must kill"
• Sentinel Sarah Lyons Mixed feelings on this card. Decent pressure, and would probably be great... If she was an artifact herself. As is, she just doesnt fit into are gameplan cleanly enough.
• Sentry Bot. If someone is attacking you with enough creatures for this to be a value play, you need more than one more blocker my brother.
• Shaun, Father of Synths Cool card. Not our plan. Duplicating Miss Li herself is pretty meh and we just dont know if we'll have a better hit.
• Steel Overseer if we foucsed more on counters and proliferate sure, but in here Id rather just put another mana rock or something.
• Terramorphic Expanse We have too many taplands and Aether Hub needs a slot. Don't cut too many lands btw, we have some expensive stuff and missing land drops aint helping. Im still working on tuning the mana base.
• Thought Vessel We dont want no maximum hand size, see Nerd Rage.