I was trying to keep the number of non-basics down to stop myself getting burnt by
[[burning earth]] but you're right,
command tower is pretty much better than all the other non basics i have in there. Will rectify.
The
mana reflection is so that Kurlok himself taps for more, and thereby burns more.
the tap all lands thing is so that people don't have untapped lands on not on their turn so they're less likely to be able to use the mana yurlok gives them. It hopefully also induces miss-plays were people tap all their lands in response to the trigger to make mana but aren't able to use it all.
Stoneshaker Shaman is again to try and stop people keeping mana up and hopefully make people tap their lands for mana and take the burn instead of saccing a land.
Thanks for the questions, good to justify my choices in words.
that being said, the deck really is as yet untested and a bit wacky so i expect some major revisions.
I've got a more upto date version thats actually edh legal somewhere.