Id say that once youve maximized your christmasland turn two plays, you can then focus on turn three and creature redundancy.
To that end - I say the naginata is not that useful and puresteel paladin is useful mostly just as a plan B.
This probably works a bit like bogles but of course the equipment persists. What if your opponent targets the equipment for removal?
Moving along... You will get the hammer pretty consistently but you cant count on having it on turn 1. I say this is more of a turn 3 combo that will occasionally go off on turn two. Sigarda's Aid is the real problem here.
Do we play thopters to maximize the chance of comboing out on the rare turn one where we have both? And while we're at it - maybe throwing SSG into the mix and hoping to combine it with so many other cards is just too much variance?
That is why I said drop the O-Naginata route in an earler post and focus a bit more on protection with +4Apostle's Blessing, good early, mid or late game. And potentially protects the artifacts as well.
Also remember London Mulligan is coming. A good way to smooth out some of the variance. Sigs Aid is the tricky bit with no fetching for it at a reasonable mana cost. I brewed this list up on the fly in a few minutes, never said it would be competitive, just fast at times. The definition of a glass cannon.
I do like your thought of 2 Skites in the MB or maybe 2 SB or even 2 main and 2 side.
Paths could shift to the sideboard and another 4 artifacts could be slotted in. Possibly a set of Skites or 2 Skites/2 Vault Skirge as you recommended. Maybe an equipment with Living Weapon as well??? Flayer Husk
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Consider vault skirge and spellskite to help your artifact counts
Good recommendations.
I think the 0 cmc artifact creatures leaves the door open for a T2 win with a double hammer, sigardas aid, SSG combo play. Or at least a 11/11 or 10/12 attacker turn 2 as well. Skirge could fit the bill with a nice lifegain boost for sure. Seems awfully fragile to removal though. Really glass cannon.
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You could probably pull O-Naginata for some protection like Apostle's Blessing which might be more relevant. That way you could probably pull the Sejiri Steppes, just go down to 18 lands and pop in another 2 artifacts, maybe +2 Memnite
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For kicks throw in Simian Spirit Guide and O-Naginata on turn 2 as well and swing for 28 with Trample. Or if you had a second hammer in hand, SSG the 2nd Hammer out and swing for 42 on T2. (Just watch out for Paths and Pushes)
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That is why I said drop the O-Naginata route in an earler post and focus a bit more on protection with +4Apostle's Blessing, good early, mid or late game. And potentially protects the artifacts as well.
Also remember London Mulligan is coming. A good way to smooth out some of the variance. Sigs Aid is the tricky bit with no fetching for it at a reasonable mana cost. I brewed this list up on the fly in a few minutes, never said it would be competitive, just fast at times. The definition of a glass cannon.
I do like your thought of 2 Skites in the MB or maybe 2 SB or even 2 main and 2 side.
An update:
4 Kor Duelist
4 Kor Outfitter
4 Ornithopter
2 Spellskite
4 Path to Exile
4 Sigarda's Aid
4 Steelshaper's Gift
4 Apostle's Blessing
14 Plains
4 Darksteel Citadel
Paths could shift to the sideboard and another 4 artifacts could be slotted in. Possibly a set of Skites or 2 Skites/2 Vault Skirge as you recommended.
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Good recommendations.
I think the 0 cmc artifact creatures leaves the door open for a T2 win with a double hammer, sigardas aid, SSG combo play. Or at least a 11/11 or 10/12 attacker turn 2 as well. Skirge could fit the bill with a nice lifegain boost for sure.
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Here's a simplistic list I was thinking...
4 Kor Duelist
4 Kor Outfitter
4 Ornithopter
4 Path to Exile
4 Sigarda's Aid
4 Steelshaper's Gift
4 O-Naginata
14 Plains
4 Darksteel Citadel
2 Sejiri Steppe
You could probably pull O-Naginata for some protection like Apostle's Blessing which might be more relevant. That way you could probably pull the Sejiri Steppes, just go down to 18 lands and pop in another 2 artifacts, maybe +2 Memnite
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For kicks throw in Simian Spirit Guide and O-Naginata on turn 2 as well and swing for 28 with Trample. Or if you had a second hammer in hand, SSG the 2nd Hammer out and swing for 42 on T2. (Just watch out for Paths and Pushes)
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