From my testing of Fiend Artisan in other decks, I find it's better overall than Fauna Shaman. Fiend Artisan is out of Bolt range shockingly often, you basically pay instead of the actual mana cost of the creature you're tutoring for (more importantly, you don't need to pay the specific colours), you can tap your mana dork for mana and then feed it to Fiend Artisan (as opposed to Fauna Shaman forcing you to not play the mana dork), and we get into topdeck mode fairly quickly, thus making Fauna Shaman worse at the same rate.
Fiend Artisan can also burp out an infinite combo given only 13 mana and a spare creature, though I don't think Nykthos Green really wants to play that combo's Corridor Monitor, Renegade Rallier, and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. (Fauna Shaman needs exorbitant colour requirements and 2 spare creatures in hand but only 9 mana to pull off the same combo, as it doesn't need Renegade Rallier. But then, if you have 2 spare creatures, Fiend Artisan also needs only 9 mana.)
As an infinite mana sink, Fiend Artisan needs no creature cards in hand to tutor for your win con--just eat one of the creatures enabling infinite mana.
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I was looking at this again and realized natural affinity that can power out Ghalta, Primal Hunger.
isn't Xenagos, the Reveler more relevant to that concept as well?
seems more useful in build up to armageddon and in the post armageddon board state than garruk wildspeaker
also what about Rhonas the Indomitable, he survives the armageddon. plus maybe he turns on Flamewake Phoenixfor post armageddon.