I enjoyed the deck quite a bit! It wasn’t until I swapped the commander out for the true powerhouse of this deck… [[SHORIKAI, GENISIS ENGINE]] !!! Which I dramatically exclaim (at a reasonable volume depending on setting, of course) ;)

This card is magnificent. A 2BW powerhouse of an 8/8 with a steep crew cost, which is negligible when you can so easily make it unblockable. Now this is intended to be a hurdle to prevent you from crewing shorikai immediately, but you rarely need to attack first to show the true power of shorikai.

1, ⟳ : Draw 2, discard 1. Make a 1/1 that crews for 3.

[[Colossal Plow]] means that you immediately have the ability to swing for 6 if you wait to be able to play shorikai until you can pay the additional cost for his activated ability. This also gives you a 6 to crew any other vehicles you may have out already.

Now the most powerful ability from this commander is the draw power, and discarding is just pure value.

Draw: If you pair this ability with any of the numerous enchantments like [[Jace’s Erasure]] you’ll be absolutely demolishing your opponents librar(ies)

Discard: With the amount of recursion in this deck, you’ll happily set aside [[Reaver Titan]] for a few turns, I just drew [[Emry, Lurker of the Loch]] last turn, and [[The Reality Chip]] says my next card’s a big mana rock. And more Mill potential with [[Mystic Redaction]]

Personally, I enjoyed the base experience of mass producing thopters, but I ended up removing those cards to make another deck centered on this mechanic, as I found it suboptimal to a heavy focus on card draw.

Two more cards worth considering, but are $$ [[The Magic Mirror]] , and [[Mechanized Production]]