Eternal Apprenticeship [EDH]

[Oversoul]

Tawnos seems really good. I am surprised that this commander isn't more popular. Mostly built this one with Sands of Time in mind, but it's experimental.

Commander:
1 Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice

1 Academy Ruins
1 Arcane Denial
1 Arcane Signet
1 Arcbound Ravager
1 Basalt Monolith
1 Brainstorm
1 Buried Ruin
1 Candelabra of Tawnos
1 Clock of Omens
1 Cloud Key
1 Command Tower
1 Copy Artifact
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Fabricate
1 Fierce Guardianship
1 Force of Will
1 Foundry Inspector
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Glimmervoid
1 Goblin Engineer
1 Goblin Welder
1 Great Furnace
1 Grim Monolith
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Inventors' Fair
4 Island
1 Jhoira's Familiar
1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Lux Cannon
1 Magistrate's Scepter
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Vault
1 Manifold Key
1 Maze of Ith
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Mishra's Workshop
4 Mountain
1 Mox Opal
1 Myr Retriever
1 Mystic Forge
1 Nim Deathmantle
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Power Artifact
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Reshape
1 Rhystic Study
1 Rings of Brighthearth
1 Sands of Time
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrap Mastery
1 Scrap Trawler
1 Sculpting Steel
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Shimmer Myr
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
1 Sol Ring
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Staff of Domination
1 Steam Vents
1 Steel Overseer
1 Strionic Resonator
1 Strip Mine
1 Su-Chi
1 Swan Song
1 Talisman of Creativity
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Thought Monitor
1 Thoughtcast
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Trading Post
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Trash for Treasure
1 Treasure Vault
1 Ugin, the Ineffable
1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
1 Urza's Saga
1 Volcanic Island
1 Voltaic Key
1 Walking Ballista
1 Wasteland
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Whir of Invention

 

[Oversoul]

Tried this one a few times and it failed miserably every time.

 

[Oversoul]

This deck continues to be hot garbage. I don't know what I did wrong. It should work. It just plain doesn't. The reason for the deck failing isn't consistent from game to game. But at some point I'll have to count this as a failed experiment.

 

[Oversoul]

Well, I poached a couple mana rocks from this deck for the Cormela deck, but I put them back here last night and tried Tawnos again. We did it! I botched my combo setup and had to wait an extra turn cycle with Tawnos and Sands of Time out, but I ended up not being punished for that. Used my infinite untaps during my upkeep to cycle through abilities on Trading Post.

It's a bummer that the first few attempts here were so lackluster. There were interesting things I'd like to have tried out. I think that Tawnos is a deplorably underplayed commander. I think I'm taking this one apart for now, but I could see myself revisiting this concept.