DedWards

Dam, you beat me to it. I was tinkering with a design using a number of artifacts used in "Eggs" + Reshape to fetch the combo pieces, though I was going to include Myr Reshaper too.

Essence Sliver was printed in Time Spiral with the purple expansion symbol, thus it is legal in Modern.

When in doubt, you can always double check on Gatherer:
http://gatherer.wizards.com

Essence Sliver would work well with Sanguine Bond. Essence Sliver's ability is NOT lifelink, so it stacks for each additional Essence Sliver out.

Reworked the idea some. Now it's just RW

http://www.mtgvault.com/dedwards/decks/nahirikul/

In addition to Familiar being better because of flying, it's also hybrid, thus it can be played with either blue or white mana.

I've designed a build that even uses Myr Retriever too. Actually, thinking now, maybe including another sacrifice outlet in my design might make the Retrievers more useful...

The combo with Time Sieve is infinite. all you need is 5+ mana to make the 5 thopters needed to activate Time Sieve, then through the extra turns, you can slowly amass an infinite number of thopters (or just cast Blightsteel). Academy Ruins helps prevent yourself from milling yourself.

But yes, just the Sword + Foundry is limited to the amount of mana you have to spend on it.

Ya, a lot of cards expected to see play thanks to Sword's unbanning will shoot up in price. Give it a month or so for the hype to die down (some) and the price will drop a bit.

While Fabricate is great for fetching artifacts, most of your artifacts cost 2, making Muddle the Mixture worth considering. It can fetch the main combo's pieces or counter stuff (instants or sorceries).

Thoughtcast might be better than Machinate as it can draw you cards for as little as {U}. (I'm not 100% sure which is better)

Stoic Rebuttal is a strong counter in artifact decks. With Metalcraft active, it's effectively Counterspell.

Darksteel Citadel, while it only adds {C}, it is an artifact that counts towards both Metalcraft and Affinity.

I will admit, I didn't come up with the idea and was initially sceptical about it transforming this way, but after checking up on a few rules, and reading Thing in the Ice carefully, I found that it does work :D

Also, I got Thing in the Ice as my dated foil at the Prerelease :DDDDD

I still want to make a deck where I play something that triggers each of the the opponent's upkeeps, then speed up the effect thanks to enchanting him with Paradox Haze :P

Maybe I'll use that new Witch that transforms into an Aura attached to an opponent...

Not sure if you know of this one:

Orochi Leafcaller + Sachi + Freed From the Real = infinite mana.

No creatures needed for Sword of the Meek, only one other artifact: Thopter Foundry. It's what you do with all those Thopter tokens afterwards where the deck can become broken. (I'm looking at you, Time Sieve)

Paradox Haze actually stacks (provided your first upkeep isn't denied), so it can grant multiple upkeeps. I suggest increasing it to 4x.

A warning about Reality Strobe, once the opponent has nothing left, you have to bounce your own stuff.

Ancestral Vision was just unbanned in Modern (takes effect 8 April 2016). This is a strong draw card.

Deep-Sea Kraken is awesome. Not only does your spells and upkeeps remove counters, any spell the opponent plays removes a counter too.

So happy the Eldrazi got a nerf. What has me happy - concerned is Sword of the Meek's unbanning.

Well, with Eye of Ugin banned, Eldrazi Aggro should be significantly slower.
Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek will make an appearance, especially in the next few weeks. Question is, will it stick around?
The other unban is interesting: Ancestral Vision. Maybe now we can see some more control decks?

Though it only comes into effect as of this coming Friday (8 April 2016)

Sword of the Meek got unbanned today

Skullcrack is Why I like Dawn Charm as a fog

I know that just removing them doesn't transform it, that's why you follow up with a spell so that it can transform

Just reread Food Chain, it gives colour mana, not colourless.