Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

Gameplan

Gimbal turns wide artifact-token production into a snowballing engine: every end step you make a Gremlin whose size scales with how many differently named artifact tokens you control, so you flood the board with Treasures, Clues, Food, Servos, Thopters, and more. Trample on all your artifact creatures means those tokens punch through chump blockers, and you grind to a finish via combat or a few explosive token-doublers.

Key Cards

• Academy Manufactor — Triples your token output and instantly diversifies into Treasure, Clue, and Food, ballooning every Gremlin.
• Brudiclad, Telchamic Outcast — Copies your biggest token across the whole board for a lethal artifact-creature alpha strike with trample.
• Anointed Procession — Doubles every artifact token, multiplying both your board and Gimbal's counter count.
• Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival — Cheap repeatable Thopter and Treasure generation that adds named token types for Gimbal.
• March of the Machines — Animates all your artifacts into creatures so the trample anthem and counters make a massive attacking force.
• Reckless Fireweaver — Pings each opponent whenever an artifact enters, converting your token flood into direct damage.

Upgrade Path

Lean into token multipliers (Academy Manufactor, Anointed Procession, Mondrak) and reliable sac/drain payoffs to convert width into damage that ignores blockers. Add fast mana and Treasure engines (Dockside Extortionist, Pitiless Plunderer) plus protection like Heroic Intervention and Teferi's Protection to survive wipes. Tighten the mana base with fetches, duals, and Talismans, and include a compact combo (Brudiclad + token copy or Disciple of the Vault loops) to close before the table stabilizes.