I've been playing with that list and I like it a lot. You're completely right about Agregates (though I still haven't pulled 3 of them from packs, so I dropped Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh in it's place)

As to the Hedron question, I went with Part the Waterveil instead. Just going around big creatures 2 turns in a row is a winner, I think.

The one big change I made was removing 2 Gates for Blighted Gorge just for a bit more damage if needed.

Hi Spaceknight and welcome

First off, as callmemaggit implied, Bellows Lizard should be replaced ASAP. You could go with a full 4 copies of Foundry Street Denizen since you run a lot of red creatures. Mage Ring Bully is also a nice 2 drops that in a lot of cases is the better play than Abbott (2 toughness helps prevent twin bolt 2-for-1)

I'd go:

-3 Anchor to the Ether +3 Telling Time. Cheaper blue spell, instant speed for prowess, helps filter top decks you don't want to see.
-2 Bellows Lizard, +2 Foundry Street Denizen. This will improve the consistency of you main 1 drop.
-4 Faerie Miscreants, +4 Mage Ring Bully. I'm not huge on this Fae, and you have a lot of 1 drops. This guy helps with prowess too.

I'd try those first, as there's other suggestions I could make but they're preference based.

Since Nighthawk will be uploading the games we had together, might as well post the Thopter list I 'm using for those that are curious. It's pretty standard :

3 x Runed Servitor
4 x Perilous Myr
2 x Abbot of Keral Keep
4 x Twin bolt

3 x Pilgrim's Eye
3 x Chief of the Foundry
3 x Vile Aggregate
3 x Thopter Engineer
2 x Exquisite Firecraft

3 x Whirler Rogue
1 x Akoum Firebird
2 x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
2 x Thopter Spy Network
1 x Aligned Hedron Network

7 x Island
8 x Mountain
2 x Sulfur falls
4 x Izzet Guildgate
3 x Foundry of the Consuls


_ Don't skimp on the abbots : the games show why those buggers are good, yes also in Duels, even though I misplay in game 1 and tap the wrong mana, I could've had a Whirler Rogue from him. VS Rakdos I build a trade + force him to use up his mana just to kill the abbot + make his aggregate harmless. Even T2 he's decent because he can put out pressure vs control and made unblockable with Rogue to push him through chumps.

_ Akoum Firebird is good enough on his own. You don't care if it dies and in this sweeper fest environment manasinks are lurvely.

_ Agregates feel better than Reclusive Artificer because of the evasion, but mainly because of the gigantic butt; which survives almost all non-white weepers. Languish/flames my myr + Pilgrim's eye + Aggregate? Fine; you take 2. 'untaps'... Here's a Runed Servitor and a Thopter engineer, you take 6. Did you want cheese with that?
I'm not a fan of the vial + esperzoa like Hakeem because the landtax is just too much for a spike list. Get your card advantage on the board.

_ Aligned Hedron Network, probably can be cut, but I like it as a surprise 1 of. Loved Nighthawk's reaction to it after he slammed Woodland Wanderer on the table G3. Worst comes to worst it's something to tap with rogue or a prowess trigger for abbot, or a thopter factory for the other network. Could replace with Molten Vortex if you have no fear of 6 sweeper decks into Ulamog. Me, I'm a pussy.

_ Finally, only 24 land, because the Pilgrim's eyes and the abbots help with this.