Vault-Key-Painter

[IthilanorStPete]

// Lands
    1  Swamp
    1  Academy Ruins
    4  Polluted Delta
    2  Flooded Strand
    3  Island
    2  Volcanic Island
    3  Underground Sea

// Creatures
    3  Painter's Servant
    1  Darksteel Colossus

// Spells
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mox Jet
    3  Voltaic Key
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Time Vault
    1  Time Walk
    4  Force of Will
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Grindstone
    3  Red Elemental Blast
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Chain of Vapor
    1  Tinker
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    4  Thirst for Knowledge
    2  Reconstruction
    2  Pyroblast

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Tropical Island
SB: 4  Tarmogoyf
SB: 2  Ancient Grudge
SB: 1  Darkblast
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 3  Duress

My attempt at hybridizing a Painter shell with the Intuition-based combo-control Vault-Key approach. MD Red blasts, fairly consistent manabase, Reconstruction for use with Inuition, green in the board for Goyfs for aggro, etc. It seems like the blasts and multiple approaches outweigh the 2nd-tier stuff Tezzeret runs - Top, etc.

[Qube]

And where are the Intuitions?

You can also play Trinket for Intuition:
- 2 Voltaic Key
- 2 Reconstruction
+2 Trinket Mage
+1 Transmute Artifact
+ 1 Sensei's Top or Needle, or explosives , ...

[Tha Gunslinga]

I tried this, and what I found was that I ended up with too many "Key+Painter" or "Time Vault+Grindstone" hands, so I just cut Key/Vault for another Painter and another Grindstone, and it worked a lot better.  Not saying you have to do the same, but it did work a lot better for me.

[Cyberpunker]

Looks interesting. I'm going to try it.

I'm trying Library of Alexandria and 3 Intuitions.


EDIT:

Okay after testing here are my conclusions:

The times that you get Painter + Key outweighs the times that you benefit from dodging Pithing Needle. You are better off running 4 Painters and 3 Grindstone.
I run 2 Intuitions, it seems to be the right number. 3 or 4 is way too much because you don't want to keep on drawing them when you could be drawing business spells.
3 REB is enough if you want to splash black. If not, 6 REBs would be the right amount for the protection.

You don't need reconstruction.

Note: Like all Painter.dec the blasts aren't that good until you resolve a Painter or if you are playing mirror or Tez. So sometimes they sit dead in your hand. My solution is to run 3 Thoughtseize and 3 Blasts.