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Hey folks! I'm just looking for some feedback for my UG Tron deck. 

I'm looking to make this a true 75-card deck, so to speak, and I'm hatching a strange sideboard.
The synergy in the deck is fairly obvious, so I'll skip right to the list.

 

4 Urza's Tower
1 Eye of Ugin
4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Mine
3 Tectonic Edge
4 Vivid Creek
3 Quicksand

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 It That Betrays
1 Wurmcoil Engine

3 Karn Liberated

4 Expedition Map
4 Not of This World
2 All Is Dust
4 Contagion Clasp
4 Tumble Magnet
4 Everflowing Chalice
2 Lux Cannon
2 Gifts Ungiven
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Tezzeret's Gambit
1 Ratchet Bomb

The board:
2 Sylvan Scrying
3 Vivid Grove
2 All Is Dust
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Increasing Confusion
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Simic Signet

The board seems a little clunky, so that's where you come in. Brutal feedback is appreciated, so long as it's constructive.

 

Those Lux Cannon s are a leftover from a completely colorless version of the deck that ran Surge Node s. I wasn't running the Academy Ruins because I didn't own it, but I did manage to pick one up. Chalice of the Void actually seems pretty decent to me, but as you'll see, I didn't maindeck it. 

After a lot of playtesting (it's the only deck I've been working on), I've altered this a bit since my last post:

4 Urza's Tower
4 Urza's Mine
4 Urza's Power Plant
1 Ghost Quarter
3 Breeding Pool
1 Eye of Ugin
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Island
1 Forest  
1 Vivid Creek
1 Academy Ruins

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
2 Wurmcoil Engine

3 Karn Liberated

3 Expedition Map
1 All Is Dust
4 Tumble Magnet
1 Contagion Engine
4 Everflowing Chalice
3 Gifts Ungiven
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Rite of Replication
3 Tezzeret's Gambit
3 Explore
3 Spell Snare

The board:
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Increasing Confusion
3 Simic Signet
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Autumn's Veil
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Flashfreeze

The Explores and the third Gifts both have really sped up the deck! I like the Rite for Merfolk...I don't know why, but I've seen a lot of people playing this still. The Contagion Engine has helped me get an early-ish blow out against Affinity a good number of times. 

But, I'm very unsure still about Increasing Confusion. I really like slamming it down, but I think in 30 or so games played, I've only cast it twice (both times in the same game). What t odo about that thing, I really don't know.

1. Could be good, but I'm looking into upping my Sylvan Scrying count instead. To me, 2 mana (with less of a color obligation) beats 3. 
2. I ran a list with four Explore and found myself not wanting that last one more times than not. 
3. Yeah, that seems to be my worst match up. 
4. I'll look into adding somethign else, but I really don't want to hurt the mana base any more than it is. Plus, that's the exact reason the Creek is in there. I'm actually looking into Mindbreak Trap s for Storm. Extraction doesn't seem like the right choice to me. 
5. Looking into those, actually. :D I get flooded way too easily with more than 24 lands. 


 

UPDATE

Took this to a small, casual event at my comic book store and got top 4. I lost to a stupid infect deck because I played poorly.

(Definitely used some of Svet's ideas.)

Here's the list:

MD    

2 Verdant Catacombs
6 Forest
3 Island
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Eye of Ugin
2 Urza's Mine
2 Urza's Power Plant
2 Urza's Tower
4 Breeding Pool

3 Coiling Oracle
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
4 Primeval Titan
1 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Lotus Cobra

4 Explore
2 Rite of Replication
2 Sylvan Scrying
3 Cultivate
2 Karn Liberated
2 Engineered Explosives

SB      

1 Overgrown Tomb
3 Mindbreak Trap
2  Summoning Trap
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Creeping Corrosion
3 Tormod's Crypt

There's usually very few land destruction cards I really care about and they're usually in match ups I find to be favorable. One funny story with that though: I tried experimenting with Pact of Negation and oddly enough, on my first experience with it, I got Ghost Quartered and summarily lost the game. Me and my opponent got some lols out of that one. 

The meta's definitely shifted in my area, and I've started using a Rune Snag/Remand mix (I know, "Rune Snag? Seriously? Why the !@#$ aren't you just using Remand?!") that I've found to work quite well. I'm in the process of making Voidslime do some work post-board too.

As for the amulet: I find that the deck's threats are consistent on 'on-cuve' enough that I don't need to cast any of my spaghetti monsters, they're mostly in there for fun.