With him being an adult longer than I have, I thought he must have gone to a couple games, but it turns out that was not the case
With plenty of artifacts in play, you can try for an affinity strategy like Broodstar, or you can more directly harvest your toys with something like Combine Chrysalis
If you manage to transform it, then two tokens is nice, but three mana to make more of them is, again, a big cost

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Niv-Mizzet, Visionary Niv-Mizzet, Visionary is rather expensive, but it provides more than enough card advantage to fuel a storm gameplan