mtg if this card is in your opening hand Chancellor of the Tangle | New Phyrexia if this card is in

There are enough interesting plays with Machine God's Effigy to warrant its inclusion

The rest of the deck is the usual ramp / card draw / removal / protection / yadayada

Affinity is a cost reduction mechanic that incentivizes you to play lots of cheap artifacts

Of course, it also has pack tactics, which reads, Whenever Minion of the Mighty attacks, if you attacked with creatures with total power 6 or greater this combat, you may put a Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Nobody likes a surprise Dragon except the player taking advantage of it

I always wondered, though, what a clone effect in that Ally archetype might have looked like if it was a little less narrow but still played in that space