Simply playing around with keywords can be a lot of fun, like menace, or lifelink (for a
). You could do a base black splicer that summons a golem on dying rather than entering the battlefield (flavor text:
"I'll finish this masterpiece if it's the last thing I do!"). 1/1 for
, or
if you want to push it. Maybe a splicer that has a way to get back from the graveyard. Black is tertiary in haste, you could combine those to create a
splicer that gives golems haste, and give the artificer unearth
or something. You could do a
Leonin Elder splicer, or a
Disciple of the Vault one. A
Contraband Kingpin one, a blue splicer that draws you a card whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, a
Glaze Fiend-esque splicer. You could do a Scrap Splicer, with "Whenever a golem you control dies, create a 1/1 Myr artifact creature token. Or a blue splicer with: "
, Sacrifice a non-golem artifact: Create a 3/3 Golem artifact creature token."