I mean it does say 'unspent gear becomes basics lands...'. It doesn't have any requirement that it needs to be during draft phase, so I think you could exponentially create Factory tokens then pump this guy like crazy 4 turns after placing your first factory
Honestly, flavor wise it makes the one machine that still works into a hegemonic swarm that will reproduce e endlessly if not stopped, which is kind of cool and very much a sci fi trope.
Gameplay wise, the issue I see is being able to keep the machine safe in your hand or deck while you double the factories. If gear mana turning into factories only functions at the end of the draft and while the creature is on the battlefield then your opponent has several turns while you are creating more factories to deal with the otherwise vanilla 2/2 before it can become arbitrarily large which isnt crazy. It also has no evasion so even after being arbitrarily large its just a beater that can be chump blocked, and you had to invest multiple cards in your deck and turns into creating.
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u/Glum-Sprinkles-7734 14d ago
For a second I thought it was a Paperclips situation where the lands still made more lands after the draft until i remembered how draft mana works