Here me out!
This is my attempt to make a Paradoxical Outcome storm deck that can play against null rod. I think it might work as decks seem to be cutting mental missteps and playing more thorn of amethyst and fewer sphere of resistance.
Lands
3 Gaea's Cradle
1 Tolarian Academy
Creatures
4 Ornithopter
4 Shield Sphere
4 Memnite
4 Phyrexian Walker
4 Hope of Ghirapur
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
Spells
2 Manamorphose
4 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
Artifacts
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
4 Mox Opal
1 Mox Emerald
Combo Pieces
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Paradoxical Outcome
Threats
1 Brain Freeze
1 Laboratory Maniac
To combo off this deck needs an opening hand with Glimpse of Nature or Paradoxical Outcome and mana to cast it. Each artifact creature combos with both Glimpse and Outcome meaning that if the first draw spell hits a second one it is unlikely the combo fizzles.
Hope of Ghirapur allows you to play a combo piece that also works as the only piece of main-deck disruption.
Sideboard
Alternate Win
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
Shops
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Inspiring Statuary
Null Rod
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Nature's Claim
Control
1 Pact of Negation
2 Mental Misstep
Tinker and Blighsteel Colossus give an extra angle of attack against disruptive decks. Mental Missteps protect Glimpse of Nature while Pact of Negation counters Mindbreak Trap.
While this deck almost can't beat a turn one Sphere of Resistance and is slowed down by Null Rod it can turn one win often enough that I think it can work.
Please leave any suggestions. Thanks!