Because the ability includes a targeting clause, its not a mana ability, so you can respond to it on the stack and sacrifice the Engine to something like an Ashnod's Altar, which then goes infinite with Corpse Dance
Geartown's destruction even lets you bring out a monster as strong as Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon for free, which is awesome, there's a Trap Card called Ancient Gear Reborn in where anytime your field's empty, you can Special Summon Ancient Gear monsters from the Graveyard and it's a Continuous trap so you can do it as many times as you want and the archetype even combos brilliantly with Urgent Schedule
Today Im going to go over the new cards from each new March of the Machine Commander Precon deck, give a few thoughts on the lists in general, and splat some cards in there that might make some decent upgrades
Duskmourn schemes, like past schemes, are only legal in Archenemy games, in the archenemy players scheme deck. Scheme cards cant go in your regular Magic decks or be used in any other official Magic formats
Target creature gains haste until end of turn
I once ran a Norin the Wary deck that focused on these kinds of effects, and this looks very similar to me in the way you can make use of it