{"ops":[{"insert":"The deck plays around "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dream Halls"}},{"insert":" as the main card in the deck besides "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer"}},{"insert":". Dream Halls, should enable you to keep drawing and discarding and casting spells until you hit "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lord of the Forsaken"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exsanguinate"}},{"insert":". This is the main line in the deck. \n\nCards that you use to find Dream Halls: \n "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Increasing Ambition"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Insidious Dreams"}},{"insert":" .\n\nNotable cards to play around \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bone Miser"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cryptcaller Chariot"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Archfiend of Ifnir"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Skirge Familiar"}},{"insert":" \n\nBone Miser: Enables game ending value with most of the decks synergy of discarding cards, even without Oskar, and with oskar and dream halls, allows you to dig even further to make a game ending amount of zombies or find the win con(above). \n\nCryptcaller: makes zombies for all the discard. \n\nArchfiend of Ifnir: dismantles your opponents board and can even be cast off of the cycling ability, with Oskar out. \n\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Why play Oskar? "},{"insert":"\nOskar is by far one of the most fun commanders, because of his ability. \"Whenever you discard a nonland card, you may cast if from your graveyard.\" The way the ability reads, breaks timing restrictions allowing you to cast the spell, when it's discarded. This means artifacts, sorceries, creatures and plainswalkers can be cast at instant speed (provided they're discarded). How awesome is it to have someone declare attacks, pass priority and then we can deploy our creatures? There's nothing like someone attacking into your board and they get a surprise "},{"insert":{"card-link":"All-Seeing Arbiter"}},{"insert":" . \"Draw, Pass\" is fun, because there's no reason to deploy on our turn. Let the other players deploy their threats that need answers before we do. \n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Dream Halls? "},{"insert":"\nExpensive reserve list card? Yes. Absolute menace with Oskar and something to discard to start a chain? Big yeah. \n\nDream Halls absolutely breaks our deck in the best of ways. It's our best card and the list probably needs more recursion for it. This version of Oskar is very low on the mana curve and almost requires Dream Halls, because it chains us value when we need it and we can keep casting spells from discard after the first cast. Stacking the orders of these spells is very important is they resolve backwards, and need to be cast as a chain from Oskars trigger, until you're done casting spells or let the last one go to graveyard. Since they're all cast triggers the last spell will resolve first. \n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"The Meat and Potatos"},{"insert":"\nOskar needs to have a discard outlet to really run out of control or really have advantage. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kitsa, Otterball Elite"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Barren Moor"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lonely Sandbar"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bog Witch"}},{"insert":" or any other draw/discard cards are what we're looking for early. As long as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dream Halls"}},{"insert":" isn't being discarded, we're set to really pitch anything to make Oskar cheaper to cast. Getting back creatures and instants isn't really a worry. \n\nAfter we have a few cards in the graveyard the next goal is to get some value pieces out, these are \"when discard\" or \"cast from graveyard\" effects. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Neerdiv, Devious Diver"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Secrets of the Dead"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Monument to Endurance"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mystic Redaction"}},{"insert":" . Mystic is great early with the \"Scry 1 at upkeep\". \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Windfall"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dark Deal"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Whispering Madness"}},{"insert":" \nThese are massive game state swingers into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scrounging Skyray"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cryptcaller Chariot"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chasm Skulker"}},{"insert":" .\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Cards to Shield and not run out without a plan"},{"insert":":\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bone Miser"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dream Halls"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cryptcaller Chariot"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hullbreaker Horror"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Psychic Frog"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Skirge Familiar"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lord of the Forsaken"}},{"insert":" .\n\nThese are our raw discard outlets or win cons, it's better to lose some life than lose these creatures or just cast them without follow ups and have them removed. \n\n\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Why "},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Inundate"}},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":" ?"},{"insert":"\nInundate is probably the best removal we have if Bone Miser and Cryptcaller Chariot aren't on the battlefield. \nOur best creatures to knock players out are blue. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chasm Skulker"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scrounging Skyray"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Psychic Frog"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hullbreaker Horror"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bilbo, Thief in the Night"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"All-Seeing Arbiter"}},{"insert":" net us amazing attack potential. \n\nWhile yes, most of our really really good cards are black, but besides cryptcaller and bone miser, we're not winning from them. Skirge gets us to the value but if you need a good 1 -2 punch, we rely on the blue creatures. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kitsa, Otterball Elite"}},{"insert":", is also blue and copies an instant or sorcery. Exsanguinate doubled is pretty rad (or any other number of spells to copy for 2 mana). \n\nThe downside of Inundate, is it kills our token strategy. Outright sets you back to 0. \n\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Play Pattern and Concerns:"},{"insert":"\n\nOskar is VERY important to a big finish or crapping out a board state. He isn't needed too early. Getting different mana values in the graveyard early is key, to get Oskar out for cheap or after he takes a removal spell or two. \n\nBlue... we need blue mana. Most of the swing the game in our favor spells are blue. Guarding our blue resources until we get Dream Halls out is the biggest hardship. Most draw spells require blue; to keep our (Hopefully on someone eleses turn), chain going of draw/discard. \n\nOskar's ability is a trigger, that we want to abuse, but it leaves us open to interaction. This deck is trigger happy, in the best and worst ways. We're going to have a BUNCH of triggers going on if we're playing with our engine going. We're going to be responding to our own spells to get value such as"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shadow of the Grave"}},{"insert":" . We either want to pitch "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Whispering Madness"}},{"insert":" to cast this with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dream Halls"}},{"insert":" or another such card (because it shares a black identity with Shadow of the Grave), and chain with a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Windfall"}},{"insert":". All the cards you need you cast, the rest will go back to your hand when you're done. \n\nSo we know Oskar is probably going to eat a removal spell, awesome. We know to be mindful of our blue sources. What now? \n\nCantrips, early draw/discard to get set up for a turn where we can cast multiple spells on the players endstep before us is the ideal way to be conservative. We want to let other threats out first that aren't our problem (hopefully). Once we have an enabler (Something that gets us value for discarding or draws us a card), we can start getting going. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"What do we do to win? "},{"insert":"\nWe're out valuing our opponents really. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mystic Redaction"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exsanguinate"}},{"insert":" or making a crap ton of zombies is the win.\n\nSometimes we just discard to win, forgo the casts. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Psychic Frog"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scrounging Skyray"}},{"insert":" are flyers that just beat face. Especially when Oskar gets the heat, just throw away a huge hand. Discarding to frog boosts the ray. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Problems:"},{"insert":"\nSocially, this deck can be a bear. You're playing on their turns and responding to their spells, by digging, and then digging and spewing triggers everywhere. Opponents can get checked out when you take over their turn or cast creatures after attackers are declared. \n\nWhile a surprise Ashiok, at flash speed, is hilarious for us, it uh.. doesn't feel that way for the opponent who cracked an evolving wilds. \n\nThe deck also starts off as a value pile and can get hate early (as it should with all the card draw). \n\nNeeds more ways to get Dream Halls back from graveyard.\n\n \n"}]}