{"ops":[{"insert":"Why should you play this deck?\nThis is a very political deck. The key is convincing people to attack to draw the card while you stack those sweet, sweet counters. You have to understand the board and whose life total is at what. You get to provide a little minigame update on everyone's turn because no one else will understand the saw puppet game that you have everyone playing. Keep then focused on the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breena, the Demagogue"}},{"insert":" mini game while you build your counter based engine to swing death on your opponents.\n\nIs is the most powerful deck? Absolutely not! But you will get put your stamp on every game that you play, while you figure out the puzzle of how to architect your opponents life totals to make you to attack player X and Y , so X can attack Y and Z, and so on. Every game with Breena is a Breena Game. \n\nGameplan\nOverview "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Win the game with combat damage. Use consistent counter generation to build big threats. Starting by build up cheap evasive creatures to get early pressure, then build up tall counter creatures with power/counter based death triggers to ensure resilience."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mulligan priorities"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"3+ Lands"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck has very limited ramp due to the low average mana value and the risk of overextending. The decks relies on hitting land drops to keep pace into the mid/late games. "},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"1+ Cheap evasive creatures"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You need at least 1 \"Swarm\" creature, 1 or 2 drop flyer. You want to get one of these down before "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breena, the Demagogue"}},{"insert":" , so that you can trigger her the turn she comes down."},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Examples"},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vault Skirge"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Healer's Hawk"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"indent":3,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(optional if no Swarm) Cheap disposable creatures"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck has plenty of creatures that it is fine if they die. Swing anyway."},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Examples"},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"indent":3,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hangarback Walker"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate"}},{"insert":" - Cast them for X = 1 and swing when Breena is down. You can even put the counters on them to get more value if they are going to die. "},{"attributes":{"indent":3,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Beyond these 2 categories the deck draws enough that you should hit your other key pieces"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Early Game"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Generally described in mulligan priorities. Hit your land drops. Cast something that can attack turn 1 or 2, ideally both to get the full value out of Breena. Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breena, the Demagogue"}},{"insert":" turn 3 and swing. "},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Prioritize putting the counters on a lifelink creature, if you have one."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Don't prioritize putting counters on Breena. As long as she is not a threat to kill someone with commander damage people will generally let him live early game. They want the card draw., and the point of version 2 of this deck is to big bigger threats than her, so the focus goes somewhere else. "},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mid-Game"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Play one of the tall counter creatures and start stacking counters."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Swing freely with these big creatures. The point is get force someone to kill them to get the value"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Examples"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Boss's Chauffeur"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elenda's Hierophant"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Late Game"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ideally someone has board wiped while you had a bunch of counters on one of you mid game targets, and you have a pile of tokens"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pump your board, and swing for the kill"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mass pump examples"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Qala, Ajani's Pridemate"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror Entity"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Felidar Retreat"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"indent":2,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nNotes\nThis is version two of this deck. Version 1 leaned heavily into cheap flying lifelink creatures. This was effective to be scariest player on the board on turn 5 with 50+ life and a couple 8/8 flyers but it was very vulnerable to board wipes . My priority for this version was to make the deck more resilient and ensure that it gets lasting value out of crazy amount of counters that it can generate. \n"}]}