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{"ops":[{"insert":"1. OVERVIEW\nSimic ramp that drops oversized creatures, then casts and re-blinks Zegana to draw a fistful each time, closing with Craterhoof Behemoth or a Psychosis Crawler drain. Slow for three turns, then explosive card flow. Bracket 2, ~5 (est.): zero Game Changers, no tutors beyond land search, no infinites or extra turns, and wins usually land turn 8+.\n\n2. COMMANDER\nZegana (2GGU) draws 1 + your biggest OTHER creature's power, so cast it the turn after a 4+ power body lands, not onto a board of dorks. Hold Blur, Essence Flux or Teferi's Time Twist: blinking in response to removal saves it and redraws. Removal in response to the ETB does not stop the draw (last known power). If it dies twice, lean on Return of the Wildspeaker, Rishkar's Expertise, Garruk's Uprising and Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner for the same power-equals-cards payoff.\n\n3. MULLIGAN\nKeep 3-4 lands plus Sol Ring, Utopia Sprawl, Wild Growth, a two-mana land spell or an elf. Best keeps add a 4+ power creature or draw spell. Ship 0-1 landers, 6+ lands with no action, and hands of only top end (Craterhoof, Ghalta, End-Raze Forerunners) with no ramp.\n\n4. GAME PLAN\nEarly (T1-3): Ramp every turn; lands fuel Avenger and Topiary Stomper."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mid (T4-6): Big body, then Zegana. Closet or Panharmonicon before blinking."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Late (T7+): Refill, go wide, then alpha."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n5. WIN LINES\nHoof alpha: 5+ creatures, cast Craterhoof Behemoth (8 mana, haste). With Bramble Sovereign out, pay 1G for a copy to double the pump. Stopped by counters, fogs, instant removal on Hoof in response."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Crawler drain: Psychosis Crawler out, then cast or blink Zegana. Each card drawn drains each opponent 1; Panharmonicon doubles it. Kefnet the Mindful (3U per draw) tops off. Stopped by artifact removal on Crawler."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rite drain: With Zegana and Crawler out, kicked Rite of Replication (9 mana) on Zegana. Each token enters counting the original Zegana's power and draws; legend rule happens after. Count your library: you can deck yourself before the drain finishes."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Plants: Avenger of Zendikar, keep hitting land drops, finish with Earthshaker Giant or End-Raze Forerunners. Ghostly Flicker on Avenger makes a second batch."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n6. KEY CARDS\nConjurer's Closet: Zegana every end step."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Panharmonicon: Doubles Zegana, Bramble, Avenger and Hoof ETBs."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Turntimber Symbiosis: Fast 4+ power body for Zegana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Selvala, Heart of the Wilds: Big Zegana becomes Hoof mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant: Dumps your hand, including Craterhoof."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Wizard Class: L3 turns draws into counters for the next blink."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n7. WATCH OUT FOR\nTorpor Orb, Hushbringer and similar ETB hate. Indrik Stomphowler or Myconid Spore Tender kill the Orb; Sludge Monster blanks a creature."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Board wipes: the list has none of its own. Teferi's Time Twist in response saves a creature (returns at end step); Ghostly Flicker does not."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Selvala gives opponents draws when their big creatures enter."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mosswort Bridge needs 10 total power. Flickering it hides a new card and strands the old one."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rishkar's Expertise can free-cast Rite of Replication (unkicked) or Panharmonicon, not Zegana from the command zone."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n8. SALT\nCraterhoof Behemoth: Perennial salt list card; ends games from an even-looking board."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Diluvian Primordial: Casts opponents' own spells from their graveyards."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Demolition Field: Land destruction, even one land, irritates some tables."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Psychosis Crawler drain: A single big draw can kill the table without combat."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Say: \"Bracket 2 Simic ramp-blink, no infinites or tutors, but it runs Craterhoof, Diluvian Primordial, Demolition Field and a Psychosis Crawler drain.\""},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"}]}
Blink
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Blossom Prancer
Reach
When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you didn't put a card into your hand this way, you gain 4 life.
When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you didn't put a card into your hand this way, you gain 4 life.
Creature - Spirit
Garruk's Uprising
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Enchantment
Keruga, the Macrosage
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)
When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur Hippo
Outcaster Trailblazer
When this creature enters, add one mana of any color.
Whenever another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Whenever another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Human Druid
Turntimber Symbiosis
Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. If that card has mana value 3 or less, it enters with three additional +1/+1 counters on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Sorcery
Draw
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Finisher
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Demolition Field
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, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Mosswort Bridge
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
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, : You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
This land enters tapped.
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, : You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Land
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Land
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Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
, : Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
, : Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru
When Sutina enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Whenever Sutina attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever Sutina attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Tireless Provisioner
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Elf Scout
Topiary Stomper
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.
Creature - Dinosaur Plant
Ramp
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Removal
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Theft
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{"ops":[{"insert":"1. OVERVIEW\nSimic ramp that drops oversized creatures, then casts and re-blinks Zegana to draw a fistful each time, closing with Craterhoof Behemoth or a Psychosis Crawler drain. Slow for three turns, then explosive card flow. Bracket 2, ~5 (est.): zero Game Changers, no tutors beyond land search, no infinites or extra turns, and wins usually land turn 8+.\n\n2. COMMANDER\nZegana (2GGU) draws 1 + your biggest OTHER creature's power, so cast it the turn after a 4+ power body lands, not onto a board of dorks. Hold Blur, Essence Flux or Teferi's Time Twist: blinking in response to removal saves it and redraws. Removal in response to the ETB does not stop the draw (last known power). If it dies twice, lean on Return of the Wildspeaker, Rishkar's Expertise, Garruk's Uprising and Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner for the same power-equals-cards payoff.\n\n3. MULLIGAN\nKeep 3-4 lands plus Sol Ring, Utopia Sprawl, Wild Growth, a two-mana land spell or an elf. Best keeps add a 4+ power creature or draw spell. Ship 0-1 landers, 6+ lands with no action, and hands of only top end (Craterhoof, Ghalta, End-Raze Forerunners) with no ramp.\n\n4. GAME PLAN\nEarly (T1-3): Ramp every turn; lands fuel Avenger and Topiary Stomper."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mid (T4-6): Big body, then Zegana. Closet or Panharmonicon before blinking."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Late (T7+): Refill, go wide, then alpha."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n5. WIN LINES\nHoof alpha: 5+ creatures, cast Craterhoof Behemoth (8 mana, haste). With Bramble Sovereign out, pay 1G for a copy to double the pump. Stopped by counters, fogs, instant removal on Hoof in response."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Crawler drain: Psychosis Crawler out, then cast or blink Zegana. Each card drawn drains each opponent 1; Panharmonicon doubles it. Kefnet the Mindful (3U per draw) tops off. Stopped by artifact removal on Crawler."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rite drain: With Zegana and Crawler out, kicked Rite of Replication (9 mana) on Zegana. Each token enters counting the original Zegana's power and draws; legend rule happens after. Count your library: you can deck yourself before the drain finishes."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Plants: Avenger of Zendikar, keep hitting land drops, finish with Earthshaker Giant or End-Raze Forerunners. Ghostly Flicker on Avenger makes a second batch."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n6. KEY CARDS\nConjurer's Closet: Zegana every end step."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Panharmonicon: Doubles Zegana, Bramble, Avenger and Hoof ETBs."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Turntimber Symbiosis: Fast 4+ power body for Zegana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Selvala, Heart of the Wilds: Big Zegana becomes Hoof mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant: Dumps your hand, including Craterhoof."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Wizard Class: L3 turns draws into counters for the next blink."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n7. WATCH OUT FOR\nTorpor Orb, Hushbringer and similar ETB hate. Indrik Stomphowler or Myconid Spore Tender kill the Orb; Sludge Monster blanks a creature."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Board wipes: the list has none of its own. Teferi's Time Twist in response saves a creature (returns at end step); Ghostly Flicker does not."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Selvala gives opponents draws when their big creatures enter."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mosswort Bridge needs 10 total power. Flickering it hides a new card and strands the old one."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rishkar's Expertise can free-cast Rite of Replication (unkicked) or Panharmonicon, not Zegana from the command zone."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n8. SALT\nCraterhoof Behemoth: Perennial salt list card; ends games from an even-looking board."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Diluvian Primordial: Casts opponents' own spells from their graveyards."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Demolition Field: Land destruction, even one land, irritates some tables."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Psychosis Crawler drain: A single big draw can kill the table without combat."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Say: \"Bracket 2 Simic ramp-blink, no infinites or tutors, but it runs Craterhoof, Diluvian Primordial, Demolition Field and a Psychosis Crawler drain.\""},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"}]}