{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"General Strategy"},{"insert":"\n\nThis is a multicolor-matters deck that builds a board of multicolored permanents ahead of playing the commander, with the goal of making enough robot tokens to station it and swing the next turn. Once the station is fully operational, the deck intends to win through a combination of commander damage and impact tremors-like effects set off by blinking or replaying the Station. \n\nI built the deck both to enable "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jegantha, the Wellspring"}},{"insert":" as a companion to help with ramp and mana fixing, as well as favoring multicolored spells as much as possible, both to enable the commander and to trigger multicolor-matters effects like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ancient Cornucopia"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"General Ferrous Rokiric"}},{"insert":" . As a result, there are a number of card choices that may seem sub-optimal but are intentionally included to serve those twin purposes. For instance, I know that "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Generous Gift"}},{"insert":" exists, but I'm choosing to run "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Detention Sphere"}},{"insert":" instead, because it's a multicolored permanent that stays on board and represents an additional robot when I play the Station, or another card drawn when it attacks. \n\nIn general, the early game wants to be spent getting multicolored permanents on board. Ideally, some of these will represent ramp, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ignis Scientia"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faeburrow Elder"}},{"insert":" , or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Trace of Abundance"}},{"insert":", but just getting any multicolored permanents on board is fine, because we want to get enough 2/2 robots combined with our other creatures to be able to fully station the commander the turn after we play it. It's fine to delay playing the commander on curve by a turn or even two if it means it will provide us sufficient value when we do play it. \n\nOnce we have the commander down and attacking, the cards we draw off the attack trigger should give us a lot of direction for what we do next, but our general goal is to find an impact tremors effect, find a way to blink or airbend the Station, and then play both those effects with protection held up to drain the table. \n\nOne thing that isn’t immediately obvious is that there is a deliberate inclusion of multicolored artifacts and enchantments in this deck as an insurance policy against board wipes. This deck can lay low pretty successfully in the early game since a lot of the cards it plays are fairly innocuous on their own, but once the Station comes down and makes a bunch of robots, that will tend to spook the table, especially if it gets to swing and draws you a new hand. If all your multicolor permanents are creatures, then the deck is basically rebuilding from scratch, but even having a few enchantments on board means that just replaying the commander will still give you a few robots and be able to get going again that much more quickly. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Notes on the Mana Base"},{"insert":"\n\nAs with any five color deck, the mana base can be the most challenging part of getting the deck to function. The deck wants a fairly even spread of pips because of the multicolor nature of the deck, though it does skew a bit more heavily toward green, because that's where the ramp tends to be. Obviously, lands that come in untapped are going to be better, but do be careful with going too heavy on pain lands; because the cards in the deck have so many more colored pips than an average commander deck, it's easy to take 10 or 15 damage from your own lands in the early game just due to pain lands, fetches, and shocks, if you're overindexed on those and/or aren't being deliberate about how they're used. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"MVP cards"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Leyline of the Guildpact"}},{"insert":" - This is a force multiplier for everything the Station wants to do. It fixes mana, which makes the early turns much smoother (doubly so if you get to play it as a start of game effect), but more importantly, it represents effectively double cards drawn off the Station's attack, since all the colorless nonland permanents (which will mostly be robots) are suddenly multicolored permanents that count toward the effect. It also means that, when you blink or copy the Station, all of the robots on board count toward your next batch of robots, so you end up effectively tripling your robot count instead of doubling it. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Solar Array"}},{"insert":" - This mana rock makes it 25% easier to get the Station to fully operational by giving it five counters when it enters. The deck needs a fair amount of color fixing anyway, so any time there's fixing with upside, it's worth including. Same can be said for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ancient Cornucopia"}},{"insert":"; being able to gain three to five life every turn adds up quickly. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"General Ferrous Rokiric"}},{"insert":" - Any card that gets us multiple multicolored permanents for the cost of a single card is amazing in this deck. Same goes for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jared Carthalion"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Torens, Fist of the Angels"}},{"insert":", and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rhys the Redeemed"}},{"insert":". \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fallaji Wayfarer"}},{"insert":"/"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faeburrow Elder"}},{"insert":"/"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bloom Tender"}},{"insert":" - We want to cast a lot of multicolored spells, and these friends want us to do that so they can help us cast more. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Win Conditions"},{"insert":"\n\nThe typical game ends by playing "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Corpse Knight"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Warleader's Call"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wispdrinker Vampire"}},{"insert":" that pings the table on creatures entering, followed by blinking or replaying the Station to make a lot of robots. We have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Abuelo, Ancestral Echo"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vanish into Memory"}},{"insert":" to blink the station, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aang, Swift Savior // Aang, Swift Savior"}},{"insert":" to airbend it, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance"}},{"insert":" to make a copy of it, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cauldron of Essence"}},{"insert":" as a sacrifice outlet to allow us to replay it. Note that we don't need a ton of redundancy for this, since if we're in a winning position, the Station should be drawing us a ton of cards on each attack. \n\nIf we already have a wide board, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Knowledge Is Power"}},{"insert":" can act like Craterhoof Behemoth at home, since we can swing out, the Station will draw us a bunch of cards, and then the enchantment will buff our board by that much. (Don't forget to count your draw for turn!) \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Throne of the God-Pharaoh"}},{"insert":" can work with either of these strategies to further burn the table, and we can tap any creatures we've played during the turn to add counters to the Station to max out that damage. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Common Rules Errors"},{"insert":"\n\nThis is less of an error and more of just something I often miss, but remember that you need to pay 3 mana at sorcery speed to move Jegantha from the companion zone to your hand. This comes up not because it's easy to forget that you need to pay that cost, but more that it's easy to forget that's something that you can sink unspent mana into in the early game if you have an awkward draw. The curve is fairly low, but given this is a five color deck, you sometimes just don't have pips on your lands that line up with your early plays, and you'll have a turn with three mana that you can't use to play a card. Alternatively, you may need Jegantha to fix your mana to allow you to play the Station, which means you need to plan to spend that three mana at some point in the early turns to make it available when you have five mana. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Notable Exclusions"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mana Cannons"}},{"insert":" - Honestly, it was just too much mental overhead for not enough payoff. It also tended to draw way too much attention before the deck was ready to be the threat. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jenson Carthalion, Druid Exile"}},{"insert":" - This is more of a WUBRG matters card than a multicolor matters card. The scry is fine but it felt underwhelming if it wasn't also making angels, which rarely happens with the way this deck is built. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chromatic Lantern"}},{"insert":" - In order for a mono color or colorless card to make it into this deck, it has to be really, really good, and Chromantic Lantern just isn't. There are better ways to fix mana in the deck already, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The World Tree"}},{"insert":" and Leyline of the Guildpact, so it's not worth playing this over a multicolored card. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rienne, Angel of Rebirth"}},{"insert":" - This is mainly a victim of mana cost. Station really wants to play a lot of cheap permanents to get going early, and while Rienne represents a decent amount of value once she hits the board, I found she just sat in hand a lot because there were almost always other things I wanted to do instead. Same goes for other impressive sounding but expensive cards like"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nahiri's Resolve"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Assemble the Legion"}},{"insert":". \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Decanter of Endless Water"}},{"insert":" - Having no max hand size is nice, but playing a colorless artifact makes it less likely to need it. \n\n\n"}]}