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{"ops":[{"attributes":{"color":"#000000"},"insert":"This is a Simic cascade and discover deck built around Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty and Monstrous Vortex, designed to create massive chains of free creatures that can develop an entire battlefield from a single spell. The deck is constructed so that Monstrous Vortex is the only nonland card with a mana value below five, guaranteeing that Imoti's cascade ability will find and cast it as long as it remains in the library. This establishes the deck's primary engine immediately upon casting the commander and allows every subsequent creature spell to potentially generate additional free spells."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000"},"insert":"The most important interaction involves how Monstrous Vortex discovers cards with a mana value equal to or less than the triggering creature's mana value. The deck is deliberately constructed around groups of creatures that share the same mana value and have at least five power, allowing them to repeatedly discover one another. For example, casting a five-mana creature triggers Monstrous Vortex to discover five, finding another five-mana creature that can be cast for free. That creature triggers Monstrous Vortex again, continuing the process until every remaining five-mana creature in the library has been cast, provided the chain remains uninterrupted. The same principle applies to the higher mana-value groups, with larger creatures generating chains that can work through their own mana-value tier and into lower tiers. Creatures costing six or more become particularly explosive because Imoti also grants them cascade, allowing a single creature spell to generate multiple additional spells through both abilities."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000"},"insert":"A major part of the deck's construction is ensuring that these expensive creatures remain useful and castable before the engine is established. Many creatures have significantly cheaper alternative casting options, cost reductions, convoke, landcycling, channel abilities, or Adventures that provide inexpensive ramp, interaction, and other utility. This allows the deck to function during the early game without including traditional low-mana-value spells that would interfere with its cascade and discover structure. Convoke is especially important because creatures generated through the engine can immediately help pay for additional convoke spells from hand, allowing the deck to continue developing without needing large amounts of available mana. Railway Brawler also enables Ghalta, Primal Hunger to become exceptionally inexpensive while providing enormous power increases to the creatures entering the battlefield."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000"},"insert":"Keruga, the Macrosage serves as the deck's companion, rewarding its commitment to expensive permanents with additional card draw. The deck's large creatures also provide removal, recursion, protection, and evasion, allowing it to maintain functionality without sacrificing the consistency of its central engine."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000"},"insert":"The ultimate goal is to establish Imoti and Monstrous Vortex, then cast creatures that initiate increasingly powerful chains of cascade and discover triggers. Rather than simply cheating one or two expensive threats onto the battlefield, the deck is designed to systematically work through entire groups of creatures from its library, generating an overwhelming board presence for a fraction of their normal mana costs. Cards like Surrak and Goreclaw, Challenger Troll, and Railway Brawler help convert this enormous army into a lethal combat threat, allowing the deck to overwhelm opponents through the sheer volume and power of creatures generated by its engine."},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}
Commander
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
Legendary Creature - Druid Snake
Commander
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Creature
Ancient Imperiosaur
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Trample, ward
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each creature that convoked it.
Trample, ward
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each creature that convoked it.
Creature - Dinosaur
Anticausal Vestige
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card, then you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Aurora Awakener
Trample
Vivid — When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X permanent cards, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control. Put any number of those permanent cards onto the battlefield, then put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Vivid — When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X permanent cards, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control. Put any number of those permanent cards onto the battlefield, then put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature - Druid Giant
Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
When you cast this spell, untap all lands you control.
Flying, trample
Ward—Sacrifice three permanents.
, Exile this card from your hand: Target land gains ": Add " until this card is cast from exile. You may cast this card for as long as it remains exiled.
Flying, trample
Ward—Sacrifice three permanents.
, Exile this card from your hand: Target land gains ": Add " until this card is cast from exile. You may cast this card for as long as it remains exiled.
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
Mechanozoa
When this creature enters, tap target artifact or creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature Artifact - Jellyfish Robot
Starwinder
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Leviathan
Thrasta, Tempest's Roar
This spell costs less to cast for each other spell cast this turn.
Trample, haste
Trample over planeswalkers (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the controller of the planeswalker it's attacking.)
Thrasta has hexproof as long as it entered this turn.
Trample, haste
Trample over planeswalkers (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the controller of the planeswalker it's attacking.)
Thrasta has hexproof as long as it entered this turn.
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur
Wistfulness
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Creature
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Draw
Battle Mammoth
Trample
Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
Foretell (During your turn, you may pay and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
Foretell (During your turn, you may pay and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Creature - Elephant
Interdisciplinary Mascot
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Ward
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Ward
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature - Elemental Fractal
Overlord of the Floodpits
Impending 4— (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Flying
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Flying
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Draw
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Evasion
Evasion
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Finisher
Monstrous Vortex
Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Enchantment
Railway Brawler
Reach, trample
Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power.
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 enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power.
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 - Warrior Rhino
Silverback Elder
Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.
Creature - Ape Shaman
Finisher
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Land
Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add .
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Land
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Lifegain
Lifegain
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Ramp
Defiler of Vigor
Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Creature - Wurm Phyrexian
Moldering Gym
When you unlock this door, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Overlord of the Hauntwoods
Impending 4— (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create a tapped colorless land token named Everywhere that is every basic land type.
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create a tapped colorless land token named Everywhere that is every basic land type.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Spinewoods Armadillo
Reach
Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 3 life.
Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 3 life.
Creature - Armadillo
Ramp
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Recursion
Spring-Leaf Avenger
Ninjutsu (, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Insect Ninja
Recursion
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Removal
Icebreaker Kraken
Affinity for snow lands (This spell costs less to cast for each snow land you control.)
When this creature enters, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step.
Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
When this creature enters, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step.
Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Snow Creature - Kraken
Removal
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Tokens
Tokens
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Tutor
Tutor
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Sideboard
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
Sideboard
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Maybeboard
Eternal Dominion
Search target opponent's library for an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)
Sorcery
Lunar Hatchling
Flying, trample
Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Escape—, Exile a land you control, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Escape—, Exile a land you control, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Creature - Beast Alien
The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
Flash
Ward—Waterbend . (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays . They can tap their artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for .)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw two cards.
Ward—Waterbend . (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays . They can tap their artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for .)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw two cards.
Legendary Creature - Serpent
Maybeboard
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Description
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