{"ops":[{"insert":"The core idea behind this deck is to use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Verrak, Warped Sengir"}},{"insert":" to double fetch land triggers so that you can get two lands on each crack. You use those extra lands to trigger landfall from cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Felidar Retreat"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dread Presence"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Emeria Angel"}},{"insert":" . Eventually you can use all that mana to cast big x-cost spells like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Debt to the Deathless"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exsanguinate"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Torment of Hailfire"}},{"insert":" to hopefully close out games.\n\nThe commander provides value through doubling abilities from other cards of course. Verrak can double several card-draw abilities from cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Greed"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Erebos, God of the Dead"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lunar Convocation"}},{"insert":" , and even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Street Wraith"}},{"insert":" . Other cards can pay life to make treasures: doubling "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Treasure Dredger"}},{"insert":" 's ability makes it mana-positive, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Forsworn Paladin"}},{"insert":"'s ability mana-neutral.\n\nThe fetch land plan requires getting uncracked fetches by the time Verrak is played. All the legal fetches that have a life cost are in the deck, but it's still only 8. In the worst case where you keep a hand without any fetches, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Expedition Map"}},{"insert":" can potentially solve the problem directly, and in a pinch you can also use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Demonic Tutor"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urza's Cave"}},{"insert":". If you do draw a fetch early but are forced to crack it to be able to even play Verrak, cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirran Safehouse"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sevinne's Reclamation"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Crucible of Worlds"}},{"insert":" can still make use of it to landfall a bunch. If you do get a fetch, cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brought Back"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Earthshape"}},{"insert":" can amplify the fetch land plan to get tons of landfall triggers, while still being flexible to potentially protect against removal.\n\nObviously this deck loses a good chunk of life to be able to do basically anything, especially from cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vona, Butcher of Magan"}},{"insert":". To deal with this the deck has some lifegain in different forms: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tainted Sigil"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Children of Korlis"}},{"insert":", and even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mister Negative"}},{"insert":" can top you up after spending lot of life. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soul Warden"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soul's Attendant"}},{"insert":" are just insane cards. Most of the damaging x-cost spells like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Debt to the Deathless"}},{"insert":" heal a lot, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heliod's Intervention"}},{"insert":" can do so directly. All this lifegain, especially the big burst options, can fuel "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose"}},{"insert":" to do big damage, but other than Vito there's not a lot of lifegain synergy.\n\n\n"}]}