{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"MULLIGAN PRIORITIES:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Evolving Wilds"}},{"insert":" or another fetch land is a great start. This will let us crack it on turn 1 and pull it back out on turn 4.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fabled Passage"}},{"insert":" is the holy grail of fetch lands in this deck. After turn 3, this will be an ideal target for the commander, proving one extra untapped land per turn.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Crystal Vein"}},{"insert":" is the one card that can actually turbo ramp this deck's strategy. If you have it in your starting hand, make sure you also have an untapped source of red and green. Turn one Forest. Turn two Crystal Vein, sac it, and cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Erinis, Gloom Stalker"}},{"insert":". Turn 3 Mountain and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Guild Artisan"}},{"insert":". Attack with Erinis to create 2 Treasure tokens and pull Crystal Vein back onto the battlefield. Turn 4 play another land, attack with Erinis, create 2 more treasure tokens. During your second main phase, you'll now have up to 9 mana available if you sac your Crystal Vein and all of your treasure tokens.\n\nAt the very least, make sure you have 3 to 5 lands in your starting hand that can produce at least one red and green pip. There are 48 lands in the deck, so this should happen almost every game.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TURN 1"},{"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSac land to search for a basic. There are six of them in the deck, so your chances are pretty good to have one in the starting hand. If not, a tap land will be fine, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mosswort Bridge"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spinerock Knoll"}},{"insert":". Just don't expect to cast anything on turn one, as there are no spells in this deck with 1 CMC.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TURN 2"},{"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nIf you haven't fetched a Mountain already, put one down and follow it up with Guild Artisan from the command zone.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TURN 3"},{"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nMake sure you get down a land that produces a green mana pip and throw down Erinis from your command zone.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TURN 4"},{"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThis is where the magic happens. It's going to be different every game, but it should start by attacking the opponent with the highest life total. Most players aren't going to block your 3/3 deathtouch with anything big enough to kill it. Even if they do and Erinis dies, you'll still get your attack triggers, which is what we are really after. You'll get to fetch your land from the graveyard, put it down untapped, and you create two Treasure tokens. At the beginning of your second main phase, you should have 6-7 mana available and a few different bombs in your hand to choose from.\n\nOccasional scenarios can screw up the plan by turn 4. An opponent could destroy Guild Artisan or Erinis before you get to use them. Unless they know this deck and what your plan is, most players won't see either card as a major threat. They're going to be focusing on their own ramp plan up to turn 4. Eating removal in the first few turns is just a chance we're going to take with this deck. It's a low chance, and we should be losing 75% of the time in a 4-player game anyway.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TURN 5+:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nFor the most part, you can just cast the biggest bomb in your hand every turn. With all of the Cascade triggers, this deck will play itself. You should have a large enough board state and the ability to start knocking out players by turn 7.\n\nThe consistency up to turn 4 allows us to avoid worrying about the early game. Now we're able to simply omit low mana cards while building the deck, which translate into ideal Cascade targets. The main drawback of Cascade is running into a card that you don't want, which will never happen in this deck. All of the cards that allow us to cascade are five or more mana, meaning that 4 CMC is the lowest stop this train will end. Let's take a quick look at those 4 CMC targets.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spellbreaker Behemoth"}},{"insert":" is a great insurance policy against control players.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Baloth Prime"}},{"insert":" has long-term and short-term payoffs for sacrificing lands, which the deck will be doing plenty of.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ripchain Razorkin"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Goblin Clearcutter"}},{"insert":" provide excellent land sac outlets, which will be recurred with our commander during combat.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Big Score"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Unexpected Windfall"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pirate's Pillage"}},{"insert":" are great cascade targets because you'll be able to put a land into your graveyard, which again, will be recurred with our commander during combat.\n\nThe value only gets better above 4 CMC. Looking through the list, you'll notice there aren't any dead cards for cascade. What you will notice is the potential for long cascade chains, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Apex Devastator"}},{"insert":" into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Maelstrom Colossus"}},{"insert":" into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Annoyed Altisaur"}},{"insert":" into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Boarding Party"}},{"insert":" into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Natural Reclamation"}},{"insert":" into one of our 4 CMC spells. There are some cards that can even \"reset\" the chain, bringing the CMC back up. Look at "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hit the Mother Lode"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Creative Technique"}},{"insert":" for examples.\n\nThis deck is simply bomb after bomb, and the explosions often chain themselves together. If Erinis ends up dying, it usually isn't even worth recasting her, unless you have a haste enabler handy, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cavalier of Flame"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kavaron, Memorial World"}},{"insert":". There are other ways of recurring our lands from the graveyard, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pull Through the Weft"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Titania, Protector of Argoth"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lumra, Bellow of the Woods"}},{"insert":".\n\n48 lands may look like a lot, but we always want at least one in hand at the start of each turn. Having extra is completely fine, especially with all of the ways you can discard lands, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Borborygmos Enraged"}},{"insert":" and the 4 CMC discard outlets we discussed earlier. Some of the best utility lands for this deck include "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ghost Quarter"}},{"insert":" which can even be used on one of our own lands before Erinis pulls it back out during combat, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fabled Passage"}},{"insert":" which lets us play an additional land each turn past turn 4 with our commander recurring it, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Roadside Reliquary"}},{"insert":" which will almost always have its prerequisites met considering we are using a background enchantment which makes token artifacts.\n\nThis deck is currently sitting in a high Bracket 3 zone, and it would be very easy to swap out a few of the expensive cards to make it a middle Bracket 3 budget deck. I just happened to have a lot of these expensive cards lying around unused, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lumra, Bellow of the Woods"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Walls of Ba Sing Se"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sire of Seven Deaths"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Balefire Dragon"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Strip Mine"}},{"insert":". There are plenty of great big mana budget cards to choose from, if you're looking to make a similar deck for a fraction of the cost. I hope this deck's unique mana curve and land count has you rethinking how Commander decks can be built.\n"}]}