{"ops":[{"insert":"Very simple budget combat-focused PDH "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Genghis Frog"}},{"insert":" midrange Mutant tribal deck built to spam Mutants, making "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mutagen"}},{"insert":" tokens to buff them, and eventually swing out with a big board. We run a decent amount of ramp to help get out "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Genghis Frog"}},{"insert":" and the Mutant gang early for as many "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mutagen"}},{"insert":" tokens as possible. Our early ramp package includes "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rampant Growth"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kodama's Reach"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Growth Spiral"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Explore"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cultivate"}},{"insert":". We run plenty more ramp, however, some is meant for burst ramp, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elvish Aberration"}},{"insert":", and more importantly, we combine different needs in as many places as possible to make sure we have enough of every category, like draw, removal, and even Mutants! With this in mind, we run "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thirsting Roots"}},{"insert":" to have the option to both ramp and proliferate, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scale the Heights"}},{"insert":" for counters, draw, and ramp, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Firdoch Core"}},{"insert":" for ramp that’s a Mutant! Moving past ramp, we want to focus on giving our Mutants +1/+1 counters and ensure we can cast plenty of Mutants in the first place! With "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Genghis Frog"}},{"insert":" on the battlefield, whenever another Mutant enters the battlefield, we create a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mutagen"}},{"insert":" token. This is the easiest and most consistent way to give our Mutants +1/+1 counters. We care about dispersing these counters because our main win condition is giving all of our ever-growing Mutants trample through effects that give our creatures with +1/+1 counters on them trample, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pridemalkin"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tuskguard Captain"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Badgermole"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Drix Fatemaker"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Duskshell Crawler"}},{"insert":". Some of these, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Duskshell Crawler"}},{"insert":", also dish out a +1/+1 counter to a creature when entering. This is very important and a persistent theme throughout the deck; many of our cards will disperse +1/+1 counters to our Mutants to help grow them. The best at this is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thrummingbird"}},{"insert":", who is able to repeatedly proliferate our counters to grow our army of Mutants. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Master Chef"}},{"insert":" also puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature that enters, setting up "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thrummingbird"}},{"insert":" very nicely. Ideally, while we are developing our board of creatures, we will go wide instead of tall. We run 37 creatures not including "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Genghis Frog"}},{"insert":" or our spells that create token creatures. Spreading out to a wide board and spreading our counters between multiple Mutants is a much better plan that going tall 95% of the time. To help with this, we keep draw at a premium and staple it onto as much as we can. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Donatello, Turtle Techie"}},{"insert":" is a Mutant that draws, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Deepwood Denizen"}},{"insert":" is a repeatable draw engine for us that scales its cost with counters, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Meditation Pools"}},{"insert":" is draw on a land, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rook Turret"}},{"insert":" draws quite a bit, as our "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mutagen"}},{"insert":" tokens are artifacts, and my favorite burst draw is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Distant Melody"}},{"insert":", as we can name Mutant and draw for our tribal count. We also run many "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shapeshifter"}},{"insert":"s and Changelings to ensure our Mutant count is very high; we have 27 Mutants in the deck including the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shapeshifter"}},{"insert":"s. Because of this, many of our creatures are dorky. They are common Mutants; we are not picking from the cream of the crop here. The most important thing to remember is we are playing a midrange deck. We get our value from playing our creatures, grow them, and only attack when it benefits us. We cannot afford to throw our creatures away into meaningless attacks. We need them to stick around so we can grow them with our +1/+1 counter-granters and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mutagen"}},{"insert":" tokens. Creatures like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Changeling Wayfinder"}},{"insert":" look bad, but it draws us a land, puts a creature onto the board, and is a Mutant. This is what we want out of our creatures. We do, however, still need to attack when it is correct to do so, just not when it hurts us and trades down our board. To help with when this does happen, we run a small package of cards that recur other cards or themselves, so we always have something to do. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Evolution Witness"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mystic Sanctuary"}},{"insert":" give us genuine recursion while "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rancor"}},{"insert":" allows us to buff a creature and return itself to hand when the creature dies. In a similar way, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Slow Motion"}},{"insert":" is removal that recurs itself. Speaking of removal, we run removal that can benefit us at the same time, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mutant Chain Reaction"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Smell Fear"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Return to the Sewers"}},{"insert":". We also run more spot removal, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tenderize"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Retro-Mutation"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ram Through"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nantuko Vigilante"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Masked Vandal"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zuko's Exile"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Frogify"}},{"insert":". These allow us to blow up or transform creatures, artifacts, or enchantments that are annoying us. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rooftop Percher"}},{"insert":" also provides a different type of removal by exiling two cards from players' graveyards. Closing out, we win by building a big board and buffing it by holding back attacks and not throwing away our Mutants on offense and defense when we don’t need to. Once we have enough +1/+1 counters, dropping a trample-giving bomb will end the game quickly, like a much worse "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Craterhoof Behemoth"}},{"insert":" that takes a few combats to kill everyone! We get there not all at once, but by growing our advantages turn over turn and converting them into a big board full of buffed Mutants! Change the “Group by” from Categories to Categories (multiple) to see each card’s designation within the deck.\n"}]}