{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck attempts to control the board-state and the stack through un-counter-ably cheating in large haymakers whenever your opponents cast spells, through the following lynchpin enchantments:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hunting Grounds"}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lurking Predators"}},{"insert":" \n\nTerra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The commander "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra"}},{"insert":" fulfills three roles:\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Graveyard filler for Threshold."},{"insert":" Milling five on ETB is one of the fastest, most repeatable ways to push toward the seven-card Threshold that turns on Hunting Grounds."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"A tutor for her own support pieces."},{"insert":" Her ETB can find "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hunting Grounds"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lurking Predators"}},{"insert":" but also value pieces like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ripples of Undeath"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Necromancy"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Animate Dead"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"A secret finisher, when she flips."},{"insert":" You are not working toward flipping her, but if the game goes long, Esper Terra's saga chapters and, crucially, the copying of Sagas synergises with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Summon: Bahamut"}},{"insert":" Bahamut's fourth chapter, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Mega Flare"},{"insert":", deals damage to each opponent equal to the total mana value of every other permanent you control. Given the large number of high mana-value permanents you've cheated in with the free-cast package, you can turn Bahamut's Mega Flare into a genuine alternate win condition."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Tutors: Finding the lynchpins on demand"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Because the entire deck hinges on getting Hunting Grounds (or Lurking Predators) into play, the deck runs a small, tight suite of "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"enchantment-specific tutors"},{"insert":" rather than generic library search. Every tutor in the deck finds "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"only"},{"insert":" enchantments, just to steer away from the most oppressive play patterns: \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Idyllic Tutor"}},{"insert":" The cleanest, cheapest way to go get Hunting Grounds on turn 5 if you don't open with it."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sterling Grove"}},{"insert":" 2-mana enchantment that also gives your other enchantments shroud, protecting Hunting Grounds/Lurking Predators from targeted removal if drawn later. Its sacrifice ability also places itself into the graveyard, working toward "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Threshold"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Academy Rector"}},{"insert":" dies, then lets you search for an enchantment and put it directly onto the battlefield, skipping the cast entirely. This is the highest-impact tutor in the deck: it can put Hunting Grounds into play instantly regardless of mana available, and it's a legitimate way to cheat Lurking Predators into play at a moment's notice. Because it needs to die first, it can deterr attacks which isn't too bad early game."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zur the Enchanter"}},{"insert":" attack trigger searches for an enchantment with mana value 3 or less and puts it onto the battlefield, once again making your enchantment uncoutnerable. Hunting Grounds (mana value 2) is a perfect hit here, as is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ripples of Undeath"}},{"insert":" if you have not yet attained "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Threshold"},{"insert":". "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nCard Advantage Engines"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Roughly two-thirds of the creature base exists purely to refill your hand so that Hunting Grounds always has fuel: "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Sire of Stagnation"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Wan Shi Tong, Librarian"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":","},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Tishana, Voice of Thunder"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" , "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Runic Armasaur"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heartwood Storyteller"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Unagi of Kyoshi Island"}},{"insert":",and others in that vein. In this deck they should be read purely as benefits from your opponent's game actions — \"I draw a card because my opponents are playing the game,\" not \"I am trying to lock the board.\" That framing matters for how you sequence and prioritise them: play them for the raw card advantage, don't warp your other lines around trying to maximize the tax.\n\nInteraction Suite"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck's principle here is important and a little unusual: "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"virtually all of the interaction lives on creature ETBs"},{"insert":" — "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ertai Resurrected"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aven Interrupter"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Obscura Interceptor"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Venser, Shaper Savant"}},{"insert":" rather than on dedicated counterspells or removal instants. This is deliberate:\nETB-based interaction can be "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"cheated in for free"},{"insert":" by Hunting Grounds or Lurking Predators, meaning your removal and counters cost no mana at the moment they matter most, and you can tap out should you chose to."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"It can be "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"reanimated and rebought"},{"insert":", just like your haymakers, through recursion spells like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eternal Witness"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cosmic Rebirth"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Peerless Recycling"}},{"insert":" so a killed or milled piece of interaction isn't gone for good."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pernicious Deed"}},{"insert":" is the odd one out, a true instant-speed(-adjacent) activated sweeper, tutorable and recurrable through the usual enchantment and permanent tutors and recurrers. In an ideal game it never gets cast; it exists as the answer to \"I am losing to a board state my ETB creatures couldn't handle,\" so hold it in reserve rather than deploying it proactively.\n\nWeaknesses"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"G"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"raveyard hate is this deck's single worst matchup"},{"insert":". Effects like graveyard exile strip value,and attack the deck on two axes simultaneously:\nThey shut off "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Threshold"},{"insert":", turning off Hunting Grounds until you can rebuild seven cards in the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"They deny the "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"reanimation package"},{"insert":" its targets, meaning discarded or milled haymakers are just gone rather than being insurance."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Because so much of the deck's redundancy (recursion of Terra, Hunting Grounds, and interaction pieces) routes through the graveyard, a proactive graveyard-hate deck or even a single well-timed exile effect can functionally cut the deck's card pool in half. \n"}]}