{"ops":[{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Overview:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mill or Tutor cards with as many ever-green keywords as possible into your graveyard. As soon as you have enough keywords, summon your mighty hideous Nightmare Insect Monster. \nSend it to your opponents and eat them alive one by one!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Keyword-List:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Power"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Double Strike"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"First Strike"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Trample"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Deathtouch"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Defensive"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Lifelink"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Vigilance"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Reach"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Protection"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Hexproof"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Indestructible"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Evasion"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Flying"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Menace"},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Gameplan:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"What you will need is a Kathril, that deals at least 21 (commander-)damage to a player with a single attack. We won't get to the 21+ Power mark, so what we need is the Double Strike keyword which would require us to only need half as much which is 11+ Power. So that would be our most essential keyword in the game, because it doubles our damage and enables us to do a one-shot (or rather a two-shot but within a single combat phase ;)\n\nA lethal attack forces our opponent to throw everything in front of it that they have. With a certain combination of keywords we are able to give Kathril so much evasive and destructive force that our Insect will shred everyone and everything that is in its way and as the cherry on top eat the opponent for dessert!\n\nLet's have a closer look at what the commander does. It's a 3/3 that when it enters puts keywords on creatures and then gets a +1/+1 counter for each keyword counter put on creatures that way. So just for that we would need 8 (out of 11) keywords for a total of 11 Power. Needless to say that more keywords and more power certainly helps us even further. \n\nAs mentioned before one of the keywords has to be "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Double Strike (#1)"},{"insert":". Then we would like to add some evasion to it with the most classic evasion keyword there is: "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Flying (#2)"},{"insert":". If our opponents had no flyers or reachers, we would just get away with any combination of 6 other keywords, because we could hit them for 22 without being blocked, but that's just theory. Let's see how else we can add more evasion to Kathril.\nTo actually cut and"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":" get through blocking creatures"},{"insert":", we got to add two specific keywords, which are "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Trample (#3)"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Deathtouch (#4)"},{"insert":". That's like a sudo-evasion-combo that makes it so that blocking creatures each only stop "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"1 point of damage"},{"insert":", which means that for every 2 blockers our opponent has, Kathril needs 1 additional Power (=2 Damage) to have enough damage left to finish our opponent. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Calculation: "},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Base-Power: 3"},{"insert":"\n 8 Keywords = 11 Power = 22 Damage (<=1 Blocker for Lethal Damage)\n 9 Keywords = 12 Power = 24 Damage (<=3 Blocker for Lethal Damage)\n10 Keywords = 13 Power = 26 Damage (<=5 Blocker for Lethal Damage)\n11 Keywords = 14 Power = 28 Damage (<=7 Blocker for Lethal Damage)\n\nAs you can see the combination of Double Strike/Trample/Deathtouch is really crazy, because it almost reads like \"Kathril is unblockable\". On a personal note, I actually prefer it that is \"only almost unblockable\", because I want to destroy my opponents board in the process of finishing them. An insect that eats up everything in its way no matter if big or small is pretty flavorful. \n\nFor the purpose of defending our commander make sure to also have "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"indestructible (#5)"},{"insert":" or "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"hexproof (#6)"},{"insert":" or both, because otherwise Kathril will be the first one to get removed from the board. \nAnd that's it, so to sum it up, we have "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Double Strike"},{"insert":" for doubling the Power, "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Flying"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Trample "},{"insert":"and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Deathtouch "},{"insert":"to make him \"unblockable\" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Hexproof "},{"insert":"and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Indestructible"},{"insert":" for protection. The other keywords are Lifelink, First Strike, Vigilance, Menace and Reach of which you will need half or more to get to 8+ +1/+1 counters. Feel free to distribute keywords on your utility creatures, dorks and so on. They will do good work as blockers! :)\n\nI wish you lots of fun with this Commander Deck! \n"}]}