{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Copy the homework, copy the spell, copy the token, then pretend the entire board state was your idea."},{"insert":" Silverquill plays a weird Orzhov value game where token production, sacrifice, copied spells, and life-drain all overlap until every “small” action starts paying you three different ways.\nThe deck builds its board with "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Monastery Mentor, Sedgemoor Witch, Lingering Souls, Secure the Wastes, Bitterbloom Bearer, The Eagles Are Coming!, Elspeth, Sun’s Champion"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Blot Out the Sky"},{"insert":", then turns those bodies into cards, mana, removal, or direct damage. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Silverquill, the Disputant"},{"insert":" rewards the spell-heavy side of the deck while the aristocrats package makes sure your tokens remain useful even when combat stops working.\n\nImportant lines"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Silverquill, the Disputant + Monastery Mentor / Sedgemoor Witch"},{"insert":" — casting your noncreature spells advances two plans at once: Silverquill gets value from the spellcasting while "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mentor"},{"insert":" or "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sedgemoor Witch"},{"insert":" turns those spells into an army. Cheap interaction like "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Thoughtseize, Swords to Plowshares, Path to Exile, Village Rites"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Dawn’s Truce"},{"insert":" therefore doubles as token production."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Divine Visitation + token makers"},{"insert":" — suddenly the disposable 1/1s from "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Lingering Souls, Secure the Wastes, Bitterbloom Bearer, Elspeth, Monastery Mentor"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sedgemoor Witch"},{"insert":" become 4/4 flying vigilant Angels instead. At that point the “token value deck” becomes a very straightforward “please survive combat” deck."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Kaya, Geist Hunter + Secure the Wastes / Blot Out the Sky / Elspeth, Sun’s Champion"},{"insert":" — Kaya’s token-doubling turn can turn one large token spell into an immediate army. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Secure the Wastes"},{"insert":" scales particularly well because you can hold it until the end step before your turn, then untap with twice as many bodies ready to attack or sacrifice."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Viscera Seer / Yahenni, Undying Partisan + Zulaport Cutthroat / Wispdrinker Vampire / Syr Konrad"},{"insert":" — once you have a large token board, sacrifice outlets let you convert creatures that were about to die anyway into value while your drain pieces punish the table. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Reassembling Skeleton"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Nine-Lives Familiar"},{"insert":" are particularly useful because they are much happier being sacrificed repeatedly than normal creatures are."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Culling the Weak / Dark Ritual + Debt to the Deathless / Exsanguinate / Torment of Hailfire"},{"insert":" — the deck has a completely different way to end games when combat is clogged. Ritual mana lets you jump ahead on one enormous X-spell, turning a large amount of black mana into a table-wide life swing. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Debt to the Deathless"},{"insert":" is especially brutal because the life gained can make racing you almost impossible."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tendrils of Agony + cheap spells / rituals"},{"insert":" — this is the deck’s pseudo-storm line. Chain several cheap spells, ideally including "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Dark Ritual"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Culling the Weak"},{"insert":", then finish with "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tendrils of Agony"},{"insert":". You don’t need true cEDH storm numbers for Tendrils to matter; even a modest storm count can produce a huge life swing or finish a weakened table."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sun Titan + cheap permanents"},{"insert":" — "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sun Titan"},{"insert":" recovers a huge portion of the deck: sacrifice fodder, utility creatures, mana pieces and other permanents costing three or less. That makes wipes much less permanent than they look and gives the deck another way to rebuild without committing its entire hand again."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"The deck can win tall through "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Divine Visitation"},{"insert":", wide through sheer token volume, indirectly through "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Zulaport Cutthroat, Syr Konrad"},{"insert":" and sacrifice loops, or simply dump a ridiculous amount of mana into "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Exsanguinate, Debt to the Deathless"},{"insert":" or "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Torment of Hailfire"},{"insert":".\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cast spells. Make tokens. Sacrifice tokens. Drain everyone. Occasionally remember this started as a copying deck."},{"insert":"\n"}]}