{"ops":[{"insert":"Designed with minimal card draw for lightning commander, try to empty your hand each turn and redraw five-to-seven cards. Everything designed to be cheap to punish counterspell plays. Keep control of the board state with judicious removal, and then combo or win either tall or wide. Multiple threat angles, creature, artifact, spell, lands.\n\nLightning commander is a format where you can play two lands a turn and draw up to seven cards (minimum one) in your draw step. If not playing lightning commander, swap the discounting ramp spells for card draw (harvestrite host, idol of oblivion, caretaker's talk). Card advantage comes from emptying your hand each turn.\n\nIf playing lightning prioritize:\n(1) Threat removal\n(2) Discounts\n(3) Emptying hand\n(4) Setup for combos\n\nThere are several combos in this deck. Two infinite three-card combos involving Preston (commander). \n(1) Felidar guardian\n(2) Wispweaver angel\n\nIf you blink either one when Preston is on the field you make a copy which enters at the same time as the original. This puts two blink triggers on the stack. Use one of the blink triggers to blink the original real card, which adds another copy, and two more blink triggers. Every round you add one more creature and one more blink trigger. If someone tries to end your loop, you can restart it again with a single blink spell. Once you have enough blink triggers on the stack, you can also use them on your hare apparants to get oh so very many bunnies. And you can, on top, use phyrexian altar to sacrifice illusions at instant speed with Preston, to asymmetric board wipe before you swing in. Since Preston has to be on the field here, this is pretty much only possible on turn 5 of regular commander, or possibly turn 3 of lightning commander if all goes perfectly.\n\nBut you also have many ways to win. Deck out all opponents with altar of the brood, suprize attack with end-of-turn blinking to make a huge army, or using crashing drawbridge . Or make your tall creatures unlockable and swing in for lethal.\n\nThere is a minor protection package, but because your cards are so very cheap, and you redraw so many in lightning, you probably don't need to protect all that much until you are about to combo off.\n\nThe Valkyries call and Luminous broodmoth here do triple duty. They protect you from certain board wipes, they bring your creatures back in a way that triggers Preston, and they add flying counters. They also can both work together, also with cosmic intervention.\n\nIdeal starting hand has two+ (basic) lands, two hare apparants, a discount artifact, and everything else very low cost cards (one mana). You don't need to cast Preston until you actually are ready to blink something, similarly you can wait to cast hare apparent until you already have discounts in play.\n\nRemember in Lightning commander, there's no big advantage to keeping removal in hand, since you can get more fresh next round, so just throw your cards out there.\n\nIn case you get behind on lands, land tax is very powerful in lightning commander.\n"}]}