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{"ops":[{"insert":"Let's talk about "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thassa's Oracle"}},{"insert":". You're probably familiar with her, for better or worse. For most players, she says \"if your library is empty, you win the game.\" \n\nI call that play pattern for her Boracle. We're here to use Thoracle the way Richard Garfield intended: If our deck has 80 cards in it when we cast her, then we need a devotion of at least 78 so that her two added pips win us the game! The goal of this deck is a \"Legit Thoracle Win\", where we're winning through mono blue devotion greater than our library. \n\nObviously to do that, we're gonna need a lot of blue pips (and if we do some draw along the way, that doesn't hurt)! Unfortunately, a lot of the pip intensive cards are bad, so we're playing the decent ones, and a lot of clone effects. For a fun exercise, scroll down and look at the mana curve. It's beautiful.\n\nWe have a few subthemes in the deck, such as wizards (good sources of blue devotion and card draw), but really our main goal is to use Animar as cost reduction (he's not key to the deck, but a lot of these cards are expensive and I've tried to keep it creature-heavy so he maximizes value) and try to keep enough draw engines online that we're converting 100% of our mana-per-turn into devotion at a 1-to-1 rate. \n\nOne big decision point was that 5 color would give us access to a few more of the hybrid 5-devotion creatures, but the white and black ones were the least useful to the deck's play pattern, and forced us into 5 color slop commander choices. I was happier sticking with temur as the best balance here.\n\nAn ideal early game looks like casting a mana rock on turn 1 or 2, Animar on turn 3, and then slamming a 4+ pip card ASAP, then spending every turn on clones and draw engines. Once your cost reduction is up and running, hopefully you are dropping big guys every turn and quickly counting up. If you draw Thoracle, hold her quietly in hand until you're feeling devoted enough. Otherwise, if you draw any of the Thoracle Tutors Three ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Step Through"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Merrow Harbinger"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vedalken Aethermage"}},{"insert":"), similarly just hold onto them until you're feeling devoted enough to Thoracle!\n\nMake sure to do a show of dramatically counting your devotion and cards in library regularly (during other player's turns so you aren't holding up in the game) rather than waiting until you draw Thoracle, since we don't want players to know when she's in hand!\n\nIf Thoracle does somehow get milled (or countered?), all is not lost! Hopefully you held onto one of the Thoracle Recursions Three ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Recall"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hour of Eternity"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Back from the Brink"}},{"insert":") to either grab her back to hand or make a token copy of her!\n"}]}
Copy
Chameleon, Master of Disguise
You may have Chameleon enter as a copy of a creature you control, except his name is Chameleon, Master of Disguise.
Mayhem (You may cast this card from your graveyard for if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Mayhem (You may cast this card from your graveyard for if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Legendary Creature - Human Shapeshifter Villain
Echocasting Symposium
Target player creates a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Myojin of Cryptic Dreams
Myojin of Cryptic Dreams enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Cryptic Dreams: Copy target permanent spell you control three times. (The copies become tokens.)
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Cryptic Dreams: Copy target permanent spell you control three times. (The copies become tokens.)
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Omni-Changeling
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Pirated Copy
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Pirate in addition to its other types and it has "Whenever this creature or another creature with the same name deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card."
Creature - Shapeshifter Pirate
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Sakashima's Protege
Flash
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Copy
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Draw
Cavalier of Gales
Flying
When this creature enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
When this creature dies, shuffle it into its owner's library, then scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
When this creature enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
When this creature dies, shuffle it into its owner's library, then scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Knight Elemental
Defiler of Dreams
Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Keruga, the Macrosage
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)
When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur Hippo
Myojin of Seeing Winds
Myojin of Seeing Winds enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Myojin of Seeing Winds has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Seeing Winds: Draw a card for each permanent you control.
Myojin of Seeing Winds has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Seeing Winds: Draw a card for each permanent you control.
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
The Magic Mirror
This spell costs less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.
Legendary Artifact
The Temporal Anchor
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2.
Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.
Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.
Legendary Artifact
Draw
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Evasion
Deep-Sea Kraken
This creature can't be blocked.
Suspend 9— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.
Suspend 9— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.
Creature - Kraken
Evasion
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Land
Mosswort Bridge
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
: Add .
, : You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
This land enters tapped.
: Add .
, : You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Land
Land
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Protection
Protection
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Ramp
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs (or ) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs (or ) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Fish
Mox Tantalite
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Ramp
(CTRL to add secondary)
Recursion
Recursion
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Removal
Removal
(CTRL to add secondary)
Tutor
Grozoth
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards that have mana value 9, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
: This creature loses defender until end of turn.
Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards that have mana value 9, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
: This creature loses defender until end of turn.
Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Leviathan
Vedalken Aethermage
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Wizard Vedalken
Tutor
(CTRL to add secondary)
Untap
Untap
(CTRL to add secondary)
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Let's talk about "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thassa's Oracle"}},{"insert":". You're probably familiar with her, for better or worse. For most players, she says \"if your library is empty, you win the game.\" \n\nI call that play pattern for her Boracle. We're here to use Thoracle the way Richard Garfield intended: If our deck has 80 cards in it when we cast her, then we need a devotion of at least 78 so that her two added pips win us the game! The goal of this deck is a \"Legit Thoracle Win\", where we're winning through mono blue devotion greater than our library. \n\nObviously to do that, we're gonna need a lot of blue pips (and if we do some draw along the way, that doesn't hurt)! Unfortunately, a lot of the pip intensive cards are bad, so we're playing the decent ones, and a lot of clone effects. For a fun exercise, scroll down and look at the mana curve. It's beautiful.\n\nWe have a few subthemes in the deck, such as wizards (good sources of blue devotion and card draw), but really our main goal is to use Animar as cost reduction (he's not key to the deck, but a lot of these cards are expensive and I've tried to keep it creature-heavy so he maximizes value) and try to keep enough draw engines online that we're converting 100% of our mana-per-turn into devotion at a 1-to-1 rate. \n\nOne big decision point was that 5 color would give us access to a few more of the hybrid 5-devotion creatures, but the white and black ones were the least useful to the deck's play pattern, and forced us into 5 color slop commander choices. I was happier sticking with temur as the best balance here.\n\nAn ideal early game looks like casting a mana rock on turn 1 or 2, Animar on turn 3, and then slamming a 4+ pip card ASAP, then spending every turn on clones and draw engines. Once your cost reduction is up and running, hopefully you are dropping big guys every turn and quickly counting up. If you draw Thoracle, hold her quietly in hand until you're feeling devoted enough. Otherwise, if you draw any of the Thoracle Tutors Three ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Step Through"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Merrow Harbinger"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vedalken Aethermage"}},{"insert":"), similarly just hold onto them until you're feeling devoted enough to Thoracle!\n\nMake sure to do a show of dramatically counting your devotion and cards in library regularly (during other player's turns so you aren't holding up in the game) rather than waiting until you draw Thoracle, since we don't want players to know when she's in hand!\n\nIf Thoracle does somehow get milled (or countered?), all is not lost! Hopefully you held onto one of the Thoracle Recursions Three ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Recall"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hour of Eternity"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Back from the Brink"}},{"insert":") to either grab her back to hand or make a token copy of her!\n"}]}