{"ops":[{"insert":"# 🎯 Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor — Double the Trouble\n\nWelcome to the frontier! This deck is a unique Boros (Red/White) engine that turns ordinary tapping, untapping, pinging, and donating into a chaotic value machine. \n\nWhile traditional Boros decks rely on aggressive combat, this deck focuses heavily on **activated abilities**. By utilizing our commander, we copy every single ability that targets a creature or a player, giving us double the damage, double the card draw, and double the political leverage.\n\n---\n\n## ⚡ The Commander: Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor\nOur entire strategy revolves around **Ertha Jo**. Her text states: \n*\"Whenever you activate an ability that targets a creature or player, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.\"*\n\nThis means:\n* Pingers deal twice as much damage (or split their damage).\n* Copy/Cloning engines create two tokens instead of one.\n* Disruption/Removal pieces remove two threats at once.\n\n---\n\n## 🔄 Combos & Win Conditions\n\n### ♾️ Infinite Damage: Goblin Sharpshooter + The Jolly Balloon Man\nOur primary infinite loop can wipe out the entire table in a single turn.\n* **Requirements:** Both creatures on the battlefield. [Goblin Sharpshooter] does not have summoning sickness. {1}{R} available.\n* **The Loop:** \n 1. Pay {1}{R} and tap [The Jolly Balloon Man] targeting [Goblin Sharpshooter].\n 2. Ertha Jo triggers, copying the ability. Target the Sharpshooter again.\n 3. Let the copy resolve. You get a token copy of the Sharpshooter with haste.\n 4. Tap the new hasty token to ping an opponent for 1 damage.\n 5. Tap your original Sharpshooter to ping and kill the token Sharpshooter (it's a 1/1).\n 6. The token dies, triggering the original Sharpshooter to untap.\n 7. Let the original Balloon Man ability resolve. You get a second hasty token copy.\n 8. Repeat the process: ping an opponent with the token, kill it with the original, untap, and use Balloon Man again. \n\n### ⚙️ The Token Swarm: Anim Pakal + Hellspur Posse Boss\n* When [Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon] attacks, she targets herself to add a +1/+1 counter.\n* Ertha Jo copies this, giving her double the counters and instantly doubling the number of Gnome tokens generated.\n* [Hellspur Posse Boss] grants all those tokens haste, allowing you to swing out of nowhere for lethal damage.\n\n---\n\n## 🃏 Key Synergy Packages\n\n### 🤝 The Handshake Engine (Donations)\nCards like [Humble Defector] and [Yes Man, Personal Securitron] say \"target opponent gains control of this creature.\" Because they target a player, Ertha Jo copies the ability. You can choose to give the copy to an ally and the original to yourself (keeping it), or pass them around the table to draw an astronomical amount of cards.\n\n### 🎯 The Pinger Suite\n[Goblin Sharpshooter], [Cunning Sparkmage], and [Cinder Pyromancer] keep the board entirely clear of small blockers, utility creatures, and commanders. Combined with untappers like [Thousand-Year Elixir] and [Village Bell-Ringer], you can machine-gun threats at instant speed.\n\n### 👥 The Copy Mimics\n[Marvin, Murderous Mimic] gains all activated abilities of your creatures on the board. He acts as a crucial backup piece if your primary engines or pingers get removed by your opponents.\n\n---\n\n## 🗺️ Strategy Tips\n1. **Protect the Engine:** Ertha Jo is a 2/4 and a massive target. Use [Skrelv, Defector Mite] or a well-timed [Lapse of Certainty] to shield her from removal when you are ready to assemble your engines.\n2. **Politics matter:** Use your donation cards to make deals. Offer card draw to the player who is furthest behind in exchange for them not attacking you.\n\n"}]}