{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Introduction:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is a bracket 2 deck centered around "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":" and specifically it's interaction with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":".\n\nWhen playing the deck the goal is to set up big value engines, and use the massive card advantage to kill your opponent through a combination of combat damage and burn from "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":".\n\nYour big value engines consist of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":"/"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Drift"}},{"insert":", with some combination of Creaturefall cards, other cycling payoffs, and good flicker targets. You will over the game try and upgrade this value engine by adding more/better cards to each of those categories, and by ramping so you can cycle more cards.\n\n "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pantlaza, Sun-Favored"}},{"insert":" is in the Command Zone as a generic value card, that can be flickered for additional value, and is likely to discover engine pieces, or cycling cards we can put into hand. Since a lot of the decks powerful plays are synergy focused, having a generic tool available at all times helps a lot in the games where your synergies don't come together.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Notable Cards:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Drift"}},{"insert":" : The cards the entire deck is built around, and the main value engines, they also work as protection for your creatures, making the deck more resilient.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":" : The decks main win condition, can generate massive amounts of damage with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":".\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fluctuator"}},{"insert":": Provides massive ramp for the cost, since when the engine comes well together each cycle will draw you enough to probably hit another cycling card, so you just cycle 1 or more cards every turn, depending on how many good flicker targets you have, this goes from costing you around 8 mana per creature per turn cycle, to basically none with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fluctuator"}},{"insert":".\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wirewood Savage"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Liege"}},{"insert":" : Both of these represent a lot of draw for quite cheap when combined with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":", but can also just help draw you towards your engine pieces.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Garruk's Packleader"}},{"insert":" /"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Garruk's Uprising"}},{"insert":" : These are essentially just copy 3 and 4 of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wirewood Savage"}},{"insert":". The typeline is the most important for these two, Beast for the synergy and Enchantment is tutorable, mass trample can also be relevant.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Molten Echoes"}},{"insert":" : Doubles close to all creaturefall triggers.\nBeast is ofc the most obvious thing to name, but naming elemental for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Belonging"}},{"insert":" or human for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Somberwald Beastmaster"}},{"insert":" can also be game ending with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":".\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Paleoloth"}},{"insert":" : Goes basically infinite with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":", restricted only by mana (negated by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fluctuator"}},{"insert":"), and how many creatures with power>4 you control.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Somberwald Beastmaster"}},{"insert":" : This is generally one of your best blink targets, you get three tokens with a combined power of 9, two of which are beasts for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":" and your draw.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Highcliff Felidar"}},{"insert":" : This is your other generically powerful blink targets, great at keeping your opponents boards in check, and triggers any creaturefall effects at the same time.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Belonging"}},{"insert":" : The three Changeling Tokens all trigger "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wirewood Savage"}},{"insert":" , you can blink it for three more tokens, which work well as blockers, and you can also use it's encore ability to make 9 tokens (if all players are still in the game), which deals a total of 36 damage with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":", i could consider cutting this if that happens too often, which is certainly possible given the amount of tutors.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thragtusk"}},{"insert":" : One of the only sources of lifegain, and by far the best at it, blinking it is very good since it not only gives us 5 life, but also a beast token for the creaturefall triggers.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tutors:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck runs a lot of tutors, many of which can get other tutors, that combined gives the deck a wide toolbox:\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pyre of Heroes"}},{"insert":": Gets any Beast essentially, important targets include "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Bellower"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Paleoloth"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Highcliff Felidar"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Protean Hulk"}},{"insert":".\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sterling Grove"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moon-Blessed Cleric"}},{"insert":" : These are very strong in the deck, mostly since you can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":" as your decks build-around, or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":" if you already have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":" and is ready to finish the game, you can also get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lightning Rift"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Invigorating Boon"}},{"insert":" as an alt wincon if "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":" got removed, you can also get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Molten Echoes"}},{"insert":" if you have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aether Charge"}},{"insert":" in play, or if you want more value, speaking of you can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Garruk's Uprising"}},{"insert":" for draw if thats whats needed, for example if your sitting with no gas in hand, you can also get it for the trample, if you have a big board, but your opponents have small blockers, or you can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Summon: Fenrir"}},{"insert":" for Ramp, if you for example have a lot of engine pieces, but you lack mana.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moon-Blessed Cleric"}},{"insert":" can be flickered, so using her to tutor up "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":", and then using that to flicker her for more enchantments is pretty good.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sterling Grove"}},{"insert":" is mainly here as protection, so only crack it if you're desperate, you can tutor it with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moon-Blessed Cleric"}},{"insert":" if you want protection for your other enchantments.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Delivery Moogle"}},{"insert":": Can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fluctuator"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pyre of Heroes"}},{"insert":", both of which are very strong in the deck, you can also get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blade of Selves"}},{"insert":", which can then trigger your etb's or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcane Signet"}},{"insert":" for fixing if you're missing a colour.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fierce Empath"}},{"insert":": Can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Bellower"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Protean Hulk"}},{"insert":"to extended the toolbox, or help find mana with"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shefet Monitor"}},{"insert":", some type of landcycler or"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise"}},{"insert":", It can also help set up engines with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Belonging"}},{"insert":"/"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Somberwald Beastmaster"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Highcliff Felidar"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Paleoloth"}},{"insert":", or just a cycling card.\nContiniously flickering this and getting a cycling card every time to keep flickering it, and then getting "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Herald of the Forgotten"}},{"insert":" to reanimate all the cycled cards is a win con.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Bellower"}},{"insert":": Can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fierce Empath"}},{"insert":", Artifact Removal with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Manglehorn"}},{"insert":", Ramp with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Clifftop Lookout"}},{"insert":"/"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Summon: Fenrir"}},{"insert":", Proliferate with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Contagious Vorrac"}},{"insert":", Recursion with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eternal Witness"}},{"insert":" or a Draw Engine with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wirewood Savage"}},{"insert":".\nIf you have "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Slide"}},{"insert":" in play you can get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fierce Empath"}},{"insert":", use it to find a cycling card, you can then cycle that card to flicker the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Bellower"}},{"insert":" for another card, maybe even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eternal Witness"}},{"insert":", which can get back the cycling card, you can then keep flickering the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eternal Witness"}},{"insert":" for a lot of draw.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Guardian Sunmare"}},{"insert":": Can get everything "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Bellower"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Delivery Moogle"}},{"insert":" can, as well as any enchantment, either directly or through "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moon-Blessed Cleric"}},{"insert":". Mounting it shouldn't be too difficult since "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pantlaza, Sun-Favored"}},{"insert":" has the neccecarry 4 power.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Protean Hulk"}},{"insert":": Can get all your other tutors ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pyre of Heroes"}},{"insert":" by first tutoring up "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Delivery Moogle"}},{"insert":"), it can also get a few other things, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Belonging"}},{"insert":" for three Beast tokens, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thragtusk"}},{"insert":" for Lifegain and Beast tokens, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow"}},{"insert":" for Enchantment Destruction, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Paleoloth"}},{"insert":" for big value, or just a big beater.\nBut most often you will get two 3-drops from the \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodland Bellower"}},{"insert":" pool, that fit the current game state, here "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fortune, Loyal Steed"}},{"insert":" is quite good, especially with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wirewood Savage"}},{"insert":" where you immediatly scry 2 then draw a card, and then repeat whenever you attack, and you can flicker something else, like your commander.\n"}]}