{"ops":[{"insert":"Death by a thousand cuts! This deck is based around the idea of discarding lands and other cards to turn into bits of incrimental damage, that, when combined with our commander will keep up card advantage and eventually burn our opponents out. \nThe core of the deck is Seismic Assault, Land's Edge, Molten Vortex, Invasion of Kaldheim//Pyre of the world tree and Cool but Rude. These cards enable us to follow the main game plan of discarding lands to burn out our opponents in incriments of 2, with Matoc impulse drawing a new card each time we activate or trigger one of these abilities. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cards like Memory Worm, Nico Minoru, Advanced Reconstruction, and Iraxxa make sure to continue fueling our gameplan by turning the cards Matoc exiles into more damage and even more cards exiled with his ability. In Iraxxa's case, making us 2/2 tokens that will help us block or go on the offensive and continue to trigger Matoc's ability."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cards like Virtue of Courage, Inti, Monument to Endurance, Veronica, and Sulfuric Vortex(with our Matoc in play) help turn our plan of discarding cards for damage into a repeatable value engine"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Several cards are dedicated to refilling our hand, if all goes according to plan we will be exiling plenty of cards off the top of our library but we will still want to keep our hand full to be be able to keep discarding our lands and fueling the engine, this is accomplished with cards like Bag of Holding, Wheel of Misfortune, Ox of Agonas, Change of Fortune, and the others in the 'refill' category."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Lastly, we have several cards dedicated to generic burn towards our opponents, but not doing damage in increments of 2. while these cards will not trigger Matoc's ability, cards like Shadow of the Goblin, Brallin, Glint-Horn Buccaneer, and Magmakin Artillerist all trigger off of our main game plan, and will help us push through extra damage and help win the game. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Playing the Deck:\n\tPlaying the deck can be fairly complicated, as it is essentially a mono-red storm list based around a few key enchantments which outside of Gamble and the final level of Cool but Rude we cannot tutor for. To account for this we will want to mulligan to an opening hand that at least has one of the key pieces mentioned above, or at least has a few of our card advantage/selection pieces so we can dig. This will likely play out as a normal commander deck would in the first few turns, trying to ramp into our commander and one or two of our key enchantments, and from there carefully deciding which lines of play we want to chase down. Usually, we only will find that we end up with one of two setups:\nDiscard: we can often find ourselves with a lot of our key discard/graveyard pieces on the field (e.g. Cool but Rude, Seismic Assault, Advanced Reconstruction, and/or Brallin), this is often going to result in one of the most red play patterns possible, we want to discard as many cards as we possibly can, dig for one of the cards that will let us refill our hand to keep discarding cards. Not mentioned above are Harnfel and Patchwork Gnomes, which will let us discard our nonland cards as well but will not come with our 2 damage included. These cards can help when we have discard payoffs but often can feel stuck in our hands if we do not have one of those payoffs. If playing the deck you find that you have some but not a ton of the heavier discard payoff cards, that's where our commander's activated ability can help us dig for extra cards with cards we have discarded, and you want to prioritize digging for those payoff cards if you think this is where you will find the most success."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Exile: we have several cards that enable us to do 2 damage whenever we play a card from exile, either directly with Memory Worm and Nico Minoru, or through 2/2 Tokens with Iraxxa. Often times, even just one of these cards will enable you to play in a storm-y fasion, with each card you cast from exile enabling you to continue casting more cards from exile. If you find yourself set up with one or two of the key cards for this strategy it is often best to ramp as much as possible, to enable yourself to continually cast more and more cards from exile. Cards like Inti, Veronica, and Advanced Reconstruction will allow us to use our discard strategy as well as our exile strategy very efficiently, not only impulse drawing with our commander but also with our other effects too, to ensure we have redundancy and plenty of card selection."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\tThis section was essentially a long winded way of explaining that we want to discard cards to deal damage and/or exile cards from our deck, using the incrimental burn and constant supply of new cards to look at to further our game plan and keep burning our opponents out. While the deck has heavy storm elements to it and will often feel like a storm deck, the discard side can add more math to the equation, pitching cards in our hand for random temporary new ones and a little bit of damage. I hope this primer has made sense and that you enjoy the deck!\n"}]}