{"ops":[{"insert":"At first glance, this seemingly group hug deck helmed by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zagorka, Mother of Sanctum"}},{"insert":" may look like a nice and friendly deck that helps ramp everybody and makes sure that you are safe from being attacked. However, appearances can be deceiving and this one is especially so. When you take a closer look, you notice cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stone Rain"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Roiling Terrain"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Waking the Trolls"}},{"insert":" , and other land destruction cards that look highly out of place in a group hug ramp deck. Then it hits you. Or maybe your lands.\nThis deck's strategy is to ramp up quickly using creature ramp like"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fanatic of Rhonas"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ilysian Caryatid"}},{"insert":" , which are early game ramp pieces that also scale with power 4 or greater, which the commander is. Then you can play all of your instant and sorcery cheapeners like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stormcatch Mentor"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thunderclap Drake"}},{"insert":" to make all of your land destruction spells a little easier to cast. Once you have the ramp on, you can finally blow up all of your opponent's lands. While you do this, you want to play politics to get stuff out of your opponent's in exchange for not exploding their lands. Everyone can either be your friend or your worst enemy. Your worst enemy usually will end up with the most lands in their graveyard. Anyway, while you're playing your "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thermokarst"}},{"insert":" and your "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rain of Salt"}},{"insert":" and copying them with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alania, Divergent Storm"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Double Vision"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Repeated Reverberation"}},{"insert":" , your end steps are full of your opponent's saying, \"Give me a sanctum.\" Once they accept your generous gifts, (or for some of them, your "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Beast Within"}},{"insert":" ) they will be unable to attack you, making sure that you stay alive. Zagorka is mostly immune to removal, as she is the only thing that actually gives your opponents more lands, and your opponent's need her alive if they want to actually cast spells.\nAs the game starts to end, there are many powerful pieces that can finish the whole thing up in one fell swoop. Since your opponents will have mostly Sanctums, which are nonbasic lands, it is really easy to shut out most of your opponents from the game using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ruination"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blood Moon"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Harbinger of the Seas"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Magus of the Moon"}},{"insert":" , or even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wake of Destruction"}},{"insert":" because all the lands are named Sanctum. You can also attempt to play cards that give you a ton of land destruction at once, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Epic Experiment"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mizzix's Mastery"}},{"insert":" , or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Storm King's Thunder"}},{"insert":" . Once you have blown up all of your opponent's lands and left them with nothing, you can simply swing in with a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Terastodon"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Woodfall Primus"}},{"insert":" , or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Melek, Reforged Researcher"}},{"insert":" , hoping that since it is late in the game your opponent's have already all done most of the damage. \nYou began the game looking like group hug ramp that kindly gives your opponents lands and you end the game as the Eldritch Horror prison deck who exploded the lower half of their battlefield. This is why we can't have nice lands.\n"}]}