{"ops":[{"insert":"🐸💪 Blor the Impervious 🛡️🌲"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[[Blor the Impervious]] is a brutally straightforward Voltron commander: a 3/3 with "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"trample, hexproof, and indestructible"},{"insert":" built right into the card. That combination makes him unusually difficult to remove and gives you an ideal foundation for stacking Auras, Equipment, and +1/+1 counters until one Frog becomes everybody else's problem.\n\n🌱 Build the Frog"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The early game is mostly about ramping so Blor can hit the battlefield quickly. [[Birds of Paradise]], [[Llanowar Elves]], [[Elvish Mystic]], [[Fyndhorn Elves]], [[Delighted Halfling]], [[Fanatic of Rhonas]], [[Wild Growth]], [[Utopia Sprawl]], [[Nature's Lore]], [[Three Visits]], [[Cultivate]], and [[Kodama's Reach]] give the deck plenty of ways to accelerate. Once Blor arrives, the objective changes from "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"make mana"},{"insert":" to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"make Frog enormous"},{"insert":". [[Blanchwood Armor]] and [[Blackblade Reforged]] scale naturally as the game progresses, while [[Colossification]] and [[Eldrazi Conscription]] provide massive chunks of power in a single card. [[Strong Back]] is especially good here: it makes Auras and Equipment cheaper to attach to Blor while also giving him +2/+2 for every Aura and Equipment already attached.\n\n📈 Keep Getting Bigger"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck also has a significant +1/+1-counter package. [[Bristly Bill, Spine Sower]], [[Forgotten Ancient]], [[Hydra's Growth]], [[Level Up]], and [[Necklace of Girion]] can rapidly turn Blor from a 3/3 into something ridiculous. [[Level Up]] is particularly nasty: whenever the enchanted creature attacks, it "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"doubles its +1/+1 counters"},{"insert":", and once that creature reaches 10 power it starts drawing cards as well. [[Necklace of Girion]] adds even more counters whenever you cast green spells or play Forests. That means you don't necessarily need one giant Aura to reach lethal commander damage. Sometimes the Frog just keeps doubling until somebody dies.\n\n⚔️ One Hit, Two Hits, Dead"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Because commander damage only requires "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"21 combat damage"},{"insert":", doubling Blor's damage output is extremely powerful. [[Fireshrieker]], [[Genji Glove]], and other combat enhancements can turn one huge Blor into two hits' worth of damage. Then there's [[Berserk]], which can produce an enormous surprise burst of power after blockers are declared. [[Super State]] provides one of the deck's flashiest finishes, setting the enchanted creature to 9/9 and giving it flying, first strike, trample, and haste. Even better, when it hits one opponent, it deals that much damage to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"each other opponent"},{"insert":" as well.\n\n🛡️ Good Luck Killing Him"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Blor already having "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"hexproof and indestructible"},{"insert":" means the usual Commander removal suite has a difficult time dealing with him. [[Heroic Intervention]], [[Bear Umbra]], [[Lion Umbra]], [[Commander's Plate]], [[Basilisk Collar]], [[Pariah's Shield]], and [[Tajuru Preserver]] provide extra layers of utility and resilience. [[Command Beacon]] is also valuable insurance against commander tax if an opponent manages to answer Blor through exile, sacrifice, bouncing, or another effect that gets around his built-in defenses. And while Blor is busy attacking, [[Crawlspace]], [[Silent Arbiter]], [[Fog]], [[Obscuring Haze]], and [[Spore Frog]] make it considerably harder for opponents to race you.\n\n📚 Don't Run Out of Gas"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Voltron decks can struggle when they spend several cards building one creature and then run out of resources, so this list includes several ways to convert Blor's enormous power into cards. [[Hunter's Insight]] can turn a successful attack into a huge refill, while [[Rishkar's Expertise]] and [[Return of the Wildspeaker]] reward you for having a giant commander. [[Keen Sense]], [[Sixth Sense]], [[Toski, Bearer of Secrets]], and [[Ohran Frostfang]] provide repeatable draw from connecting in combat. The goal is to make sure that each successful Blor attack doesn't just hurt somebody—it reloads your hand for the next player.\n\n🐸 Playing the Deck"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ramp aggressively in the opening turns, then get [[Blor the Impervious]] onto the battlefield. From there, don't necessarily dump every Aura and Equipment onto him immediately. Blor himself is resistant to most removal, but the cards attached to him aren't. Build enough power to threaten commander-damage kills while keeping additional resources available to rebuild. Use [[Rogue's Passage]] and trample to force damage through, double his output with your combat-enhancing Equipment, and use cards like [[Berserk]], [[Colossification]], [[Eldrazi Conscription]], or [[Super State]] when it's time to stop being subtle.\n\nYou're not building an army.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"You're building one extremely angry, increasingly enormous, nearly indestructible Frog. 🐸💪💥"},{"insert":"\n"}]}