{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"BELLADONNA TOOK THE TOKENS"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"WARNING: READ BEFORE WE PLAY"},{"insert":"\nThis is a high-power deck. It contains one infinite combo and two alternative win conditions:\nInfinite combo: Heliod, Sun-Crowned plus Walking Ballista. Give Ballista lifelink with Heliod, then remove a counter to deal 1 damage, gain 1 life, and Heliod puts the counter back. Repeat for unlimited damage."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Alternative win: Approach of the Second Sun. Cast it twice and I win."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Alternative win: Halo Fountain. Untap fifteen tapped creatures and pay five white mana and I win."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nIt also runs token doublers, board wipes that spare tokens, and a small amount of stax (Linvala, Darksteel Mutation). It is not a competitive build and it is not designed to take down the whole pod on turn five. There are no tutors, so the combo only turns up when I draw it. If the table prefers no infinites, say so and I will not play the Heliod line.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"WHAT THE DECK DOES"},{"insert":"\nBelladonna Took costs two mana and rewards tokens entering under my control. Each turn, the first token gains me 1 life, the second draws a card, and the third puts a +1/+1 counter on every creature I control.\nThe count resets every turn, including opponents' turns. The whole deck is built to make three tokens on my turn and at least two on everyone else's.\nAny token counts: creatures, Treasures and Clues all trigger her.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"GAME PLAN"},{"insert":"\nTurn 2: Belladonna. She is cheap, so recasting her after removal is fine.\nTurns 3 to 5: start making tokens. A three-token spell (Hop to It, Spectral Procession, Sram's Expertise, Elspeth) gives all three rewards at once.\nMid game: add a doubler and an anthem. The third trigger every turn means the board grows by one counter on each player's turn, so 1/1 tokens stop being small very quickly.\nLate game: win with a wide, heavily countered board, or with one of the win conditions listed in the warning.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"TRIGGERING ON OTHER PEOPLE'S TURNS"},{"insert":"\nThis is where the deck gets its advantage, so most of the card choices serve it. Tokens the opponents hand me: Smothering Tithe, Tataru Taru and Smuggler's Share make Treasures when opponents draw cards or play lands. Search the Premises makes a Clue for each creature that attacks me. Darien, King of Kjeldor makes a Soldier for each point of damage I take.\n\nTurning one token into two: Attended Healer makes a Cat the first time I gain life each turn. Belladonna's first trigger gains 1 life, so any single token becomes two tokens and a card.\nInstants: Raise the Alarm, Secure the Wastes, Waylay, Entrapment Maneuver, and Decree of Justice by cycling.\nFlash for everything else: Vedalken Orrery, Emergence Zone, Winding Canyons (creatures only) and Captain Mar-Vell (once an opponent has cast a spell that turn).\nMana on their turns: Bender's Waterskin untaps every turn, and Treasures cover the rest. Sacred Mesa turns any spare 1W into a Pegasus at instant speed.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"DOUBLERS"},{"insert":"\nAnointed Procession, Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Exalted Sunborn each double the tokens created. They stack: two doublers give four times the tokens, three give eight times.\nEvery token is a separate trigger for Belladonna, so one doubler means a single token already reaches the card-draw step.\nAdagia, Windswept Bastion can copy Anointed Procession once it is stationed.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"GROWING THE BOARD"},{"insert":"\nCounters: Belladonna's third trigger, Cathars' Crusade, Virtue of Loyalty, Abandoned Air Temple and Ajani.\nAnthems: Intangible Virtue, Flowering of the White Tree, Paladin Class.\nCathars' Crusade with any three-token spell puts three counters on everything, plus a fourth from Belladonna.\nAngelic Aberration turns a pile of 1/1 tokens into 4/4 fliers. Cast it before the counters go on, since it checks base power and toughness.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"BOARD WIPES THAT FAVOUR ME"},{"insert":"\nHour of Reckoning destroys all nontoken creatures and can be paid for by tapping my tokens.\nMartial Coup with X of 5 or more destroys every other creature and leaves me five Soldiers.\nElspeth, Sun's Champion destroys everything with power 4 or more. Use it before my own tokens get that big.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"PROTECTION"},{"insert":"\nComeuppance turns one big attack back on the attackers.\nMoogles' Valor makes my creatures indestructible for a turn and doubles the board.\nEphemerate saves a key creature from removal. Used on Belladonna it also resets her count for the turn, because she returns as a new object.\nMystifying Maze removes one attacker for a turn.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"FLYING"},{"insert":"\nSigarda's Summons turns every creature with a +1/+1 counter into a 4/4 flying Angel. Belladonna's third trigger and Cathars' Crusade put counters on everything, so the whole board usually flies.\nEldrazi Monument gives all my creatures +1/+1, flying and indestructible. I sacrifice one token each upkeep to keep it. With it out, Hour of Reckoning and Martial Coup destroy only my opponents' creatures.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"RULES NOTES"},{"insert":"\nBelladonna counts how many times her ability has resolved this turn. The fourth and later tokens in a turn do nothing.\nTokens created together enter together, but each one triggers her separately.\nTataru Taru only triggers when an opponent draws outside their own turn, and only once per turn.\nWaylay's Knights are exiled at the next cleanup step, so they are surprise blockers and three triggers, not a permanent army.\nWill of the Mardu makes red tokens. The card is white and legal in this deck.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"CLASHES (THE COST OF PLAYING MONO WHITE)"},{"insert":"\nSome of the best cards in the deck get in each other's way. These are known and accepted.\nSigarda's Summons and Elspeth, Sun's Champion: the Summons makes my tokens 4/4, and Elspeth's -3 destroys creatures with power 4 or greater. That wipes my own board unless Eldrazi Monument is out. (Just don't use the -3 it isn't needed anyway.)\nSigarda's Summons and Angelic Aberration: the Aberration can only sacrifice creatures with base power or toughness 1 or less. Once the Summons has made a token a 4/4 it no longer qualifies, so the Aberration has to come first.\nHour of Reckoning and my own creatures: it destroys all nontoken creatures, including Belladonna, Mondrak and Adeline, unless Eldrazi Monument is out.\nDarien and my own protection: Darien makes Soldiers from damage I take. Comeuppance, Maze of Ith and Mystifying Maze prevent or avoid that damage, so I choose between staying healthy and making tokens.\nIntangible Virtue and Halo Fountain: the Virtue gives tokens vigilance, and the Fountain needs tapped creatures. I have to tap them another way, by convoke for Hour of Reckoning or by stationing Adagia.\nEldrazi Monument and Sacred Mesa: both ask for a sacrifice every upkeep, one creature and one Pegasus. That is two tokens a turn before I have done anything.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"WEAKNESSES"},{"insert":"\nBoard wipes that hit tokens set the deck back but it recovers surprisingly fast.\nEffects that stop tokens being created, or that stop enter-the-battlefield triggers, shut Belladonna off completely.\nThere are no tutors. The doublers and the combo pieces arrive when they arrive.\nRemoval on a doubler in response to a big token spell costs a lot of value.\nThe deck has few fliers of its own until Angelic Aberration or Spectral Procession shows up.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"SIDEBOARD"},{"insert":"\nAngel of Finality, Ghost Vacuum and Soul-Guide Lantern come in against graveyard decks. Thran Dynamo comes in for slower tables. The Book of Exalted Deeds is a third alternative plan and stays out unless the table is happy with it.\n"}]}