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{"ops":[{"insert":"Do you enjoy winning by sacrificing creatures and comboing off? Do you enjoy going fast? If you said yes to either of those, this deck might be for you. With a powerful effect in the command zone (attached to a pretty solid body might I add) and the fastest colors in the game, this deck should be a solid contender in any pod!\n\nYour main goal in this deck revolves around finding ways to get good value out of token generators and/or recurring creatures and free sac outlets. Your bread and butter creature card is of course Gravecrawler, as Tresserhorn being a zombie means you’ll always be able to recur it, so long as he is on the battlefield. Mixing gravecrawler and any other free sac outlet allows you to use it as a 1 mana cantrip until you can gradually accumulate more pieces and ideally have access to much more of your deck than your opponents on average. \n\nYour starting hand should ideally have some sort of early ramp and either extra draw effects OR lots of creatures/token makers for an early Tresserhorn. If you keep a hand with rhystic study and no creatures, you’re probably in a fine spot even if you’re not gonna be able to do Tresserhorn shenanigans quite yet. A hand with bitter bloom bearer could be equally worth it assuming you have the early mana to get Tresserhorn out on turn 3, for example. \n\nThere are a couple different directions you can lean into with the deck. One being the generic grixis value package included in the list with Thassas Oracle, Underworld Breach, Brain Freeze, and Lotus Petal//Lions Eye Diamond(not included in list). Using Breach to loop Brain Freeze and Lotus petal you can either use the storm count to Brain Freeze yourself out and win with Thassas Oracle, or straight up Brain freeze your opponents and end turn so they lose at their draw steps. All of this is fairly well protected, as you should also be able to cast any interaction you mill into your graveyard, best example being either Deflecting Swat or Fierce Guardianship since they would only cost the 3 exiled cards each time.\n\nThe other major direction is the aristocrats strategy. With gravecrawler, Warren soultrader/phyrexian altar, and Sephiroth/Goblin Bombardment/Mayhem Devil allows you to infinitely drain out the table. The process goes like; sacrifice your gravecrawler for 1 mana/1 treasure, your life Drainer will do 1 damage, use the 1 mana/treasure to recast gravecrawler from the graveyard, rinse and repeat until each opponent is dead. If at any time this combo seems like it will make you deck yourself out (for example, your opponent has gained a lot of life) just sacrifice Tresserhorn away. As long as you have Warren Soultrader itself out, gravecrawler can always come back (there are a few other zombie creatures that can also work if youre using Phyrexian Altar for your sac. This specific win line does not need any of the same cards together necessarily. You can accomplish the same thing with Goblin Bombardment+Pitiless Plunderer+Gravecrawler, or Disassembling Skeleton+Warren+Pitiless+Sephiroth, or Locust God+Tresserhorn+Altar+ Bombardment(if opponents have lost a lot of life). The specific way you win should change depending on the pieces you’re most readily given.\n\nI hope if you’re looking at this that my deck is somewhat intriguing to you and that maybe it inspires you to try it, or at least if you hate it, maybe it’ll give you a reason to build your own version that you think doesn’t suck lol. Also, I’ve never made one of these before, so I apologize if it also wasn’t the most clear/thorough plan. Anyways, thanks for reading :)\n\n\nSide Note: Maybe-Board is comprised of cards considered for the deck but were cut generally for not being efficient enough (except the rituals, as those are only not great for this deck due to lack of red pips, mana rocks will almost always be better for this build). If you wanted to reduce the bracket level of the deck to 3, you could exchange however many of the game changers for a card in the Maybe-Board and it would generally add more synergies and/or removal.\n"}]}
Commander
Commander
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Counters
Counters
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Drain
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
Whenever Sephiroth enters or attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Avatar
Drain
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Draw
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Enchantment
Draw
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Finisher
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Underworld Breach
Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
Enchantment
Finisher
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Land
Land
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Protection
Protection
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Ramp
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card.
Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Legendary Creature - Pirate Monkey
Ramp
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Recursion
Recursion
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Removal
Removal
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Sac Outlet
Sac Outlet
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Tokens
Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 2/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if five or more creatures died this turn.
: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if five or more creatures died this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Marionette Apprentice
Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Human Artificer
Tokens
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Tutor
Beseech the Mirror
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Sorcery
Tutor
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Maybeboard
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Chasm Skulker
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Creature - Horror Squid
Flesh Duplicate
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has vanishing 3 if that creature doesn't have vanishing. (A permanent with vanishing 3 enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Creature - Shapeshifter Rebel
Maybeboard
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Description
{"ops":[{"insert":"Do you enjoy winning by sacrificing creatures and comboing off? Do you enjoy going fast? If you said yes to either of those, this deck might be for you. With a powerful effect in the command zone (attached to a pretty solid body might I add) and the fastest colors in the game, this deck should be a solid contender in any pod!\n\nYour main goal in this deck revolves around finding ways to get good value out of token generators and/or recurring creatures and free sac outlets. Your bread and butter creature card is of course Gravecrawler, as Tresserhorn being a zombie means you’ll always be able to recur it, so long as he is on the battlefield. Mixing gravecrawler and any other free sac outlet allows you to use it as a 1 mana cantrip until you can gradually accumulate more pieces and ideally have access to much more of your deck than your opponents on average. \n\nYour starting hand should ideally have some sort of early ramp and either extra draw effects OR lots of creatures/token makers for an early Tresserhorn. If you keep a hand with rhystic study and no creatures, you’re probably in a fine spot even if you’re not gonna be able to do Tresserhorn shenanigans quite yet. A hand with bitter bloom bearer could be equally worth it assuming you have the early mana to get Tresserhorn out on turn 3, for example. \n\nThere are a couple different directions you can lean into with the deck. One being the generic grixis value package included in the list with Thassas Oracle, Underworld Breach, Brain Freeze, and Lotus Petal//Lions Eye Diamond(not included in list). Using Breach to loop Brain Freeze and Lotus petal you can either use the storm count to Brain Freeze yourself out and win with Thassas Oracle, or straight up Brain freeze your opponents and end turn so they lose at their draw steps. All of this is fairly well protected, as you should also be able to cast any interaction you mill into your graveyard, best example being either Deflecting Swat or Fierce Guardianship since they would only cost the 3 exiled cards each time.\n\nThe other major direction is the aristocrats strategy. With gravecrawler, Warren soultrader/phyrexian altar, and Sephiroth/Goblin Bombardment/Mayhem Devil allows you to infinitely drain out the table. The process goes like; sacrifice your gravecrawler for 1 mana/1 treasure, your life Drainer will do 1 damage, use the 1 mana/treasure to recast gravecrawler from the graveyard, rinse and repeat until each opponent is dead. If at any time this combo seems like it will make you deck yourself out (for example, your opponent has gained a lot of life) just sacrifice Tresserhorn away. As long as you have Warren Soultrader itself out, gravecrawler can always come back (there are a few other zombie creatures that can also work if youre using Phyrexian Altar for your sac. This specific win line does not need any of the same cards together necessarily. You can accomplish the same thing with Goblin Bombardment+Pitiless Plunderer+Gravecrawler, or Disassembling Skeleton+Warren+Pitiless+Sephiroth, or Locust God+Tresserhorn+Altar+ Bombardment(if opponents have lost a lot of life). The specific way you win should change depending on the pieces you’re most readily given.\n\nI hope if you’re looking at this that my deck is somewhat intriguing to you and that maybe it inspires you to try it, or at least if you hate it, maybe it’ll give you a reason to build your own version that you think doesn’t suck lol. Also, I’ve never made one of these before, so I apologize if it also wasn’t the most clear/thorough plan. Anyways, thanks for reading :)\n\n\nSide Note: Maybe-Board is comprised of cards considered for the deck but were cut generally for not being efficient enough (except the rituals, as those are only not great for this deck due to lack of red pips, mana rocks will almost always be better for this build). If you wanted to reduce the bracket level of the deck to 3, you could exchange however many of the game changers for a card in the Maybe-Board and it would generally add more synergies and/or removal.\n"}]}