{"ops":[{"insert":"Introduction:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is a low-curve Izzet midrange deck, splashing green, focused around Bilbo, Theif in the Night.\nIt tries to accumulate value whilst removing it's opponents threats, before turning the corner with Questing Druid.\n\n\nWhy play this deck?"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you enjoy low-curve high-interaction decks, like many decks in the older formats, but want to stay within the standard format."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You enjoy scraping through a game trading 1 for 1, before finally sticking and protecting a threat and turning the corner."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You want to play something off-beat, that isn't fully solved, so you can fiddle with the numbers yourself."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\nGameplan:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nIdea of the deck:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck is built around a trifecta of cards that synergize incredibly well:\nBilbo, Druid, and Accumulate Wisdom.\n\nBilbo works very well with Druid for three main reasons, 1; he reduces the cost of both the impulse drawn cards, and the druid itself, 2; he can cast the adventure from the graveyard to get back the druid, 3; He casts spells, which grows the druid, and 4; They are both 2 mana creatures that become really good if allowed to stick, and fit in more low curve decks, so their support suite is similar.\n\nBilbo's synergy with Accumulate Wisdom should be pretty clear, since it's litterally Ancestral Recall if Bilbo recasts it from the Graveyard.\n\nAccumulate Wisdom is also a good support piece for Druid, since it's a cheap spell, that draw you into more cheap spells, all of which grow the Druid, and both a cheap card draw spells, that want you to play a low-curve deck.\n\nTo support Accumulate Wisdom the deck has to run a lot of Lessons, but this is not really a problem as the lessons fit the gameplan very well, with cheap card draw, removal and protection, which is everything the deck wants, especially combustion technique is great as one of the few ways to kill big creatures in temur, consistently, for cheap. Bilbo really wants varied removal he can recur as needed, so not having access to more than maybe 5 damage in a non-lesson temur deck would be pretty bad.\n\n\nMatchups:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"In basically every matchup, the goal is getting ahead on cards.\n\nControl: The deck has only two different creatures, Bilbo and Druid, both of these are incredebly powerful if allowed to stick, Bilbo generates a lot of card advantage, and Druid can quickly grow to lethal size. For this reason the gameplan against control kinda becomes running your opponent out of removal. This is the same as a traditional midrange deck in a control matchup, except there you do it by playing multiple threats, here you do it with protection and counterspells, so each threat can eat 2-3 removal spells. If you have multiple threats playing one out unprotected is fine to eat a removal spell, especially using Druid to eat removal for Bilbo, who can then recast the Druid is great.\n\nAggro: You are playing quite a bit of removal, just attempt to destroy all their creatures, if you can get out a Bilbo and start recuring removal spells, you are in good shape. Druid can also become a sizeable blocker. These decks are usually light on removal, so you can often play your threats without protection, since time is more important here. The deck has no life gain, and a damaging manabase, so you need to remove as many things as possible.\n\nMidrange: Here it's a mix of the two, you want to remove their threats, whilst running them out of removal, this is actually a pretty nice matchup, since you aren't strained for removal or protection, you just need a bit of both, which is the most likely draw. Especially since counterspells can act as both.\n\nCombo: You are playing a good amount of interaction, and many of the current combo decks are creature based, so you can disrupt their combo. This is the main goal alongside trying to play and protect a creature.\n\n\n\nSideboarding:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The sideboard is probably where the deck is least optimized, i've played more best-of-1 due to time constraints, so feel free to change the sideboard, comments with ideas for improvements are appreciated.\n\nYou don't want to touch the card draw too much, since the deck is so reliant on a continious flow of cards, but going down an opt or two ofter sideboarding makes sense, since it's main goal is digging for the cards you need, so replacing them with cards that are good in the matchup makes sense, since those are what you would dig for anyways.\n\nAgainst aggro you can side out some protection like Spell Pierce and some copies of Octopus Form, for more cheap removal, like Firebending Lesson, Spell Snare and Iroh's Demonstration. \n\nAgainst control you can side out your smaller removal like Firebending Lesson, for more protection and bigger cards, like Three Steps, Octopus Form and Disdainful Stroke, if it's a black based deck going up spells snares for Shoot the Sheriff, Bitter Triumph and Strategic Betrayal makes sense as well.\n\nGhost Vacuum and Soul-Guide Lantern can come in against Graveyard decks, lantern going to the Graveyard makes it ideal to get back with Bilbo. Ghost Vacuum can be brought in against slower decks as just another threat, that also disrupts any graveyard synergy.\n\nFlashfreeze is just great against any deck with a lot of red or green, mono-green landfall is the main target.\n\nOrigin of Metalbending is Artifact/Enchantment removal, thatdoubles as protection.\n"}]}