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{"ops":[{"insert":"Kwia looks like a lifegain commander, but this deck is really a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Lotus-production engine disguised as a lifegain deck"},{"insert":". The goal is not to gain enormous chunks of life for their own sake; it is to gain life at the right times, especially on opponents’ turns, so Kwia can make Lotus tokens as often as possible. Cards like Soul Warden, Essence Warden, Auriok Champion, Authority of the Consuls, Lifegift, Spectrum Sentinel, Sun Droplet, Solarium Sentry, and Liliana the Faultless help turn ordinary game actions into life-gain events. Once Kwia is online, those tiny triggers start manufacturing three-mana artifacts around the table.\n\nThe deck becomes explosive once its token multipliers appear. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Anointed Procession, Parallel Lives, Mondrak, Doubling Season, and Elspeth, Storm Slayer"},{"insert":" can turn a single Kwia trigger into two, four, or even more Lotuses. That is where the deck stops functioning like normal Selesnya. Suddenly a seemingly harmless one-life trigger can represent six, twelve, or more stored mana. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Second Harvest"},{"insert":" can multiply an already-developed token board, while cards like "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Belladonna Took, Haliya, The Gaffer, Dawn of Hope, Well of Lost Dreams, Esper Sentinel, Exemplar of Light, and The Great Henge"},{"insert":" keep the deck from running out of cards while it converts life and tokens into resources.\n\nThe Lotus pile is not only mana. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Bronze Guardian"},{"insert":" turns a large artifact count into a huge double-striking threat, and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Urza’s Saga"},{"insert":" can produce Constructs that scale with the number of artifacts in play. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Clock of Omens"},{"insert":" gives the artifact package another angle, especially with Pristine Talisman and other useful artifacts. Meanwhile, the deck can simply pour massive amounts of mana into "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Finale of Glory, Grand Crescendo, Germinate Recruits, Storm Herd, Walking Ballista"},{"insert":", or other payoff spells. Token doublers make those finishers dramatically more dangerous, and cards such as Archangel of Thune, Resplendent Angel, Angelic Accord, and Ocelot Pride give the deck secondary ways to snowball a board from repeated lifegain.\n\nThe play pattern is to build quietly, avoid overcommitting too early, and look for ways to trigger Kwia across an entire turn cycle. Once the Lotus engine starts compounding, the deck can pivot quickly from value to overwhelming pressure. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Aura Shards, Beast Within, Generous Gift, Path to Exile, Swords to Plowshares, Winds of Abandon, and Hour of Reckoning"},{"insert":" keep opponents from simply racing past you, while Heroic Intervention helps preserve a developed board. The deck wins by reaching a point where every small action creates another resource: life becomes Lotuses, Lotuses become mana and artifact count, mana becomes cards or armies, and those armies become lethal.\n"}]}
Commander
Commander
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Creature
Enlightened Confidant
Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, surveil 1. If you put a card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn into your graveyard this way, put that card into your hand.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, surveil 1. If you put a card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn into your graveyard this way, put that card into your hand.
Creature - Cleric Kor
Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
Flying
When Ob Nixilis enters, destroy all tapped creatures your opponents control. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
When Ob Nixilis enters, destroy all tapped creatures your opponents control. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
Legendary Creature - Angel
Creature
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Draw
Haliya, Guided by Light
Whenever Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Draw
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Instant
Vigorbloom Charm
Choose one —
• Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
• You draw a card and gain 3 life.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
• Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
• You draw a card and gain 3 life.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Instant
Instant
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Land
Adagia, Windswept Bastion
This land enters tapped.
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Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | , : Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | , : Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Boseiju, Who Endures
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Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
Land
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Lifegain
Lifegain
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Protection
Bronze Guardian
Double strike
Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
Other artifacts you control have ward .
Bronze Guardian's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.
Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)
Other artifacts you control have ward .
Bronze Guardian's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Recursion
Aerith, Last Ancient
Lifelink
Raise — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you gained 7 or more life this turn, return that card to the battlefield instead.
Raise — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you gained 7 or more life this turn, return that card to the battlefield instead.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric Druid
Recursion
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Removal
Ajani, Strength of the Pride
+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control.
−2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.
−2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ajani
Winds of Abandon
Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Removal
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Tokens
Doubling Season
If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.
Enchantment
Elspeth, Storm Slayer
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
0: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain flying until your next turn.
−3: Destroy target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater.
+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
0: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain flying until your next turn.
−3: Destroy target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater.
Legendary Planeswalker - Elspeth
Mondrak, Glory Dominus
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Ocelot Pride
First strike, lifelink
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing, for each token you control that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing, for each token you control that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.
Creature - Cat
Tokens
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