{"ops":[{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Trick or Treat Contest:"},{"insert":" In this deck "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar"}},{"insert":" (Dressed up as Squidward for the Halloween celebrations) leads a cohort of Trick or Treaters. Allowing you to experience the joys of being a Father taking their kids Trick or Treating. The \"treats\" your opponents give are the cards drawn for allowing your creatures to \"Visit\" their houses. The \"Tricks\" are the revenge your creatures reap for being denied their treats (i.e. Combat Tricks). \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Core Deck Win Strategy: "},{"insert":"Tempo Combat. Using creatures with bounce and disruption abilities you put opponents on the back foot. Then playing Grazilaxx you make your opponents decide to give you card advantage or allow you to have creatures that will continue disrupting them. The early game plan is to soften up your opponents as the damage and card advantage is less concerning than the disruption your creatures represent. Then mid to late game you have a suite of large disruption options that allow you to finish opponents off. \n\n\nWith this deck every round of combat lets you relive your childhood, going around the Neighborhood and asking \"Trick or Treat!\" Only this time you get to enact Tricks for every Treat you are denied. \nI've even included a number of creatures to participate in costume contests! Three clones and four Morph creatures.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Leyline of Anticipation"}},{"insert":" lets you turn your Tricks into their most powerful versions as Combat Tricks.\n\nWhile "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar"}},{"insert":" is chaperoning the Trick or Treaters, every combat puts 1-3 opponents in a tricky dilemma, do they give you a card or do they return a valuable creature to your hand? \nThe major creatures (the ones that play a trick then steal the Candy Bowl) are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Summon: Leviathan"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pursued Whale"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ultimecia, Temporal Threat"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thousand Winds"}},{"insert":" .\nNot only are these creatures big, but blocking them with Grazilaxx out can lock out the entire board for your opponents. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Summon: Leviathan"}},{"insert":" also creates a loop with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Venser, Shaper Savant"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Jill, Shiva's Dominant"}},{"insert":" , and the creatures under \"Secondary Enablers\". "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Nadir Kraken"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mesmerizing Benthid"}},{"insert":" are purposeful in their typing to provide big creatures that can attack during these lock sequences.\nI've also found"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Voracious Greatshark"}},{"insert":" to be quite an all-star in this deck. Swinging a 5/4 at the creature/artifact focused deck then if they block will punish them with a cruel trick is very effective. \n\nThe rest of the \"Trick or Treaters\" are incremental advantages that represent real choice in whether to block them or not. \nYou can swing creatures that disrupt spell strategies at the Creature player or the Creature strategy disruptors at the spell player. \nThe teamwork fools them into letting you stay around for longer.\nOr if you want \"Treats\" you can swing at the players that are most affected by those strategies.\n\nThe Clones also provide a wide variety of versatility in copying your creatures or your opponents' creatures. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Flesh Duplicate"}},{"insert":" is best at copying your opponent's big creature that they really can't take more than a couple of hits with. Making \"Vanishing\" less punishing than one would assume.\n\nTwo Tricks I would like to specifically call out:\n1) "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eon Frolicker"}},{"insert":" . It's a big body for 4 mana, but more importantly this deck is Tempo shaped in EDH. Tempo really excels in the 2v1 (and especially the 1v1). In 3v1 it's primary goal is to be unassuming enough it doesn't get taken out immediately. This is a blue creature deck after all. You don't have Green's explosive one-shot turns. Giving an opponent an extra turn to kill off one or two of your other opponents for you can flip the switch to checkmate. Of course you still need to mass bounce or control your opponent's board state after that meaning you still have to play the card with some forethought. \n2) "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Portal Mage"}},{"insert":" 's redirection is very effective. It can protect you from a lethal swing. Also it plays into the the points mentioned above. If a player is equally swinging at the table to bring Life Totals down you can redirect a creature to the person with the lowest life. Potentially taking them out and creating the circumstances this deck is best at. Of course keep in mind the social contract (Pod availability) if playing with randoms. Have no mercy if playing with friends. \n\nNotes on Secondary Enablers:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alora, Merry Thief"}},{"insert":" is in here because everyone needs a mischievous mother that gets you your candy, but still helps you cause problems. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Long River Lurker"}},{"insert":" does a similar thing to Alora, but has the added fun of making your opponents choose if they want to allow you to repeat the effect by blocking it's swing with Grazilaxx out. So it itself is a Trick or Treater and not just an enabler. Consider it your older sibling.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Displacer Kitten"}},{"insert":" What would Halloween be without a Black Cat? When this cat crosses a person's path it's guaranteed to bring bad luck by filling their lives with malicious tricks.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hullbreaker Horror"}},{"insert":" Games got to end. Probably the most brutal tempo card out there. Just cruel with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Venser, Shaper Savant"}},{"insert":" .\n"}]}