{"ops":[{"insert":"Trick or Treat!\n\n'Tis Halloween, and with Iroh's help, it's up to you to hand out treats to everyone... unless you feel like performing a few tricks!\n\nThe gameplan of this deck is a Group Hug and Donate deck with subthemes of tokens, food, lifegain, and copies, all intermingling together to celebrate the season of Halloween.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Iroh, Tea Master"}},{"insert":" is the main engine of your deck, allowing you to give treats to others as you create Foods, with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rosie Cotton of South Lane"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astrid Peth"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Apothecary White"}},{"insert":" creating the Foods consistently for you to give out (Examples of cards for getting you Foods are found in the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Treat!"},{"insert":" category). But you're likely to have a surplus of Food yourself that you won't be able to give out—but no worries, because that Food is useful to you, too! With lifegain cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exemplar of Light"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Well of Lost Dreams"}},{"insert":", you can utilize the Foods for lifegain synergy. You can also sacrifice them to cards such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Trading Post"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Demand Answers"}},{"insert":" for additional value if you need to, and even having Food passively can be useful with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inspiring Statuary"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"All That Glitters"}},{"insert":" (Examples of cards that have synergy with Foods are found in the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Treat Synergy"},{"insert":" category).\n\nBut Halloween isn't all about the treats... it's also about the tricks! But what tricks could Iroh have up his sleeve?\n\nWell, Red is no stranger to copying creatures, with the caveat that you have to sacrifice those creatures. But you can't sacrifice what you don't control, now can you?\n\nThis is where the Trick part of the deck comes in—you can create copies of your creature tokens, some other creatures, and, even with the right cards (such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror Box"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror Gallery"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cadric, Soul Kindler"}},{"insert":"), you can copy your many legendary creatures too! (If you do get the chance, I recommend copying your commander "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Iroh, Tea Master"}},{"insert":" and giving those copies away, so that every player can partake in the Trick or Treat celebration.) Most of these cards simply copy creatures (before combat) that you would normally have to sacrifice (such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Fire Crystal"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Molten Duplication"}},{"insert":"), but with Iroh, you can give those tokens away to your opponents as a Group Hug strategy, all while performing your trick: circumventing the sacrifice (Examples of these cards can be found in the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Trick!"},{"insert":" category). There are also other various cards with work well with your \"tricks,\" such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Staff of the Storyteller"}},{"insert":" (Examples of these cards can be found in the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Trick Synergy"},{"insert":" category).\n\nThere are also cards which can be useful both with Treats or Tricks, so they fall under the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Trick or Treat Synergy"},{"insert":" category, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Anointed Procession"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ocelot Pride"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dutiful Replicator"}},{"insert":".\n\nWhen you're feeling especially mischievous, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hellkite Tyrant"}},{"insert":" can be used to gain back any Foods (or other artifact creatures you've copied and given away) as a sudden win-con, or at least a gain in tempo, whereas similarly "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Homeward Path"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor"}},{"insert":" can undo all the generosity of your Group Hug work and turn it into value for yourself while avoiding the sacrifice drawbacks, as long as you time it correctly.\n\nGenerally, this deck wants to win via lifegain or go-wide strategies, though as mentioned before, cards that return your permanents under your control can also be a win-con. Additionally, if the situation allows for it, you can always combat your way through by copying your creatures normally. The deck is by no means very powerful, and the politics and group hug persuasion will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting. This means not only do you need to make frequent deals with opponents, but sometimes you might want to hold some cards closer to your chest (metaphorically and literally). It's probably a good idea, for example, to keep "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor"}},{"insert":" in your hand up until you actually need it, so that opponents won't know that you can undo all that generosity in one moment.\n\nLastly, though it isn't important, I made an attempt to get the card arts to be as \"Halloween-y\" as I could, trying to put food where I could, appearances that were more plausible to be a costume, or otherwise more grim settings or colors. Much of this is subjective, and I didn't have luck finding a suitable art with every card. Even so, I hope that the little additional effort I went in helps with the overall flavor of the deck.\n"}]}