{"ops":[{"insert":"Your gameplan revolves around utilizing politics and the great part of removal cards within the deck to keep threats at bay, using mostly persuasion and in-pod agreements so that you can steadily keep shocking enemies with Y'shtola, drawing cards that can fuel up your hand with even more removal.\n\nYou'll have protection pieces and stax pieces that'll mostly try to, well, as stated before, slow the game down to your pace. Norn's Annex, No Mercy, Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, the likes, you'll always want to slither and politic your way out of danger: \"Oh you'll swing all your creatures at me? Dude you'll be defenseless if you do that, I can take like 1 or two, but 7 is too much.\" \"Okay yeah I have rhystic but you don't have to pay the one, If you want I can just not counter the next thing you throw on the board, we just gotta talk it out\", \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"italic":true,"color":"#0066cc","bold":true},"insert":"\"Gotta Talk it out\" "},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Will be your new philosophy, don't like an opponent's movements? Talk it out, see if you or the other players would like that Turn 2 ouroboroid hit the board, or earn a pact of non-aggression with the go-wide go-tall landfall green player since you could have countered their main engine but chose not to so you could be in good terms with them, then "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Aetherize"},{"insert":" their creatures and watch them writhe in despair as they have to waste a turn casting their non-token creatures all the way down again...\n\nI've chosen to limit the ramp possible with this deck but have it be stuff that matters and is repeatbale, that way, you don't need to be TOO worried about hitting your land drops besides the \"power spikes\" of "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"3, 6, 9, and subsequent multiples of 3"},{"insert":", That happens because a good portion of the cards present in the deck are noncreature spells with the mana value "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"(NOT CONVERTED MANA COST, KEEP THAT DISTINCTION IN MIND) "},{"insert":"of 3 or greater, that way, you can consistently proc yshtola, and luckily, if you have the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"wizard's staff "},{"insert":"or even "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Delney, Streetwise Lookout,"},{"insert":" even proc her ability without even moving to combat. Besides that, little fun aspects of ramp in this deck are the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"bouncelands "},{"insert":"combined with"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":" top-deck manipulation"},{"insert":", so you have the three guild "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"bouncelands "},{"insert":"to keep bouncing your "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"scry "},{"insert":"and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"surveil "},{"insert":"lands, and with that, you can choose to untap those lands that tap for 2 mana with spells like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Rewind"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Unwind."},{"insert":"\n\nRemember, you will win with this deck through the Inevitability of your win-cons, be it Torment of Hailfire or copying Approach of the Second sun with Narset's Reversal, and not through attrition, you will not win if you keep bashing your head against your opponent's creatures, so instead, make agreements, counter if you have alliances made, after all, control is about politics (or is politics about control?) Anyways, always measure your words carefully.\n"}]}