{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Kellan, the Kid — Cast Beyond. Build Big."},{"insert":"\nA Bant value deck built around Adventures, prepared spells, flashback, and casting from exile. Kellan rewards those casts with extra permanents from hand, turning one spell into a growing battlefield of creatures, engines, and threats.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Game Plan"},{"insert":"\nDevelop your mana, resolve Kellan, and start casting from outside your hand. Each qualifying cast lets you cast a permanent from hand with equal or lower mana value without paying its mana cost. If you decline, you can put a land from hand onto the battlefield instead.\nKeep your hand stocked: Kellan needs permanents and lands available to turn those triggers into value.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Engine Packages"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Adventures:"},{"insert":" Bofur, Reliable Guardian, Bilbo Baggins, Burglar, and Lake-town Mariners provide useful spells before you cast their creature halves from exile. Those creature casts trigger Kellan. Gorion, Wise Mentor adds value by copying your Adventure spells.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Prepared spells:"},{"insert":" Emeritus of Ideation, Emeritus of Abundance, Emeritus of Truce, Jadzi, Steward of Fate, and the other preparation creatures provide spells you cast from exile. These fuel Kellan while supplying draw, recursion, removal, and other utility.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Exile access:"},{"insert":" Fblthp, Lost on the Range and Sigarda, Font of Blessings give you additional ways to cast cards from outside your hand.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Graveyard casting:"},{"insert":" Daydream, Path to the Festival, and Memory Deluge provide flashback opportunities. Memory Deluge also helps find the next engine or payoff while keeping your hand supplied.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Recurring value:"},{"insert":" Echocasting Symposium establishes a repeatable exile cast through paradigm, giving you another Kellan trigger and a creature copy on subsequent turns.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Ramp, Draw & Tutors"},{"insert":"\nBirds of Paradise, Sol Ring, Farseek, and Path to the Festival help establish your mana. Kellan’s land option accelerates development, while Wilderness Reclamation leaves mana available for interaction after your turn.\nStock Up, Brainsurge, Memory Deluge, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, and Emeritus of Ideation keep resources flowing.\nEladamri’s Call and Recruiter of the Guard find creatures for your current position. Step Through’s wizardcycling provides another targeted search option.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Key Synergies"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Displacer Kitten + prepared creatures:"},{"insert":" Casting a prepared noncreature spell triggers Kitten. Blink the creature that supplied it to reset it and prepare again. This creates repeatable value as your mana allows, while each prepared spell cast from exile also triggers Kellan.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Apex Devastator + Kellan:"},{"insert":" Each spell you cast through cascade can trigger Kellan, allowing one large investment to produce a substantial board.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Echocasting Symposium + enters abilities:"},{"insert":" Copy a useful nonlegendary creature to repeat its enters ability. An Emeritus copy provides another prepared spell, expanding your engine.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tatyova + Kellan’s land option:"},{"insert":" When you choose the land instead of a free permanent spell, Tatyova turns that land entering into another card and life.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"How the Deck Wins"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Flying pressure:"},{"insert":" Shark Typhoon builds an evasive army from your noncreature casts."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Commander damage:"},{"insert":" Raised by Giants makes Kellan a base 10/10 flying, lifelinking threat."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Combat growth:"},{"insert":" Ancient Bronze Dragon can distribute enough counters to make your board lethal."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Overwhelming advantage:"},{"insert":" Cascade, creature copies, prepared spells, and free permanents let you build faster than opponents can answer individual threats."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Piloting Notes"},{"insert":"\nKeep opening hands with access to your colors, early development, and a realistic route to casting from outside your hand.\nKellan checks "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"mana value"},{"insert":", not the amount of mana paid. Memory Deluge still has mana value 4 when cast for its flashback cost, and prepared spells use their own mana values.\nFree permanents cast from your hand do "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" trigger Kellan again. Spell copies trigger him only when an effect actually instructs you to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"cast"},{"insert":" the copy. Playing lands and cycling cards do not trigger him.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cast beyond your hand, keep the engine supplied, and let every spell build toward the next."},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}