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Desert Shotgun
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Core Combo

Quantity: 8Price: $51.12
Hedge Shredder

Whenever Hedge Shredder attacks, you may mill two cards. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put them onto the battlefield tapped. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Hedge Shredder (dsk) 183
Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards.

Creature
Hedron Crab (plst) ZEN-47

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Land

Quantity: 18Price: $348.26
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: 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 {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 378
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) Hedge Maze enters tapped. When Hedge Maze enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (blb) 372
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Shifting Woodland

Shifting Woodland enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: Shifting Woodland becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228

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Deserts

Quantity: 10Price: $3.50
Festering Gulch

Festering Gulch enters tapped. When Festering Gulch enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Festering Gulch (otj) 257
Lush Oasis

Lush Oasis enters tapped. When Lush Oasis enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Lush Oasis (otj) 261
Soured Springs

Soured Springs enters tapped. When Soured Springs enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Soured Springs (otj) 264

Deserts

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Landfall Reset

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Colossal Rattlewurm

Colossal Rattlewurm has flash as long as you control a Desert. Trample {1}{G}, Exile Colossal Rattlewurm from your graveyard: Search your library for a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Colossal Rattlewurm (otj) 159

Landfall Reset

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Dig

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Malevolent Rumble

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a permanent card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Sorcery
Malevolent Rumble (mh3) 161
Six

Reach Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Creature
Six (mh3) 169

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Sac Outlet

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Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Zuran Orb (mh2) 300

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Interaction/Protection

Quantity: 8Price: $17.52
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (2x2) 63
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Interaction/Protection

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Shufflers

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Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (2x2) 2
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (2x2) 3

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Sideboard

Quantity: 15Price: $62.85
Iridescent Vinelasher

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Iridescent Vinelasher (blb) 99
Pick Your Poison

Choose one — • Each opponent sacrifices an artifact of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature with flying of their choice.

Sorcery
Pick Your Poison (mkm) 170
Silent Gravestone

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities. {4}, {T}: Exile Silent Gravestone and all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Artifact
Silent Gravestone (rix) 182
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Veil of Summer (plst) M20-198

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Maybeboard

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Bristling Backwoods

Bristling Backwoods enters tapped. When Bristling Backwoods enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Bristling Backwoods (otj) 253
Defabricate

Choose one — • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. • Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Instant
Defabricate (bro) 45
Dryad Arbor

(Dryad Arbor isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Creature Land
Dryad Arbor (tsr) 277
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (eld) 43
Fading Hope

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If its mana value was 3 or less, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant
Fading Hope (mid) 51
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 148
Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Smoke Bomb

Flash All creatures have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Smoke Bomb. When you do, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Smoke Bomb (acr) 75
Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tyvar's Stand (one) 190

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Repeat this process (hopefully hitting a number of the 10 deserts), banking up a number of landfall triggers "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"UNTIL"},{"insert":" you hit one of the 2 shuffle titans ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kozilek, Butcher of Truth"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre"}},{"insert":" )."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you hit a land in the same batch as the shuffle titan, you can continue to landfall until you run out of cards or finally whiff on post-Titan landfalls."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Before the Shuffle Titan ability resolves, begin sacrificing your lands to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zuran Orb"}},{"insert":" , gaining a bunch of life, but more importantly, restocking your library with lands. Prioritize sacrificing your crime lands and the 2 of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hedge Maze"}},{"insert":"s - Surveiling away lands with Shredder out gives you the surveiled land, and can help break up a patch of nonlands to ensure your next landfall actually hits more lands. Don't sacrifice any untapped lands without floating mana if you can help it, but if you've gotten to this point, your opponent either has no interaction, or is setting you up to take a massive fall."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Repeat this process until your opponent is either dead, or you've managed to whiff the last landfall."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Note: The use of 2 shuffle titans is due to having another mill player who mainboards 4 "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Surgical Extraction"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"effects. If you can get away with 1, I'd recommend that."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Support"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Colossal Rattlewurm"}},{"insert":" - A 2 of, they can be exiled to fetch a Desert from your library. Once milled, they can help offset a whiff if you have open mana. Potential swap for 2 "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Life from the Loam"}},{"insert":" following future playtesting."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Malevolent Rumble"}},{"insert":" - This is designed to help dig into the deck, both giving us a card and ramping us with the scion token. Can be swapped for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Planar Genesis"}},{"insert":" in the event you need more blue cards for something like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Force of Negation"}},{"insert":". Combos into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Six"}},{"insert":" by providing cards in the graveyard you can potentially retrace."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Six"}},{"insert":" - A mill source that also provides you the option to cast any of the key combo pieces from your graveyard with Retrace. If running "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Life from the Loam"}},{"insert":" , you should be able to pay all your Retrace costs."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shifting Woodland"}},{"insert":" - As we are milling ourselves through various means, we should be able to get Delirium up. A land based alternative to Six fetching us a permanent from our graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Interaction/Protection"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Boseiju, Who Endures"}},{"insert":" - Generally useful land that can hit any problem artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land. Plays into our main strategy as it is a land itself, and can be recycled by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Life from the Loam"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\t"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Flex Slots - 8"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heroic Intervention"}},{"insert":" - Decent protection for all our critical pieces once they hit the board. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tamiyo's Safekeeping"}},{"insert":" can be used instead for budgetary reasons/mana cost."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spell Pierce"}},{"insert":" - As it stands, the list doesn't have enough blue to run something like Force of Negation, and my local meta runs some strong noncreature decks that you need to pack an answer to. So running some Pierces to blank on curve win cons. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nAlternative Includes"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Iridescent Vinelasher"}},{"insert":" - This is extremely tempting, as it puts a lot of pressure on the opponent to answer the board state, and we don't need to run the crime lands currently taking up 10 of our 28 land slots. I don't plan on main boarding them, only sideboarding them for more aggressive matchups where I need every land to hit."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Emry, Lurker of the Loch"}},{"insert":" - Self Mill on ETB, lets us cast either Hedge Shredder or Zuran Orb from our graveyard. Can be pitched to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Force of Negation"}},{"insert":" if you run that in the planned 'flex' slots."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Planar Genesis"}},{"insert":" - An alternative to Malevolent Rumble. Puts a land direct into play or another card into your hand. Can be pitched to FoN."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Force of Negation"}},{"insert":" - Alternative to Spell Pierce, needs more blue compared to the 'base' list to facilitate pitching."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The One Ring"}},{"insert":" - In this economy, out of my price range. If you have them, use them, as Six, Life from the Loam, and Ring lets you get protection from everything EVERY turn if you have multiple copies."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Life from the Loam"}},{"insert":" - utility to add lands to your hand and get cards into the graveyard. Can help you hit land drops consistently as well, or recycle other utility lands."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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