{"ops":[{"insert":"Three rules were follow to make this deck:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"First "},{"insert":"- "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"There should be as few non-basic lands that can generate colored mana as posible and as few non-basic lands overall. "},{"insert":" Basic lands are the easiest to fetch and we will be fetching lands in our opponent's turns to trigger Zimone's landfall ability and manifest as much cards as posible, so filling the deck with easy to fetch lands is very important. One can play those fetch's that deal 1 damage to you (and you can play as much of those, of any color combination, as you want) but it would be too expensive (moneywise) if we want to have a lot of those, so we won't. Still, the green-blue one is fine because is the best one for this deck. It's also worth noting that those fetch lands can't tap for mana. There will be times when that will be a weakness unless you accommodate for it with cards like [[Dryad of the Ilysian Grove]], [[Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth]] and [[Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth]]. So fetch lands that can fetch and tap for colorless are handy in their own way, but I will compare the two mana bases in the future.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Second "},{"insert":"- "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"There should be as few non-permanent cards (that can't be played from the graveyard) as posible."},{"insert":" Zimone's second part of his landfall ability lets us flip face up a face-down permanent. This is essentially \"cheating\" permanents into the battlefield. But cards can only be flipped face up if they are permanents in his "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"front face"},{"insert":". If we have the opportunity of manifesting a not-permanent card, when manifesting dread, then we should send it to the graveyard instead. And, if that card can be used from the graveyard, that would be great. There is still the possibility of non-permanent cards being manifested but is very low. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Third "},{"insert":"- "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"As few ETB's as possible and as few non synergistic cards."},{"insert":" This deck embraces synergy. ETB is a mechanic that doesn't go well with the deck because it doesn't go well with the face-down/manifest mechanic (unless the ETB is a drawback like the one [[Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath]] has). Synergizing bad with ETB's is one of the biggest weaknesses of the commander. I's a pretty common and powerful mechanic and Including as few ETB's as posible has been one of the greatest challenges of building this deck.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Game plan:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck's game plan is to manifest as much cards as posible and make a powerful board state of manifestations, creatures and cheated permanents "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"(mid-range)."},{"insert":" The deck also ramps a lot, having tons of mana will help us close the game with a finisher. Some of those permanents (manifested or not) will be our finishers and enablers. The enablers we are looking for will be the ones that allow us to return creatures to our hand or return them from the graveyard to our hand. Protection to close the game is also recommended. We can get protection manifesting cards that have triggered abilities when turned face up (check the disruption category). They can also be flipped face up with Zimone to bypass the morph/manifest cost. In any case, the deck inherently ramps so paying some morph costs is relatively easy.\n\nThe deck can win "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"(very)"},{"insert":" consistently turn 6-7 doing 40+ damage to all 3 opponents if well piloted and assuming no interaction from our opponents (which, in practice, is a ridiculous statement but a good way to benchmark the deck). At turn 6 you should have responses in the form of cards in your hand, your graveyard, and manifested/morphed creatures (most of the responses probably morphed/manifested).\n\nThe deck is weak in the early game (turns 1 to 5) where it has to ramp, setting up interaction in the form of morph creatures, and/or manifestations. At that point, your board should be pretty powerful or should have interaction in place.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"After thoughts:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck is tons of fun, and it has some pretty powerful aspects to! It's hard to interact with as manifestations are almost uncounterable creatures, and players feel powerless when Zimone is turning a permanent face up because they don't know which one of all the face-down cards you will select to turn face up.\n\nIt's also pretty resilient (to the extent that it's hitting his land drops) as players can remove Zimone early but because you have so much mana (cos' landfall deck) you can just cast her again. And, even without her the deck can handle itself nicely.\n\nThe deck generates most of his value just using triggers triggering triggers and most of the times it just needs to cast 1 or 2 spells each turn which makes this deck also feel hard to interact with. It's also (very) worth nothing that this deck's interaction is almost all triggers from permanent turning face up. Turning a permanent face up by the cost of the card (if is a manifestation/morph) is considered a special action, it can't be responded to and "},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"it can bypass Split second"},{"insert":" and even counter a spell that has it. Also, there are cards (primarily on white) that deny the cast of spells or use of abilities when it's not your turn, but this deck (mostly) is not affected by them as none of them deny the use of cracking lands to fetch another, triggers will still apply, and one can still get value and have responses.\n\nThe deck does lack quantity and quality of interaction and removal because the great majority of it are instant or sorcery cards or are creatures with ETB triggers, which are cards and abilities that don't synergize well with the deck.\n\nLastly, those things I remarked as the fun and powerful parts of the deck has been also the things players have told me they dislike about this deck. But their arguments for disliking the deck are "},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"baseless arguments."},{"insert":" Zimone does need 2 to 3 accumulated turns of board set-up to win, and it can be easily stopped. The one thing that's a bit annoying, and i agree with, is that it takes time whenever something happens. After all we are using "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"triggers triggering triggers"},{"insert":" to make most of the value, and fetching lands algo takes time but that applies to almost every landfall deck so that's just a criticism with landfall and not with this deck. It's also a bit of a solitary match where every opportunity of interaction should be used to feel like you are still playing with them.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"And that's the deck. It's tons of fun and really good casual deck. Please, have fun manifesting!"},{"insert":"\n"}]}