![]() Milling a set of Creeping Chills not only undoes all of an aggro deck’s hard work but triggers Silversmote Ghoul, which in turn brings back a set of Prized Amalgams. ![]() A pair of Worldspine Wurms shuffle themselves back into your empty library to give you the combat phases needed to finish the job, while Haunted Dead can discard Wurms to refresh that timer or rebuy Amalgams against a sweeper. Narcomoeba is often seen as a sideboard card that allows this chain to happen against Roiling Vortex.īuilding a large battlefield without haste isn’t enough in many situations. Decks like Lotus Field Combo or Temur Reclamation can stop you ever getting to untap. Many lists adopted Thassa’s Oracle as a backup plan for this reason: Selesnya or Orzhov Auras can stitch together a large lifelink creature to hold off the Zombie horde, while popular sweepers like Anger of the Gods or Shadows’ Verdict out of Five-Colour Niv-Mizzet – which effectively runs five copies thanks to Bring to Light – can deal with it permanently. This list can build its own Inverter of Truth with Informer or Spy and use Thassa’s Oracle to win outside of combat. Claim // Fame can return Oracle cheaply on the combo turn and the actual text on Agadeem’s Awakening can become relevant here with enough time and mana Revival // Revenge is a more expensive option that can bring back a countered or discarded Undercity Informer. In the green-heavy lists, Bala Ged Recovery can rebuy Thassa’s Oracle to similar effect. This function of Thassa’s Oracle could be accomplished with just a single copy in the deck but it also serves a useful role against graveyard hate. With no other deck relying enough on the graveyard to justify hate, early lists hoping to catch the metagame off-guard had less reason to lean hard on Oracle. Lotus Field Is Flourishing Again In Pioneer Now that Oops is posting high-profile finishes in Pioneer, savvy or scared opponents are sure to show up with Soul-Guide Lantern or similar hate and a card that speeds up your regular wins and acts as an alternate win condition looks very appealing. In explaining the resurgence of Lotus Field Combo I argued that the removal of multifaceted decks like Dimir Inverter opened more room for linear decks that demanded narrow answers, shrinking the target on any one linear deck as sideboard slots were stretched thin. ![]() ![]() Oops All Spells fits neatly in that equation every Damping Sphere is a blank square that could be a Tormod’s Crypt. ![]()
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