"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
This thread is for archival purposes. The decklist is tinkered with every now and then, but most/all discussion related to it will be found in DirkGently's excellent Phelddagrif thread. I just want to be able to put this in my signature without disturbing the other thread with constant decklist updates.
The War on Hugs
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Why Phelddagrif?
Dirk goes over this in his primer, but tl;dr: The Purple One is nigh immortal, which means you have a constant board presence and when combined with its inherent evasion makes it an excellent finisher. Finally, it introduces a political element to the game, which you can leverage to your advantage.
Without further ado, let's get into some analysis.
Strategy
Lands
Nothing too fancy here. Since we're running a recursion package with Crucible of Worlds et al. we're keeping non-fetchable non-basics to a minimum since this deck really needs to hit our land drops every turn.