# Strategy Specifications
## Deck Name And Archetype

Eldrazi Ramp is a Historic 60-card main deck with a 15-card sideboard, built as a green-based colorless big-mana strategy rather than a pure control deck or linear combo deck. The registered main deck uses early acceleration from Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, Ugin's Labyrinth, and land development to reach Eldrazi-scale plays, then converts that mana into pressure, battlefield control, and inevitability through Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Kozilek's Command, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, Ugin's Binding, and Emrakul, the Promised End.

Format validation status is Historic, 60 main, 15 sideboard, and the supplied format-aware validation result passes. Runtime decisions must still respect Arena/Historic legality as exposed by the rules engine, because the guide is strategic advice and not a substitute for current card legality, digital rebalancing, or action availability. If a legal action is absent, the pilot must not infer that a line exists from this guide.

Archetype tags are ramp and big-mana, with colorless threat density and green setup as the practical identity. The deck is hybrid or rogue-leaning rather than a generic stock import: it has recognizable Eldrazi ramp architecture, but the exact mixture of Torpor Orb, Ugin's Binding, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, and the sideboard package should be treated as a registered-list-specific configuration. Do not import sideboard or sequencing assumptions from other Eldrazi, Tron, or ramp lists unless the exact card appears here.

Primary role assignment is proactive stabilizing ramp. The deck wants to spend early turns turning lands and artifacts into larger mana, then force the opponent to answer oversized threats or repeated high-impact spells. It should not play like draw-go control unless the visible matchup and hand make interaction or delay better than committing mana. It should not play like all-in combo unless a visible legal sequence clearly converts the current turn into a decisive battlefield or lethal position.

Mana identity is mostly green plus colorless, with light blue access from Talisman of Curiosity, Breeding Pool, Yavimaya Coast, Island, Cavern of Souls, Echoing Cavern, and Utopia Sprawl choices when legal. The decision agent must prioritize early green access for Utopia Sprawl and Malevolent Rumble, then colorless and large-mana access for Eldrazi and Ugin payoffs. Wastes, Ugin's Labyrinth, Sanctum of Ugin, Blast Zone, Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, and Cavern of Souls are not interchangeable; use visible legal action text, current colors, and future spell requirements before choosing land sequencing.

Role concerns are opening-hand quality, action density, and sequencing risk. Hands with ramp but no payoff can stall if Malevolent Rumble or Nulldrifter does not bridge into threats. Hands with payoff but no early green or acceleration can lose tempo before the expensive cards matter. Hands relying on Torpor Orb need matchup context, because Torpor Orb can be excellent against triggered-ability decks but can also be a low-pressure card when the opponent is racing, removing artifacts, or ignoring creature triggers.

Card text check required for exact tactical execution of newer, digital, or less-familiar cards before hard-coding deterministic assumptions. In particular, verify current text and Arena behavior for Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sowing Mycospawn, Devourer of Destiny, Nulldrifter, Ugin's Binding, Kozilek's Command, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, and A-Haywire Mite when a line depends on a specific trigger, alternate cost, cast condition, target restriction, or replacement effect.

Opponent information status is unknown unless supplied by match context, public zones, revealed cards, or prior logged decisions. The pilot may use archetype-level inference from visible lands, spells, companions, graveyard contents, sideboard stage, and match history, but must not invent hidden cards, assume a counterspell or removal spell is present, or name opponent staples in policy fields unless they are visibly revealed or explicitly tagged as opponent examples in prose. Matchup guidance later in this specification should be interpreted as conditional on visible evidence, not as certainty about the opponent's hand.

## Thesis

Eldrazi Ramp assembles early mana acceleration plus colorless action density, then wins by making the opponent answer threats and payoffs that are larger than normal Historic curves. Prioritize hands and lines that produce green mana early, convert that mana into Talisman of Curiosity, Utopia Sprawl, Malevolent Rumble, or Ugin's Labyrinth development, and preserve enough payoff density to make the ramp matter.

The deck wins through repeated high-impact permanents and spells rather than a single deterministic combo. Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Kozilek's Command, and Ugin's Binding are the pressure and conversion layer; choose lines that either stabilize immediately or create a threat the opponent must answer before their own plan finishes.

The deck is not trying to trade one-for-one forever. Use interaction to survive, protect a decisive turn, or break a key opposing engine, but do not spend early turns holding up light answers when visible legal actions allow safe acceleration into a stronger battlefield. Torpor Orb and sideboard hate pieces are tools, not the main plan, unless the visible matchup shows that shutting off the opponent's engine is worth delaying pressure.

The deck is not trying to play low-resource tempo. Avoid speculative keep decisions that have expensive cards without acceleration, acceleration without payoff, or colorless lands without a route to green setup. The pilot should value card flow from Malevolent Rumble and Nulldrifter, but should not treat velocity as a substitute for a real payoff when the opponent's clock is visible.

The highest priority is sequencing mana so the next two turns remain live. Early land choices should preserve green access for Utopia Sprawl and Malevolent Rumble, colorless access for Eldrazi-scale cards, and enough untapped or artifact mana to cast the legal high-impact play. Use rules-engine action text at runtime for exact Ugin's Labyrinth, Cavern of Souls, Echoing Cavern, and Utopia Sprawl decisions.

Card text check required for exact deterministic assumptions involving Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sowing Mycospawn, Devourer of Destiny, Nulldrifter, Ugin's Binding, Kozilek's Command, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, and A-Haywire Mite. Until verified in the runtime action list, treat these cards by strategic role rather than by assumed trigger timing, alternate cost, target range, or replacement effect.

## Role Package

- Threats: Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, and Emrakul, the Promised End are the main bodies that turn mana into pressure. Commit them when the visible board rewards size, inevitability, or immediate stabilization; delay only when known interaction, missing mana, or a stronger legal follow-up makes waiting clearly better.

- Payoffs: Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Kozilek's Command, Ugin's Binding, Sire of Seven Deaths, and Emrakul, the Promised End are the cards that justify ramping instead of playing a fair curve. Prefer payoff lines that affect the board, answer a visible threat, create multiple resources, or force the opponent to spend a full turn reacting.

- Engines: Ugin's Labyrinth, Talisman of Curiosity, Utopia Sprawl, Malevolent Rumble, Sowing Mycospawn, Sanctum of Ugin, Shifting Woodland, and Mirrex are the development layer. The pilot should build toward repeated large turns, not just one expensive spell; protect mana continuity unless spending the engine converts into lethal pressure or survival.

- Velocity: Malevolent Rumble and Nulldrifter are the main ways to bridge between setup and payoff. Use them to find lands, mana, or pressure when the hand lacks the next step, but prioritize direct stabilization or a decisive threat over extra selection when under a short visible clock.

- Interaction: Kozilek's Command, Devourer of Destiny, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Blast Zone, Torpor Orb, Ugin's Binding, and sideboard Dismember, Fade from History, Consign to Memory, Mystical Dispute, A-Haywire Mite, Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Vexing Bauble, and Torpor Orb form the answer suite. Spend interaction on threats, engines, graveyards, artifacts, enchantments, stack fights, or triggered-ability plans that would beat the ramp plan before large payoffs stabilize.

- Protection: Cavern of Souls, Echoing Cavern, Vexing Bauble, Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, and proactive threat sequencing are the protection tools. Use them to force through key Eldrazi or Ugin turns when visible blue mana, stack interaction, or hate pieces make an unprotected payoff risky.

- Recursion and resilience: Shifting Woodland, Ugin's Binding, Sanctum of Ugin, Mirrex, and Palantír of Orthanc are the long-game modules, subject to runtime card text and legality. Lean on them when both players trade resources and the game becomes about repeated threats, extra material, or inevitability rather than immediate survival.

- Mana: Forest, Island, Wastes, Yavimaya Coast, Breeding Pool, Cavern of Souls, Sanctum of Ugin, Blast Zone, Prismatic Vista, Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, Ugin's Labyrinth, Echoing Cavern, Talisman of Curiosity, and Utopia Sprawl must be sequenced as a system. Prioritize early green, then colorless and large-mana availability, while preserving specialty lands for their visible legal functions when those functions matter.

- Sideboard modules: A-Haywire Mite, Consign to Memory, Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Vexing Bauble, Torpor Orb, Dismember, Mystical Dispute, Palantír of Orthanc, and Fade from History let the deck change from pure ramp into targeted disruption. Add them only when the opponent's visible archetype or revealed cards make the role upgrade stronger than keeping maximum threat and ramp density.

## Primary Win Conditions

- Prioritize the ramp-into-threat line when the opener has early green mana plus a real payoff. Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Ugin's Labyrinth, Malevolent Rumble, and Sowing Mycospawn are the setup cards; Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Kozilek's Command, and Ugin's Binding are the conversion cards. Execute by spending the first turns increasing mana or finding the missing piece, then commit the largest legal play that stabilizes the board or shortens the clock. Disruption to respect includes visible counter mana, exile removal, graveyard hate against recursion lines, artifact/enchantment pressure on Utopia Sprawl or Talisman of Curiosity, and fast creature pressure that punishes spending a turn on selection.

- Use Ugin, Eye of the Storms as a main stabilizing payoff when the board requires a high-impact noncreature threat. Card text check required for exact mode, timing, and target assumptions, so choose its legal actions from the engine output rather than assumed planeswalker patterns. Prioritize this path when visible creatures, small permanents, or board stalls make a single large creature less reliable, or when the opponent has shown creature removal but not a clean answer to a resolved planeswalker-style permanent.

- Use Eldrazi body pressure as the default kill when the opponent is not immediately threatening lethal. Sowing Mycospawn and Nulldrifter should turn development into board presence, while Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, and Emrakul, the Promised End should close games once mana is abundant. Prioritize attacks that preserve a lethal or two-turn clock without exposing the only stabilizer to a bad block; avoid unnecessary trades when the deck can instead force the opponent to answer repeated oversized threats.

- Use Kozilek's Command and Ugin's Binding as bridge payoffs when the game is about tempo, tokens, removal, or multi-card conversion instead of one giant creature. Card text check required for exact options, targets, and trigger windows, so select among legal choices by visible board need: answer a lethal threat, create material, push damage, or enable the next expensive play. Prioritize this path against wide boards, small utility creatures, and games where tapping out for one body would not stabilize.

## Secondary Win Conditions

- Win through repeated value when the first payoff is answered. Malevolent Rumble and Nulldrifter should keep the hand and battlefield supplied, Sowing Mycospawn should improve future mana, and Sanctum of Ugin, Shifting Woodland, Mirrex, and Ugin's Binding can provide late-game material when their legal actions appear. Card text check required for exact Shifting Woodland, Sanctum of Ugin, Mirrex, and Ugin's Binding use, but the tactical rule is simple: convert excess mana into another threat before the opponent rebuilds.

- Win through Torpor Orb lock pressure only when the opponent's visible cards show that triggered abilities are central. Torpor Orb is not a primary clock, so deploy it early when it turns off the opponent's engine or protects the ramp window, then follow with Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, or a larger finisher. Do not prioritize Torpor Orb over mana or threats against opponents whose visible plan is combat, spells, or graveyard pressure that Torpor Orb does not affect.

- Win through creature-land and token pressure when sweepers or removal have traded off the main threats. Mirrex and Shifting Woodland are fallback pressure sources if the rules engine exposes legal activation or transformation actions; use them when mana would otherwise go unused, when attacking planeswalkers or life totals matters, or when holding expensive cards into visible interaction is worse. Do not sink mana into these lines if the same turn can cast a payoff that changes the board more decisively.

- Win by exhausting interaction with threat sequencing. Lead with the payoff that is good enough but not irreplaceable when the opponent has open mana, then follow with Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms after they spend their answer. Cavern of Souls and Echoing Cavern should be used according to visible legal text to force key creature turns when counterplay is the main obstacle.

## Emergency Lines

- When behind on life, choose stabilization over maximum inevitability. Spend Kozilek's Command, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Ugin's Binding, Devourer of Destiny, Blast Zone, or legal blocks to reduce incoming damage before taking a slower selection or engine line. A hand with Emrakul, the Promised End but no time to cast it should pivot into any legal smaller play that prevents lethal.

- When behind on board, prioritize legal actions that remove, shrink, block, or produce multiple bodies before pure ramp. Malevolent Rumble is acceptable if it finds immediate defense or mana for the same turn cycle, but a visible lethal attack next turn makes direct interaction and blockers higher priority than developing a future payoff.

- When behind on cards, preserve payoff density and use velocity carefully. Nulldrifter and Malevolent Rumble are the recovery tools, while Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, Sanctum of Ugin, and Palantír of Orthanc after sideboard can matter in longer games. Avoid spending the last threat into obvious open interaction unless waiting gives the opponent an even clearer path to win.

- When behind on mana, stop assuming the top-end will arrive on schedule. Prioritize Forest access, Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Ugin's Labyrinth setup, Prismatic Vista fixing, and Malevolent Rumble selection before speculative expensive cards. Mulligan-style discipline applies midgame: if the current hand cannot cast its threats, choose the legal action that unlocks mana rather than the action that preserves a fantasy curve.

- When engines or win conditions are removed, shift to redundant pressure. The deck has multiple finishers, so do not concede strategic direction after losing one Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End. Rebuild with Nulldrifter, Malevolent Rumble, Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, Kozilek's Command, and any remaining large threat.

- When facing combo or graveyard recursion, race only if disruption is absent or too slow. Main-deck Torpor Orb, Kozilek's Command, and fast payoff pressure are the primary pre-sideboard tools; after sideboard, Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble, Mystical Dispute, Dismember, A-Haywire Mite, and Fade from History become emergency role cards depending on visible evidence. Respect the rules-engine action list and do not assume a hate card stops a line unless its legal action or visible effect supports that conclusion.

## Resource Model

- Life is a spendable buffer only when it buys a decisive mana or threat turn. Breeding Pool, Yavimaya Coast, Talisman of Curiosity, and Dismember after sideboard can cost life, so pay life freely when the payoff is Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, or a stabilizing Kozilek's Command; stop paying life when visible attackers make the next combat lethal or force bad blocks.

- Hand size is converted into mana smoothing and redundant threats. Keep hands that combine lands, Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, Ugin's Labyrinth support, or castable four-mana plays; do not protect expensive cards over functioning mana when the current hand cannot deploy them. Nulldrifter and Malevolent Rumble are the main ways to turn extra mana into more material, while Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, and Ugin, Eye of the Storms are payoff cards that should not be stranded by loose early sequencing.

- Mana is the deck's primary resource and should be converted into board presence before luxury actions. Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Ugin's Labyrinth, Sowing Mycospawn, and land drops should usually unlock the next cost tier before the pilot spends time on Torpor Orb, Mirrex, Blast Zone, Shifting Woodland, or sideboard bullets. Card text check required for exact Ugin's Labyrinth, Sowing Mycospawn, Shifting Woodland, Mirrex, and Blast Zone timing, so use the rules-engine legal actions rather than assumed shortcuts.

- Board presence is both defense and pressure. Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, and tokens or permanents from Kozilek's Command, Mirrex, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms should stabilize first, then shorten the clock. Avoid trading the only large stabilizer unless the trade prevents lethal, protects Ugin, Eye of the Storms, or clears the way for a superior follow-up.

- Graveyard and exile are conditional resources, not default engines. Emrakul, the Promised End and Shifting Woodland may care about graveyard or permanent history, and Ugin's Binding may use non-hand zones; Card text check required for exact conditions. After sideboard, Ghost Vacuum and Relic of Progenitus turn graveyards into interactive leverage, but only spend them when visible graveyard pressure, recursion, escape-style resources, or a legal activation makes the exchange meaningful.

- Lands are strategic inventory, not interchangeable mana pips. Forest enables Utopia Sprawl; Ugin's Labyrinth enables big-mana starts when its legal text supports that line; Cavern of Souls and Echoing Cavern matter against counterplay; Sanctum of Ugin, Blast Zone, Mirrex, and Shifting Woodland are late-game tools. Preserve utility lands when colored and basic requirements are already met, but prioritize castable mana over speculative value in opening turns.

- Sacrifice fodder is scarce and should be treated as emergency material. The main deck is not built to sacrifice permanents for value, so do not expose tokens, small creatures, or utility permanents to sacrifice lines unless the engine shows a legal action that prevents lethal, unlocks a payoff, or converts otherwise irrelevant material. After sideboard, A-Haywire Mite may involve a sacrifice-like exchange; Card text check required for exact cost and target rules.

- Tempo is gained by making the opponent answer a larger permanent than their turn can comfortably handle. Torpor Orb can buy tempo against visible trigger engines, Kozilek's Command and Ugin's Binding can recover board time when their legal modes apply, and Dismember or Fade from History after sideboard can reset threats or permanent clusters. Do not spend tempo on narrow hate when the opponent's visible board demands a blocker, removal, or immediate payoff.

- Information should decide commitment gates. Use visible open mana, revealed cards, known graveyards, public stack objects, and previous actions to decide whether to jam Emrakul, the Promised End, Sire of Seven Deaths, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, or a sideboard bullet. Never assume hidden interaction; compare the cost of waiting against the visible clock and available backup.

- Sideboard bullets convert narrow slots into matchup-specific resources. A-Haywire Mite, Consign to Memory, Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Vexing Bauble, Torpor Orb, Dismember, Mystical Dispute, Palantír of Orthanc, and Fade from History should be treated as tools with jobs, not automatic plays; deploy them when the opponent's visible plan or known matchup role makes their text relevant.

## Mana Guide

- Build early turns around Forest plus acceleration. A hand with Forest and Utopia Sprawl is a high-priority keep structure if it also has follow-up mana, Malevolent Rumble, Talisman of Curiosity, Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Kozilek's Command, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms. A hand without green access should be treated skeptically unless Ugin's Labyrinth, Talisman of Curiosity, and legal early plays clearly make the hand functional.

- Sequence lands to enable the next legal spell, not to maximize theoretical late value. Play Forest early for Utopia Sprawl; play Prismatic Vista early when it fixes missing green or basic requirements; play Breeding Pool untapped only when the life payment changes the current or next turn; use Island, Wastes, Yavimaya Coast, and Talisman of Curiosity to cover colored or colorless needs shown by the hand and legal actions.

- Preserve utility lands after core mana is stable. Cavern of Souls and Echoing Cavern should be timed for creature-heavy turns or counter-pressure when their legal text applies; Sanctum of Ugin should be saved for payoff sequencing when possible; Blast Zone should be held when a visible permanent cluster may need answering; Mirrex and Shifting Woodland should enter plans when excess mana or board stalls make their legal actions valuable.

- Mulligan hands that cannot produce meaningful action by the early midgame. Keep seven-card hands that present acceleration plus a castable payoff path; consider mulliganing hands that contain only expensive cards, no green source, no Utopia Sprawl/Talisman of Curiosity/Malevolent Rumble path, or utility lands that fail to cast spells. Do not keep a hand solely because it contains Emrakul, the Promised End or Sire of Seven Deaths.

- Cast acceleration before selection when the next turn's mana is the bottleneck. Utopia Sprawl and Talisman of Curiosity usually come before Malevolent Rumble if the current hand already has a payoff and needs mana; Malevolent Rumble rises when the hand lacks lands, lacks a payoff, or needs a specific permanent type. Card text check required for Malevolent Rumble exact selection rules.

- Play lands before draw or selection when landfall-like uncertainty is irrelevant and mana is needed immediately. Hold the land before Nulldrifter or Malevolent Rumble only when the current decision can reveal information that changes which land should be played, such as choosing between Forest for Utopia Sprawl, Prismatic Vista for fixing, Ugin's Labyrinth for acceleration, or a utility land for a specific visible need.

- Spend colored pain and shock mana only for concrete timing gains. Use Breeding Pool, Yavimaya Coast, or Talisman of Curiosity life payments to cast Utopia Sprawl, Malevolent Rumble, Nulldrifter, Dismember alternatives, Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, or other legal colored actions on schedule; choose painless or tapped lines when the same spell remains available next turn and life total is under visible pressure.

- Float or choose mana only according to visible legal costs. For Utopia Sprawl color choices, Talisman of Curiosity activations, Cavern of Souls naming, Echoing Cavern use, and Ugin's Labyrinth lines, follow the rules engine's offered choices and prioritize casting the current hand's next two spells. Do not choose colors for absent cards or assumed hidden draws when a visible spell requires a specific color now.

## Mulligan Guide

- Strong keep: Keep Forest plus Utopia Sprawl with any second mana source and a real follow-up such as Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Kozilek's Command, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms. This hand has acceleration, smoothing, and a visible path to a large turn before the opponent can comfortably stabilize.

- Strong keep: Keep Ugin's Labyrinth plus an exile-eligible expensive card when the rules engine confirms the mana line and the hand also contains castable action. Devourer of Destiny, Nulldrifter, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms may enable this package; Card text check required for exact Ugin's Labyrinth eligibility and timing.

- Medium keep: Keep two or three lands with Malevolent Rumble plus Talisman of Curiosity or Utopia Sprawl if green is available and the hand can find or cast a payoff by turn three. This hand is slower than raw Labyrinth acceleration but is acceptable when it avoids missing land drops.

- Medium keep: Keep Torpor Orb only when the matchup or visible game context rewards shutting off creature-entry engines, or when the rest of the hand already functions without relying on uncertain enter abilities. Do not keep a weak hand because Torpor Orb might be good later.

- Risky keep: Keep one-land Forest plus Utopia Sprawl only with Malevolent Rumble or another immediate smoothing path and a low chance of being punished by visible pressure. On the draw this is more acceptable; on the play it needs a very strong payoff curve.

- Automatic ship: Mulligan hands with no green source, no Ugin's Labyrinth acceleration, and only expensive spells such as Emrakul, the Promised End, Sire of Seven Deaths, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, or Ugin's Binding. A hand full of payoffs is not functional unless the mana engine is already present.

- Automatic ship: Mulligan hands that are mostly utility lands such as Blast Zone, Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, Sanctum of Ugin, Cavern of Souls, or Echoing Cavern without Forest, Breeding Pool, Prismatic Vista, Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, or Malevolent Rumble. Utility lands become powerful after the engine starts, not before it exists.

- Matchup-dependent keep: Keep Kozilek's Command and Ugin's Binding higher against creature pressure when legal modes or triggers can affect the board. Against slow control or combo, prioritize acceleration, Cavern of Souls or Echoing Cavern context, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sowing Mycospawn, and resilient threat density instead.

- Play/draw adjustment: On the play, prefer hands that accelerate on turn one or turn two and present pressure before the opponent sets up. On the draw, accept slightly slower Malevolent Rumble or Nulldrifter hands if they have lands, interaction, and a clear route to stabilize.

- Trap hand: Do not keep Breeding Pool, Yavimaya Coast, Island, Wastes, Torpor Orb, Ugin's Binding, and Emrakul, the Promised End unless the rules engine shows a concrete early spell sequence. This hand looks resource-rich but may fail to cast acceleration or interact before the expensive cards matter.

## Turn Arc

- Turn 1: Lead with Forest into Utopia Sprawl when legal, because the deck's best openings convert one land into immediate big mana. If Forest is absent, use Prismatic Vista or Breeding Pool to secure green; if Ugin's Labyrinth plus an eligible expensive card creates a legal acceleration line, consider it when the hand already has follow-up action.

- Turn 1 deviation: Play tapped or painless mana only when no turn-one spell is available and life total is under likely pressure. Do not spend Blast Zone, Mirrex, Sanctum of Ugin, Shifting Woodland, Cavern of Souls, or Echoing Cavern early unless they are required to cast the next legal spell.

- Turn 2: Cast Talisman of Curiosity before Malevolent Rumble when the hand already contains Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Kozilek's Command, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms and needs mana more than selection. Cast Malevolent Rumble first when land drops, payoff access, or permanent density is the bottleneck; Card text check required for exact selection constraints.

- Turn 2 deviation: Cast Torpor Orb only when the opponent's known deck or visible battlefield makes enter-trigger suppression more valuable than accelerating. If Torpor Orb conflicts with your own visible legal actions, trust the rules engine and delay it unless the hate effect is the reason the hand was kept.

- Turn 3: Aim to bridge from setup into impact. Preferred plays are Sowing Mycospawn when legal as ramp plus board presence, Kozilek's Command when its visible mode answers pressure or develops resources, Nulldrifter when the offered line improves cards without conceding tempo, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms if acceleration reaches it and the opponent cannot punish the commitment immediately.

- Turn 3 deviation: Use Devourer of Destiny, Ugin's Binding, or Kozilek's Command defensively when visible attackers or a dangerous permanent would otherwise force a bad race. Do not spend a flexible spell on a low-impact target if waiting preserves a stronger answer and life total is not under pressure.

- Turns 4-5: Commit a major threat when the visible clock, open mana, and backup threats make waiting worse than acting. Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, and large Eldrazi lines should be chosen by comparing legal action text, current board pressure, and whether Cavern of Souls or Echoing Cavern changes counterplay risk.

- Turns 4-5 deviation: Stabilize before going bigger when the opponent has lethal or near-lethal pressure. Use Kozilek's Command, Ugin's Binding, Blast Zone, or legal creature blocks to buy the turn needed for the next payoff rather than tapping out for a threat that does not affect survival.

- Late game: Turn excess mana into inevitability through repeated high-impact legal actions. Use Sanctum of Ugin, Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, Blast Zone, top-end creatures, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, and Emrakul, the Promised End according to visible legal prompts; Card text check required for exact Sanctum of Ugin, Shifting Woodland, and Emrakul timing.

- Late-game deviation: Preserve interaction when already ahead on board. A single unnecessary big spell can expose the deck to sweepers, exile effects, or stack interaction, so choose pass, activation, or smaller development when the current board already wins and the opponent must act first.

## Card Roles

- Utopia Sprawl is the highest-priority early accelerator when a Forest or fetchable Forest line is available. Choose the color that casts the hand's next two legal spells, not the color that feels generically best; green normally supports Malevolent Rumble and Sowing Mycospawn, blue matters for Nulldrifter or Ugin's Binding lines, and colorless-heavy hands may still need colored setup before the Eldrazi payoffs arrive.

- Talisman of Curiosity is the stabilizing two-mana bridge that turns medium keeps into functional big-mana hands. Cast it before Malevolent Rumble when the hand already has lands and payoffs, but cast Malevolent Rumble first when the hand needs to find land, an eligible high-cost card, or a permanent to keep developing. Avoid spending life through Talisman of Curiosity when the same legal mana payment exists without pain and the opponent is presenting a fast clock.

- Malevolent Rumble is selection plus material development, and it is often the best recovery card after a slower opener. Use it to find lands, Talisman of Curiosity, Utopia Sprawl, Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, or a major payoff according to the visible bottleneck. Card text check required for exact selection constraints, graveyard placement, and token creation, so choose from the rules-engine legal choices rather than assuming every revealed card is selectable.

- Sowing Mycospawn is the deck's main midgame ramp creature and should be treated as both development and a body. Cast it as soon as it advances the next payoff turn unless the visible board requires Kozilek's Command, Ugin's Binding, or a defensive block first. Card text check required for its exact cast, enter, attack, or land-search triggers; if Torpor Orb is on the battlefield, rely on Forge/Veles legal output before assuming all Sowing Mycospawn value remains available.

- Nulldrifter is a card-flow payoff that also enables Ugin's Labyrinth-style acceleration and late-game pressure. Use it early through any legal alternate-cost or reduced-cost line when the hand needs cards more than board presence, and cast the full version when the deck needs a threat that replaces itself. Because Nulldrifter's value may be tied to cast text rather than enter text, do not automatically avoid it with Torpor Orb, but still obey the rules engine for any sacrifice, trigger, or alternate-cost prompt.

- Kozilek's Command is the flexible tactical spell that should convert excess mana into the exact mode pair the turn demands. Prioritize removal or survival against visible creature pressure, resource generation when a top-end spell is one turn away, selection when the hand lacks a payoff, and graveyard interaction only when the opponent's public graveyard or pending effect makes it relevant. Card text check required for exact modes, X limits, targets, and whether a mode can legally target a player, creature, card in graveyard, or token plan.

- Ugin's Binding is the tempo-and-swing card, but its correct use depends heavily on legal timing and visible trigger text. Cast it defensively when a single opposing nonland permanent is blocking survival or a payoff attack, and avoid using it on a low-impact object when a later big colorless spell may unlock a stronger graveyard or cast-trigger line. Card text check required for exact bounce target, graveyard trigger, exile condition, and whether Torpor Orb matters.

- Torpor Orb is a matchup card in the main deck, not a blind acceleration piece. Cast it early when the opponent's visible or known plan depends on creature-enter triggers, but delay or decline it when your own Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, or other legal creature lines would lose critical value. The common mistake is keeping a bad hand because Torpor Orb might be disruptive; the card should amplify a functional hand, not replace mana and pressure.

- Devourer of Destiny is both a high-cost enabler and a removal-threat role-player. Its opening-hand or pregame functionality, if presented by the rules engine, should be used to improve weak top cards or stabilize a risky keep; Card text check required for exact pregame selection and cast trigger. In play, value it higher against colored permanents that must be answered and lower when the opponent's board is mostly colorless, token-based, or already under control.

- Ugin, Eye of the Storms is the primary repeated top-end payoff by deck construction, but its precise tactical role requires card text verification. Treat it as a commitment gate: cast it when acceleration reaches the legal cost, the visible board is not forcing immediate survival interaction, and waiting risks giving the opponent time to answer the mana engine. Card text check required for loyalty abilities, static text, colorless interactions, and whether it removes, draws, creates material, or protects itself.

- Sire of Seven Deaths is the single-copy finisher for games where one massive battlefield object is better than incremental value. Commit it when the opponent is low on visible answers, combat keywords from legal text matter for racing, or Cavern of Souls/Echoing Cavern reduces stack risk. Card text check required for exact keywords, ward/protection text, and combat math; do not assume it stabilizes if legal attackers can still win through it.

- Emrakul, the Promised End is the ultimate inevitability card and should not be rushed merely because it appears in legal actions. Cast it when the graveyard, mana, and board state make the opponent-turn effect or huge body decisive, especially after the opponent has committed resources that can be mis-sequenced during the controlled turn. Card text check required for exact cost reduction, target legality, protection, and extra-turn handling in Historic.

- Ugin's Labyrinth is the most explosive land when paired with eligible expensive colorless cards. Use it to accelerate only when the exiled or revealed card is not the only route to stabilizing and the hand has follow-up action; Card text check required for exact imprint, mana, and return conditions. Do not keep an otherwise nonfunctional hand solely because Ugin's Labyrinth looks powerful.

- Forest, Breeding Pool, Prismatic Vista, and Yavimaya Coast are the green-access package that makes Utopia Sprawl, Malevolent Rumble, and Sowing Mycospawn reliable. Prioritize early green over utility-land greed, and use Breeding Pool or Yavimaya Coast for blue only when Nulldrifter, Ugin's Binding, or sideboarded blue interaction is part of the visible plan.

- Island and Wastes are basic-color anchors that matter when the deck needs painless mana, fetch targets, or colorless legality. Do not expose early sequencing to color failure by playing them before green unless the hand already has Utopia Sprawl online or no green action exists.

- Cavern of Souls and Echoing Cavern are anti-interaction and creature-casting tools whose chosen type or mana mode should follow the current hand. Use them to force through Eldrazi threats when stack interaction is likely, but do not let them replace early green development unless the legal action depends on them.

- Sanctum of Ugin is a payoff-chain land, not an early color source. Preserve it when the hand can cast high-cost colorless spells and may need a follow-up threat; Card text check required for exact trigger threshold and search legality.

- Blast Zone is the emergency reset land for permanents clustered at the same mana value. Grow or fire it only when the visible opposing board justifies the tempo cost, and account for your own Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Torpor Orb, tokens, or small permanents before choosing an activation.

- Mirrex and Shifting Woodland are late-game utility lands that convert flood into action if the rules engine exposes relevant activations. Card text check required for exact token, transformation, graveyard, and timing rules; use them after core mana is stable, not as substitutes for early green or colorless payoff mana.

## Interaction Priorities

- Removal first: Use Kozilek's Command, Devourer of Destiny, Ugin's Binding, Dismember, Blast Zone, A-Haywire Mite, or Fade from History on permanents that stop mana development, create lethal pressure, invalidate a large colorless threat, or turn a future payoff into a losing tap-out. Card text check required for each spell's exact target classes, mode pairings, exile/bounce/remove wording, and whether the chosen permanent can legally be affected.

- Stack interaction first: Use Consign to Memory, Mystical Dispute, Vexing Bauble, Cavern of Souls, and Echoing Cavern to force the turns where Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End would otherwise be exposed. Counter or tax a spell that answers the only payoff, wins the race immediately, or prevents the deck from reaching big mana; ignore low-impact cantrips or setup spells when the hand already contains acceleration plus a payoff.

- Bounce first: Aim Ugin's Binding at the permanent that buys the largest immediate tempo swing: a lethal attacker, a lock piece, a planeswalker threatening a decisive activation, or the only blocker stopping a high-damage attack. Avoid bouncing a minor permanent merely because a target exists, especially when a later large colorless spell may produce a stronger Ugin's Binding line.

- Exile/graveyard first: Use Kozilek's Command, Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, or sideboard graveyard pressure only when the public graveyard, visible triggered ability, or pending legal action shows graveyard dependency. Do not spend graveyard hate into an empty or low-value graveyard while creature pressure requires Dismember, Kozilek's Command, or a stabilizing threat.

- Artifact/enchantment first: Use A-Haywire Mite and Fade from History on opposing permanents that shut off casting, mana, graveyards, activated abilities, or combat stabilization. Preserve Torpor Orb when opponent creature-enter triggers are central, but remove or decline your own Torpor Orb line if it visibly suppresses needed Sowing Mycospawn or other legal creature value.

- Discard choices are rare for this registered deck, so treat discard as an opponent-turn or unusual rules-engine prompt rather than a baseline plan. If Emrakul, the Promised End or another legal effect presents opponent discard or resource-use choices, spend the opponent's most time-sensitive interaction first, then strand mana, then reduce their next-turn pressure without assuming hidden cards or unshown text.

- Bait with redundant ramp before the decisive payoff. When the hand has multiple accelerants, lead with Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, or a less decisive threat to draw open interaction before committing Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End.

- Ignore cards that do not change the ramp clock or survival math. A small nonlethal creature, a delayed value permanent, or a setup artifact should be left alone when spending interaction would delay a payoff, fail to prevent lethal, or strand a future Kozilek's Command mode.

## Combat And Trading Rules

- Attack when the large threat changes the clock faster than holding it back changes survival. Sire of Seven Deaths, Devourer of Destiny, Nulldrifter, Sowing Mycospawn, Eldrazi Spawn or Scion tokens from legal effects, and Mirrex tokens should attack only after checking visible crack-back damage, blockers, lifelink/race text, and whether the creature is needed to cast or protect a larger spell.

- Block to preserve the big-mana turn, not to protect a cosmetic life total. Trade Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, tokens, or utility bodies when the block keeps life above the next visible attack step and the hand already has replacement ramp or payoff density; decline trades when the creature is the only bridge to Ugin, Eye of the Storms or Emrakul, the Promised End.

- Treat life total as a spendable resource above immediate two-turn danger. Against slow control or combo, accept early damage to preserve mana creatures, tokens, and payoff pressure; against creature decks, stabilize earlier with Kozilek's Command, Dismember, Blast Zone, Ugin's Binding, or a large blocker before trying to maximize value.

- Preserve engine pieces when their future mana or trigger value is visibly more important than the combat exchange. Do not throw away Sowing Mycospawn, a token needed for legal mana, or a creature enabling Shifting Woodland or Sanctum of Ugin lines unless the rules-engine board state shows the trade prevents lethal or removes a decisive attacker.

- Force trades when the opponent must spend multiple small attackers into one large body. A resolved Sire of Seven Deaths, Devourer of Destiny, or hard-cast Nulldrifter should usually demand blocks or answer spells; avoid overattacking with support bodies if losing them turns a stable board into one where a single removal spell exposes lethal.

- Change posture by archetype. Against aggro, block early and value any line that reduces visible power on board; against control, attack planeswalkers or life totals to force action before committing the next payoff; against graveyard or combo, race while holding narrow disruption only when public information shows it matters; against artifact/enchantment engines, keep pressure high while reserving A-Haywire Mite or Fade from History for the object that actually unlocks their engine.

- Do not assume combat keywords or protection without visible card text from the rules engine. For Sire of Seven Deaths, Devourer of Destiny, Emrakul, the Promised End, and Ugin, Eye of the Storms-created objects, Card text check required before relying on ward, reach, trample, annihilator-like pressure, protection, damage prevention, or lethal combat math.

## Selection And Tutor Rules

- Malevolent Rumble is the default early pseudo-tutor when the hand needs land, mana objects, or a castable permanent payoff. Prefer using it before the turn's land drop when the current hand lacks the next land, Ugin's Labyrinth enabler, or green source; prefer using it after the land drop when the land choice is already forced and the decision is about finding a permanent threat.

- Malevolent Rumble should take the card that fixes the next two turns, not the flashiest card in isolation. Rank missing land or Utopia Sprawl access first, then Ugin's Labyrinth or a card to exile to it, then Sowing Mycospawn or Talisman of Curiosity, then Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End if mana is already stable.

- Sowing Mycospawn is a ramp-selection commitment, so make its land choice from the current mana bottleneck. Prioritize the land that unlocks immediate colorless or payoff mana, then a missing green or blue source, then Cavern of Souls or Echoing Cavern against visible counterspell pressure, then Sanctum of Ugin, Blast Zone, Mirrex, or Shifting Woodland only when their utility is already relevant. Card text check required for exact search limits and trigger timing.

- Devourer of Destiny selection should be treated as opening-hand or pre-cast smoothing when the rules engine exposes that choice. Keep hands or top cards that supply early green, Ugin's Labyrinth pressure, or a complete ramp-plus-payoff curve; bottom redundant expensive cards when the hand lacks acceleration, and bottom low-impact mana when the hand already has enough sources but no payoff. Card text check required for exact look/bottom procedure.

- Kozilek's Command selection should match the board state before greed. Choose modes or values that prevent lethal, remove a decisive permanent or graveyard card, create required mana bodies, or dig toward a payoff; do not spend it as a generic cantrip if the next turn needs interaction or if holding it protects a higher-impact Ugin's Binding turn. Card text check required for exact modes, target classes, and X scaling.

- Ugin's Labyrinth exiling decisions should preserve castability over theoretical late value. Exile the redundant expensive colorless card when it turns on a faster Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End; decline a line that strands the only payoff unless the hand already has Malevolent Rumble or another replacement path. Card text check required for exact exile and mana conditions.

- Land-drop timing should use selection first when the legal action can change the land choice. With Malevolent Rumble or Sowing Mycospawn available and no forced land, wait to play a utility land until selection resolves; with Utopia Sprawl in hand, play or fetch Forest access before spending selection on slower value.

## Priority And Stack Rules

- Pass priority quickly when the stack is empty and no legal action improves mana, survival, or payoff timing. Do not cast Kozilek's Command, activate Blast Zone, use graveyard hate, or deploy sideboard interaction merely because priority exists; require a visible threat, a protected payoff turn, or a clear resource conversion.

- Hold instant-speed interaction for the decision that changes the game. Use Kozilek's Command, Consign to Memory, Mystical Dispute, Dismember, Relic of Progenitus, Ghost Vacuum, A-Haywire Mite, Blast Zone, or Fade from History only when the legal target is stopping lethal, blocking the big-mana turn, answering the only payoff, or enabling a decisive attack. Card text check required for exact speed and target legality.

- Let low-impact spells resolve when they do not alter the ramp clock. Save Consign to Memory and Mystical Dispute for payoff protection, opposing interaction, or a spell whose visible text breaks the current plan; do not counter routine setup if the hand can resolve Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End on the next major turn.

- Protect the tap-out turn before maximizing optional value. When casting Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End into open mana, prefer Cavern of Souls, Echoing Cavern, Vexing Bauble, Consign to Memory, or Mystical Dispute lines that keep the payoff legal and resolving over side actions that spend the same mana.

- Resolve Ugin's Binding triggers or cast opportunities only when the bounce or tempo swing matters. Aim it at a lethal attacker, a lock piece, a planeswalker nearing a decisive activation, or the blocker that prevents a winning attack; let smaller targets remain when using the trigger would expose a better future large-colorless line. Card text check required for exact trigger source and timing.

- Use Torpor Orb as a stack-prevention piece only when its symmetrical cost is acceptable. Deploy it before opponent creature-enter triggers matter, but avoid it when the next visible plan needs Sowing Mycospawn or another creature-enter effect that Torpor Orb would suppress; if already deployed, route around the lost trigger rather than assuming value will occur.

- Time graveyard interaction at the last public-safe window. Use Relic of Progenitus or Ghost Vacuum when the opponent commits a graveyard spell, reanimation target, escape-style action, or recursion trigger to the stack, or when passing would let the visible graveyard convert into damage or cards; avoid firing it during harmless priority if the opponent has not exposed dependency.

- Activate Blast Zone and Mirrex only when the activation beats holding mana. Blast Zone should answer a visible cluster or permanent class that the rest of the hand cannot handle; Mirrex should create pressure or blockers when no higher-impact spell, counter, removal action, or payoff cast is available. Card text check required for exact activation costs and timing.

- Treat optional payments and trigger ordering as survival-first choices. Pay for effects only when they advance the current ramp, protection, or lethal plan; decline optional value that consumes mana needed for Kozilek's Command, Dismember, Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, or a scheduled payoff.

## Sideboard Map

- Sideboard from the opponent's visible pressure, not from the deck's maximum-mana fantasy. Keep the core ramp shell intact in most pairings: Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin's Labyrinth, and the large colorless threats are the deck's reason to exist. Sideboard cards should either buy time, protect the payoff turn, shut off a narrow engine, or convert excess mana into a stable late game.

- A-Haywire Mite is for cheap artifact or enchantment pressure that must be answered before Ugin, Eye of the Storms or the Eldrazi finishers stabilize. Bring it against artifact aggro, enchantment engines, artifact-based combo, and permanent hate that blocks Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Torpor Orb, or Ugin's Labyrinth lines. It is bad against creature-only aggro, counterspell decks with few artifacts or enchantments, and opponents where a one-card answer does not change the clock. Card text check required for exact activation timing, life gain, exile clause, and target limits.

- Consign to Memory is a protection and disruption card for stack fights around colorless threats, triggered/activated engines, and opposing big spells. Bring it when the opponent can counter or invalidate Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Devourer of Destiny, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End, or when their key spell is narrow enough that holding one answer is realistic. It is bad against fast boards where spending mana to answer the stack leaves the battlefield unchanged. Card text check required for exact replicate, colorless, trigger, or ability coverage.

- Ghost Vacuum is for graveyard engines that need repeated containment or targeted timing. Bring it against reanimation, escape-style pressure, recursive creatures, delirium-style payoff decks, and graveyard combo where one public graveyard card becoming unavailable changes the next turn. It is bad when the opponent's graveyard is incidental and the battlefield clock is the real problem. Use it patiently; graveyard hate should fire at the last safe window unless the opponent already has enough public material to convert immediately. Card text check required for exact activation and later-card-use text.

- Relic of Progenitus is the broad graveyard reset option. Bring it when the opponent depends on the graveyard as a zone rather than one specific card, especially when shrinking graveyard resources buys enough time for Sowing Mycospawn into Ugin, Eye of the Storms or a large Eldrazi. It is bad when it taxes your own mana without stopping the visible plan, and it should not be cashed in merely to draw if a dangerous graveyard action is likely next turn. Card text check required for exact exile sequence and draw timing.

- Vexing Bauble is for protecting expensive spells from free interaction or making opposing zero-cost/free-spell engines stumble. Bring it against decks where the decisive exchange happens while they are not paying normal mana, and against counterspell shells if the visible or known interaction profile makes Bauble relevant to resolving a payoff. It is bad when the opponent pays normal mana for removal and threats, or when drawing it after both players are already trading on board does not change combat. Card text check required for exact triggered condition and sacrifice mode.

- The sideboard Torpor Orb is a third copy for creature-enter engines and narrow creature-combo decks. Bring it when opponent creatures entering the battlefield generate cards, damage, tokens, tutoring, or a combo step that matters more than your own Sowing Mycospawn trigger. It is bad when your plan needs Sowing Mycospawn to search and the opponent is not using creature-enter text. If Torpor Orb is in the plan, value Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, and Ugin's Labyrinth more highly because they keep the ramp plan functional without creature-enter help.

- Dismember is for fast creature pressure, snowball creatures, and must-kill utility creatures. Bring it when early creatures can end the game before Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Ugin's Binding, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End matters. It is bad against creature-light control, large threats outside its damage range, and matchups where life payment changes a race you are already losing. Card text check required for exact cost options and power/toughness coverage.

- Mystical Dispute is for blue stack fights and tempo turns. Bring it against blue control, blue tempo, combo decks using blue protection, and opponents whose key answer to Ugin, Eye of the Storms or a large colorless threat is a blue spell. It is bad against nonblue creature decks and low-curve aggro where leaving mana open delays the battlefield stabilizer. Card text check required for exact cost reduction and target restriction.

- Palantír of Orthanc is a slow-card-advantage threat for attrition pairings. Bring it against removal-heavy control, discard, midrange, and decks that answer the first large threat but struggle against repeated sources of cards or inevitability. It is bad against fast aggro, go-wide boards, and combo decks where spending a turn on a non-stabilizing artifact gives the opponent too much time. Card text check required for exact vote, mill, life-loss, and trigger timing.

- Fade from History is the reset card for artifact/enchantment battlefields. Bring it against artifact aggro, enchantment engines, token-producing artifact shells, and prison boards where one sweep unlocks your expensive spells. It is bad when it destroys too many of your own relevant permanents, especially Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Torpor Orb, Vexing Bauble, Relic of Progenitus, Ghost Vacuum, A-Haywire Mite, or Palantír of Orthanc, without removing more important opposing material. Card text check required for exact destroy/exile wording, token creation, and affected permanent types.

Artifact Aggro / Enchantment Engine Balanced Plan
Side in: 1 A-Haywire Mite; 3 Fade from History; 2 Dismember; 1 Ghost Vacuum
Cut: 2 Torpor Orb; 1 Emrakul, the Promised End; 1 Sire of Seven Deaths; 1 Ugin's Binding; 2 Nulldrifter

- Against artifact aggro or enchantment engines, prioritize survival and permanent cleanup over maximum top-end density. Add role cards: A-Haywire Mite, Fade from History, Dismember, and sometimes Ghost Vacuum if the opponent uses the graveyard or artifact recursion. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb when creature-enter text is not central, the slowest single-copy finishers, and some card-advantage threats when the game is decided before they can be cast.

Blue Control / Blue Tempo Balanced Plan
Side in: 2 Mystical Dispute; 1 Consign to Memory; 2 Vexing Bauble; 1 Palantír of Orthanc
Cut: 2 Torpor Orb; 2 Kozilek's Command; 1 Ugin's Binding; 1 Devourer of Destiny

- Against blue control and blue tempo, protect the tap-out turn rather than overloading on answers. Add role cards: Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble, and Palantír of Orthanc. Reduce main-deck emphasis: creature-enter suppression if the opponent lacks creature-enter engines, some flexible interaction when there are few board targets, and one smoothing threat if the hand needs more stack protection than selection. Keep Cavern of Souls and Echoing Cavern decisions aligned with the threat type that must resolve.

Graveyard Combo / Recursion Balanced Plan
Side in: 1 Ghost Vacuum; 1 Relic of Progenitus; 1 Consign to Memory; 2 Dismember
Cut: 2 Torpor Orb; 1 Sire of Seven Deaths; 1 Ugin's Binding; 1 Nulldrifter

- Against graveyard combo or recursive pressure, combine hate with a fast clock. Add role cards: Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Consign to Memory, and Dismember when creatures enable the graveyard line. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow finishers, low-impact tempo pieces, and Torpor Orb unless creature-enter triggers are the graveyard engine. Do not spend graveyard hate early if the opponent has not committed the relevant public card or stack action.

Creature Aggro Balanced Plan
Side in: 2 Dismember; 3 Fade from History
Cut: 2 Torpor Orb; 1 Emrakul, the Promised End; 1 Sire of Seven Deaths; 1 Nulldrifter

- Against creature aggro, become the stabilizing ramp deck. Add role cards: Dismember for the first snowball creature and Fade from History only when artifacts or enchantments are part of the board. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the slowest expensive cards and non-impact permanents. Keep hands that cast early ramp plus interaction; a hand that only promises Emrakul, the Promised End later is not a plan if the visible clock is short.

Creature-Enter Combo / Value Creatures Balanced Plan
Side in: 1 Torpor Orb; 1 Consign to Memory; 2 Dismember
Cut: 1 Emrakul, the Promised End; 1 Ugin's Binding; 1 Nulldrifter; 1 Devourer of Destiny

- Against creature-enter combo and value-creature chains, Torpor Orb becomes a lock piece rather than filler. Add role cards: the sideboard Torpor Orb, Consign to Memory for the noncreature or stack component, and Dismember for the creature that still matters through Torpor Orb. Reduce main-deck emphasis: expensive cards that do not immediately stabilize and redundant selection when the game is about preventing one engine turn. Before playing Torpor Orb, check whether your own Sowing Mycospawn trigger is needed to function; if it is, either sequence Sowing Mycospawn first or accept that Torpor Orb is a deliberate cost.

## Matchup Guidance

- Aggro: Stabilize first, then turn the corner with one oversized threat or Ugin, Eye of the Storms. Keep hands with Utopia Sprawl or Talisman of Curiosity plus an early castable play; hands that only contain Ugin's Labyrinth and top-end need a credible route to survive the first three turns. Add role cards: Dismember when a small creature snowballs, Fade from History when artifact or enchantment permanents are central, and A-Haywire Mite only when its target text is live. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Emrakul, the Promised End, Sire of Seven Deaths, extra Nulldrifter, and Torpor Orb when the opponent is not relying on creature-enter abilities. Use Kozilek's Command defensively when it creates blockers, removes a relevant creature, or buys the exact turn needed for Ugin, Eye of the Storms or Ugin's Binding.

- Burn: Treat life total as a resource only when the resulting play prevents more damage than it costs. Avoid casual shock-land or Dismember life payments unless the visible clock demands it, and prefer Forest, Wastes, Utopia Sprawl, and Talisman of Curiosity paths when the hand can still cast spells on time. Add role cards: Dismember only for creatures that represent repeated damage, Consign to Memory if the opponent's key burn-adjacent card is a legal target, and Palantír of Orthanc only when the game visibly slows. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow finishers and non-stabilizing card advantage. Do not keep a hand whose first meaningful play is Nulldrifter or Ugin, Eye of the Storms unless the hand also has ramp and the opponent's revealed start is slow.

- Go-wide creature decks: Prioritize board compression over one-for-one trades. Kozilek's Command and Ugin's Binding are more valuable when they reduce multiple attackers, create blockers, or punish a wide attack; Dismember is reserved for the creature that amplifies the whole board rather than a random small attacker. Add role cards: Fade from History when tokens or board width come from artifacts or enchantments, Dismember for the key enabler, and A-Haywire Mite for a visible artifact or enchantment engine. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb unless creature-enter tokens are central, Emrakul, the Promised End, and Sire of Seven Deaths. Combat decisions should preserve enough life to untap into a stabilizer rather than protect a replaceable ramp creature.

- Single-threat decks: Force the game to revolve around one answer window, then deploy a threat that invalidates the opponent's pace. Devourer of Destiny, Kozilek's Command, Dismember, and Ugin, Eye of the Storms matter more when the opponent invests in one protected creature or planeswalker-like permanent; do not spend them on secondary bodies unless the engine says the primary threat is no longer legal or visible. Add role cards: Dismember for a threat inside range, Consign to Memory for a legal colorless or triggered/activated axis if text supports it, Mystical Dispute against blue protection, and Vexing Bauble when the opponent relies on alternative-cost or zero-mana interaction. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb if creature-enter text is absent and some slow card advantage if the matchup is about one decisive exchange. Card text check required for exact Consign to Memory coverage.

- Tempo: Protect mana development and avoid walking top-end into an obvious cheap-answer turn. Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Ugin's Labyrinth, Cavern of Souls, and Echoing Cavern are critical because each lost turn compounds against bounce, permission, and evasive pressure. Add role cards: Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble, and Dismember when the pressure creature must die. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb when it does not disrupt the opponent, one expensive finisher, and slow selection that does not affect the current race. Cast Nulldrifter as a setup spell only when the resulting cards can be used before the opponent's clock ends the game.

- Control: Become threat-dense but do not donate a clean counterspell turn. Use Malevolent Rumble, Nulldrifter, Sanctum of Ugin, Cavern of Souls, Echoing Cavern, and Shifting Woodland to create repeated must-answer turns; commit Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End when the opponent is tapped low, pressured by prior threats, or forced to answer a public board. Add role cards: Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble, and Palantír of Orthanc. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Dismember targets if none exist, Torpor Orb without creature-enter value, and some Kozilek's Command modes if the opponent has few permanents. Do not overextend into a visible sweeper pattern when one threat already demands action.

- Removal-heavy midrange: Trade early resources, then win with inevitability from top-end and recursive land utility. Ugin's Binding, Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, Palantír of Orthanc, Mirrex, Shifting Woodland, and Sanctum of Ugin become important because they punish one-for-one removal. Add role cards: Palantír of Orthanc, Relic of Progenitus or Ghost Vacuum if graveyards matter, and Dismember for utility creatures. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb unless it shuts down their value creatures and one fragile expensive card if the curve becomes too clunky. Do not use graveyard hate merely to cycle or spend mana if Shifting Woodland, Ugin's Binding, or Emrakul, the Promised End math may matter for your own future turns; follow the rules-engine visible graveyard state.

- Combo: Identify whether the opponent is using the graveyard, artifacts/enchantments, creature-enter triggers, blue stack protection, or alternative-cost spells, then choose the narrow hate that intersects the visible line. Add role cards: Ghost Vacuum and Relic of Progenitus for graveyard lines, Torpor Orb for creature-enter lines, Consign to Memory for legal stack or colorless interaction, Vexing Bauble for alternative-cost pressure, Mystical Dispute against blue combo, and A-Haywire Mite or Fade from History for artifact/enchantment engines. Reduce main-deck emphasis: expensive threats that do not affect the combo turn and removal with no visible target class. Race only when the hand has fast ramp into Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End before the opponent's likely kill turn.

- Graveyard decks: Hold hate for the public resource that matters, not the first harmless card in a graveyard. Ghost Vacuum and Relic of Progenitus should answer a visible recursion setup, escape-like permission, reanimation target, or graveyard-count threshold rather than a random early spell. Add role cards: Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Consign to Memory if a stack piece is legal, and Dismember when a creature enables the graveyard engine. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb unless creature-enter abilities are the engine, the slowest finisher, and noninteractive card advantage. Respect your own graveyard when Emrakul, the Promised End, Shifting Woodland, Ugin's Binding, or Malevolent Rumble could use it later.

- Artifact/enchantment decks: Do not spend single-target answers if Fade from History will create a stronger reset on the next turn and you can survive to cast it. A-Haywire Mite is best for the one permanent that prevents casting, attacks your mana, or represents lethal pressure; Fade from History is best when the opposing board is broad enough to justify losing your own Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Torpor Orb, Vexing Bauble, Relic of Progenitus, Ghost Vacuum, or Palantír of Orthanc. Add role cards: A-Haywire Mite, Fade from History, Consign to Memory when legal, and Dismember for creature engines. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow finishers and Torpor Orb unless creature-enter text is also central. Card text check required for exact Fade from History affected permanent types and token consequences.

- Big mana: Be the cleaner ramp deck, not the slower control deck. Mulligan toward Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Ugin's Labyrinth with a usable enabler, Sowing Mycospawn, and Malevolent Rumble; a hand full of interaction that does not advance mana can lose to a larger top-end. Add role cards: Consign to Memory for legal colorless or high-impact stack targets, Vexing Bauble if the opponent uses alternative-cost acceleration, Mystical Dispute if the big-mana shell is blue, and Palantír of Orthanc for slow mirrors. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Dismember if no creature target matters and Torpor Orb unless it disrupts their ramp creatures. Sanctum of Ugin lines should favor chaining threats over finding a narrow answer unless the visible board requires the answer immediately.

## Specific Matchup Notes

- General/archetype-only note: Revealed cards and rules-engine legal actions override every matchup assumption. Treat these notes as priority guidance for unknown Historic pairings, then update from public zones, companion/sideboard context if exposed, mulligan behavior, and the opponent's first two turns.

- Fast creature pressure: Preserve life total and mana density before sculpting. Priority targets are creatures that shorten the clock below your next payoff turn, engines that multiply combat damage, and permanents that make blocking impossible. Add role cards: Dismember when a visible creature is inside range, Fade from History only when artifacts/enchantments are central and you can survive the tempo loss, and A-Haywire Mite for a single artifact/enchantment that blocks stabilization. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Torpor Orb when creature-enter text is absent, one slow closer, and speculative Nulldrifter lines that do not affect the race.

- Blue tempo or control: Force them to answer repeated must-counter threats instead of one huge all-in turn. Priority targets are stack protection, cost-cheating or free-spell pressure, and any permanent that taxes large colorless spells. Add role cards: Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble, and Palantir of Orthanc for slower games. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Dismember if no threat class matters and Torpor Orb if it has no visible text to stop. Use Cavern of Souls and Echoing Cavern for uncounterable or color-fixing lines only when legal text supports the named creature type.

- Graveyard decks: Spend hate only on a public graveyard resource that matters. Priority targets are visible reanimation targets, graveyard-count thresholds, recursive engines, and cards enabling an immediate graveyard turn. Add role cards: Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Consign to Memory if the stack target is legal, and Dismember for creature enablers. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow finishers and Torpor Orb unless creature-enter abilities are the engine. Do not casually shrink your own graveyard when Emrakul, the Promised End, Shifting Woodland, Ugin's Binding, or Malevolent Rumble may care.

- Artifact/enchantment engines: Decide whether the game is about one permanent or a board reset. Priority targets are mana denial pieces, lock pieces that stop casting, lethal engines, and hate that blanks your payoffs. Add role cards: A-Haywire Mite for one key permanent, Fade from History for wide boards, Consign to Memory when legal, and Vexing Bauble if alternative-cost play is visible. Reduce main-deck emphasis: extra Torpor Orb copies unless creature-enter text also matters. Card text check required for exact Fade from History consequences.

- Big mana and mirrors: Race by developing mana and chaining threats, not by keeping narrow answers. Priority targets are the opponent's first payoff, a land or permanent that changes their mana ceiling, and any stack action that beats your Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End turn. Add role cards: Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble when relevant, Mystical Dispute against blue versions, and Palantir of Orthanc for long games. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Dismember and Torpor Orb unless public targets justify them.

## Risk Summary

- Mana risk: Utopia Sprawl needs an appropriate land, Talisman of Curiosity costs tempo, and Ugin's Labyrinth can create awkward hands if the exiled/enabling card does not line up with legal sequencing. Mulligan hands that have top-end but no credible first three turns.

- Matchup risk: Torpor Orb can be excellent or nearly blank, so do not overvalue it before the opponent shows creature-enter dependence. Sideboard toward visible mechanics, not archetype labels alone.

- Draw risk: Nulldrifter, Malevolent Rumble, and Kozilek's Command can dig or bridge resources, but spending a turn on selection while under lethal pressure loses games that a stabilizing creature, Dismember, or payoff could still save.

- Over-sideboarding risk: Removing too many ramp pieces or top-end threats turns Eldrazi Ramp into a slow pile of narrow answers. Keep enough Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, and closers to actually end the game.

- Graveyard risk: Relic of Progenitus and Ghost Vacuum can interfere with your own Emrakul, the Promised End, Shifting Woodland, Ugin's Binding, and Malevolent Rumble plans. Use them when the opponent's public graveyard line matters more than your future graveyard value.

- Sweeper/removal risk: Fade from History may hit your own Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Torpor Orb, Vexing Bauble, Relic of Progenitus, Ghost Vacuum, or Palantir of Orthanc if the rules text says so. Verify visible permanents and survival math before casting.

- Closer risk: Sire of Seven Deaths and Emrakul, the Promised End are powerful but punishing if committed into open interaction without pressure or backup. Prefer threat chains through Sanctum of Ugin, Cavern of Souls, Echoing Cavern, and Shifting Woodland when the game is slow.

- Interaction risk: Consign to Memory, Mystical Dispute, Vexing Bauble, A-Haywire Mite, Dismember, and Fade from History are narrow in different ways. Card text check required before assuming a target, counter window, or affected permanent type.

- Sequencing risk: Do not spend Kozilek's Command, Blast Zone, or Mirrex mana on low-impact actions when the same turn can cast or protect a payoff. Legal action text, visible mana, and stack state should decide whether to bridge, answer, or commit.

## Test Feedback Checklist

- Deciding factor: Identify whether the game was won or lost by mana development, payoff density, interaction timing, sideboard cards, or combat pressure, then cite the visible turn where the axis became clear.

- Mulligans: Record whether the opening hand had a credible first three turns with Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, Ugin's Labyrinth, or enough lands, and flag hands kept only because they contained a large payoff.

- Mana: Check whether colorless, green, and blue sources arrived in the order needed for Sowing Mycospawn, Kozilek's Command, Nulldrifter, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, and sideboard interaction. Note any hand where Ugin's Labyrinth, Echoing Cavern, Cavern of Souls, or Utopia Sprawl created a sequencing bottleneck.

- Velocity: Track whether Malevolent Rumble, Nulldrifter, Kozilek's Command, and Devourer of Destiny improved the next two turns or merely spent mana without changing the clock, board, or payoff access.

- Engine deployment: Record whether Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Ugin's Binding, Sanctum of Ugin, and Shifting Woodland generated real chaining pressure. Mark any game where a payoff was cast but no follow-up threat or stabilizing action appeared.

- Removal and disruption: Log whether Kozilek's Command, Dismember, A-Haywire Mite, Consign to Memory, Mystical Dispute, Vexing Bauble, Fade from History, Relic of Progenitus, Ghost Vacuum, Torpor Orb, or Blast Zone had legal targets when drawn. Separate wrong-card problems from wrong-timing problems.

- Sideboard impact: For every sideboarded game, identify the best and worst sideboard card by visible board state, not by matchup label. Note if Palantír of Orthanc was too slow, Fade from History hit enough permanents, or Vexing Bauble mattered against a visible alternative-cost line.

- Closing: Record whether Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Ugin's Binding, Mirrex, or repeated Eldrazi bodies ended the game quickly enough after stabilization.

- Role assignment: Ask whether the pilot correctly played as ramp, control, prison, or race participant after turns one through three. Flag games where Torpor Orb, graveyard hate, or draw actions delayed the necessary payoff turn.

- Mistakes: Mark any legal-action mistake where the agent passed with a stabilizing spell available, tapped mana in a way that blocked the planned payoff, used Kozilek's Command on a low-impact mode, or committed a closer into visible interaction without pressure or redundancy.

- Stranded cards: List every card stranded in hand for two or more turns and classify the cause as mana, timing, target absence, matchup mismatch, or rules-text uncertainty.

- Overperformers and underperformers: Count repeated game-winning contributions and repeated dead draws for Sowing Mycospawn, Devourer of Destiny, Nulldrifter, Torpor Orb, Kozilek's Command, Ugin's Binding, Malevolent Rumble, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, and each sideboard card.

## First Tuning Questions

- Card quantities: If hands often ramp but fail to close, should Sire of Seven Deaths, Emrakul, the Promised End, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Ugin's Binding, or Nulldrifter counts change before adding more selection?

- Mana base: If Utopia Sprawl or colored sideboard cards are stranded, does the deck need a different Forest, Breeding Pool, Yavimaya Coast, Island, Wastes, Prismatic Vista, Echoing Cavern, or Cavern of Souls mix?

- Ugin's Labyrinth pressure: If opening hands require mulligans because Ugin's Labyrinth lacks a useful exile card or creates awkward color timing, should the large-colorless count or land mix be adjusted?

- Aggro plan: If fast creature decks win before the first payoff stabilizes, should more Dismember, Blast Zone-style interaction, early bodies, or lower-curve stabilizers replace slow card-advantage pieces?

- Control plan: If blue decks stop the first large threat and win long games, should Mystical Dispute, Consign to Memory, Vexing Bauble, Palantír of Orthanc, Cavern of Souls, or threat density receive more slots?

- Graveyard plan: If graveyard decks outpace one-shot hate, is the split between Ghost Vacuum, Relic of Progenitus, Consign to Memory, and main-deck pressure sufficient without damaging Emrakul, the Promised End, Shifting Woodland, Malevolent Rumble, or Ugin's Binding lines?

- Artifact/enchantment plan: If wide permanent engines beat single answers, should Fade from History increase, or is A-Haywire Mite plus targeted interaction enough when self-permanent damage is considered?

- Torpor Orb tension: If Torpor Orb wins specific matchups but is blank elsewhere, should the third copy remain in the sideboard, move maindeck, or become a more flexible interaction slot?

- Velocity versus stability: If Malevolent Rumble and Nulldrifter find resources but do not affect lethal boards, should the deck shift toward more early interaction or accept those losses to preserve big-mana consistency?

- Role conflict: If sideboard configurations remove too much ramp or too many closers, what minimum counts of Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Sowing Mycospawn, Ugin, Eye of the Storms, and top-end threats must remain for the deck to function?

## Veles Tactical Policy

### Policy: Mulligan For Ramp Plus Payoff
- Priority: High
- Decision families: mulligan
- Cards: Utopia Sprawl; Talisman of Curiosity; Malevolent Rumble; Ugin's Labyrinth; Sowing Mycospawn; Ugin, Eye of the Storms; Nulldrifter
- Phase windows: pregame opening hand and London mulligan decisions.
- Runtime cues: prompt:mulligan; visible hand; land count; castable ramp.
- Use when: decide whether the hand can produce a meaningful first three turns with mana development plus either selection or payoff access.
- Avoid when: do not keep a hand that only contains expensive threats, colorless lands, or sideboard hate without green/blue access and a path to cast spells.
- Instructions: Keep hands with two or more lands plus Utopia Sprawl, Talisman of Curiosity, Malevolent Rumble, or Ugin's Labyrinth support when the visible sequence casts a ramp/selection spell before the first payoff turn. Treat one-land hands as risky unless Utopia Sprawl plus a legal Forest line is visible and the hand has cheap selection.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: London Bottoms Preserve Mana Engine
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mulligan, selection
- Cards: Forest; Breeding Pool; Utopia Sprawl; Talisman of Curiosity; Ugin's Labyrinth; Sowing Mycospawn; Emrakul, the Promised End; Sire of Seven Deaths
- Phase windows: pregame mulligan bottom prompts.
- Runtime cues: prompt:bottom; visible hand after mulligan.
- Use when: choose bottom cards after keeping a reduced hand.
- Avoid when: do not bottom the only green source, only castable ramp piece, or only realistic payoff unless the kept hand has redundant copies.
- Instructions: Bottom duplicate expensive closers before functional lands or early ramp. Keep enough lands to cast the first ramp piece, then keep the cheapest selection or payoff that turns mana into pressure.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Early Setup Permanent First
- Priority: High
- Decision families: mana, priority
- Cards: Utopia Sprawl; Talisman of Curiosity; Malevolent Rumble; Ugin's Labyrinth; Forest; Breeding Pool
- Phase windows: turns one through three main phases.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Utopia Sprawl; action:cast Talisman of Curiosity; action:cast Malevolent Rumble; visible lands and hand.
- Use when: choose the first enabling permanent or selection spell that unlocks later colorless payoffs.
- Avoid when: do not spend the turn on Torpor Orb, graveyard hate, or a tapped utility line if the visible hand still lacks the mana to cast Sowing Mycospawn, Nulldrifter, or Ugin, Eye of the Storms.
- Instructions: Prioritize Utopia Sprawl on a legal Forest source, then Talisman of Curiosity, then Malevolent Rumble when land drops or payoff access are missing. Preserve Ugin's Labyrinth lines when the hand has a suitable visible card to support it.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Deterministic Utopia Sprawl Target
- Priority: Low
- Decision families: mana, selection
- Cards: Utopia Sprawl; Forest; Breeding Pool
- Phase windows: main phase while casting Utopia Sprawl.
- Runtime cues: action:target Forest; action:target Breeding Pool
- Use when: exactly one legal Forest-object target is shown for Utopia Sprawl.
- Avoid when: two or more legal Forest-object targets are shown, or one target is exposed to visible land interaction noted by the engine.
- Instructions: Select the single legal Forest-object target shown by the rules engine. If multiple targets exist, route to light-model to preserve future color and untap sequencing.
- Pilot skill floor: no-api.
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Utopia Sprawl Color Choice
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana, selection
- Cards: Utopia Sprawl; Sowing Mycospawn; Malevolent Rumble; Nulldrifter; Consign to Memory; Mystical Dispute; Dismember
- Phase windows: Utopia Sprawl color-choice prompt.
- Runtime cues: prompt:choose color; action:green; action:blue; visible hand.
- Use when: choose the named color for Utopia Sprawl based on visible hand requirements.
- Avoid when: do not choose blue only for speculative sideboard interaction if green is needed to cast Sowing Mycospawn or Malevolent Rumble on curve.
- Instructions: Choose green when green spells or green ramp are the bottleneck. Choose blue when green is already covered and visible Nulldrifter or blue sideboard interaction needs support. Card text check required for any unusual color-choice wording.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Ugin's Labyrinth Commitment Gate
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana, pregame
- Cards: Ugin's Labyrinth; Devourer of Destiny; Nulldrifter; Sire of Seven Deaths; Emrakul, the Promised End; Ugin, Eye of the Storms
- Phase windows: land play and opening-turn setup.
- Runtime cues: action:play Ugin's Labyrinth; prompt:exile; visible hand.
- Use when: decide whether Ugin's Labyrinth acceleration is worth the visible exile cost and color timing.
- Avoid when: do not lock away the only payoff or only castable stabilizer if the hand cannot convert the acceleration into a concrete next spell.
- Instructions: Commit Ugin's Labyrinth when it accelerates a visible ramp or payoff chain and the exiled card is redundant or too slow. Prefer colored land development when Utopia Sprawl, Malevolent Rumble, or sideboard interaction is the immediate bottleneck.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Big-Mana Payoff Commitment Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: priority, mana
- Cards: Sowing Mycospawn; Ugin, Eye of the Storms; Sire of Seven Deaths; Emrakul, the Promised End; Sanctum of Ugin; Cavern of Souls; Echoing Cavern
- Phase windows: main phases with enough mana for a payoff.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Sowing Mycospawn; action:cast Ugin, Eye of the Storms; action:cast Sire of Seven Deaths; action:cast Emrakul, the Promised End; visible opponent mana and stack.
- Use when: decide whether to tap out for a defining threat or wait for protection, redundancy, or a safer window.
- Avoid when: avoid committing the only closer into visible open interaction if waiting preserves a second payoff or Cavern of Souls/Echoing Cavern support without dying on board.
- Instructions: Cast the payoff when it stabilizes the board, chains into more threats, or waiting gives the opponent a clearer lethal window. Delay when the visible board is stable and a safer land, selection, or bait spell improves the commitment.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Sowing Mycospawn Resource Search
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: selection, mana
- Cards: Sowing Mycospawn; Sanctum of Ugin; Cavern of Souls; Echoing Cavern; Shifting Woodland; Wastes; Blast Zone; Mirrex
- Phase windows: Sowing Mycospawn search or selection prompts.
- Runtime cues: prompt:search; action:choose; visible library candidates.
- Use when: choose a land or resource from a visible candidate set after Sowing Mycospawn creates a search prompt.
- Avoid when: do not choose a narrow utility land over the missing color or colorless source needed for the next visible spell.
- Instructions: Select the land that unlocks the next payoff first, then the land that chains future threats or answers the visible board. Card text check required before assuming every listed land is searchable in a given prompt.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Malevolent Rumble And Nulldrifter Selection
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: selection, priority
- Cards: Malevolent Rumble; Nulldrifter; Ugin's Binding; Sowing Mycospawn; Ugin, Eye of the Storms; Kozilek's Command
- Phase windows: main phase cast decisions and resolution selection prompts.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Malevolent Rumble; action:cast Nulldrifter; prompt:choose card; visible candidates.
- Use when: convert selection into the land, ramp, interaction, or payoff the current board demands.
- Avoid when: do not take a slow card-advantage line while a legal stabilizing spell or lethal-prevention play is required this turn.
- Instructions: Take mana when missing the next land or color, take interaction when the opponent presents lethal pressure or a must-answer permanent, and take payoff when mana is already sufficient. Card text check required for exact Nulldrifter cast modes and Malevolent Rumble candidate limits.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Kozilek's Command Mode And Target Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: interaction, selection
- Cards: Kozilek's Command
- Phase windows: priority windows, combat-adjacent windows, main phases, and stack interaction windows.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Kozilek's Command; prompt:choose modes; prompt:target; visible board and stack.
- Use when: decide whether Kozilek's Command should remove pressure, create resources, answer graveyard/stack-relevant threats, or advance a payoff turn.
- Avoid when: do not spend Kozilek's Command on a low-impact mode if the visible board requires saving it for lethal prevention or if casting a payoff this turn is stronger.
- Instructions: Treat mode and target choice as tactical interaction, not autopilot. Card text check required for exact modes, target restrictions, and whether the current legal action can affect the visible object.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Torpor Orb Prison Commitment
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: priority, interaction
- Cards: Torpor Orb
- Phase windows: main phase before committing creatures or payoffs.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Torpor Orb; visible battlefield; visible hand.
- Use when: decide whether Torpor Orb meaningfully disrupts the opponent more than it interferes with visible Sowing Mycospawn or other own-card sequencing.
- Avoid when: avoid Torpor Orb if it delays the deck's first mana engine or conflicts with the only visible payoff line unless the opponent's visible plan is immediately shut off.
- Instructions: Cast Torpor Orb early against visible enter-the-battlefield dependency. Hold it when your hand needs creature-trigger functionality or when a payoff deployment is the stronger current turn.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Ugin's Binding Timing
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: interaction, priority
- Cards: Ugin's Binding; Devourer of Destiny; Nulldrifter; Sire of Seven Deaths; Emrakul, the Promised End; Ugin, Eye of the Storms
- Phase windows: payoff cast windows, triggered or alternate-cast prompts, and resolution windows.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Ugin's Binding; trigger:Ugin's Binding; visible stack and battlefield.
- Use when: decide whether the visible Ugin's Binding action stabilizes the board or should be sequenced with a larger colorless spell.
- Avoid when: do not assume the card can be cast or triggered from a hidden or nonvisible zone without rules-engine confirmation.
- Instructions: Let the engine's legal actions define when Ugin's Binding is available. Use it to reset pressure when the board swing matters, and route uncertain trigger or zone interactions through light-model.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Combat With Large Eldrazi Bodies
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: combat
- Cards: Sowing Mycospawn; Devourer of Destiny; Nulldrifter; Sire of Seven Deaths; Emrakul, the Promised End; Mirrex
- Phase windows: declare attackers, declare blockers, combat damage, end combat.
- Runtime cues: prompt:attackers; prompt:blockers; visible attackers; visible blockers; life totals.
- Use when: decide whether to race, stabilize, or preserve a payoff creature.
- Avoid when: do not attack with a needed blocker under a short visible clock unless the attack creates lethal pressure or a forced block shown by legal actions.
- Instructions: Attack when large bodies shorten the clock without exposing lethal on the backswing. Block to preserve life when the deck needs one more turn for Ugin, Eye of the Storms, Kozilek's Command, Sire of Seven Deaths, or Emrakul, the Promised End.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Single Legal No-Block Execution
- Priority: Low
- Decision families: combat
- Cards: none
- Phase windows: declare blockers prompt.
- Runtime cues: action:no blocks
- Use when: the only legal blocker action shown is no blocks.
- Avoid when: any legal action lists one or more blocking creatures.
- Instructions: Submit the visible no-block action when the rules engine exposes no creature assignment choices.
- Pilot skill floor: no-api.
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Sideboard Role Selection
- Priority: High
- Decision families: sideboard
- Cards: A-Haywire Mite; Consign to Memory; Ghost Vacuum; Relic of Progenitus; Vexing Bauble; Torpor Orb; Dismember; Mystical Dispute; Palantír of Orthanc; Fade from History
- Phase windows: sideboarding after game one and after game two.
- Runtime cues: prompt:sideboard; matchup label; previous game public log; visible opponent cards.
- Use when: choose exact legal sideboard plan or adaptive swaps from the registered 75.
- Avoid when: do not sideboard by matchup name alone if the previous game showed a different axis, and do not remove too many ramp/payoff cards for narrow answers.
- Instructions: Add graveyard cards for visible graveyard dependency, artifact/enchantment answers for visible permanent engines, blue interaction for stack fights, Dismember for creature pressure, and Palantír of Orthanc for slow attrition. Preserve the ramp core unless the opponent's speed demands more interaction.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Permission And Hate Deployment Gate
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: interaction, priority
- Cards: Consign to Memory; Mystical Dispute; Vexing Bauble; Ghost Vacuum; Relic of Progenitus; A-Haywire Mite; Fade from History; Dismember
- Phase windows: main phases, opponent priority windows, stack windows, and activated ability prompts.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Consign to Memory; action:cast Mystical Dispute; action:cast Vexing Bauble; action:activate Relic of Progenitus; action:cast Dismember; visible stack or target.
- Use when: deploy or spend sideboard interaction against a visible card, stack object, graveyard, or permanent axis.
- Avoid when: do not fire narrow hate into an empty or low-impact target set while the deck can instead ramp into a payoff.
- Instructions: Counter or remove cards that stop the payoff chain, create lethal pressure, or invalidate the mana plan. Card text check required for A-Haywire Mite, Consign to Memory, Ghost Vacuum, Vexing Bauble, Fade from History, and exact Historic versions.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Tap-Out Versus Hold-Up
- Priority: High
- Decision families: mana, priority, interaction
- Cards: Mystical Dispute; Consign to Memory; Kozilek's Command; Talisman of Curiosity; Ugin, Eye of the Storms; Emrakul, the Promised End
- Phase windows: main phases before passing with open mana and opponent stack windows.
- Runtime cues: action:pass; action:cast; visible open mana; visible opponent hand information if revealed.
- Use when: choose between advancing the board and preserving interaction.
- Avoid when: do not pass with mana unused if no legal interaction is available and a visible ramp or payoff action improves the board.
- Instructions: Hold up interaction when the opponent's visible line can stop your payoff or present lethal before your next turn. Tap out when the threat resolves a faster clock, stabilizes the battlefield, or makes later interaction less necessary.
- Pilot skill floor: light-model.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Deterministic Pass With Empty Stack
- Priority: Low
- Decision families: priority
- Cards: none
- Phase windows: priority prompts with empty stack.
- Runtime cues: action:pass priority
- Use when: the only legal action shown is pass priority and the stack is empty.
- Avoid when: any legal action casts, activates, attacks, blocks, targets, pays, counters, removes, or selects a card.
- Instructions: Submit the visible pass-priority action only when no other legal action is listed.
- Pilot skill floor: no-api.
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes
