# Strategy Specifications
## Deck Name And Archetype
Mrowelves is a Golgari Elf-mana Oathbreaker deck built around `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` and `Finale of Devastation`, with the tactical posture of a tribal midrange engine deck that can become a mana-combo deck when visible board state supports a decisive `Finale of Devastation` turn. The registered tags are `midrange` and `tribal`; the practical play pattern is hybrid: develop one-mana Elves, multiply creature mana through `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Guidance`, and `Gaea's Cradle`, then convert that mana into tutoring, card flow, protection, or a lethal/near-lethal `Finale of Devastation`.

- Validation: Active format is Oathbreaker, the registered deck passes the stated validation contract as 60 main-deck cards and 0 sideboard cards, with singleton construction outside the two `Forest` copies permitted as basic lands.
- Command-zone status: Treat `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` and `Finale of Devastation` as the named command-zone plan when Veles exposes those legal actions, but still obey the engine's current legal zones, costs, taxes, timing permissions, and available mana rather than assuming command-zone access.
- Sideboard status: The deck has no registered sideboard, so post-board planning is disabled; Veles must not invent `registered addition:` or `trim:` actions for this list.
- Stock status: Classify this as a rogue or highly tuned hybrid Elf engine list rather than a stock Oathbreaker shell, because it combines classic Elf acceleration with black tutor density, land-tutor utility, command-zone `Finale of Devastation`, and hate/protection pieces such as `Collector Ouphe`, `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and `Cavern of Souls`.
- Mana identity: The deck is primarily green with black access for `Demonic Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, black land faces, and Golgari lands; prioritize green starts unless a legal tutor or black interaction line is immediately stronger.
- Mana concern: Opening hands must be judged by whether they cast early green creatures or `Wild Growth`, not merely by land count, because `Priest of Titania`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, and `Joraga Treespeaker` are the deck's velocity foundation.
- Role concern: The deck should not pilot as generic midrange when a visible mana-engine line is available; it should pivot from attrition to explosive commitment when enough untapped creatures, land mana, and protection or redundancy are present.
- Legality concern: Do not assume Elf creature types, untap permissions, tutor targets, `Finale of Devastation` thresholds, `Glimpse of Nature` triggers, `Nettle Sentinel` untaps, or `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` abilities from memory when Forge/Veles exposes more precise action text; if a specific card interaction is not visible or known, use `Card text check required` and make the line conditional.
- Card-text caution: `Badgermole Cub`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Eladamri, Korvecdal` require exact card text confirmation before the agent treats them as deterministic engine, protection, card-advantage, or combat pieces.
- Opponent info status: No opponent deck, colors, archetype, commander, signature spell, mulligan history, or public game actions were supplied for this guide; matchup decisions must therefore begin from visible public information and avoid naming hidden cards unless the rules engine has revealed them.
- Agent posture: Use legal actions first, visible board state second, and this deck plan third; the guide is a decision aid for choosing among Veles-enumerated actions, not permission to create lines the engine did not offer.

## Thesis
Mrowelves assembles an Elf-heavy mana engine first, then converts the engine into tutoring, cards, protection, and a decisive `Finale of Devastation` turn. The deck wants an early green source plus one-mana acceleration, then a scaling mana piece such as `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Guidance`, or `Gaea's Cradle`; once the board produces a burst of mana, `Finale of Devastation`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, and `Sylvan Tutor` turn that mana into the exact missing payoff or protection piece.

Mrowelves wins by overwhelming the opponent with Elf bodies, lord effects, and a large `Finale of Devastation`, not by playing a slow one-for-one control game. `Elvish Warmaster`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, and command-zone access to `Finale of Devastation` give the deck its pressure and payoff texture, but `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid` requires a card text check before treating it as a deterministic lord, combo, or protection piece.

Prioritize stable mana and engine density over speculative tutor hands that cannot act. A hand with `Forest`, `Command Tower`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Dryad Arbor`, or a fetchland plus `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Joraga Treespeaker`, `Wild Growth`, or `Mox Diamond` is closer to the deck's plan than a hand full of expensive engine pieces and black tutors without a green start.

Avoid committing as though the combo is guaranteed when the visible board does not support it. Use Veles legal actions and public information to verify untapped creatures, available mana, summoning sickness, stack pressure, and protection before tapping low for `Finale of Devastation`, tutor chains, or a fragile mana engine.

## Role Package
- Threats: `Elvish Warmaster`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, `Eladamri, Korvecdal`, `Collector Ouphe`, and large `Finale of Devastation` lines are the main ways the deck turns mana into pressure. `Badgermole Cub`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Eladamri, Korvecdal` need card text checks before assigning them exact combat, protection, or engine duties.

- Payoffs: `Finale of Devastation` is the command-zone finisher and tutor-payoff, while `Green Sun's Zenith` functions as a creature-finding payoff when Veles exposes a legal target. `Gaea's Cradle`, `Elvish Guidance`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, and `Marwyn, the Nurturer` become payoffs once the battlefield already contains multiple creatures.

- Engines: `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Nettle Sentinel`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`, `Elvish Guidance`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, and `Marwyn, the Nurturer` are the engine core. Treat `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` activations and static effects according to legal action text at runtime rather than assuming a specific loyalty line.

- Velocity: `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Joraga Treespeaker`, `Elvish Spirit Guide`, `Wild Growth`, `Mox Diamond`, `Once Upon a Time`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, and `Demonic Tutor` increase speed or selection. Prefer velocity that leaves green mana and bodies available for the next engine step.

- Interaction: `Collector Ouphe` is the proactive hate card, `Crop Rotation` can become land-based interaction or acceleration when the target is legal, and tutor effects can find the needed answer if the answer is visible and legal. Do not treat the deck as removal-heavy; most interaction is prevention, hate, or speed.

- Protection: `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and `Cavern of Souls` are the primary protection module. Preserve them for decisive engine or `Finale of Devastation` turns when the opponent's visible colors, mana, stack actions, or public history imply interaction.

- Recursion: `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` may provide recursion or graveyard access only when Veles exposes that legal action; otherwise the registered list should be piloted as light on recursion. Do not sacrifice key creatures assuming recovery unless the engine offers the recovery action.

- Mana: `Gaea's Cradle`, `Ancient Tomb`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth`, `Dryad Arbor`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway`, `Woodland Cemetery`, `Underground Mortuary`, `Swamp`, `Forest`, and the fetchlands form the land module. Fetch and land-tutor choices should prioritize green development first, then black access for tutors.

- Sideboard: There is no registered sideboard. Post-board decisions must preserve the 60-card main deck exactly and must not invent sideboard cards or sideboard swaps.

## Primary Win Conditions
- `Finale of Devastation` is the primary kill when the battlefield already contains multiple creatures and the mana engine can make a large X. Setup with cheap Elves, `Gaea's Cradle`, `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, or `Elvish Guidance`; execute only after checking legal mana actions, summoning sickness, available attackers, and whether `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, or `Cavern of Souls` can reduce visible disruption risk. Prioritize this path when waiting exposes the board to sweepers, the opponent is near lethal from a pumped team, or a tutor can find the final missing creature or protection piece.

- Elf-engine overrun is the default non-combo win when `Finale of Devastation` is not immediately lethal. Setup by developing `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Joraga Treespeaker`, `Nettle Sentinel`, `Elvish Warmaster`, and `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`; execute by using lord or scaling-mana permanents such as `Elvish Archdruid`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and `Marwyn, the Nurturer` to turn each extra body into damage or mana. `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid` needs Card text check required before treating it as a deterministic pump, untap, combo, or protection engine.

- Tutor-chain assembly wins by converting selection into the exact missing engine, payoff, or protection piece. Use `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Once Upon a Time`, and `Elvish Reclaimer` to find the card that changes the current turn, not the fanciest future line; typical targets are `Gaea's Cradle`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Collector Ouphe`, or `Finale of Devastation` when legal. Prioritize tutors for mana first when short on development, for protection first when a decisive spell is vulnerable, and for payoff first only when the visible board already supports a kill or overwhelming attack.

## Secondary Win Conditions
- Incremental combat is the main fallback when the explosive mana plan is disrupted. Attack with expendable or already-profitable creatures while preserving irreplaceable mana engines; `Elvish Warmaster`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, and possibly `Eladamri, Korvecdal` can turn small Elves into a real clock, but `Eladamri, Korvecdal` requires Card text check required before relying on exact combat or card-advantage text.

- Value-engine pressure wins long games by making each creature cast or untap matter. `Glimpse of Nature` should be treated as a commitment card when the hand contains multiple cheap creatures and enough green mana to continue; `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`, and `Nurturing Peatland` help convert board presence into more actions if Veles exposes the relevant legal choices. Do not spend `Wirewood Symbiote` or `Quirion Ranger` activations casually when they can generate another large mana tap from `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` later in the turn.

- `Collector Ouphe` is the closest registered lock or hate win condition. Deploy it when visible opposing artifacts or public game actions show that artifact abilities matter more to the opponent than to the current Mrowelves line; delay it when `Mox Diamond` or other own artifact-dependent sequencing is still needed this turn. A protected `Collector Ouphe` can buy the turns needed for Elf combat or `Finale of Devastation`.

- `Dryad Arbor` pressure is a small but real fallback when mana development and combat both matter. Fetch or find it only when the creature body is strategically useful, such as increasing `Gaea's Cradle`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Guidance`, or `Finale of Devastation` output; avoid exposing it as the only land-equivalent when removal would strand the hand.

- There is no registered burn plan. Do not choose lines that assume direct damage reach; if combat is stalled, pivot to tutor selection, engine rebuilding, protection, or `Collector Ouphe` pressure instead.

## Emergency Lines
- When behind on life, stabilize before maximizing engine greed. Use legal blocks, avoid unnecessary `Ancient Tomb`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Bayou`, or `Elves of Deep Shadow` life payments when life is the limiting resource, and prioritize `Finale of Devastation` as a defensive creature tutor if the legal target prevents lethal damage.

- When behind on board, preserve mana creatures only if they lead to a faster recovery than blocking. Trade small Elves for attackers when the opponent's next combat is lethal or near-lethal, but keep `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, and `Marwyn, the Nurturer` alive when their next untap enables a decisive `Finale of Devastation`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, or multi-spell rebuild.

- When behind on cards, favor engines over single threats. Seek `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Nurturing Peatland`, or tutor lines that find a draw or chain piece; avoid firing a tutor for a standalone attacker unless it changes the clock or blocks immediately.

- When behind on mana, rebuild green access first. Fetch or play `Forest`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, `Dryad Arbor`, or `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth` before black-only utility, and use `Crop Rotation` or `Elvish Reclaimer` for `Gaea's Cradle` only when the creature count already makes it better than a normal land.

- When engines are removed, switch from storm posture to protected midrange. Recast cheap creatures, hold `Veil of Summer` or `Heroic Intervention` for the next critical permanent or `Finale of Devastation`, and use tutors to find redundancy instead of chasing the same removed card if another engine is legal.

- When win conditions are disrupted, win with protected bodies and command-zone inevitability. `Finale of Devastation` access means the deck can recover from a removed payoff if it rebuilds mana and creatures; do not concede material unless Veles shows no legal survival line.

## Resource Model
- Life is a spendable setup resource only while the board clock is controlled. Pay life from `Ancient Tomb`, untapped `Overgrown Tomb`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Vampiric Tutor`, or `Imperial Seal` when it accelerates `Finale of Devastation`, protects a decisive turn, or finds the missing mana engine; stop paying life when visible attacks threaten to force defensive blocks next turn.

- Hand size is fuel for chain turns, not a trophy. Preserve cheap creatures for `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, and `Gaea's Cradle` math unless a current legal play materially improves mana or survival.

- Mana is the deck's primary conversion engine. Creature count, Elf count, and land count should be evaluated before every tutor, because `Gaea's Cradle`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Elvish Guidance`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, and `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` can turn one extra creature or untap into several more actions.

- Board material is both pressure and infrastructure. Do not trade away `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, or `Quirion Ranger` for small combat value when their next activation enables a lethal or rebuilding `Finale of Devastation`; trade lesser creatures when survival requires it.

- Lands are active resources rather than passive mana. `Gaea's Cradle` scales with creatures, `Dryad Arbor` is both land and creature, `Cavern of Souls` can protect creature sequencing, `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth` can fix awkward lands, `Nurturing Peatland` can become a card, and fetchlands can access color, shuffle after top-deck tutors, or find `Dryad Arbor` when the body matters.

- Graveyard and exile are mostly information zones for this list. Track removed engines and used tutors to choose redundancy with `Demonic Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, or `Imperial Seal`; do not assume recursion, flashback, or exile play unless Veles exposes a legal action.

- Sacrifice fodder is limited and should be treated as cost-sensitive. Use `Dryad Arbor`, spare mana Elves, or a land for `Crop Rotation`, `Elvish Reclaimer`, or `Mox Diamond` only when the resulting land, acceleration, or color fix matters more than the lost permanent.

- Tempo matters because this deck snowballs. Prefer sequences that create a mana engine before passing, but hold `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, or `Allosaurus Shepherd` support when the visible opponent plan makes a single protected turn more valuable than one extra creature.

- Information is a real resource because tutors are exact. Use public actions, revealed cards, stack contents, and visible mana to decide whether a tutor finds acceleration, protection, `Collector Ouphe`, or a payoff; never infer exact hidden cards without a reveal.

- Sideboard bullets do not exist in the registered list. There is no post-board package to convert into hate, removal, or protection, so runtime strategy must tune only through mulligans, tutor targets, sequencing, and combat posture.

## Mana Guide
- Green access is mandatory in almost every keep. Keep hands that can produce early green through `Forest`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, `Dryad Arbor`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth`, `Mox Diamond`, `Elvish Spirit Guide`, `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Wild Growth`, or fetchlands that can find green; mulligan hands with powerful black tutors but no credible green development.

- Black access is secondary but important for exact selection. Prioritize `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, `Swamp`, `Woodland Cemetery`, `Underground Mortuary`, `Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway`, or black-capable fetch lines when the hand contains `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, or a black side of the pathway decision.

- Untapped mana determines whether a hand is functional. Treat `Underground Mortuary` and other tapped entries as slower unless their exact current rules text or Veles land action says otherwise; sequence tapped lands on turns where the hand already has a one-mana creature or no legal untapped payoff.

- Utility lands should be timed to the current bottleneck. Play `Gaea's Cradle` after establishing creatures when possible, use `Cavern of Souls` before important creature spells when counterplay is visible, deploy `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth` when it improves multiple lands, and avoid spending `Nurturing Peatland` for a card until mana is no longer the limiting resource.

- Fetchlands should choose the land that makes the next two turns legal. Use `Bloodstained Mire`, `Marsh Flats`, `Misty Rainforest`, `Polluted Delta`, `Verdant Catacombs`, `Wooded Foothills`, and `Windswept Heath` for green first, black second, and `Dryad Arbor` only when the creature body immediately improves mana math, blocks, or pressure.

- Play land before draw when mana use this turn is already known. If the legal line needs a specific untapped mana now, make the land drop before casting creatures, tutors, `Glimpse of Nature`, or `Finale of Devastation`; delay the land when `Once Upon a Time`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, or `Nurturing Peatland` could change which land or color is correct.

- Mulligan mana should favor one-land accelerant hands only with robust green action. A hand with one green land plus `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Wild Growth`, `Elvish Spirit Guide`, `Once Upon a Time`, or `Mox Diamond` can be keepable if it casts spells; a hand relying on `Gaea's Cradle` without creatures or `Mox Diamond` without discardable lands is high risk.

- Colorless acceleration has a real cost. Use `Ancient Tomb` for `Joraga Treespeaker`, `Mox Diamond`, large `Finale of Devastation`, or multi-spell turns when life allows it, but do not let colorless mana strand green creature chains or black tutors.

## Mulligan Guide
- Strong keep: keep green source plus one-mana acceleration plus payoff or selection. Examples include `Forest` with `Elvish Mystic` and `Priest of Titania`, fetchland into green with `Llanowar Elves` and `Glimpse of Nature`, or `Bayou` with `Arbor Elf`, `Wild Growth`, and `Demonic Tutor`; these hands create mana before asking the tutor to fix the game.

- Strong keep: keep hands that naturally make turn-two or turn-three mana engines. `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Nettle Sentinel`, or `Dryad Arbor` plus `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, or `Elvish Guidance` is the default engine start.

- Medium keep: keep one-land hands only when the one land produces green and the hand has redundant early action. `Forest` plus `Elvish Mystic`, `Once Upon a Time`, and `Green Sun's Zenith` is acceptable; `Gaea's Cradle` plus creatures but no other mana is not a real one-land keep unless Veles exposes an immediate legal creature-producing line.

- Medium keep: keep tutor-heavy hands when mana already works. `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, or `Green Sun's Zenith` should search for the missing engine, protection, or payoff after the hand proves it can cast spells; do not keep black tutors with no green development.

- Risky keep: treat `Ancient Tomb`, `Mox Diamond`, and `Elvish Spirit Guide` as burst tools rather than full mana bases. A hand that spends two cards to make one early play must have a follow-up such as `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Glimpse of Nature`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Priest of Titania`, or `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`.

- Automatic ship: mulligan hands with no green source, hands where `Gaea's Cradle` is the only mana and no creature is already legal, hands relying on `Mox Diamond` without an expendable land, and hands whose first meaningful action is turn three without `Once Upon a Time` or a tutor to repair it.

- Matchup-dependent keep: keep `Collector Ouphe` hands only when visible matchup context or known opponent strategy makes artifact mana or artifact engines important. Otherwise `Collector Ouphe` is a low-pressure body that can conflict with `Mox Diamond` and should not be the reason to keep.

- Play/draw adjustment: on the play, prioritize turn-one mana creature over slow tutor setup. On the draw, a hand with `Once Upon a Time`, top-deck tutor, or extra land can be more acceptable because the extra card may locate the missing creature, but still reject hands that cannot produce green early.

- Trap hand: do not keep only because it contains `Finale of Devastation`. `Finale of Devastation` is a search spell, stabilizer, or finisher after mana exists; it is not an early plan when the hand lacks creatures and green mana.

- Trap hand: do not keep only because it contains `Glimpse of Nature`. `Glimpse of Nature` needs multiple cheap creature spells in the same turn or a protected setup; a hand with `Glimpse of Nature`, expensive engines, and no one-mana creature should mulligan.

- Text uncertainty: treat `Badgermole Cub`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Eladamri, Korvecdal` as conditional keeps until Veles confirms exact Oracle text. Card text check required; keep them for curve or engine value only when the legal actions and visible text show they advance mana, cards, protection, or lethal pressure.

## Turn Arc
- Turn 1 priority: deploy untapped green and a mana accelerant. Preferred starts are `Forest`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, fetchland into green, or `Cavern of Souls` naming a relevant creature type when legal, followed by `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Wild Growth`, `Joraga Treespeaker`, `Nettle Sentinel`, or `Green Sun's Zenith` for a one-mana creature if Veles exposes that line.

- Turn 1 deviation: cast `Once Upon a Time` before committing when it can find the missing land or creature. Use `Elvish Spirit Guide` only when it creates a durable engine turn, not just a body that leaves the hand empty.

- Turn 2 priority: convert the first accelerator into a scaling engine. Preferred plays are `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Elvish Reclaimer`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Wild Growth` plus another creature, or a tutor for the missing engine if the current hand has mana but no payoff.

- Turn 2 deviation: use `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, or `Sylvan Tutor` when the exact missing piece is clear. Find `Gaea's Cradle` or a mana engine when mana is short, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Veil of Summer`, or `Heroic Intervention` when visible interaction threatens the next turn, and `Collector Ouphe` only when its hate text is live.

- Turn 3 priority: make the turn where mana begins to snowball. Develop `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Guidance`, `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`, or `Gaea's Cradle` after bodies are present, then chain cheap creatures if `Glimpse of Nature` or `Leaf-Crowned Visionary` can turn them into cards.

- Turn 3 deviation: hold protection when the next turn is likely decisive. Passing with `Veil of Summer` or `Heroic Intervention` available can be stronger than adding a small Elf if the board already has `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` exposed.

- Turns 4-5 priority: choose between lethal commitment and protected consolidation. Use `Finale of Devastation` as a tutor when it finds the missing engine or stabilizer, and as a finisher only when visible mana, attackers, blockers, and summoning sickness make the kill or overwhelming board legal through the rules engine.

- Turns 4-5 deviation: tutor for resilience before payoff against open interaction. `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, or another mana engine can be better than rushing `Finale of Devastation` when one removal spell would collapse the turn.

- Late game priority: turn excess mana into exact outcomes. Use `Nurturing Peatland` for a card when mana is no longer scarce, activate land-search lines with `Elvish Reclaimer` or `Crop Rotation` for `Gaea's Cradle` or fixing when legal, and let tutors find the card that answers the current visible bottleneck rather than the abstract strongest card.

- Late game deviation: defend life total before rebuilding engines when visible attacks are lethal or near-lethal. Trade expendable mana creatures, preserve key engines when possible, and commit to `Finale of Devastation` only when it creates immediate stabilization, lethal pressure, or a board state the opponent cannot visibly punish.

## Card Roles
- `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` is the command-zone engine that turns creature development into immediate mana and recursion pressure. Cast it when at least one mana creature, `Priest of Titania`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, or `Elvish Reclaimer` can benefit that turn, and avoid exposing it into attacks unless the activation or static ability produces immediate value.

- `Finale of Devastation` is both the signature-spell tutor and the cleanest mana-sink kill. Use it early to find the missing creature engine, hate piece, or stabilizer; use it late as a finisher only after Veles confirms enough mana, legal attackers, and opposing blockers for the pump/haste line to matter.

- `Elvish Mystic`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Arbor Elf`, `Joraga Treespeaker`, and `Wild Growth` are the turn-one acceleration package. Prioritize them over top-deck tutors unless the hand lacks a green source or creature density, and remember `Arbor Elf` is strongest with `Forest`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Dryad Arbor`, or a land made a Forest by `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth`.

- `Elvish Spirit Guide`, `Mox Diamond`, and `Ancient Tomb` are burst acceleration, not long-game card advantage. Spend them when the resulting play is a durable engine such as `Priest of Titania`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Glimpse of Nature`, `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`, or a protected lethal setup; do not burn them just to empty the hand faster.

- `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Guidance`, and `Gaea's Cradle` are the scaling mana core. Commit them when there are already bodies to count or when the next turn will clearly convert the mana into `Finale of Devastation`, multiple creatures, tutor chains, or protection-backed pressure.

- `Elvish Archdruid` is both mana and combat scaling, so protect it more highly than a generic mana creature. If Veles shows removal or sweep risk, prefer holding `Veil of Summer` or `Heroic Intervention` over adding another small Elf into the same exposure.

- `Marwyn, the Nurturer` rewards sequencing creatures after it resolves. Cast `Marwyn, the Nurturer` before cheap Elves when legal and safe, then use `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, or `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` lines to reuse mana if Veles exposes those activations.

- `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, and `Elvish Warmaster` are the card-flow and board-growth engines. Fire `Glimpse of Nature` only when multiple creature spells are legal that turn or a tutor can keep the chain going; cast `Leaf-Crowned Visionary` before other Elves when the extra payment is available; let `Elvish Warmaster` accumulate bodies before spending its pump ability unless combat math is decisive.

- `Wirewood Symbiote` and `Quirion Ranger` are untap-and-reuse engines. Use them to reset `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Reclaimer`, or a creature protected from removal, but verify once-per-turn and return-a-card costs through legal actions before assuming a loop.

- `Nettle Sentinel` is a cheap body for Elf count, `Gaea's Cradle`, `Glimpse of Nature`, and pressure. Do not treat it as a reliable blocker after green spell chains unless Veles confirms its untap state.

- `Allosaurus Shepherd` is the anti-permission and mana-sink pressure card. Prioritize it before a decisive `Finale of Devastation`, `Glimpse of Nature`, or creature chain against visible blue interaction, and use its pump ability only when combat math or lethal pressure is verified.

- `Collector Ouphe` is matchup-dependent disruption. Deploy it early against visible artifact mana or artifact engines, but account for the nonbo with `Mox Diamond` and avoid keeping a weak hand solely because it contains `Collector Ouphe` in matchups where its text is irrelevant.

- `Veil of Summer` and `Heroic Intervention` are commitment protection. Hold them when the board contains a high-value engine or when the next spell chain is decisive; cast them only in response to legal interaction or a visible sweeper/protection-relevant event, not as generic tempo plays.

- `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Once Upon a Time`, and `Finale of Devastation` are selection tools with different timing costs. Use instant or free selection before committing a land or turn plan when it can change the choice, and use sorcery-speed tutors only after identifying the current bottleneck: mana, cards, protection, hate, or payoff.

- `Crop Rotation` and `Elvish Reclaimer` turn lands into the exact land the board needs. Find `Gaea's Cradle` when creature count is high, `Cavern of Souls` when creature spells must resolve, `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth` when Forest synergies or fixing matter, `Bayou` or `Overgrown Tomb` for black access, and `Nurturing Peatland` when excess mana needs conversion into cards.

- `Dryad Arbor` is both land and creature, so it counts for Elf-adjacent board math only if Veles shows the relevant types and effects. Fetch or tutor it when an extra body unlocks `Gaea's Cradle`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Finale of Devastation`, or sacrifice/return utility, but respect summoning sickness and creature removal risk.

- `Cavern of Souls` should usually name the creature type that casts the current hand's key creatures. Do not assume all important creatures share one type; choose from visible hand and legal spell requirements, especially when `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Collector Ouphe`, or non-Elf utility affects sequencing.

- `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth` improves `Arbor Elf`, `Wild Growth`, fetchland/fixing patterns, and awkward utility lands. Play it when the deck benefits now, but remember it can also affect opposing lands if the rules engine exposes that interaction.

- `Command Tower`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Woodland Cemetery`, `Underground Mortuary`, `Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway`, `Swamp`, `Forest`, and fetchlands are the color foundation. Fetch green first unless a black tutor is immediately required, and preserve untapped sources for protection or post-tutor plays.

- `Nurturing Peatland` is a land early and a card late. Use it for mana until the turn where an extra card is more important than another source, especially after engines are answered or the hand is empty.

- `Eladamri, Korvecdal`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Badgermole Cub` are high-synergy creatures only when their exact text is confirmed by the runtime card data. Card text check required; treat them as conditional engine, protection, or pressure pieces according to visible legal actions rather than assuming unsupported abilities.

## Interaction Priorities

- Priority: Treat `Veil of Summer` and `Heroic Intervention` as protection for a committed engine, not as generic spells to spend for tempo. Hold them when `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Gaea's Cradle`, or a lethal `Finale of Devastation` turn is already present or about to be exposed.

- Priority: Use `Veil of Summer` only when Veles shows a legal response to blue or black interaction, a counter attempt, a targeted discard effect, or removal that the card can legally answer. Do not assume protection against red damage, white exile, colorless sweepers, or abilities unless the rules engine presents `Veil of Summer` as legal and relevant.

- Priority: Use `Heroic Intervention` when the visible event would destroy, damage, or otherwise remove multiple important permanents, or when one irreplaceable engine is required to win on the next turn. Prefer saving a board with scaling mana and card flow over saving a single replaceable one-mana Elf.

- Priority: If a legal choice allows removing, countering, discarding, exiling, or bouncing an opposing card through a temporary effect, answer the effect that stops creature casting, shuts off activated mana, sweeps the board, or kills the current mana engine first. Mrowelves has no registered main-deck normal removal, counterspell, discard, exile, or bounce suite, so do not invent interaction that is not listed among legal actions.

- Priority: Deploy `Collector Ouphe` as the primary disruptive permanent only when opposing artifact mana, artifact combo, or artifact value is visible or strongly implied by public information. Delay or avoid it when `Mox Diamond` is needed for the current line and no opposing artifact dependency is visible.

- Priority: Use `Allosaurus Shepherd` to fight permission before committing `Glimpse of Nature`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Finale of Devastation`, or a key Elf chain. Against nonblue creature decks, treat `Allosaurus Shepherd` more as a body and pump threat than as interaction.

- Bait: Lead with replaceable acceleration such as `Llanowar Elves`, `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, or `Nettle Sentinel` when the opponent is likely to spend one-for-one removal and the hand contains a stronger follow-up. Do not bait with `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` unless losing that card is acceptable.

- Ignore: Do not spend tutor equity answering low-impact permanents that do not race, sweep, tax creature casting, attack the hand, or break the mana engine. Use `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, and `Finale of Devastation` to solve the bottleneck that wins the game, not to chase every nuisance.

- Archetype shift: Against fast creature pressure, protect life and board presence before speculative engine expansion. Against control, prioritize `Cavern of Souls`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, protection timing, and threats that generate value immediately. Against combo, race with mana engines while using `Collector Ouphe` only if the visible combo depends on artifacts. Against graveyard or attrition decks, preserve card-flow engines and avoid overextending into known sweepers.

## Combat And Trading Rules

- Attack rule: Attack when the swing does not reduce next-turn mana below the line needed for `Finale of Devastation`, a tutor chain, or protection-backed development. Mrowelves wins many games by converting creature count into mana first and damage second, so do not send mana-critical Elves into obvious trades without a clock reason.

- Preserve rule: Keep `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, and `Leaf-Crowned Visionary` away of combat unless lethal, survival, or a clearly favorable rules-engine action requires it. A single preserved untap or mana engine often represents more damage than one attack.

- Trade rule: Trade replaceable creatures such as `Llanowar Elves`, `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Nettle Sentinel`, or token creatures before trading scaling engines. Keep at least enough bodies for `Gaea's Cradle`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Elvish Guidance`, and `Finale of Devastation` math when possible.

- Pump rule: Activate `Elvish Warmaster` or `Allosaurus Shepherd` pump only when Veles-visible combat math shows lethal, a decisive planeswalker kill, or blocks that preserve key creatures. Do not spend a full turn's mana on pump if postcombat development or protection is more valuable.

- Block rule: Block aggressively only when life total pressure threatens to shorten the game below the deck's engine window. At high life, absorb damage to keep mana engines alive; at low life or against evasive pressure, trade small creatures to buy the turn needed for `Finale of Devastation` or a wide-board pump.

- Protection rule: In combat, reserve `Heroic Intervention` for blowouts that save multiple attackers or blockers, protect lethal pressure, or preserve an engine from combat-speed removal. Do not use it to win a minor trade unless the protected creature is the bottleneck for the next turn.

- Untap rule: Use `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, and `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` combat-adjacent untaps only when the legal action text confirms the cost, target, and timing. Prefer untapping `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, or `Elvish Reclaimer` over creating small surprise combat edges.

- Lethal rule: Before committing to an alpha strike, count blockers, summoning sickness, tapped states, pump actions, and postcombat mana from visible state only. `Finale of Devastation` can be a finisher when the rules engine presents the legal cast and the resulting board math is visible; do not assume a lethal bonus or target without Veles confirmation.

- Text caution: `Eladamri, Korvecdal`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Badgermole Cub` require card text confirmation before combat commitments depend on them. If Veles shows abilities or static effects from those cards, follow the legal actions; otherwise treat them as creatures whose tactical value depends on visible power, toughness, types, and board role.

## Selection And Tutor Rules

- Selection: Use `Once Upon a Time` before the first land drop when it is legal and the hand still needs a land, `Dryad Arbor`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, a one-mana Elf, or a scaling mana creature. If the hand already has a stable turn-one play and land sequencing is clear, hold it only when Veles shows a reason to preserve instant timing.

- Land timing: Resolve visible selection before playing a land when the selection can change whether the turn needs `Cavern of Souls`, `Gaea's Cradle`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, a fetch land, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Ancient Tomb`, or `Dryad Arbor`. Play the land first when mana is needed to cast the selection spell or when the legal action window would close.

- Tutor priority: Use `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, and `Finale of Devastation` to solve the current bottleneck, not to collect generic value. Rank bottlenecks as missing mana, missing card flow, missing protection, missing payoff, then missing disruption.

- Creature tutor targets: Find `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` when the visible board needs explosive mana and the engine can survive the turn cycle. Find `Leaf-Crowned Visionary` or `Glimpse of Nature` support when the hand can chain cheap Elves but lacks cards.

- Protection tutor targets: Find `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Veil of Summer`, or `Heroic Intervention` when public information shows blue or black interaction, a sweeper risk, or a counterspell bottleneck that would stop the winning turn. Do not spend the best tutor on protection if the deck cannot yet produce a meaningful threat or engine.

- Finish tutor targets: Treat `Finale of Devastation` as both selection and payoff only when Veles confirms the legal cast, target, X value, and resulting action text. Do not assume lethal pump, haste, or a specific creature target unless the rules engine exposes the legal choice.

- Land tutor targets: Use `Crop Rotation` or `Elvish Reclaimer` for `Gaea's Cradle` when creature count makes it the highest-mana land now or next turn. Use them for `Cavern of Souls` when permission is the bottleneck, for `Nurturing Peatland` when stalled on cards, or for fixing only when color access blocks the current hand.

- Fetch sequencing: Use `Bloodstained Mire`, `Marsh Flats`, `Misty Rainforest`, `Polluted Delta`, `Verdant Catacombs`, `Wooded Foothills`, and `Windswept Heath` to secure black or green requirements before speculative thinning. Preserve an uncracked fetch only when visible library-search timing, `Dryad Arbor`, or opponent information makes waiting tactically relevant.

- Topdeck tutors: Cast `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, and `Sylvan Tutor` only when the next draw step, draw effect, or immediate line justifies giving up card or tempo equity. With `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, or `Nurturing Peatland` available, topdeck tutors can become same-turn access if Veles shows the draw action.

- Card text caution: `Eladamri, Korvecdal`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Badgermole Cub` require card text check required for any tutor or selection line that depends on a specific non-visible ability. If Veles shows only creature characteristics, evaluate them by visible body, type, mana cost, and current board role.

## Priority And Stack Rules

- Priority: Pass routine priority when the stack is empty, no legal engine action advances the turn, and holding mana for visible protection or activation matters more than casting a low-impact spell. Do not pass through a window with legal `Glimpse of Nature`, tutor, protection, or lethal setup actions without comparing the current turn cycle.

- Stack protection: Respond with `Veil of Summer` only to legal blue or black interaction presented by Veles, especially counterspells, discard, or targeted removal that it can answer. Respond with `Heroic Intervention` when the visible stack or combat action threatens multiple important permanents or the single engine required for a decisive next turn.

- Permission resistance: Use `Allosaurus Shepherd` before committing `Glimpse of Nature`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Finale of Devastation`, or a key Elf chain when blue interaction is visible or strongly implied by public actions. If `Cavern of Souls` can make the key creature uncounterable, sequence the land and creature type choice before exposing the payoff.

- Combo turn: Start a `Glimpse of Nature` chain only when the hand has cheap creatures, mana from creatures or lands, and enough visible follow-up to justify spending the card. After `Glimpse of Nature` resolves, prioritize legal creature casts that replace themselves before noncreature setup unless mana or protection is the limiting factor.

- Activated abilities: Use `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`, `Elvish Reclaimer`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and mana-creature activations only when Veles shows the exact legal action, cost, and target. Prefer untapping scaling mana creatures over minor combat tricks unless combat math is lethal or survival-critical.

- Optional payments: Pay optional costs or activate mana sinks only when they advance the chosen line and leave enough mana for visible taxes, protection, or follow-up actions. Do not consume `Gaea's Cradle`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` mana on small value if a tutor or `Finale of Devastation` line is still available.

- Combat windows: Hold priority through attackers, blockers, and damage only when legal actions can change lethal, save an engine, produce mana, or convert a threatened creature into value. If Veles shows no relevant legal action, pass rather than inventing a trick.

- Graveyard and library timing: Use `Nurturing Peatland`, fetch lands, `Crop Rotation`, and `Elvish Reclaimer` with awareness that sacrificing resources changes visible mana, land count, and future `Gaea's Cradle` or `Elvish Guidance` math. Do not sacrifice a land needed for current colors unless the fetched card or draw immediately solves the bottleneck.

## Sideboard Map

- Legal sideboard status: Mrowelves registers 0 sideboard cards, so Veles must submit no between-game card changes. The sideboard policy is therefore a role-adjustment map only: keep the same 60 cards, update priorities from public matchup evidence, and never request an unregistered card.

- Validation rule: Do not create `registered addition:` or `trim:` plan lines for this list because there are no registered sideboard cards. Any generated sideboard request that adds a card, removes a card, or changes counts should be rejected as illegal before game creation.

- Post-game adjustment rule: Use the opponent's revealed deck behavior to change tutor targets, keep thresholds, protection timing, and combat posture while preserving the registered 60. Treat sideboarding prompts as a chance to lock a no-change plan and record the strategic reason.

- Against fast creature pressure: Emphasize early mana creatures, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Nettle Sentinel`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, and blockers before slow tutor chains. Use `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, and `Finale of Devastation` to find stabilizing mana or board presence before speculative engines.

- Against removal-heavy midrange: Emphasize redundancy and protection. Prioritize `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Eladamri, Korvecdal`, and `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` when legal actions and visible mana make a protected engine turn plausible; do not expose `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` without considering immediate removal risk.

- Against counterspell decks: Emphasize uncounterable or protected setup. Value `Cavern of Souls`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and `Veil of Summer` more highly, and use tutors for protection or permission resistance when a single resolved `Glimpse of Nature`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, or `Finale of Devastation` can swing the game.

- Against artifact-centric decks: Emphasize `Collector Ouphe` only when the opponent has shown artifact mana, activated artifacts, or artifact engines that matter. Do not tutor for `Collector Ouphe` by default if the opponent's visible plan is creature combat, graveyard pressure, or stack interaction rather than artifacts.

- Against graveyard decks: Emphasize speed, pressure, and tutor-to-payoff lines because the registered 60 has no dedicated graveyard hate in the sideboard. If no hate action exists, do not invent one; race with mana scaling, force the opponent to answer the board, and use visible interaction or protection only when Veles presents it.

- Against combo decks: Emphasize fastest credible goldfish plus disruption that actually appears in the 60. `Collector Ouphe` matters against artifact-dependent combo, `Veil of Summer` matters against blue or black stack/discard interaction, and `Allosaurus Shepherd` matters when the combo race depends on resolving green spells through permission.

- Against sweepers: Emphasize staggered deployment unless a protected decisive turn is available. Hold back redundant mana creatures when current board already produces enough mana, but commit more creatures when `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Elvish Warmaster`, or `Finale of Devastation` creates a near-term winning line.

- Against mana denial: Emphasize fetchable colors, basic `Forest`, `Swamp`, `Command Tower`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, and mana creatures over fragile land-only plans. Tutor for land access with `Crop Rotation` or `Elvish Reclaimer` only when the legal action improves immediate color or mana requirements without sacrificing the only functional source.

- Against board stalls: Emphasize card flow and scaling mana. Increase priority on `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and `Finale of Devastation`; reduce emphasis on one-for-one posture unless the opponent has a specific visible threat that blocks the finish.

- Role-change rule: On the play, lean into early creature mana and `Glimpse of Nature` setup when the hand supports it. On the draw, give more weight to protection, blockers, color stability, and whether the opponent can punish a tapped-away engine turn.

- No-sideboard lock reason: In every post-game sideboarding window, submit the unchanged registered 60 and explain the matchup-specific role shift, such as permission resistance, artifact suppression, sweeper discipline, fast board development, or tutor-to-payoff speed. The legal card inventory remains unchanged across all games.

## Matchup Guidance

- Aggro: Stabilize first with cheap Elf bodies, then turn the corner with scaling mana. Keep hands that produce early green mana and at least one play among `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Arbor Elf`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, `Nettle Sentinel`, `Joraga Treespeaker`, `Elvish Warmaster`, or `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`; do not keep a hand that only tutors slowly unless it also casts a stabilizing creature. Use `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Gaea's Cradle`, and `Elvish Guidance` to produce enough mana for a decisive `Finale of Devastation` or large board, but block before preserving engine creatures when life total is under immediate pressure.

- Control: Resolve mana and protection before committing the decisive spell. Prioritize `Cavern of Souls`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, and `Eladamri, Korvecdal` when legal actions show counterspell, removal, or sweeper pressure; `Card text check required` for `Eladamri, Korvecdal` before relying on any specific protection or advantage text. Use `Demonic Tutor`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, and `Green Sun's Zenith` to find the missing protected engine piece, but avoid spending the tutor on a raw payoff if the opponent can answer the first major permanent cleanly.

- Combo: Race with the fastest credible mana explosion unless a registered disruption card directly matches the opponent's visible engine. Tutor for `Collector Ouphe` only when visible artifact activations or artifact mana are central; use `Veil of Summer` only when blue or black interaction is likely from public information or revealed cards; use `Allosaurus Shepherd` when resolving green spells through permission is the bottleneck. If no legal disruption exists, build toward `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Gaea's Cradle`, or `Finale of Devastation` instead of holding mana for invented answers.

- Tempo: Protect mana velocity and avoid walking one large action into open interaction. Sequence one-mana creatures before exposed three-mana engines when the opponent is representing bounce, removal, or permission, and prefer `Cavern of Souls`, `Veil of Summer`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, or `Elvish Spirit Guide` lines when they convert a contested turn into a resolved board. Do not sacrifice tempo with `Imperial Seal`, `Vampiric Tutor`, or `Worldly Tutor` unless the next draw or instant-speed setup produces a legal action that changes the current race.

- Midrange: Make the opponent answer redundant engines instead of one fragile threat. Develop multiple mana sources, force removal on `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, then use `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Quirion Ranger`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Glimpse of Nature`, and `Leaf-Crowned Visionary` to recover card or mana advantage. Trade small Elves when trading preserves life or planeswalker loyalty, but keep at least enough creatures to power `Gaea's Cradle`, `Elvish Guidance`, and tribal mana effects.

- Big mana: Pressure before the opponent's top-end invalidates creature combat. Prioritize explosive starts with `Mox Diamond`, `Ancient Tomb`, `Elvish Spirit Guide`, one-mana Elves, `Gaea's Cradle`, `Crop Rotation`, and `Elvish Reclaimer`; use tutors to assemble `Finale of Devastation` or a mana engine rather than incremental value. If the opponent shows artifact acceleration, `Collector Ouphe` can become a tutor target, but do not delay a lethal or near-lethal board solely to find it.

- Graveyard: Race and apply board pressure because the registered 60 has no dedicated graveyard hate. Use `Demonic Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Finale of Devastation`, and creature tutors to accelerate your own kill or find disruptive permanents that actually matter from visible context. Do not claim graveyard control unless Veles shows a legal action from a registered card that affects the graveyard; otherwise, make the opponent spend time answering `Elvish Warmaster`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Glimpse of Nature`, and scaling mana.

- Artifact/enchantment: Use `Collector Ouphe` as a precise answer to artifact engines, not as a generic hate card. Tutor for it when public board state shows important artifact mana, equipment, combo pieces, or activated artifacts; avoid it when the opponent's relevant permanents are enchantments or creatures unless its body or type matters. For enchantment-heavy opponents, rely on speed, `Veil of Summer` against matching interaction, and `Finale of Devastation` pressure, because the list does not register a clean enchantment removal package.

- Go-wide: Match board width, then overpower with superior mana and anthem-style pressure. `Elvish Warmaster`, `Nettle Sentinel`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, cheap mana creatures, `Elvish Archdruid`, and `Circle of Dreams Druid` are important because they let the deck both block and threaten a fast rebuild. Avoid all-in attacks when the opponent can crack back for lethal; use `Finale of Devastation` as the cleanest visible finishing route when mana and board count support it.

- Single-threat: Decide whether racing or answering the threat is faster from visible combat math. If one creature or planeswalker is the only pressure, use blockers, tribal bodies, or a fast `Finale of Devastation` plan to end the game rather than spending tutors on low-impact setup. If the single threat has evasion, lifelink, or a must-answer engine text visible in Veles state, increase priority on speed, protection, and any legal target or combat action that changes the clock.

- Burn: Treat life as a hard resource and reduce optional self-damage. Fetch and shock decisions must account for current life, visible burn pressure, and whether `Overgrown Tomb`, `Bayou`, `Command Tower`, `Forest`, `Swamp`, or `Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway` can provide colors without unnecessary pain. `Ancient Tomb`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, and painful fetch lines should be used only when the extra mana or card immediately stabilizes, races, or enables protection.

- Removal-heavy: Present redundant must-answer creatures and hold protection for turns that matter. Do not spend `Heroic Intervention` or `Veil of Summer` on a low-impact exchange if losing the creature does not stop the next strong legal line; save them for `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Glimpse of Nature`, or a decisive `Finale of Devastation` turn. Use `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` and tutors to rebuild after one-for-one removal, but do not assume any graveyard or activation text without visible legal actions.

- Unknown opponent: Keep the first-game default proactive. Favor hands with green mana, one early creature, one scaling mana or draw engine, and a tutor or protection piece; avoid narrow `Collector Ouphe`-centric plans until artifacts are shown. As public information accumulates, shift the no-sideboard post-game plan toward permission resistance, anti-artifact pressure, faster racing, or sweeper discipline without changing the registered 60.

## Specific Matchup Notes

- General/archetype-only: revealed cards override every matchup assumption. Treat unknown opponents as a race where Mrowelves builds creature count, converts that count into mana with `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Gaea's Cradle`, or `Elvish Guidance`, then ends with a legal `Finale of Devastation` line or sustained Elf combat.

- Between-game configuration: no registered sideboard exists, so submit the unchanged 60 when Veles asks for sideboard actions. Adjust play priorities instead: `Collector Ouphe` rises only against visible artifact engines, `Veil of Summer` rises only against blue or black interaction, and `Heroic Intervention` rises when sweepers or removal are publicly represented.

- Versus control: force the opponent to answer multiple different engines rather than one all-in spell. Prioritize `Cavern of Souls`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, `Veil of Summer`, `Elvish Spirit Guide`, and redundant cheap Elves when permission or black interaction is shown; do not expose `Finale of Devastation`, `Glimpse of Nature`, or a tutor-found engine into open interaction unless waiting gives the opponent a stronger visible position.

- Versus creature aggro: stabilize board width before maximizing tutor value. Keep one-mana Elves, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Nettle Sentinel`, and anthem/mana creatures high because they block, race, and preserve creature count for `Gaea's Cradle`; avoid shock or `Ancient Tomb` damage unless the extra mana changes the current combat clock.

- Versus artifact combo or artifact ramp: make `Collector Ouphe` a priority target only after Veles shows artifacts that matter. `Demonic Tutor`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, `Worldly Tutor`, `Sylvan Tutor`, or `Finale of Devastation` may seek `Collector Ouphe` when the legal and visible board indicates artifact activation dependency; otherwise, tutoring for pressure or mana is usually stronger.

- Versus graveyard decks: race because this registered 60 has no dedicated graveyard hate. Use tutors to accelerate `Finale of Devastation`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Glimpse of Nature`, or large mana rather than pretending to control graveyards; interact only when a visible registered card produces a legal graveyard-relevant action.

- Versus removal-heavy midrange: protect the turn that matters, not every creature. Spend `Heroic Intervention` or `Veil of Summer` when losing the target breaks a high-mana turn, a `Glimpse of Nature` chain, or lethal pressure; let low-impact removal resolve when redundancy in hand or command-zone access keeps the plan functional.

- Versus fast combo: choose speed unless a registered hate card directly matches visible information. `Collector Ouphe` is narrow but high impact against artifact-dependent boards, while `Allosaurus Shepherd` and `Veil of Summer` protect execution against permission or black disruption; otherwise, assemble mana and finish before the opponent's hidden plan becomes public.

## Risk Summary

- Mana risk: the deck is green-core but contains black tutors, fetches, pain sources, and utility lands that can create awkward early hands. Mulligan hands that cannot produce early green, and avoid `Ancient Tomb`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, or shock-fetch damage when life total is the limiting resource.

- Sequencing risk: one wrong early permanent can delay the whole engine. Prefer first-turn green acceleration when legal, preserve land drops for `Quirion Ranger`, `Wirewood Symbiote`, `Crop Rotation`, and `Elvish Reclaimer` decisions, and do not consume `Elvish Spirit Guide` unless the tempo gain is visible and immediate.

- Draw risk: `Glimpse of Nature` and `Leaf-Crowned Visionary` require enough follow-up creatures or mana to matter. Do not fire draw engines into an empty hand unless Veles shows legal follow-up spells, and do not tutor for card flow when a mana engine or finisher is the current bottleneck.

- Sweeper/removal risk: the deck can overcommit into mass removal because its mana and pressure both live on creatures. When the opponent represents sweepers, hold back a rebuild piece, value `Heroic Intervention`, and avoid converting every card into board presence unless lethal or near-lethal pressure is available.

- Closer risk: large mana without a payoff can stall. Track whether `Finale of Devastation`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, or sustained combat is the actual route to victory before spending tutors on more mana.

- Interaction risk: the deck has limited direct answers. `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Collector Ouphe`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and speed are the main interaction package; do not assume removal, graveyard hate, enchantment answers, or stack interaction not shown by legal actions.

- Card-text risk: `Badgermole Cub`, `Dionus, Elvish Archdruid`, and `Eladamri, Korvecdal` need Card text check required before high-confidence tactical use. Use them only according to visible legal actions and public Oracle-equivalent text supplied by Veles.

- Matchup risk: no sideboard means post-game adaptation is strategic, not configurational. Submit the same 60, then shift tutor targets, protection timing, combat posture, and life-payment discipline based on revealed cards.

## Test Feedback Checklist

- Deciding factor: What visible event most changed the game: early mana engine survival, a resolved `Glimpse of Nature`, a decisive `Finale of Devastation`, a protected board, opponent removal, combat pressure, or mana failure?

- Mulligans: Did the opening hand produce early green mana and a meaningful first two turns, or did it keep speculative cards such as `Demonic Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, `Vampiric Tutor`, `Worldly Tutor`, or `Sylvan Tutor` without enough mana or board velocity?

- Mana: Did `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Gaea's Cradle`, or `Elvish Guidance` generate decisive mana before the opponent stabilized?

- Land sequencing: Did fetch lands, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth`, `Ancient Tomb`, or `Nurturing Peatland` support the required colors without unnecessary life loss?

- Velocity: Did `Glimpse of Nature`, `Leaf-Crowned Visionary`, `Once Upon a Time`, `Green Sun's Zenith`, and creature density convert into multiple useful actions, or did the hand stall after one engine attempt?

- Engine commitment: Was the pilot correct to commit `Priest of Titania`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, `Elvish Warmaster`, or `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` when it did, given visible removal, blockers, and clock?

- Protection: Did `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, or `Cavern of Souls` stop the interaction that mattered, or were they held too long or spent on replaceable threats?

- Removal and disruption: Did `Collector Ouphe` matter against visible artifacts, and did the deck suffer because it lacked direct creature removal, graveyard hate, enchantment answers, or broader stack interaction?

- Closing: Did the game end through `Finale of Devastation`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, anthem pressure from `Elvish Archdruid`, or ordinary combat, and was the chosen closer available soon enough?

- Role: Did Mrowelves correctly identify whether it was racing, grinding, protecting a fragile engine, or rebuilding after removal?

- Mistakes: Did the pilot sacrifice tempo with unnecessary tutors, expose too many creatures into a sweeper, miss a legal activation, attack with needed mana creatures, or spend `Elvish Spirit Guide` without an immediate payoff?

- Stranded cards: Which cards stayed unusable in hand: black tutors, `Mox Diamond`, `Crop Rotation`, `Elvish Reclaimer`, protection spells, payoff spells, or high-output creatures?

- Overperformers and underperformers: Which exact cards most often advanced wins, and which exact cards most often failed to affect losses?

- Sideboard: Since the registered sideboard is empty, did post-game adaptation through tutor targets, protection timing, combat posture, and mulligan discipline compensate for not changing the 60?

## First Tuning Questions

- Card quantities: Does singleton access feel sufficient for `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, `Marwyn, the Nurturer`, and `Glimpse of Nature`, or do losses show the deck needs more redundant engine cards in future builds?

- Mana base: Are `Ancient Tomb`, `Nurturing Peatland`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Elves of Deep Shadow`, and fetch-shock lines costing too much life against aggro, or is the speed gain necessary for winning races?

- Green consistency: Do hands without `Forest`, `Bayou`, `Overgrown Tomb`, `Command Tower`, `Dryad Arbor`, `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Llanowar Elves`, or `Arbor Elf` fail often enough to adjust land or one-mana creature choices?

- Black access: Are `Demonic Tutor`, `Imperial Seal`, and `Vampiric Tutor` powerful enough to justify black-source tension, or do games show that black cards strand too often under pressure?

- Aggro plan: Does the deck need more early board stability when `Elvish Mystic`, `Fyndhorn Elves`, `Llanowar Elves`, `Nettle Sentinel`, `Elvish Warmaster`, and `Wirewood Symbiote` are not enough to block and race?

- Control plan: Does the protection suite of `Veil of Summer`, `Heroic Intervention`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and `Cavern of Souls` cover permission and removal, or do control losses come from overcommitting before protection is online?

- Closer density: Are `Finale of Devastation`, `Elvish Warmaster`, `Allosaurus Shepherd`, and combat pressure enough to end games after large mana, or does the deck repeatedly produce mana without lethal pressure?

- Tutor priority: Are tutors finding the right category: mana engine, draw engine, protection, `Collector Ouphe`, or finisher, or do replays show the pilot tutoring for power instead of the current bottleneck?

- Sideboard slots: If the format or event allows a sideboard later, which losses demand new role cards first: anti-aggro stabilization, graveyard interaction, artifact pressure beyond `Collector Ouphe`, sweeper resilience, or stack protection?

- Role conflicts: Are `Collector Ouphe`, `Mox Diamond`, `Crop Rotation`, `Elvish Reclaimer`, and creature-swarm engines pulling the deck in conflicting directions, or do they solve different visible-board problems cleanly?

## Veles Tactical Policy

### Policy: Opening Hand Engine Access
- Priority: High
- Decision families: mulligan
- Cards: Elvish Mystic; Fyndhorn Elves; Llanowar Elves; Arbor Elf; Elves of Deep Shadow; Joraga Treespeaker; Priest of Titania; Gaea's Cradle; Green Sun's Zenith; Once Upon a Time
- Phase windows: pregame, opening hand, mulligan bottom choices
- Runtime cues: opening-hand cards, visible commander/signature-spell zones, legal mulligan actions
- Use when: deciding keep versus mulligan before any hidden information changes.
- Avoid when: Veles reports a forced keep, no mulligan choice, or nonstandard hand rule.
- Instructions: Keep hands with green access plus a turn-one mana creature or credible turn-two engine. Treat tutor-only hands as speculative unless they also produce early mana. Prioritize hands that make creatures before `Gaea's Cradle`, `Priest of Titania`, `Circle of Dreams Druid`, `Elvish Archdruid`, or `Marwyn, the Nurturer` matter.
- Pilot skill floor: basic
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: London Mulligan Bottoms
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mulligan
- Cards: Forest; Bayou; Command Tower; Elvish Mystic; Fyndhorn Elves; Llanowar Elves; Demonic Tutor; Imperial Seal; Vampiric Tutor; Finale of Devastation
- Phase windows: pregame mulligan bottom prompt
- Runtime cues: action:bottom
- Use when: legal actions list exact cards to put on bottom after a mulligan.
- Avoid when: bottom candidates include unknown face-down cards or Veles omits card identities.
- Instructions: Preserve one green source, one early creature, and one high-output payoff. Bottom redundant slow tutors before functional mana. Bottom expensive closing cards when the hand still lacks a first play.
- Pilot skill floor: basic
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: First Green Permanent Setup
- Priority: High
- Decision families: mana; priority
- Cards: Elvish Mystic; Fyndhorn Elves; Llanowar Elves; Arbor Elf; Elves of Deep Shadow; Joraga Treespeaker; Nettle Sentinel; Wild Growth; Dryad Arbor
- Phase windows: turns 1-2 main phases
- Runtime cues: legal cast/play actions for one-mana green accelerants
- Use when: choosing the first board commitment from an undeveloped battlefield.
- Avoid when: visible opponent pressure makes a blocker more urgent than acceleration, or the action spends the only colored source needed for protection.
- Instructions: Establish a creature-based mana source early because later cards scale with creature count. Prefer actions that leave future green available and increase elf count. Use `Wild Growth` on a land that is likely to untap or remain available; do not strand `Arbor Elf` without a Forest-type land unless no better legal line exists.
- Pilot skill floor: basic
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Land And Color Sequencing
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana
- Cards: Bayou; Overgrown Tomb; Command Tower; Forest; Swamp; Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway; Woodland Cemetery; Underground Mortuary; Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth; Cavern of Souls; Ancient Tomb; Nurturing Peatland
- Phase windows: precombat main, postcombat main, fetch resolution
- Runtime cues: legal land-play, fetch, and color-choice actions
- Use when: a land drop, fetched land, pathway face, or color source choice affects this turn or next turn.
- Avoid when: Veles shows only one legal mana action and no pending color-sensitive play.
- Instructions: Secure green first, black second, and colorless burst last. Name Elf with `Cavern of Souls` when the legal choice supports the creature-heavy plan. Avoid unnecessary life loss from `Overgrown Tomb`, `Ancient Tomb`, `Nurturing Peatland`, or fetch lines when the same visible turn can be executed without it.
- Pilot skill floor: intermediate
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Exact Mana Payment After Line Selection
- Priority: Low
- Decision families: mana
- Cards: Gaea's Cradle; Priest of Titania; Circle of Dreams Druid; Elvish Archdruid; Marwyn, the Nurturer; Elvish Guidance; Elvish Spirit Guide; Mox Diamond
- Phase windows: any payment prompt
- Runtime cues: action:pay mana
- Use when: the selected spell or ability is already on the stack and Veles lists exact payment actions.
- Avoid when: multiple payments change future access to protection, tutor colors, or engine activations.
- Instructions: Pay with least flexible mana first, preserve green creature engines when they can generate more mana later, and spend `Elvish Spirit Guide` only when the current legal action materially advances the selected line.
- Pilot skill floor: intermediate
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Big-Mana Commitment Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: priority; mana; selection
- Cards: Priest of Titania; Circle of Dreams Druid; Elvish Archdruid; Marwyn, the Nurturer; Elvish Guidance; Gaea's Cradle; Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
- Phase windows: main phases before committing tap engines or planeswalker resources
- Runtime cues: legal cast or activate actions for high-output mana engines
- Use when: deciding whether to expose a fragile mana engine or spend the turn developing it.
- Avoid when: the engine action is forced by a single legal non-pass option.
- Instructions: Commit big mana when it creates a same-turn follow-up, threatens a near-term `Finale of Devastation`, or rebuilds faster than the opponent's visible pressure. Delay when visible removal, combat pressure, or stack interaction makes a smaller redundant creature line safer.
- Pilot skill floor: advanced
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Glimpse Turn Commitment Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: priority; selection; mana
- Cards: Glimpse of Nature; Nettle Sentinel; Wirewood Symbiote; Quirion Ranger; Leaf-Crowned Visionary; Elvish Warmaster; Allosaurus Shepherd
- Phase windows: main phase with priority and creature actions available
- Runtime cues: legal cast action for Glimpse of Nature
- Use when: deciding whether to start a creature-chain turn.
- Avoid when: hand has too few visible creatures, mana cannot continue after the first spell, or the opponent has visible pressure requiring immediate defense.
- Instructions: Fire `Glimpse of Nature` when legal follow-up creature actions can convert it into cards now. Sequence free or untap-enabling creatures after it. Do not spend the draw engine into an empty hand or a board state where passing with protection is stronger.
- Pilot skill floor: advanced
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Tutor Category Selection
- Priority: High
- Decision families: selection; priority
- Cards: Demonic Tutor; Imperial Seal; Vampiric Tutor; Worldly Tutor; Sylvan Tutor; Green Sun's Zenith; Finale of Devastation; Elvish Reclaimer; Crop Rotation
- Phase windows: main phase, upkeep, end step, search resolution
- Runtime cues: tutor, search, reveal, or library-selection prompt
- Use when: choosing a card or category from legal search candidates.
- Avoid when: Veles does not expose candidate identities or the search is deterministic by rules text.
- Instructions: Search for the current bottleneck, not the strongest card in isolation. Pick mana engine when mana is short, draw engine when resources are short, protection when a win is already forming, `Collector Ouphe` against visible artifact dependence, and `Finale of Devastation` when lethal or overwhelming board conversion is available.
- Pilot skill floor: advanced
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Green Sun Exact Creature Target
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: selection
- Cards: Green Sun's Zenith; Dryad Arbor; Priest of Titania; Collector Ouphe; Allosaurus Shepherd; Elvish Reclaimer; Elvish Warmaster
- Phase windows: search resolution
- Runtime cues: action:choose Dryad Arbor; action:choose Priest of Titania; action:choose Collector Ouphe
- Use when: the legal action text names a single exact creature already selected by a prior light-model tutor category.
- Avoid when: choosing among multiple strategic categories or when X value changes candidate legality.
- Instructions: Execute the named target only after the strategy decision has selected that card. Do not reinterpret the tutor goal during target resolution unless public information changed.
- Pilot skill floor: basic
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Finale Closing Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: selection; combat; mana
- Cards: Finale of Devastation; Gaea's Cradle; Circle of Dreams Druid; Priest of Titania; Elvish Archdruid; Marwyn, the Nurturer; Allosaurus Shepherd; Elvish Warmaster
- Phase windows: main phase before combat or decisive postcombat main
- Runtime cues: legal cast action for Finale of Devastation
- Use when: deciding whether `Finale of Devastation` should be a finisher, tutor, or held.
- Avoid when: visible blockers, life totals, or mana make lethal uncertain and waiting does not risk losing the engine.
- Instructions: Treat `Finale of Devastation` as a commitment gate. Use it to end the game or create an overwhelming board when mana and visible combat math support the result. Use it as a smaller tutor only when survival or engine access matters more than preserving the closer.
- Pilot skill floor: advanced
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Protection And Permission Response
- Priority: High
- Decision families: interaction; priority
- Cards: Veil of Summer; Heroic Intervention; Allosaurus Shepherd; Cavern of Souls
- Phase windows: stack response windows, pre-commitment main phases, opponent interaction windows
- Runtime cues: legal cast or activate protection actions; visible spell or ability on stack
- Use when: a visible stack item, removal effect, counter effect, or sweeper-like action threatens the engine or closing line.
- Avoid when: the threatened permanent is replaceable and saving protection for `Finale of Devastation`, `Glimpse of Nature`, or a mana engine is more important.
- Instructions: Spend protection on bottleneck permanents, decisive spell turns, or board states that represent lethal. Do not use `Veil of Summer` unless its legal text applies to the visible source. Use `Allosaurus Shepherd` and `Cavern of Souls` to force creature plans through permission when Veles confirms legality.
- Pilot skill floor: advanced
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Collector Ouphe Commitment
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: interaction; priority
- Cards: Collector Ouphe; Mox Diamond
- Phase windows: main phase before opponent artifact turns, priority windows with cast action available
- Runtime cues: legal cast action for Collector Ouphe; visible artifacts on battlefield
- Use when: visible artifact mana or artifact abilities matter to the opponent more than to Mrowelves.
- Avoid when: shutting off `Mox Diamond` materially prevents the current selected line and opponent artifacts are absent or low-impact.
- Instructions: Cast `Collector Ouphe` as a prison piece only from visible artifact evidence. Weigh the self-tax on `Mox Diamond`; the creature body and elf-adjacent pressure can still matter, but the lock is the reason to prioritize it.
- Pilot skill floor: intermediate
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Untap And Bounce Micro-Engines
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana; selection; priority
- Cards: Wirewood Symbiote; Quirion Ranger; Arbor Elf; Elvish Reclaimer; Priest of Titania; Marwyn, the Nurturer; Circle of Dreams Druid
- Phase windows: main phases, combat-adjacent priority, activated-ability prompts
- Runtime cues: legal activate actions for Wirewood Symbiote or Quirion Ranger
- Use when: choosing whether to activate untap, bounce, or land-return engines.
- Avoid when: returning a land or creature prevents a required blocker, land drop, protection spell, or lethal attack.
- Instructions: Use untap engines to reuse high-output mana creatures, protect a creature from targeted interaction when legal, or extend a `Glimpse of Nature` turn. Keep at least enough board presence for `Gaea's Cradle` and anthem pressure.
- Pilot skill floor: advanced
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Combat Pressure And Preservation
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: combat
- Cards: Elvish Archdruid; Elvish Warmaster; Allosaurus Shepherd; Nettle Sentinel; Leaf-Crowned Visionary; Marwyn, the Nurturer; Priest of Titania
- Phase windows: declare attackers, declare blockers, combat trick windows
- Runtime cues: legal attack or block declarations
- Use when: choosing attacks or blocks with nonlethal combat math.
- Avoid when: exactly one legal attack or block action is forced by game rules.
- Instructions: Preserve mana engines unless attacking creates lethal or removes a worse clock. Attack with expendable creatures when anthem effects or `Allosaurus Shepherd` activation convert board width into pressure. Block aggressively only when life total, visible crack-back, or protecting `Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler` requires it.
- Pilot skill floor: intermediate
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Lethal Attack Execution
- Priority: High
- Decision families: combat
- Cards: Allosaurus Shepherd; Elvish Archdruid; Elvish Warmaster; Finale of Devastation
- Phase windows: declare attackers after a selected lethal setup
- Runtime cues: action:attack with all
- Use when: Veles shows opponent life total at or below visible unblocked attacking power after all required pumps or anthem effects are already applied in visible state.
- Avoid when: visible blockers, prevention effects, first strike, lifelink, or damage replacement can change the result.
- Instructions: Execute the all-attack action only when visible combat math is already deterministic from the current legal action text and board state.
- Pilot skill floor: basic
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Sideboard Locked At Zero
- Priority: Low
- Decision families: sideboard
- Cards: none
- Phase windows: between games, sideboard submission
- Runtime cues: sideboard request, registered sideboard count 0
- Use when: Veles asks for sideboarding for this registered list.
- Avoid when: tournament configuration exposes a legal outside-game card pool not present in the registered sideboard inventory.
- Instructions: Submit the unchanged registered 60 because the deck has no registered sideboard. Adapt post-game only through mulligans, tutor targets, protection timing, combat posture, and risk tolerance.
- Pilot skill floor: basic
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes
