4c Kona is a Standard-claimed four-color ramp-midrange strategy built around accelerating or stabilizing into high-impact permanents and spell engines headed by `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Omniscience`, and large follow-up threats. Treat the deck as rogue or hybrid rather than stock: the registered shell combines ramp, midrange, and expensive payoff cards, and Veles should not assume a known metagame script unless matchup guides or logged games prove one.
- Count validation: the registered main deck contains 60 cards and the registered sideboard contains 15 cards.
- Format validation: the intended format is Standard, but exact format legality requires card-database verification before sanctioned-style conclusions because several names may be recent, set-specific, or unfamiliar to the local rules/card-text cache.
- Tag validation: the useful runtime tags are `ramp` and `midrange`; duplicate tag entries should be normalized to one `ramp` tag and one `midrange` tag.
- Stock status: classify this as `rogue-hybrid` until playtest logs establish common matchup roles, because the strategy uses a custom-looking mix of `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, and `Omniscience` rather than a clearly established public archetype label.
- Card-text status: Card text check required for `Starting Town`, `Winternight Stories`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Multiversal Passage`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Formidable Speaker`, `North Wind Avatar`, `Origin of Metalbending`, `Omni-Changeling`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Voice of Victory`, and `Fire Magic` before asserting exact triggers, modes, costs, combat keywords, replacement effects, or legality outcomes.
- Known-text caution: even familiar card names such as `Opt`, `Prismari Charm`, `Omniscience`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Steam Vents`, `Breeding Pool`, `Stomping Ground`, `Stormcarved Coast`, and `Dreamroot Cascade` should still be trusted only through the rules engine at runtime for legality, current oracle text, and available actions.
- Mana identity concern: the land base is visibly four-color with blue-red-green foundations and likely splash pressure, so Veles should prioritize hands and lines that produce early blue for `Opt` and `Stock Up`, red-blue access for `Prismari Charm`, and enough multicolor development to cast `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `Omniscience` when legal.
- Role concern: the deck should begin most unknown games as a stabilizing ramp-midrange deck, not as pure combo, because the list contains substantial expensive payoff density but limited confirmed cheap interaction and only seven clearly cheap spell slots in `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and `Prismari Charm` before card-text verification.
- Engine concern: `Omniscience` is a major payoff, but Veles must not assume the deck can cheat it into play or cast it on schedule unless legal actions and visible mana support that line.
- Opponent info status: no opponent archetype, decklist, matchup label, or metagame target was supplied, so all matchup assumptions begin from public battlefield, revealed cards, known companion or sideboard information, game log history, and the runtime legal-action list.
4c Kona assembles a four-color ramp-midrange board where early blue velocity, multicolor land development, and survivable interaction buy time for `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, and `Omniscience` to take over legal decision space. Prioritize hands and lines that make land drops, keep access to blue and red-blue interaction, and preserve enough life or board presence to convert expensive payoffs into repeated actions rather than stranded cards.
- Primary plan: build mana and card flow first, then deploy a must-answer permanent or spell engine when the rules engine exposes a legal, protected, or tempo-positive window.
- Win pattern: win by resolving large threats, chaining free or discounted spells through `Omniscience` when actually legal, and forcing the opponent to answer multiple high-impact permanents across consecutive turns.
- Stabilization pattern: use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, and any legal text on `Ashling, Rekindled` or `Formidable Speaker` to bridge into the expensive top end; Card text check required before assuming removal, lifegain, blockers, or sweep effects from unfamiliar cards.
- What not to do: do not treat the deck as a pure all-in combo deck, because the registered list has many expensive payoffs but no verified deterministic combo line from the supplied text.
- What not to do: do not spend early turns on speculative off-color or tapped-land sequencing if it prevents casting visible legal velocity or interaction in the next turn cycle.
- Commitment rule: commit `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` only when visible mana, opponent pressure, known interaction, and follow-up cards make waiting worse or when the legal action list offers no safer stabilizing line.
- Runtime discipline: choose only from legal actions, let visible board state and public information override these heuristics, and mark any unfamiliar card ability as conditional until the rules engine exposes exact choices.
- Threats: `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `Formidable Speaker`, and `North Wind Avatar` are the maindeck bodies or board-impact permanents that should pressure life totals, planeswalker-like resources, or combat states when legal. Card text check required for each unfamiliar threat before assuming size, keywords, haste, ward, enter triggers, recursion, or combat dominance.
- Payoffs: `Omniscience` is the ceiling payoff and should be valued highest when the hand contains expensive follow-up spells that become immediately usable after it resolves; `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, and sideboard `Terror of the Peaks` or `Dracogenesis` are payoff cards only to the extent their rules text and legal actions create board conversion or damage pressure. Do not keep a slow hand solely because it contains payoffs unless the mana and early plays support reaching them.
- Engines: `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Winternight Stories`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `Omniscience` are possible repeated-advantage pieces, but Card text check required for all except the broad `Omniscience` role before assuming draw, ramp, protection, maze progress, or triggered loops. Favor engine deployment after the deck has enough mana colors to use the next legal follow-up, not merely because an engine card is castable.
- Velocity: `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and `Prismari Charm` are the clearest smoothing package, with `Winternight Stories` also treated as velocity only if the rules engine exposes card selection or draw. Use velocity to find missing colors, land drops, stabilizers, or a specific payoff; avoid spending selection on luxury threats while under a short visible clock.
- Interaction: `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, sideboard `Fire Magic`, sideboard `Spider-Sense`, sideboard `Origin of Metalbending`, and sideboard `Dracogenesis` are interaction candidates, but Card text check required for unfamiliar names before assigning removal, counterplay, prevention, or combat-trick functions. Spend interaction first to prevent lethal, protect a payoff turn, or break an opposing engine that will outscale the deck before `Omniscience` or the large threats matter.
- Protection: `Cavern of Souls` may protect creature casting through counterspells when creature type choices and legal actions support it; sideboard `Voice of Victory` and `Spider-Sense` may be protection or anti-interaction tools only if their exposed card text supports that role. Preserve protective resources for `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, or a decisive payoff turn rather than minor tempo exchanges.
- Recursion: `Ashling, Rekindled` and `Kavaron, Memorial World` should be treated as recursion-adjacent only if the rules engine exposes graveyard, return, replay, or renewal actions. Do not assume the deck can recover a spent payoff from the graveyard unless that action is visible and legal.
- Mana: `Starting Town`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Stomping Ground`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, `Breeding Pool`, `Island`, `Multiversal Passage`, `Cavern of Souls`, and `Steam Vents` form a demanding four-color base. Sequence mana to preserve early blue for `Opt` and `Stock Up`, red-blue for `Prismari Charm`, green or creature-color access for `Kona, Rescue Beastie` if required, and enough late multicolor coverage for `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, and `Omniscience`.
- Sideboard modules: `Origin of Metalbending`, `Omni-Changeling`, the extra `Marang River Regent`, the extra `Stock Up`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Voice of Victory`, and `Fire Magic` let the deck pivot after Game 1, but exact roles require card text verification. Use sideboard cards as targeted modules: more interaction against fast boards, more protection against disruption, more threat density against attrition, and more velocity when games are decided by assembling mana plus payoff rather than answering early pressure.
-`Omniscience` conversion is the highest-ceiling win path when the hand or battlefield contains expensive follow-up cards and enough life to survive the setup turn. Set up by making land drops with `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and legal `Prismari Charm` selection, then execute by resolving `Omniscience` and using the legal action list to cast `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, `Marang River Regent`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, or `Kona, Rescue Beastie` without assuming hidden discounts or extra triggers. Protect this line by waiting through obvious opposing pressure or open interaction when waiting improves the payoff turn; prioritize it when the opponent cannot present lethal next turn, when multiple payoff cards are available, or when ordinary combat will not catch up.
- Large-threat overload is the default win path when `Omniscience` is absent, too slow, or unsafe. Set up by sequencing `Cavern of Souls` and multicolor lands so the first major creature is actually castable, then execute by presenting `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, and `Ashling, Rekindled` across consecutive turns until removal or blockers are exhausted. Card text check required before assuming evasion, haste, ward, recursion, or combat superiority; use only visible power/toughness, keywords, and engine prompts from Forge. Prioritize this line against slower decks, counterspell-heavy decks where `Cavern of Souls` can matter for creature spells, and games where the opponent has spent interaction on earlier threats.
- Engine-board snowball is the preferred win path when the legal actions from `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Winternight Stories`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, or `Formidable Speaker` create repeatable advantage. Set up by stabilizing mana and board first, then execute by choosing legal draw, ramp, token, combat, recursion, or pressure actions only when the rules engine exposes them. Card text check required for every unfamiliar engine text; do not assume a permanent is an engine until its prompted actions or visible effects prove it. Prioritize this path when the opponent is trading one-for-one, when life total is stable, or when a single large payoff would be vulnerable to known removal.
- Combat pressure is the main fallback when payoff cards are delayed. Use `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Marang River Regent`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `North Wind Avatar` to attack only when visible blocks, races, and removal windows make the attack legal and strategically favorable. Do not attack a needed stabilizing creature into a larger visible blocker unless the legal action text or known spell line converts the trade.
- Incremental spell value can win games where neither player resolves a decisive permanent. Use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and legal `Prismari Charm` modes to hit land drops, find interaction, and keep threat density flowing; Card text check required before using `Winternight Stories` or `Lost in the Maze` as card advantage, removal, lock, or maze-progress tools. Prioritize card flow when the battlefield is stable and the hand lacks either a payoff or the mana to cast one.
- Burn or direct-damage finishes are conditional on exposed legal actions. `Prismari Charm`, sideboard-like effects not currently in the main deck, or unknown text on `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, or `North Wind Avatar` must not be treated as reach unless Forge shows target-player, damage, or loss-of-life actions. When such a legal action is visible, count only public life totals, visible prevention, stack interaction, and required targets before choosing it.
- Recursion or replacement threat loops are conditional backup plans. `Ashling, Rekindled` and `Kavaron, Memorial World` may imply recovery by name, but Card text check required before assuming graveyard return, replay permissions, or renewal triggers. If Forge exposes legal recursion, prioritize returning the threat or engine that stabilizes the current board rather than the most expensive card by default.
- Behind on life: choose survival over ceiling. Spend `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, legal creature blocks, and any exposed defensive text from `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Marang River Regent`, or `North Wind Avatar` to prevent lethal or reduce the next attack before selecting draw or setup actions. Do not tap out for `Omniscience` if visible attackers or burn-like stack actions can end the game first.
- Behind on board: convert the next legal high-impact permanent into stabilization. Prefer a blocker, removal-like action, bounce-like action, sweep-like action, or large creature over speculative selection when the opponent has a short visible clock; Card text check required for `Lost in the Maze`, `Winternight Stories`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `North Wind Avatar` before assuming they answer creatures.
- Behind on cards: use `Stock Up`, `Opt`, and legal `Prismari Charm` selection to rebuild toward lands plus threats. Keep interaction if the opponent has a visible engine or lethal threat; do not spend the last card on a low-impact action when a future `Omniscience` or large creature is the only realistic comeback.
- Behind on mana: prioritize land-finding and color repair over expensive threats. Use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and legal rummage or selection modes from `Prismari Charm` to find lands, and sequence `Cavern of Souls`, shock lands, check lands, `Starting Town`, and `Multiversal Passage` according to currently castable spells rather than distant perfect colors.
- Removed win conditions: pivot immediately from the missing plan. If `Omniscience` is gone or uncastable, win through creature overload; if large creatures are answered, lean on engines and card flow; if engines are answered, preserve every threat and avoid unnecessary trades. Treat graveyard recursion as unavailable unless Forge exposes it as a legal action.
- Facing faster combo or lock pressure: stop developing only when interaction or a faster kill is legal. Use visible stack, battlefield, graveyard, exile, hand-reveal, and action prompts to decide whether `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, or a fast `Omniscience` turn is the correct emergency line; never assume the opponent lacks the missing piece from hidden zones.
- Life is a stabilizing resource, not a combo resource. Spend life from `Stomping Ground`, `Breeding Pool`, and `Steam Vents` only when the untapped color changes the current turn: casting `Opt`, `Prismari Charm`, `Stock Up`, `Lost in the Maze`, or enabling a large permanent before the opponent's next attack. Against visible pressure, prefer tapped shock-land entries unless the legal action prevents more damage than the life paid.
- Hand size is the deck's bridge from setup to payoff. Use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and legal `Prismari Charm` selection modes to convert excess expensive cards into lands, missing colors, `Omniscience`, or a castable threat. Do not discard or bottom the only payoff unless the hand cannot reach its mana requirements or the board demands immediate interaction.
- Mana is the primary bottleneck and the main resource to protect. The deck wants early blue for `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and likely `Prismari Charm`, then enough mixed colors for `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Marang River Regent`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, and `Omniscience`. Card text check required for exact colored costs; follow Forge legality over name-based assumptions.
- Board presence buys the time that selection spells need. Treat `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Marang River Regent`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `North Wind Avatar` as stabilizers only when visible stats, keywords, or legal actions support that role. Preserve blockers when the opponent's next visible attack threatens lethal or forces bad future blocks.
- Graveyard value is conditional until proven by rules-engine actions. Do not treat `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Winternight Stories`, `Lost in the Maze`, or sideboard `Origin of Metalbending` as recursion unless Forge exposes graveyard, cast-from-graveyard, return, collect-evidence, or related choices. If legal recursion appears, prioritize the card that changes the immediate board or enables `Omniscience` execution.
- Exile is mostly a tracking zone unless a legal play-from-exile action appears. Do not assume `Multiversal Passage`, `Winternight Stories`, `Lost in the Maze`, or `North Wind Avatar` can access exile without an explicit prompt. If an exiled card is playable, compare its current impact against holding mana for interaction.
- Lands are both color access and tempo. `Cavern of Souls` can be crucial for creature casts if Forge prompts creature-type naming or uncounterable text, but it may fail to cast `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, or `Omniscience`. `Starting Town` and `Multiversal Passage` are utility lands until text is checked; use them according to exposed mana and search actions, not assumptions.
- Sacrifice fodder is not a planned resource in Game 1. Do not sacrifice real threats or blockers unless a visible legal action from `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or another card clearly pays off and survival remains covered. Sideboard `Dracogenesis` and `Terror of the Peaks` may change creature-value incentives; Card text check required.
- Information is gained through public zones, visible actions, revealed cards, and opponent timing. Use known removal, counters, blockers, graveyard cards, and exposed sideboard cards to decide whether to commit `Omniscience` or overload with creatures; never infer exact hidden cards beyond archetype guidance.
- Sideboard bullets convert matchup pressure into specific answers. `Spider-Sense`, `Fire Magic`, `Voice of Victory`, `Origin of Metalbending`, `Omni-Changeling`, `Dracogenesis`, `Terror of the Peaks`, extra `Marang River Regent`, and extra `Stock Up` should be valued only by their visible legal text and matchup role; Card text check required for unfamiliar effects.
- Build hands around early blue plus a path to four or more mana. Keep two- or three-land hands with `Island`, `Breeding Pool`, `Steam Vents`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, or `Cavern of Souls` plus `Opt` or `Stock Up` when they can progress toward threats. Mulligan one-land hands without `Opt` and a credible second-land path, and mulligan hands that cast only expensive creatures with no early selection.
- Sequence tapped and untapped lands by the next two turns, not by ideal final colors. Lead with tapped `Stomping Ground`, `Breeding Pool`, or `Steam Vents` when no one-mana action is needed; shock untapped when the current legal spell fixes the hand, prevents damage, or keeps pace. Prefer `Island` when blue is already the missing stable color and life total matters.
- Use `Cavern of Souls` deliberately because it may not cast noncreature setup spells. If choosing a creature type is prompted, select the type that covers the highest-impact visible creature spell in hand, usually the next castable `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Marang River Regent`, `Formidable Speaker`, or `North Wind Avatar`; Card text check required for actual types. Do not rely on `Cavern of Souls` for `Omniscience`.
- Hold land drops before draw or selection when no current action depends on that land. Cast `Opt`, `Stock Up`, or a legal `Prismari Charm` selection mode first if the land choice could change after seeing a card and the unused land drop remains available. Play the land first when it is required to pay for the selection spell, to keep interaction legal, to represent a needed color, or to make a post-draw spell castable.
- Prioritize colors by current hand and legal actions. Blue enables `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and likely `Prismari Charm`; red likely supports `Prismari Charm` and `Ashling, Rekindled`; green likely supports `Kona, Rescue Beastie` and large ramp creatures; other colors are conditional on exact costs for `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Lost in the Maze`, and `North Wind Avatar`. Card text check required for every unfamiliar colored cost.
- Preserve mana flexibility before priority passes. When holding `Prismari Charm`, `Opt`, `Lost in the Maze`, or any visible instant-speed action, avoid spending colored mana on low-impact selection or optional payments if the opponent has a threatening stack spell, attack step, or known engine. If no interaction is legal, spend mana proactively to improve the next payoff turn.
- Strong keep: Keep two or three lands with early blue plus `Opt` or `Stock Up` and at least one castable bridge threat such as `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, or `Marang River Regent`. This hand advances mana, finds missing colors, and does not depend on resolving `Omniscience` before playing Magic.
- Strong keep: Keep three or four lands with `Cavern of Souls`, a blue source, `Prismari Charm`, and a creature-heavy curve when Forge shows the lands can cast the visible spells. Use `Cavern of Souls` for the next important creature if prompted; Card text check required for creature types.
- Medium keep: Keep two lands plus `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and one expensive payoff such as `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` when at least one land produces blue. This hand needs selection to hit lands, so bottom redundant expensive cards before bottoming the first functional payoff.
- Medium keep: Keep three lands with `Winternight Stories` or `Lost in the Maze` only if the hand also has early selection, interaction, or a castable creature. Card text check required; do not treat these as removal, ramp, recursion, or fog effects unless legal actions prove it.
- Risky keep: Keep one land plus `Opt` only on the draw when the land casts `Opt`, the hand contains at least two more cheap looks such as another `Opt`, `Stock Up`, or legal `Prismari Charm` selection, and the matchup is not punishing missed land drops. Ship this on the play against fast starts unless no better six is likely.
- Risky keep: Keep four or five lands plus `Omniscience` and one payoff only when the remaining cards include `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or another action that prevents flooding. Ship land-heavy hands that merely wait for seven-plus mana while the opponent develops pressure.
- Automatic ship: Mulligan zero-land hands, one-land hands without `Opt`, and hands with only `Cavern of Souls` or utility lands that cannot cast the visible noncreature setup spells. Also ship hands containing multiple `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` with no early blue and no first-three-turn play.
- Matchup-dependent keep: Against aggressive visible or known archetypes, keep hands with early board presence from `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, or `Marang River Regent` over slower `Omniscience` hands. Against slower decks, keep selection-heavy hands with `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, and a protected payoff, but still require mana progress.
- Play/draw adjustment: On the play, require a turn-one or turn-two plan that uses mana productively or fixes the next draw. On the draw, tolerate one extra expensive card or one shakier color source if `Opt` or `Stock Up` can correct the hand before the first key decision.
- Trap hand: Do not keep `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, and three lands just because the top end is powerful. Without `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, or a castable stabilizer, the hand may lose before the payoff matters.
- Trap hand: Do not keep `Cavern of Souls` plus creature threats if the rest of the hand needs blue noncreature spells. `Cavern of Souls` is powerful for creatures but can strand `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, and `Omniscience`.
- Turn 1: Prioritize a blue source for `Opt` when it is legal and meaningful. Cast `Opt` before committing to a narrow land plan if the land drop is already made or irrelevant; otherwise play the land that enables turn-two `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or `Ashling, Rekindled` according to legal costs.
- Turn 1 deviation: Use tapped lands or life-preserving lands when no one-mana action is available. Shock or use painful mana only when it enables immediate selection, prevents a missed curve, or keeps a visible interaction spell legal against a threatening start.
- Turn 2: Prefer `Stock Up`, a legal `Prismari Charm` filtering mode, or a castable early permanent over passing with no exposed instant-speed purpose. If `Starting Town` or `Multiversal Passage` offers a legal mana, search, or setup action, use it only when it improves the next two turns more than casting selection now; Card text check required.
- Turn 2 deviation: Hold `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, or another instant-speed action when the opponent presents a stack spell, attacker, or engine piece that the visible legal action can answer. If no such action is legal, spend mana to dig toward land four and the first stabilizer.
- Turn 3: Deploy the first real board piece when legal, especially `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, or `Marang River Regent`, if it blocks, pressures, ramps, or protects life according to visible stats and rules text. If the board is stable, use `Stock Up` or `Prismari Charm` to find missing colors, land drops, or the `Omniscience` turn.
- Turn 3 deviation: Do not tap out for a fragile creature when the opponent's visible attack or stack threat demands interaction and a legal answer is available. Do not cast `Winternight Stories` or `Lost in the Maze` for assumed value; use them only for the legal effect Forge exposes.
- Turns 4-5: Build toward the decisive payoff while staying alive. Sequence `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Marang River Regent`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` as the board and mana allow, but choose blockers and interaction over greed when visible combat math threatens lethal or a severe tempo loss.
- Turns 4-5 deviation: Commit to `Omniscience` only when it is legal, the mana supports it, and the hand or follow-up actions can immediately convert it into pressure, cards, or stabilization. If the opponent has open known interaction, a fast clock, or a visible punish, use selection or creature deployment unless waiting is worse.
- Late game: Prioritize action density over raw mana once enough lands are in play. Use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and legal `Prismari Charm` modes to find `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, or the interaction needed to survive the next turn.
- Late-game deviation: When `Omniscience` is active or a similar legal engine appears, cast the highest-impact legal spell first only if it does not close off required colors, targets, or stack protection. When behind, stabilize before maximizing value; when ahead, force the opponent to answer visible threats rather than spending turns on low-impact filtering.
-`Opt`: Use `Opt` as the cheapest land-drop and color-fixing tool, not as a default end-step ritual. Cast it main phase when the next land or color decision depends on the card seen; hold it when mana is already efficient and the opponent may force a priority decision before your next turn. Bottom redundant expensive cards before bottoming the first functional land, blue source, `Omniscience`, or castable stabilizer. Against aggro, bias toward lands, blockers, or legal interaction; against slower decks, bias toward `Omniscience` plus a payoff or a protected threat chain.
-`Stock Up`: Card text check required; treat `Stock Up` as a selection or card-advantage role only when Forge exposes that legal effect. Cast it when the deck needs land four, a missing color, `Omniscience`, or a stabilizer more than it needs to hold instant-speed interaction. Do not spend a whole turn on `Stock Up` under lethal pressure if a legal blocker, removal mode, or stabilizing permanent is available. If it offers card choices, prioritize mana development first, then `Omniscience`, then the payoff that is actually castable or cheat-able from visible actions.
-`Prismari Charm`: Use `Prismari Charm` as the flexible early bridge between survival, ramp, and filtering. The damage mode is for legal high-tempo targets, small attackers, planeswalkers, or lethal math; do not fire it at a low-impact target when missing land drops. The Treasure mode is strongest when it accelerates `Omniscience`, fixes a missing color, or keeps a follow-up action legal after spending mana. The draw-discard mode should target self unless the legal action text and game state make another target explicitly correct; discard duplicate top-end, dead interaction, or excess lands after the next land drop is secured.
-`Winternight Stories`: Card text check required; use `Winternight Stories` only according to the legal action Forge exposes. If it is a selection or draw spell, cast it in stable windows to find land, `Omniscience`, or a payoff; if it is interaction, hold it for the visible target class it can answer. Do not keep or sequence around assumed card advantage, removal, recursion, or fog text. Against pressure, require the legal effect to affect the next combat, next land drop, or next stabilizing turn before spending mana on it.
-`Lost in the Maze`: Card text check required; treat `Lost in the Maze` as conditional interaction or tempo only when the runtime legal action confirms target, timing, and effect. Hold it when the opponent has a threatening attacker, stack spell, or permanent type it can legally affect. Cast it proactively only if the visible legal outcome advances mana, cards, or survival more than passing. The common mistake is assuming it prevents combat or removes a threat without the engine offering that action.
-`Kona, Rescue Beastie`: Card text check required for exact timing and stats; treat `Kona, Rescue Beastie` as a central engine creature only when visible actions show it can enable a permanent or payoff line. Deploy it before `Omniscience` or top-end when it survives combat, blocks profitably, or creates a legal route to put a high-impact permanent onto the battlefield. Do not attack or tap `Kona, Rescue Beastie` into bad combat merely to enable a trigger unless the resulting legal action immediately stabilizes or wins. Against removal-heavy decks, prefer sequencing that gets value the turn it matters instead of exposing it with no follow-up.
-`Ashling, Rekindled`: Card text check required; use `Ashling, Rekindled` as an early-to-midgame stabilizer, pressure source, or engine card only according to legal actions shown. Cast it when it contests the board before the opponent can snowball or when it creates a credible threat that buys time for `Omniscience`. Hold it if the visible board demands interaction this turn or if its legal text depends on resources that are not available. Against aggro, value its blocking or removal-related legal actions highly; against control, value its ability to pressure without committing all top-end.
-`Formidable Speaker`: Card text check required; treat `Formidable Speaker` as the low-curve body or support permanent that makes expensive hands less passive. Play it early when it blocks, attacks, fixes development, or enables a later high-power payoff according to visible text. Do not treat it as ramp, anthem, card draw, or protection unless Forge exposes those decisions. In creature matchups, its role is to convert early mana into board presence; in slow matchups, it is acceptable only if it contributes to pressure or a known synergy rather than diluting the `Omniscience` plan.
-`Marang River Regent`: Card text check required; use `Marang River Regent` as a midgame stabilizer or threat after checking the legal card text and visible stats. Cast it when it blocks flyers, pressures planeswalkers, generates cards, or protects the next turn by its exposed abilities. Do not run it into open mana or bad combat if holding `Prismari Charm`, `Stock Up`, or another spell would better preserve the path to `Omniscience`. The sideboard copy implies the card is important in some matchups, so main-deck copies should be valued when games hinge on durable board presence.
-`Uthros, Titanic Godcore`: Card text check required; treat `Uthros, Titanic Godcore` as a primary top-end payoff, not an early hand requirement. Keep one copy when the hand can reach or cheat it, but bottom or discard redundant copies when mana or survival is missing. Cast it after stabilizing unless its visible legal effect is the stabilization. With `Omniscience`, deploy it before lower-impact spells when it creates the largest immediate board or damage swing; without `Omniscience`, avoid tapping out into lethal attacks unless the visible outcome prevents them.
-`Kavaron, Memorial World`: Card text check required; treat `Kavaron, Memorial World` as a high-impact payoff or engine piece unless Forge identifies it as a land or other resource. Sequence it after the deck has enough mana, protection, or board time to exploit its legal text. Do not keep multiple copies in slow hands without selection, and do not cast it into a board where a cheaper stabilizer is required first. If `Kona, Rescue Beastie` or `Omniscience` legally accelerates it, prefer lines where `Kavaron, Memorial World` immediately changes the battlefield, cards, or lethal clock.
-`North Wind Avatar`: Card text check required; use `North Wind Avatar` as a finishing or stabilizing top-end card only once its legal effect is visible. Cast it when it answers the opponent's current axis, ends the game quickly, or protects life total better than another payoff. Do not choose it over `Uthros, Titanic Godcore` or `Kavaron, Memorial World` by name alone; choose based on visible legal impact, mana, and board texture. Against removal-light decks, it can be the threat that closes; against fast decks, it must stabilize immediately or it is too slow.
-`Omniscience`: Make `Omniscience` the defining engine, but commit only when the follow-up hand can convert free spells into survival, board dominance, or lethal pressure. Cast it without immediate follow-up only when waiting is visibly worse or the opponent cannot punish the tempo loss. After it resolves, cast spells from hand in impact order: survival answer first if behind, decisive payoff first if stable, selection before payoff only when the missing target or color matters. Do not overextend all threats into known sweepers if one payoff already forces an answer.
-`Cavern of Souls`: Use `Cavern of Souls` to make creature-heavy hands function, but remember it does not cast `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Winternight Stories`, or `Omniscience` with its restricted mana. Choose the creature type from visible hand and likely next casts, not from a generic plan; Card text check required for creature types on newer cards. Keep hands relying on `Cavern of Souls` only when the noncreature spells are still castable or unnecessary.
- Shock and dual lands: Use `Breeding Pool`, `Steam Vents`, `Stomping Ground`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, and `Island` to preserve blue early while building the colors for `Prismari Charm`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, and the top end. Pay life for untapped shock lands only when it enables an immediate spell, prevents a missed curve, or keeps interaction legal. Against fast decks, life total is a resource with a short shelf life; against slow decks, tempo and color density usually matter more.
- Utility lands: Card text check required for `Starting Town` and `Multiversal Passage`; use their legal actions for fixing, setup, or ramp only when those actions improve the next two turns more than casting a spell. Do not keep utility-land hands that cannot cast early blue selection or red interaction. If a utility land offers a search or transformation choice, prioritize the missing color or land count that unlocks `Omniscience` and the visible payoff chain.
- Top-end clustering: Treat hands containing multiple `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` as selection-dependent. The deck wins by reaching one decisive engine or payoff with support, not by accumulating uncastable legends and avatars. Use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and `Prismari Charm` to turn extra expensive cards into lands, interaction, or the specific payoff the current board rewards.
- Priority: Use visible legal actions before card assumptions; `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Winternight Stories`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Marang River Regent`, and sideboard `Fire Magic` or `Spider-Sense` must be treated as interaction only when Forge exposes an interactive action. Card text check required for each newer card before relying on removal, counter, bounce, exile, protection, or damage modes.
- Remove first: Answer threats that shorten the clock below the turn needed to cast `Omniscience` or a stabilizing payoff. Prioritize haste creatures, evasive attackers, snowballing engines, mana creatures that enable a faster kill, and permanents that stop `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` from resolving or mattering.
- Counter or disrupt first: If a legal action counters, taxes, bounces, exiles, or otherwise stops a spell, spend it on effects that remove `Omniscience`, sweep your committed board, win immediately, or generate multiple cards before you can rebuild. Do not spend rare interaction on a medium creature when `Formidable Speaker`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, or `Marang River Regent` can contain it in combat.
- Bounce or temporary answers: Use temporary interaction to buy the exact turn needed for `Omniscience`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or a large payoff, not as a generic tempo play. Bounce the largest blocker only when it creates lethal or forces through enough damage to make the opponent answer your board instead of developing theirs.
- Discard or selection-denial cues: If `Prismari Charm` or another legal action can force discard or shape the opponent's resources, target hands or cards only when they are revealed by the engine. Take the card that beats the current plan: countermagic before `Omniscience`, removal before a single payoff, sweeper before multiple creatures, and haste burn before low-life stabilization.
- Bait cards: Lead with `Formidable Speaker`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Marang River Regent`, extra `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or redundant top-end when the opponent represents permission or premium removal and `Omniscience` is not yet protected by timing or mana. Do not bait with the only stabilizer against aggro; survival outranks extracting an answer.
- Ignore first: Decline to answer low-power ground creatures, nonlethal value permanents, or blockers that do not stop a payoff chain when your hand can reach `Omniscience`. Ignore incidental graveyard, artifact, or enchantment value unless it is visibly enabling lethal, locking mana, or invalidating your next payoff.
- Archetype changes: Against aggro, interaction is for life total and board stabilization; against control, interaction is for forcing through `Omniscience` and punishing tapped-out windows; against combo, interaction is for the named engine or payoff revealed by public information; against midrange, interaction is conserved for threats that outscale `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or repeated card selection.
- Sideboard interaction posture: `Fire Magic` and `Spider-Sense` should be valued when their visible legal text answers the opponent's main axis. `Voice of Victory`, `Origin of Metalbending`, `Dracogenesis`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Omni-Changeling`, the extra `Marang River Regent`, and the extra `Stock Up` change threat density or resilience only according to confirmed card text and legal actions.
- Attack discipline: Attack when the combat step advances lethal pressure, planeswalker pressure, or a race you are already winning; hold back when the creature is needed to keep life above the opponent's next visible attack. The deck is allowed to win with creatures, but it should not trade away the only bridge to `Omniscience` mana or payoff time.
- Block discipline: Block aggressively against fast decks when falling below roughly 8 life exposes you to burn, haste, or forced bad shock-land choices. Preserve life over small value when the hand contains `Omniscience` plus payoffs and only needs one or two more turns.
- Trade rules: Trade `Formidable Speaker` or a redundant `Ashling, Rekindled` for a creature that meaningfully reduces pressure, protects future attacks, or stops a snowballing ability. Avoid trading `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Marang River Regent`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, or `North Wind Avatar` unless the exchange prevents lethal, unlocks lethal, or the card is redundant after `Omniscience`.
- Engine preservation: Preserve `Kona, Rescue Beastie` when its visible legal text accelerates, cheats, or enables top-end deployment. If the opponent can remove it after blocks, prefer lines that either get immediate value before exposing it or keep mana open for a relevant `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Winternight Stories`, `Spider-Sense`, or `Fire Magic` action.
- Payoff combat: Use `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `North Wind Avatar` as stabilizers first when behind and finishers first when stable. If one large attacker already forces lethal or an answer, do not expose additional expensive creatures into open sweepers or unfavorable double blocks without a visible reason.
- Protection timing: Use `Spider-Sense`, `Voice of Victory`, `Origin of Metalbending`, or any protection-like action only when the engine confirms the action and the protected card matters this turn cycle. Protect `Omniscience` follow-up threats, a lethal attacker, or the blocker preventing lethal before protecting routine chip damage.
- Life thresholds: Above 14 life, favor development and selective trades; from 9 to 13, reassess every attack against the opponent's visible crack-back; at 8 or less, prioritize blockers, untapped mana, and removal over optional damage unless you can present lethal first. Against known burn or haste, raise these thresholds.
- Archetype differences: Against aggro, block earlier and trade down to protect the turn-seven engine plan. Against control, attack with medium threats to tax answers while holding back redundant top-end. Against midrange, seek trades that leave one high-impact permanent alive. Against combo, pressure life total unless holding visible interaction for the combo turn is more important.
- Selection priority: Use `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Winternight Stories`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Prismari Charm`, and any card-looking mode to assemble mana plus one high-impact payoff, then to protect or reload after the first payoff. Card text check required for each selection spell before treating it as draw, scry, surveil, impulse, tutor, removal, counter, or bounce.
- Early filtering: In opening turns, keep lands and color-fixing above almost everything until the hand can cast `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, or a bridge spell on time. Bottom or decline redundant top-end when the hand already contains `Omniscience` plus `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `North Wind Avatar`, or multiple expensive legends but lacks lands.
- Setup selection: Use cheap selection before committing the turn's land drop when it can reveal whether the correct land is `Cavern of Souls`, `Breeding Pool`, `Steam Vents`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, `Stomping Ground`, `Starting Town`, `Multiversal Passage`, or `Island`. Make the land drop first only when the spell cannot affect land choice or when untapped mana is required to cast it legally.
- Payoff search: Once mana is stable, prioritize `Omniscience` when the hand has expensive follow-ups and enough time to deploy it. Prioritize `Kona, Rescue Beastie` or `Ashling, Rekindled` when a creature bridge is needed before `Omniscience`. Prioritize `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Marang River Regent`, or `North Wind Avatar` when `Omniscience` is already present or legal soon.
- Stabilization selection: Against visible pressure, select interaction, blockers, or lifegain-like legal actions over extra top-end. `Lost in the Maze`, `Prismari Charm`, `Winternight Stories`, `Marang River Regent`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Spider-Sense`, and `Fire Magic` are tactical candidates only to the extent the rules engine exposes relevant legal text.
- Redundancy handling: Keep the first `Omniscience`; evaluate the second as insurance against discard, counters, or removal only when the matchup or public information supports it. Keep redundant legends only when the current one is likely to die, the legend rule is not implicated by the action, or `Omniscience` makes chaining them decisive.
- No true tutor assumption: Treat this list as pseudo-selection unless the runtime card text explicitly offers a search or tutor action. If a legal action searches a library, choose the card that satisfies the current bottleneck: land/fixing first, `Omniscience` second, stabilizer third, payoff fourth, unless lethal or survival changes that order.
- Bottoming rule: Bottom cards that cannot be cast before the expected loss turn, redundant expensive cards without `Omniscience`, and off-color lands after colors are already solved. Do not bottom the only cheap play, only blue source for selection, only green source for `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or only payoff for an already assembled engine.
- Priority baseline: Pass priority when no legal action improves the current turn cycle, preserves survival, protects a key spell, or advances the `Omniscience` plan. Do not cast spells merely because mana is open; this deck wins by converting selected windows into oversized permanents.
- Main-phase commitment gate: Commit to `Omniscience`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Marang River Regent`, or `North Wind Avatar` only after checking visible mana, opponent open interaction, known cards, current clock, and backup threats. If waiting gives the opponent a lethal attack or a stronger counter window, act now.
- Stack response rule: Respond to opposing spells when the spell would kill the current engine permanent, counter or exile `Omniscience`, create lethal, or generate an irreversible board advantage. Let low-impact creatures, cantrips, and nonlethal value spells resolve when answering them delays your own engine turn.
- Protection timing: Hold `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Winternight Stories`, `Spider-Sense`, `Voice of Victory`, `Origin of Metalbending`, and `Fire Magic` for stack or combat windows only when their legal modes are confirmed by the engine. Protect the active engine piece, a lethal threat, or a necessary blocker before protecting routine damage.
- Instant-speed selection: Cast `Opt` or any instant-speed selection at the opponent's end step when you are not digging for an immediate land, answer, or precombat play. Cast selection earlier only when the current decision depends on the result, such as hitting a land drop, finding interaction before combat, or deciding whether to commit `Omniscience`.
- Combat windows: Before attackers, use interaction only to remove haste or must-block pressure that changes attacks. After blockers, use interaction or protection when it saves a key creature, creates lethal, or prevents lethal. Before damage, prioritize survival and decisive trades over speculative value.
- Optional costs and triggers: Pay optional costs only when the engine exposes the legal action and the payment does not block a higher-priority spell, protection action, or tax payment. Decline optional value when preserving mana enables `Omniscience`, `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Spider-Sense`, or `Fire Magic` in the same turn cycle.
- Graveyard and exile timing: Treat graveyard, exile, or play-permission actions as conditional on visible legal text. Use them immediately if the resource expires, if the card is needed this turn, or if waiting exposes it to public hate; otherwise preserve priority and mana for higher-impact actions.
- Cavern and counterplay: Use `Cavern of Souls` naming decisions and uncounterable lines according to visible legal choices and current hand composition. If a key creature can be protected from permission through a legal `Cavern of Souls` action, prefer that setup before forcing `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, or `Marang River Regent` into open mana.
- Sideboard rule: Treat every sideboard action as a role correction, not as permission to dilute the ramp shell. Keep enough early selection, color fixing, and bridge threats to reach `Omniscience`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, `Marang River Regent`, or `North Wind Avatar` on time.
- Validation rule: Follow exact plans only when the match label and visible opposing cards match the plan closely. If public information contradicts the label, prefer the archetype rules below and submit only legal registered changes.
Balanced anti-aggro plan
Side in: 3 Fire Magic, 3 Spider-Sense, 1 Dracogenesis
Side in: 2 Voice of Victory, 1 Stock Up, 1 Marang River Regent, 1 Omni-Changeling
Cut: 2 Lost in the Maze, 1 Formidable Speaker, 1 Prismari Charm, 1 North Wind Avatar
Balanced midrange mirror plan
Side in: 1 Marang River Regent, 1 Stock Up, 1 Terror of the Peaks, 1 Omni-Changeling
Cut: 1 Opt, 1 Lost in the Maze, 1 Formidable Speaker, 1 North Wind Avatar
Balanced artifact-engine plan
Side in: 2 Origin of Metalbending, 3 Fire Magic, 1 Terror of the Peaks
Cut: 1 North Wind Avatar, 1 Stock Up, 1 Opt, 1 Formidable Speaker, 1 Winternight Stories, 1 Lost in the Maze
-`Origin of Metalbending`: Add role cards against artifact-heavy boards, engines that depend on artifact permanents, or matchups where public information shows artifact synergies that must be interrupted before the top-end turn. Card text check required before treating it as removal, protection, token generation, mana, or artifact hate. When bad: reduce emphasis when the opponent shows few artifact-relevant permanents, when spending the turn on it delays a necessary `Omniscience`, or when the legal modes do not affect the visible threat.
-`Omni-Changeling`: Add role cards against control, midrange, or creature-type-sensitive games where an extra flexible creature can bridge Cavern naming, pressure planes of interaction, or carry payoff text exposed by the engine. Card text check required before assuming changeling, cost reduction, evasion, or synergy with `Cavern of Souls`. When bad: reduce emphasis against very fast aggro if it does not block efficiently or against combo if it is only a body.
-`Marang River Regent`: Add role cards when the games revolve around resilient threats, flying or large-body pressure, card advantage, or a post-board threat count that survives removal density. Card text check required before assuming evasion, ward, draw, bounce, or combat dominance. When bad: reduce emphasis when early survival is the only bottleneck or when the opponent's public plan punishes expensive creatures.
-`Stock Up`: Add role cards against control, attrition, discard, or midrange stalls where card quantity and selection matter more than immediate board impact. Card text check required before treating it as draw, impulse selection, graveyard setup, or reload. When bad: reduce emphasis against fast creature decks when tapping mana for selection exposes lethal or when the hand already contains uncastable top-end.
-`Spider-Sense`: Add role cards against creature decks, combat tricks, flyers, haste pressure, or removal-heavy opponents when the visible legal text protects a key permanent or changes combat math. Card text check required before treating it as protection, reach, untap, pump, prevention, or removal resistance. When bad: reduce emphasis when the opponent wins through noncombat engines, sweepers that ignore its legal text, or stack interaction where `Voice of Victory` is the better protection role.
-`Dracogenesis`: Add role cards against creature boards where a single high-impact stabilizer, sweeper-like action, token maker, or threat generator is needed. Card text check required before assuming damage, Dragon creation, scaling with mana, or board control. When bad: reduce emphasis against permission-heavy control if it is expensive and vulnerable, or when the game requires cheap interaction before the turn it becomes legal.
-`Terror of the Peaks`: Add role cards against midrange, ramp, and slower decks where chaining creatures after `Omniscience` can convert threat deployment into damage or board control. Card text check required before assuming triggered damage, target rules, or lethal math. When bad: reduce emphasis against decks that force survival before five mana, decks with exile-heavy removal, or games where the hand lacks creature density.
-`Voice of Victory`: Add role cards against counterspells, instant-speed removal, flash threats, or opponents whose visible pattern rewards acting on your turn under protection. Card text check required before assuming silence, tax, token, or anti-permission text. When bad: reduce emphasis against low-interaction creature decks where it neither blocks well nor answers the board.
-`Fire Magic`: Add role cards against small creatures, planeswalker-like threats if legal, go-wide pressure, and decks where cheap interaction buys the turn needed for `Omniscience` or a large creature. Card text check required before assuming damage amount, target class, exile clause, or instant speed. When bad: reduce emphasis against creature-light control, large-creature ramp where damage does not line up, or combo decks where removal does not disrupt the engine.
- Against fast aggro: Add role cards: `Fire Magic`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: extra expensive top-end, slow selection, and redundant `Omniscience` when visible pressure makes survival the limiting resource. Keep enough top-end to win after stabilizing; do not become a low-impact removal deck.
- Against control and permission: Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Omni-Changeling`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: narrow creature interaction and the least necessary expensive creature. Prioritize threat diversity, card flow, and protected commitment turns over racing.
- Against midrange: Add role cards: `Marang River Regent`, `Stock Up`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Omni-Changeling`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the weakest early card in the visible matchup and narrow removal if targets are poor. Preserve inevitability through `Omniscience` while improving threat density.
- Against artifact engines: Add role cards: `Origin of Metalbending`, `Fire Magic`, and sometimes `Terror of the Peaks` if the match slows after disruption. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow selection and redundant top-end that does not interact. Use `Origin of Metalbending` only when legal text and public board state confirm relevance.
- Against combo or ramp: Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, and `Terror of the Peaks` when speed or protection matters more than removal. Reduce main-deck emphasis: creature-only interaction with no visible targets. Race with protected engine commitment; do not spend selection on sideboard cards that fail to change the opponent's critical turn.
- Post-board play pattern: Mulligan and sequence as though opponents will attack `Omniscience` and the first bridge creature more directly. Favor hands with lands, early selection, one stabilizing sideboard role card, and one credible engine path over hands containing several sideboard cards but no acceleration or payoff.
- Aggro: Mulligan toward early land stability, `Opt`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, and any visible legal stabilizer before keeping hands built only around `Omniscience`. Use `Stock Up` and `Winternight Stories` only when life total, blockers, and public combat math show enough time to spend mana on selection. Add role cards: `Fire Magic`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: excess slow selection, redundant `Omniscience`, and top-end beyond the first credible payoff when survival is the visible bottleneck. Card text check required for `Starting Town`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and `North Wind Avatar` before treating any of them as stabilization.
- Control: Prioritize land drops, threat spacing, and protected commitment turns over rushing every expensive spell into open mana. Use `Cavern of Souls` carefully when a creature type is visible from the chosen legal spell or the rules engine exposes a type choice; do not guess hidden counterspell contents. Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Omni-Changeling`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: interaction that has no visible targets and expensive duplicates that lose to the same public answer. Commit `Omniscience`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or `Uthros, Titanic Godcore` only after checking available mana, known revealed cards, stack state, and whether waiting improves the same turn cycle.
- Combo: Race with the fastest reliable engine path, but do not spend interaction on irrelevant permanents just because mana is available. Use `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Fire Magic`, or `Origin of Metalbending` only when legal action text and public board state show they interrupt the opponent's actual engine. Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Terror of the Peaks`, and `Origin of Metalbending` only for artifact-based engines. Reduce main-deck emphasis: creature combat tools with no combo relevance. Card text check required before assuming any sideboard card stops a combo line.
- Tempo: Value mana efficiency and stack discipline because the opponent is trying to convert small pressure plus disruption into a short clock. Keep hands with early lands, `Opt`, `Prismari Charm`, and at least one castable threat or bridge card; avoid hands that need several uninterrupted expensive turns. Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Spider-Sense`, `Fire Magic`, `Stock Up`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the slowest top-end cluster when the opponent's public pressure makes a single resolved threat enough. Cast selection before tapping into vulnerable lines unless the visible action list offers a protected threat window.
- Midrange: Preserve inevitability while trading resources only when the trade protects a future `Omniscience` or a large creature turn. Use `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Marang River Regent`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, and `Uthros, Titanic Godcore` as staged threats rather than exposing all premium cards to one removal sequence. Add role cards: `Marang River Regent`, `Stock Up`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Omni-Changeling`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the weakest early card shown by runtime performance and narrow interaction without targets. Card text check required before treating `Terror of the Peaks` as damage-based inevitability.
- Big mana: Pressure the opponent's setup without abandoning your own top-end plan. Keep hands that reach `Omniscience` or large threats on schedule, especially with `Multiversal Passage`, `Cavern of Souls`, and the correct colored sources. Add role cards: `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Voice of Victory` when interaction is expected. Reduce main-deck emphasis: small creature answers and combat tricks that do not affect the visible ramp payoff. Commit top-end when waiting gives the opponent a clearly larger public mana turn.
- Graveyard decks: Treat graveyard interaction as conditional because this list has no guaranteed graveyard hate text from names alone. Use `Lost in the Maze`, `Prismari Charm`, `Fire Magic`, or `Origin of Metalbending` only if legal text confirms disruption of graveyard, artifact, or creature-based engines. Add role cards: `Fire Magic`, `Stock Up`, `Voice of Victory`, and `Origin of Metalbending` only when public permanent types make it relevant. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow cards that do not race or interact. Do not assume hidden graveyard contents beyond public zones shown by Veles.
- Artifact/enchantment decks: Identify whether the public engine is artifact, enchantment, creature, or mixed before selecting sideboard role cards. Add role cards: `Origin of Metalbending`, `Fire Magic`, `Voice of Victory`, `Terror of the Peaks` if the matchup slows after disruption. Reduce main-deck emphasis: top-end duplicates and selection that cannot find relevant legal actions in time. Card text check required before treating `Origin of Metalbending` as artifact removal, artifact synergy, or enchantment interaction; only choose it when the visible action text matches the board.
- Go-wide decks: Stabilize board width before spending mana on pure card quantity. Prioritize legal actions from `Fire Magic`, `Dracogenesis`, `Spider-Sense`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, or any visible `Lost in the Maze` mode that changes combat math. Add role cards: `Fire Magic`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: expensive single-threat plans without immediate board impact. Block to preserve life total when the engine can win later; race only when visible damage math shows the opponent cannot punish the attack.
- Single-threat decks: Answer or outsize the key permanent instead of scattering resources across minor support cards. Use `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Fire Magic`, or combat actions only when legal targets and timing are exposed by the engine. Add role cards: `Spider-Sense`, `Fire Magic`, `Marang River Regent`, `Terror of the Peaks`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: broad anti-wide cards and slow selection if the one threat is already lethal soon. Card text check required before assuming `Spider-Sense` protects through removal or changes combat favorably.
- Burn: Preserve life total as the primary resource and avoid unnecessary shock-land style payments unless the rules engine makes the payment unavoidable or the payoff immediately stabilizes. Use `Steam Vents`, `Breeding Pool`, and `Stomping Ground` decisions conservatively when alternate lands can cast the same legal spell. Add role cards: `Spider-Sense`, `Fire Magic`, `Voice of Victory`, `Dracogenesis` if its legal text stabilizes. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow draw and excess top-end. Do not rely on lifegain unless exact visible card text confirms it.
- Removal-heavy decks: Force them to answer varied threats while keeping enough cards to rebuild. Sequence `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Marang River Regent`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, and `North Wind Avatar` so one removal spell does not break the entire plan. Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Omni-Changeling`, `Terror of the Peaks`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: fragile setup pieces that require surviving a full turn without generating value. Commit `Omniscience` only when the follow-up action is visible or the opponent's public shields are low enough that waiting is worse.
- Scope: Treat these notes as general/archetype-only because no exact opponent decklists are supplied; revealed cards, visible permanents, legal action text, and Veles rules-engine output override every assumption here.
- Aggro: Preserve life total and board presence before spending mana on slow selection or naked top-end. Likely priority targets are early creatures that shorten the clock, pump engines, and haste threats if legal actions from `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Fire Magic`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, or combat can answer them. Add role cards: `Fire Magic`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: extra slow copies of `Omniscience`, `North Wind Avatar`, or expensive threat density when the opening turns require survival.
- Control: Force interaction on varied threats and avoid committing every payoff into one sweeper window. Likely priority targets are counter engines, planeswalker-like value permanents if present, and cards that prevent `Omniscience` or large creature turns from resolving. Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Omni-Changeling`, `Terror of the Peaks`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: narrow removal or combat-only cards with no visible targets. Card text check required before treating `Voice of Victory` or `Omni-Changeling` as protection.
- Midrange: Trade only when the exchange protects a stronger follow-up from `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, or `Omniscience`. Likely priority targets are snowball threats, repeatable card advantage, and removal magnets that make later threats safer. Add role cards: `Marang River Regent`, `Stock Up`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Omni-Changeling`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the least effective early cantrip or narrow interaction shown by runtime action quality.
- Combo or engine: Race with a reliable mana-and-payoff curve while holding interaction only for public engine pieces. Likely priority targets are named combo permanents, stack actions that start the engine, and artifacts or creatures whose legal action text confirms combo relevance. Add role cards: `Voice of Victory`, `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Origin of Metalbending` only when visible artifact or metal-related text makes it relevant. Reduce main-deck emphasis: combat-only cards and slow closers that do not affect the engine turn.
- Big mana: Commit pressure early enough that the opponent cannot simply cast a larger payoff first. Likely priority targets are mana engines, land-search permanents, and stabilizing blockers if legal interaction can slow the ramp curve. Add role cards: `Stock Up`, `Marang River Regent`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Voice of Victory`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: small-board interaction without ramp targets. Use `Cavern of Souls`, `Multiversal Passage`, `Kavaron, Memorial World`, and shock-land choices to preserve access to castable threats rather than speculative colors.
- Graveyard: Do not assume this list has graveyard hate unless sideboard or main-deck legal text explicitly shows it. Likely priority targets are public graveyard payoffs, self-mill engines, and recursion spells on the stack when `Prismari Charm`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Fire Magic`, or `Origin of Metalbending` exposes matching text. Add role cards: `Fire Magic`, `Stock Up`, `Voice of Victory`, and `Origin of Metalbending` only with relevant visible text. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow cards that neither race nor interact.
- Flyers or evasive pressure: Stabilize with threats that block, remove, or race evasive damage before tapping out for pure card volume. Likely priority targets are evasive attackers, anthem effects, and protection pieces. Add role cards: `Spider-Sense`, `Fire Magic`, `Marang River Regent`, `Dracogenesis`. Reduce main-deck emphasis: ground-only combat cards if visible blockers cannot interact.
- Mana risk: The deck needs several colors and expensive spells, so hands with `Starting Town`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, `Breeding Pool`, `Steam Vents`, `Stomping Ground`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Multiversal Passage`, and `Kavaron, Memorial World` must be judged by castable actions, not color optimism. Avoid keeping hands where `Opt` or `Stock Up` is the only path to required colors unless mulligan rules and matchup speed make that risk acceptable.
- Matchup risk: Fast decks can punish hands built around `Omniscience`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, or `North Wind Avatar` without early interaction. Control decks can punish a single all-in payoff turn if `Voice of Victory` or `Cavern of Souls` does not actually protect the relevant spell by legal text.
- Draw risk: `Opt`, `Winternight Stories`, `Stock Up`, and `Prismari Charm` may improve selection, but they cannot be treated as guaranteed lands, answers, or payoff access. Card text check required for `Winternight Stories`, `Stock Up`, and `Prismari Charm` modes before relying on a specific draw, discard, damage, or filtering function.
- Over-sideboarding risk: Adding too many role cards can dilute the core ramp-midrange plan and leave `Omniscience`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or top-end threats unsupported. Keep sideboard changes tied to visible opponent pressure, interaction, artifact/enchantment reliance, graveyard use, or removal density.
- Graveyard risk: The guide cannot assume graveyard hate exists from card names alone. Treat graveyard matchups as race-plus-disruption unless legal action text from `Fire Magic`, `Origin of Metalbending`, `Lost in the Maze`, or another visible card proves a graveyard-specific answer.
- Sweeper/removal risk: Creature-heavy draws with `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Marang River Regent`, and `Uthros, Titanic Godcore` can overcommit into public sweeper mana. Stagger threats unless the current board, life totals, and legal actions show waiting is worse.
- Closer risk: `Omniscience` and large creatures are powerful only when they convert into immediate pressure, value, or a protected turn. Do not tap out for a closer when the visible board requires survival interaction first.
- Interaction risk: `Lost in the Maze`, `Prismari Charm`, `Fire Magic`, `Spider-Sense`, and `Origin of Metalbending` require exact legal text checks before assigning removal, protection, or disruption roles. Choose them by current legal targets and public board state, not assumed card function.
- Sequencing risk: Selection before mana development, shock-land payments without need, or playing `Cavern of Souls` without naming a relevant creature type can break later turns. Sequence lands and cheap spells to keep the next known legal payoff castable.
- Deciding factor: Record whether each game was decided by mana access, early pressure, protected payoff resolution, interaction timing, sideboard cards, or failure to close after stabilizing. Tie the note to visible events such as resolving `Omniscience`, casting `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, landing `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, or spending `Lost in the Maze` / `Prismari Charm`.
- Mulligans: Flag every keep where the opening hand lacked a clear first-three-turn plan with castable `Opt`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Stock Up`, `Winternight Stories`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or interaction. Note whether mulligans improved real mana and velocity or only kept more expensive cards.
- Mana: Track every game where `Starting Town`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, `Breeding Pool`, `Steam Vents`, `Stomping Ground`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Multiversal Passage`, or `Kavaron, Memorial World` failed to cast the visible hand on time. Record whether `Cavern of Souls` naming, tapped-land sequencing, or shock-land life payments changed the result.
- Velocity: Ask whether `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Winternight Stories`, and `Prismari Charm` found lands, interaction, or payoff at the needed speed. Card text check required for exact modes, but record whether legal actions functioned as card selection, draw, filtering, removal, or dead text.
- Engine and payoff: Check whether `Omniscience` was cast with follow-up threats or stranded without immediate impact. Track whether `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, and `Terror of the Peaks` produced board advantage before removal or combat made them irrelevant.
- Removal and protection: Note every spot where `Lost in the Maze`, `Prismari Charm`, `Fire Magic`, `Spider-Sense`, `Origin of Metalbending`, or `Dracogenesis` had a legal target but was held, fired early, or unable to answer the actual threat. Separate card-text uncertainty from pilot timing errors.
- Sideboard: After each post-board game, record whether exact sideboard cards drawn or cast mattered. Check if `Voice of Victory`, `Omni-Changeling`, the extra `Marang River Regent`, the extra `Stock Up`, `Spider-Sense`, `Dracogenesis`, `Terror of the Peaks`, `Fire Magic`, or `Origin of Metalbending` matched the opponent's visible plan.
- Closing: Identify games where the deck stabilized but did not end the game quickly enough. Record whether the missing closer was pressure, mana, protection, `Omniscience`, or a threat density issue involving `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, or `Ashling, Rekindled`.
- Role and mistakes: Ask whether the pilot correctly became aggressor, stabilizer, or tap-out ramp deck based on life totals, board, and visible legal actions. Mark mistakes such as passing with useful legal actions, attacking needed blockers, holding interaction through lethal pressure, or committing extra threats into public sweepers.
- Stranded and standout cards: List every card stuck in hand for color, mana value, missing target, or low impact. Separately list overperformers and underperformers among `Opt`, `Stock Up`, `Winternight Stories`, `Formidable Speaker`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `Omniscience`, `Lost in the Maze`, `Prismari Charm`, and `North Wind Avatar`.
- Card quantities: If `Omniscience` is often stranded, should the deck reduce copies, add more acceleration, or increase cheap selection around `Opt`, `Stock Up`, and `Winternight Stories`? If `Omniscience` wins immediately when resolved, should the deck keep four and tune the shell to survive until it matters?
- Mana base: If losses come from color failure, should the counts of `Starting Town`, `Stormcarved Coast`, `Dreamroot Cascade`, `Breeding Pool`, `Steam Vents`, `Stomping Ground`, `Multiversal Passage`, `Cavern of Souls`, `Island`, or `Kavaron, Memorial World` change? If losses come from life loss, should shock-land usage or color ambition be reduced?
- Early game: If aggro wins before top-end matters, should the main deck add more early stabilizers or move sideboard cards such as `Spider-Sense`, `Fire Magic`, or `Dracogenesis` into a larger anti-aggro plan? If `Formidable Speaker` underperforms, should it become more interaction, more lands, or more selection?
- Control plan: If control defeats single payoff turns, should `Voice of Victory`, `Omni-Changeling`, the fourth `Marang River Regent`, the fourth `Stock Up`, or `Terror of the Peaks` get more sideboard emphasis? Card text check required before treating any of these as protection, resilience, or anti-control pressure.
- Closer mix: If games stall after stabilization, should the list adjust the split among `Uthros, Titanic Godcore`, `Marang River Regent`, `North Wind Avatar`, `Ashling, Rekindled`, `Kona, Rescue Beastie`, `Terror of the Peaks`, and `Omniscience`? Ask whether the problem is threat count, threat speed, evasion, or protection.
- Interaction mix: If `Lost in the Maze` and `Prismari Charm` miss key targets, should the deck change removal quantities or sideboard `Fire Magic`, `Origin of Metalbending`, `Spider-Sense`, and `Dracogenesis` differently? Keep changes tied to observed legal targets, not assumed card roles.
- Sideboard slots: If `Origin of Metalbending`, `Omni-Changeling`, `Voice of Victory`, or `Dracogenesis` rarely has matching legal text or matchups, should those slots become broader interaction, extra card selection, or more anti-aggro cards? If `Fire Magic` is consistently live, should the sideboard contain more copies or a main-deck equivalent?
- Role conflict: If hands split between ramping to `Omniscience` and playing midrange interaction, should the deck become more dedicated ramp or more resilient midrange? Use game logs to decide whether failures came from drawing the wrong half, sequencing the right half poorly, or keeping hands without a coherent role.
## Veles Tactical Policy
### Policy: Keep Coherent Mana And Velocity
Priority: High
Decision families: mulligan
Cards: Opt; Stock Up; Winternight Stories; Formidable Speaker; Kona, Rescue Beastie; Lost in the Maze; Prismari Charm
Phase windows: pregame
Runtime cues: opening hand; mulligan prompt
Use when: the hand has visible lands that can cast at least one early spell and a path toward four or more mana.
Avoid when: the hand has only top-end cards, no castable early spell, or colors that do not line up with visible costs.
Instructions: Keep hands with early selection plus real mana; mulligan hands that rely on drawing multiple exact lands before acting. Card text check required for exact nonland functions.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: First Land And Color Setup
Priority: Medium
Decision families: mana
Cards: Starting Town; Stormcarved Coast; Stomping Ground; Dreamroot Cascade; Breeding Pool; Island; Multiversal Passage; Steam Vents; Cavern of Souls; Kavaron, Memorial World
Phase windows: main phase; precombat main phase
Runtime cues: land play legal actions; visible hand colors
Use when: choosing the first land or typed source for a hand with early blue selection, red interaction, green setup, or creature-heavy threats.
Avoid when: the rules engine shows only one legal land play.
Instructions: Sequence lands to cast the next visible spell first, then preserve access to Kona, Rescue Beastie, Ashling, Rekindled, Uthros, Titanic Godcore, and Omniscience. Treat Cavern of Souls naming as a strategic mana choice tied to visible creature costs.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Cast Early Selection Before Passing With Idle Mana
Phase windows: main phase; end step; opponent end step
Runtime cues: legal actions include card-selection or draw spell text
Use when: mana is available, no higher-priority interaction is required by visible board state, and hand needs lands, payoff, or stabilizer.
Avoid when: holding mana is necessary for a visible interaction action against lethal or a stack threat.
Instructions: Use cheap velocity to hit land drops and find payoffs; if Prismari Charm has modes, card text check required before selecting a mode.
Pilot skill floor: low
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Early Permanent Setup Gate
Priority: Medium
Decision families: priority; mana
Cards: Formidable Speaker; Kona, Rescue Beastie; Ashling, Rekindled; Kavaron, Memorial World
Phase windows: main phase; precombat main phase
Runtime cues: legal cast or play actions for setup permanent
Use when: the visible board is not demanding immediate removal and the permanent advances mana, pressure, or future payoff deployment.
Avoid when: tapping out exposes lethal damage or prevents required Lost in the Maze or Prismari Charm interaction.
Instructions: Prefer the first enabling permanent over speculative top-end when it increases future legal actions. Card text check required for exact abilities.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Omniscience Commitment Gate
Priority: High
Decision families: priority; mana
Cards: Omniscience; Uthros, Titanic Godcore; Marang River Regent; North Wind Avatar; Kona, Rescue Beastie; Ashling, Rekindled
Phase windows: main phase; precombat main phase
Runtime cues: legal action to cast Omniscience
Use when: visible mana can cast Omniscience and the hand or board contains follow-up pressure, protection, or card flow.
Avoid when: passing with interaction prevents immediate loss, or Omniscience resolves without visible follow-up and the opponent has strong public pressure.
Instructions: Treat Omniscience as the defining tap-out gate; reason about life total, visible attackers, known disruption, and whether waiting is worse.
Pilot skill floor: high
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Execute Free Follow-Up After Omniscience
Priority: Medium
Decision families: priority
Cards: Omniscience; Uthros, Titanic Godcore; Marang River Regent; North Wind Avatar; Ashling, Rekindled; Kona, Rescue Beastie
Phase windows: main phase
Runtime cues: action:cast Uthros, Titanic Godcore; action:cast Marang River Regent; action:cast North Wind Avatar; action:cast Ashling, Rekindled; action:cast Kona, Rescue Beastie
Use when: Omniscience is visible under your control and the legal action text offers one of the named casts.
Avoid when: a legal interaction action must answer an opposing lethal stack object first.
Instructions: After the commitment is already made, convert Omniscience into board presence before passing priority.
Pilot skill floor: low
No-API allowed: yes
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Titanic Threat Commitment
Priority: Medium
Decision families: priority; mana
Cards: Uthros, Titanic Godcore; Marang River Regent; North Wind Avatar; Terror of the Peaks
Phase windows: main phase; precombat main phase
Runtime cues: legal cast action for large threat
Use when: casting the threat stabilizes visible pressure, closes the game, or uses otherwise stranded mana.
Avoid when: cheaper interaction prevents lethal or the threat cannot affect the current visible crisis.
Instructions: Commit one large threat at a time against unknown removal unless the rules engine gives a clear immediate payoff. Card text check required for exact threat abilities.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Spend Interaction On Survival Or Engine Protection
Priority: High
Decision families: interaction; priority
Cards: Lost in the Maze; Prismari Charm; Fire Magic; Spider-Sense; Origin of Metalbending; Dracogenesis
Phase windows: combat; main phase; stack; end step
Use when: a legal action can reduce lethal pressure, answer a must-answer permanent, protect a committed engine, or stop a spell that invalidates Omniscience or a payoff.
Avoid when: the target is low impact and holding interaction preserves survival against known visible pressure.
Instructions: Card text check required for exact targets and modes; choose interaction based only on legal targets and public board state.
Pilot skill floor: high
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Prismari Charm Mode And Target Selection
Priority: Medium
Decision families: interaction; selection
Cards: Prismari Charm
Phase windows: main phase; combat; stack; end step
Runtime cues: legal Prismari Charm mode or target prompt
Use when: the engine exposes finite legal modes or targets for Prismari Charm.
Avoid when: card text is unavailable and the legal text does not identify what each mode does.
Instructions: Card text check required; select the mode that addresses the current visible need: mana, cards, removal, or stack interaction only when the legal action text confirms that role.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Combat Attack Gate
Priority: Medium
Decision families: combat
Cards: Kona, Rescue Beastie; Ashling, Rekindled; Uthros, Titanic Godcore; Marang River Regent; Formidable Speaker; North Wind Avatar; Terror of the Peaks; Omni-Changeling
Use when: attackers are legal and visible blockers, life totals, and crack-back pressure can be evaluated.
Avoid when: attacking removes a needed blocker against lethal or exposes an engine creature without meaningful damage.
Instructions: Attack when the board state supports pressure; keep stabilizing creatures back when the opponent's visible attack would punish tapping them.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Combat Block And Survival Gate
Priority: High
Decision families: combat
Cards: Kona, Rescue Beastie; Ashling, Rekindled; Uthros, Titanic Godcore; Marang River Regent; Formidable Speaker; North Wind Avatar; Omni-Changeling
Use when: opponent attacks and blocks can preserve life total, trade for key threats, or protect a future payoff turn.
Avoid when: a no-block line is the only legal action or blocking sacrifices the only route to a visible lethal return attack.
Instructions: Prioritize survival over preserving replaceable bodies; route multi-block and damage-assignment judgment through the model.
Pilot skill floor: high
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Deterministic No-Block Execution
Priority: Low
Decision families: combat
Cards: none
Phase windows: declare blockers
Runtime cues: action:no blocks
Use when: the legal action list contains no block actions and contains action text for no blocks.
Avoid when: any legal block action is visible.
Instructions: Submit the no-block action only when the engine exposes no blocker alternatives.
Pilot skill floor: low
No-API allowed: yes
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Cavern Creature Naming
Priority: Medium
Decision families: mana; selection
Cards: Cavern of Souls; Kona, Rescue Beastie; Ashling, Rekindled; Uthros, Titanic Godcore; Marang River Regent; Formidable Speaker; North Wind Avatar; Terror of the Peaks; Omni-Changeling
Phase windows: land entry; mana choice prompt
Runtime cues: Cavern of Souls name or type choice prompt
Use when: Cavern of Souls requires a creature type/name decision and visible hand contains creature spells.
Avoid when: the prompt lacks visible candidates or the hand has no creature spells to support.
Instructions: Card text check required for exact naming mechanics; choose the option that casts the highest-density visible creature group or the immediate required creature.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Target Opponent With Deterministic Lethal Payoff
Priority: High
Decision families: interaction; priority
Cards: Terror of the Peaks; Dracogenesis; Fire Magic
Phase windows: main phase; combat; stack
Runtime cues: action:target opponent Terror of the Peaks; action:target opponent Dracogenesis; action:target opponent Fire Magic
Use when: legal action text identifies targeting the opponent and visible life total shows that resolving the action deals lethal damage.
Avoid when: damage amount, target legality, or prevention is not visible in legal action text.
Instructions: Use this only for exact lethal target execution after the engine exposes target-opponent text and lethal is visible.
Use when: the engine reveals finite candidates and the deck needs land, interaction, Omniscience, or a payoff.
Avoid when: the prompt involves hidden information not exposed to the acting player.
Instructions: Choose lands when missing mana, interaction when under pressure, Omniscience or threats when stable; card text check required for exact zone movement.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Sideboard Plan Selection Gate
Priority: High
Decision families: sideboard
Cards: Origin of Metalbending; Omni-Changeling; Marang River Regent; Stock Up; Spider-Sense; Dracogenesis; Terror of the Peaks; Voice of Victory; Fire Magic
Phase windows: sideboarding
Runtime cues: sideboard prompt; matchup label; previous game public log
Use when: choosing a legal post-board plan after Game 1 or Game 2.
Instructions: Against fast creature pressure, prioritize Spider-Sense, Fire Magic, and Dracogenesis if legal; against control or grind, consider Voice of Victory, Stock Up, Marang River Regent, Omni-Changeling, and Terror of the Peaks. Card text check required for exact roles.
Pilot skill floor: high
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Optional Payment And Mana Preservation
Priority: Medium
Decision families: mana; priority
Cards: Prismari Charm; Omniscience; Kona, Rescue Beastie; Kavaron, Memorial World
Phase windows: casting; payment prompt; priority
Runtime cues: optional payment prompt; choose mana source prompt
Use when: the engine asks for payment choices and visible mana could affect later interaction or payoff casting.
Avoid when: the payment is mandatory and only one legal source exists.
Instructions: Preserve colors for visible interaction and the next spell; pay optional costs only when the benefit is visible in legal text or already known from card text.
Pilot skill floor: medium
No-API allowed: no
Light-model allowed: yes
### Policy: Pass Priority With No Productive Legal Action
Priority: Low
Decision families: priority
Cards: none
Phase windows: any priority window
Runtime cues: action:pass
Use when: legal actions contain pass, the stack is empty, no visible lethal or survival action is present, and all other legal actions are landless, targetless, or uncastable by engine output.
Avoid when: any legal action casts Opt, Stock Up, Winternight Stories, interaction, Omniscience, or a payoff relevant to the visible board.
Instructions: Pass only after checking visible legal actions, board pressure, stack, and mana; never pass because of assumed hidden information.
