veles-content/strategies/oathbreaker/oathbreaker_hautli_aggro/1/guide.md

Strategy Specifications

Deck Name And Archetype

Hautli Aggro. Format: Oathbreaker. Main deck count: 63. Sideboard count: 0. Tags: aggro. Commander: Huatli, the Sun's Heart // Tower Defense. This is a deterministic Veles scaffold created from the sourced decklist; replace it with a human-approved deep guide when available.

Thesis

Hautli Aggro oathbreaker command-zone strategy; exact Strategy Specification pending runtime support. Pilot this list as a aggro strategy and validate all tactical assumptions against legal actions and revealed game state.

Role Package

• Core role: Hautli Aggro oathbreaker command-zone strategy; exact Strategy Specification pending runtime support.
• Primary tags: aggro.
• Mechanical tags: decklist-driven mechanics.
• Main cards to classify during guide refinement: Path to Exile, Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, Misty Rainforest, Maned Serval, Giant Ox, Eladamri's Call, Bountiful Promenade, Assault Formation, Forest, Chrome Mox, Strict Proctor, Ornithopter, God-Pharaoh's Faithful, Tasseled Dromedary, Lagonna-Band Trailblazer, Nyx-Fleece Ram, Yoked Ox, Avacyn's Pilgrim.
• Sideboard cards to map during guide refinement: none listed.

Primary Win Conditions

• Use the cards most aligned with aggro to execute the sourced archetype plan.
• Treat these repeated nonland cards as likely primary plan anchors until the deep guide replaces this scaffold: Path to Exile, Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, Misty Rainforest, Maned Serval, Giant Ox, Eladamri's Call, Bountiful Promenade, Assault Formation, Forest, Chrome Mox, Strict Proctor, Ornithopter, God-Pharaoh's Faithful, Tasseled Dromedary, Lagonna-Band Trailblazer, Nyx-Fleece Ram, Yoked Ox, Avacyn's Pilgrim.

Secondary Win Conditions

• Convert leftover material, chip damage, resilient permanents, graveyard resources, or command-zone access into a backup plan when the primary line is disrupted.
• Prefer lines that preserve the deck's stated concept rather than generic value plays.

Emergency Lines

• When behind on board, spend interaction or blockers to preserve life before pursuing slow engines.
• When low on cards, prioritize legal actions that convert board material or graveyard resources into velocity.
• When mana constrained, sequence lands and cheap plays before committing to multi-spell plans.

Resource Model

• Track life, cards, mana, board material, graveyard, exile, tempo, and information each turn.
• Spend life only when it preserves a higher-value plan, protects a key engine, or enables a decisive tempo swing.
• Do not cash in material without checking whether the deck needs it for sacrifice, convoke, commander tax, recursion, or combat pressure.

Mana Guide

• Validate color requirements from the decklist before keeping hands.
• Strategically relevant lands to review: 1 Prismatic Vista, 1 Command Tower, 1 Brushland, 1 Gemstone Caverns, 1 Arid Mesa, 1 Windswept Heath, 1 Flooded Strand, 1 Verdant Catacombs, 1 Canopy Vista, 1 Temple Garden, 1 Tower Defense.
• Account for the land drop before evaluating every turn.
• Draw or scry before land only when the card selection can materially change the land choice.

Mulligan Guide

• Keep hands with functional mana, early plays, and at least one card that advances the deck's stated role.
• Treat hands with only payoffs, only reactive cards, or unsupported colors as risky.
• Ship hands that cannot act before turn 3 unless the matchup is slow and the hand has a proven engine.
• For commander-like profiles, account for command-zone access separately from hand quality.

Turn Arc

• Turn 1: establish mana, protection, or the cheapest role-advancing play.
• Turn 2: add pressure, selection, ramp, or interaction according to matchup role.
• Turn 3: commit the first meaningful engine/payoff or hold interaction if the opponent threatens a faster axis.
• Turns 4-5: convert early setup into pressure, stabilization, or combo assembly.
• Late game: preserve inevitability pieces and avoid low-impact actions that do not close or stabilize.

Card Roles

• Repeated nonland cards that must receive exact roles in the final guide: singleton profile; classify every nonland by function.
• Current main-deck review set: Path to Exile, Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, Misty Rainforest, Maned Serval, Giant Ox, Eladamri's Call, Bountiful Promenade, Assault Formation, Forest, Chrome Mox, Strict Proctor, Ornithopter, God-Pharaoh's Faithful, Tasseled Dromedary, Lagonna-Band Trailblazer, Nyx-Fleece Ram, Yoked Ox, Avacyn's Pilgrim.
• Discuss when to cast, hold, protect, trade, or sideboard around each of these cards in the final guide.

Interaction Priorities

• Answer opposing cards that invalidate the deck's primary axis first.
• Ignore threats that are slower than the deck's own clock unless life total or combo timing makes them decisive.
• Save stack interaction for payoffs, sweepers, hate pieces, or combo cards that change the game immediately.

Combat And Trading Rules

• Trade when it improves the next-turn board or protects a more important engine.
• Avoid equal trades that leave a smaller opposing creature to keep dealing damage unless life total, pump, recursion, or removal timing makes the trade correct.
• Preserve creatures needed for sacrifice, convoke, commander damage, tribal scaling, or engine loops.

Selection And Tutor Rules

• Early selection should find mana and the deck's first role-advancing card.
• Midgame selection should find interaction, engine pieces, or finishers according to matchup role.
• Tutors should get the card that changes the current game state, not the abstract strongest card.

Priority And Stack Rules

• Use instant-speed windows to protect key cards, remove must-answer threats, or force through a decisive action.
• Let low-impact spells resolve when interaction must be preserved for a higher-value target.
• Do not use optional payments or abilities before checking whether that mana is needed for a pending tax, response, or follow-up.

Sideboard Map

• Sideboard cards requiring exact matchup mapping: no sideboard listed.
• Side in cards only when they answer the opponent's primary axis or improve the deck's role.
• Side out cards that are too slow, low impact, redundant, or poorly aligned with the post-board role.

Matchup Guidance

• Vs aggro: stabilize first, then turn the corner with the deck's highest-impact pressure or lifegain/removal package.
• Vs control: protect engines, diversify threats, and avoid overextending into sweepers.
• Vs combo: identify the decisive window and hold disruption for the payoff or enabler that matters.
• Vs midrange: trade resources only when the deck has a stronger reload or inevitability plan.
• Vs graveyard/artifact/enchantment decks: deploy hate only when it disrupts their active axis without derailing yours.

Specific Matchup Notes

• No exact opponent list is embedded in this scaffold. Override these notes with revealed cards, known archetype identity, and sideboarded game evidence.

Risk Summary

• Main risks to validate: mana consistency, role confusion, over-sideboarding, insufficient closing power, weak interaction windows, and card-specific sequencing mistakes.
• For singleton and Arena-only profiles, also verify Forge card/rules coverage before using the deck as a default playtest target.

Test Feedback Checklist

• Record what decided the game, mulligan quality, mana performance, card velocity, engine assembly, removal quality, sideboard impact, closing power, matchup role, pilot mistakes, stranded cards, and overperforming or underperforming packages.
• For each loss, name one primary cause and one secondary cause.
• For each win, name the card or package that most contributed.

First Tuning Questions

• Which cards from this main-deck review set are actual plan anchors: Path to Exile, Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, Misty Rainforest, Maned Serval, Giant Ox, Eladamri's Call, Bountiful Promenade, Assault Formation, Forest, Chrome Mox, Strict Proctor, Ornithopter, God-Pharaoh's Faithful, Tasseled Dromedary, Lagonna-Band Trailblazer, Nyx-Fleece Ram, Yoked Ox, Avacyn's Pilgrim?
• Which sideboard cards are narrow, broad, or currently unneeded: none listed?
• Does the mana support the deck's most important early and double-pip plays?
• Does the deck stabilize but fail to close, or close quickly but fail under interaction?