This deck is based around untapping lands for more mana than it took to untap them in the first place. This is done in 3 steps:
STEP 1
Step 1 is steting up the mana base. For this, we need karoo lands ASAP, and hopefully enchanting them with Wild Growth or Fertile Ground (...If only
utopia spawl
could enchant any land...).
Best possible move is turn 1 forest, pass the turn, turn 2 tap forest for mana, play karoo land and use the floating mana to enchant it.
Note that this deck runs ravnica's karoos because they work with any land, while the vision's ones require specifiv basic lands (like plains, forest, etc...). Also, the ravnica ones don't care if the bounced land is tapped or not.
To go off, we want at least 1 karoo land, hopefully enchanted, but as long as we can generate 3+ mana with only 2 lands, we can go off.
Once we are ready with the lands, we go to the next stage:
STEP 2
Now that we have the manabase, lets break it.
Tap for more mana than you are using and untap the lands. We have lots of untappers. Here is a little rundown on what we are playing:
Cloud of Faeries: simply the best card in the deck. Untaps 2 lands, so even with a single karoo and a basic you start getting net mana gains. It can also be bounced with snap and can "wield" a cyphered hidden strings. Oh, and it flies, so it's even better.
Snap: bounce your own faeries or remove an opponent blocker AND untap 2 lands!
Hidden Strings
: Another extremely valuable card. It can untap 2 lands or remove blockers as we need. A shame it's a sorcery, though, but I guess it would be horribly broken as an instant. Sadly, the cypher ability isn't as relevant as it looks, since you can't keep mana between phases and it triggers only after damage was dealt, so it comes too late to tap blockers.
Ghostly Flicker; another excellent, card. You can flick mulldrifters or clouds of faeries for tons of mana, or a spellstutter sprite for a free counter, or any combination of these.
STEP 3
Here comes the fatties. So far the best I've found is Ulamog's Crusher but I need something else to dump all the mana. This part is a work in progress, I guess.
