{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is for the July Archidekt Deckbuilding competition around unique mana curves. \n\nThis deck aims to abuse Eirdus front side to push the mana curve to its limits. The goal is to cantrip and draw into turn 3 ramp. Skipping the 4 cmc dead zone and dropping Eirdu with a few creatures in play. This allows us to immediately start casting our biggest threats the turn after Eirdu enters, which is, ideally, turn 5, while still holding up mana for interaction. \n\nThe following is a breakdown of the ideal turns:\nTurn 1: Tapped land, 1cmc creature, or nothing. \nTurn 2: Cantrip or draw creature. \nTurn 3: Ramp\nTurn 4: Eirdu, immediately convoke another 1 or 2 cmc creature if available. \nTurn 5: You should have 5 mana from Lands, 1 mana from ramp, and at least 2 creatures in play (counting Eirdu). This allows us to play our biggest creatures in the deck and hold up mana for interaction, or use it for more draw. \nTurn 6: At this point you must choose between flipping Eirdu or convoking a few more big creatures. A boardwipe is likely here so depending on board state it can be a good idea to flip Eirdu. If you played any token makers by this point you should be able to drop multiple 6 and 7 cmc threats per turn if you don't flip Eirdu. \n\nThat is the ideal play pattern on each turn. Lets review the mana curve to see how we plan to achieve it.\n\n1 CMC: This is made up mostly of cheap interaction and protection. The blink and +1/+1 counter spells synergize very well with our Commander. You can blink to get rid of -1/-1 counters or to untap a creature that was convoked. \n2 CMC: This is made up of creatures that draw us cards. We need to draw into our ramp, threats, and interaction, but we also need bodies to convoke for our commander. There are some token makers at 1 and 2 cmc slots as well, but the main focus is cheap draw and bodies all in one package. \n3 CMC: this is where most of the ramp sits, we want to skip the 4 cmc dead zone and go straight into our commander. The 3 cmc rocks also provide additional utility which helps make up for the fact a lot of our lower mana deck space is dedicated to the game plan.\n4 CMC: There are only two spells here. Faceless Butcher and Big Mother Mouser. Not only are these best in class for their purpose they also synergize extremely well with our commander, both in flavor and utility. Big Mother Mouser is not only nearly unkillable with Isilu, it also scales exponentially, AND provides a vast sea of bodies for Eirdu to convoke. Faceless butcher has the ability to remove an opponents biggest threat, protect any of our creatures including our commander from ANY threat including board wipes and permanent exile effects, AND can blink our convoked or persisted creatures. \n5 CMC: This spot is occupied by the Commander so we keep it light, only a few other cards here that really push the tokens to the next level.\n6 & 7 CMC: These are the big mana haymakers. A couple of these will scale the deck into more haymakers and get out of control very quickly. There is also a lot of grave recursion here to help quickly recover from removal. \n\nAdditional Notes:\nWith no mulligans there is a 50% chance to hit an early cantrip or draw spell. That gives us around a 75% chance without mulligans to have a ramp spell for turn 3.\nUnlike most other Eirdu decks, this deck aims have Eirdu out most of the time and only flip to Isilu when necessary for protection. \n"}]}