CORE GAME PLAN

Flood the board with tokens and removal while digging toward a game-winning combo.

You win in one of two ways:

Incremental pressure through tokens + Siege Ballista
Explosive combo finish using Kythera Mechanism

Play patiently. Control the board. Then pop off.

KEY COMBOS (Game winners)

⚙️ Kythera Mechanism + 13 Treasures

Draw an absurd number of cards per turn (10+).

This is your main draw engine when you have tokens on board, as Pnakotic taps and damages your creatures and this is free.

🌪 Kythera + Chaos Wish

This combo gives you ANY card in the game for free.

Important trick:

If your opponent misreads the combo and chooses to get a spell instead of passing…

You choose the spell they cast.
(Kythera says YOU choose the random outcome — including theirs.)

This alone can swing games.

♾ Infinite Combo

Kythera Mechanism + Ring of Morrigan + Chaos Wish

Loop:

Cast Chaos Wish
Choose Chaos Wish as the free spell
Repeat infinitely

Each loop triggers Ring of Morrigan → infinite life gain + infinite damage.

To finish:

Use Teleport to move your Avatar next to theirs
Ping for infinite damage

Because you’re Archimago, you can cast Chaos Wish from the cemetery — meaning your first Chaos Wish doesn’t need to combo.

You can:

Grab Craterize
Take Courtesan to control their turn
Or simply generate value

You’re never forced to commit immediately.

EARLY VALUE COMBOS

🔎 Lookout + Feast for Crows

Use Lookout to reveal your opponent’s hand.
Cast Feast for Crows, naming a key card you saw.
(If you're familiar with all the cards, you can name an even more important card in their deck.)
Cast it again from the cemetery to strip more cards from their hand and deck.

🐢 Tufted Turtle

Quiet MVP of the deck.

Great body
You can use Pnakotic Manuscript on it for free each turn
Excellent value engine

🏹 Siege Ballista

If you have ~8 tokens, Ballista can:

Wipe their board every turn
Deal massive damage to their Avatar

Sometimes this wins without needing the big combo.

Find it early when possible.

PNAKOTIC MANUSCRIPT – “COMMIT TURN”

When you reach 6–8 mana and are ready to go all-in:

Cast Pnakotic Manuscript on multiple tokens
Draw deep into your deck
Assemble your combo

Only do this if you’re prepared to sacrifice your board.

This is your “pop off” turn.

MINION PHILOSOPHY

Minions are flexible and mostly meta-dependent.

Current list leans toward meta tech choices
Pied Piper is a strong inclusion depending on your environment
Adjust to expected matchups

TELEPORT PACKAGE

Running 4 Teleports in collection protects you against opponents who remove 3 collection cards.

This ensures you can still:

Teleport your Avatar
Execute Ring of Morrigan infinite damage

UPDATE LOG

Changes:

+2 Acid Rain

Answers Garden of Eden
Removes sites that shut down graveyards

-1 Swap (3 → 2)

Acid Rain helps cover artifact removal
Swap still strong, just not needed at 3

-1 Toolbox (3 → 2)

Meta decision
Acid Rain reduces need to fetch Disenchant

Four Fat Frogs Wish for Chaos

@Phothries