I get in deck-building ruts sometimes and I end up resorting to sheer lunacy. Remember that Chandler deck from last week? That’s what I end up doing when I get bored. Luckily it’s spoiler season for Amonkhet and lots of different kinds of players are getting lots of different kinds of cards. People who love cheating creatures into play are getting Champion of Rhonas. People who love to play multicolored creature decks are getting Vizier of the Menagerie. People who love -1/-1 counter shenanigans are getting Nest of Scarabs. People who hate Magic as a game get As Foretold, a card that’s going to make card prices really annoying when everyone is trying to build Hypergenesis and Living End decks with 4 copies of Ancestral Visions. Get your Lotus Blooms yesterday, I guess. Even lunatics get cards in this set. The best lunatic pick so far? That title belongs to Bounty of the Luxa.

The flavor of this card is so bountiful that Guy Fieri felt a chill when this card was previewed. Food tasted better, colors were more vivid, the sun seemed to shine so bright that he had to move his sunglasses from the back of his head to the front. This card is a flooded canal boatride to flavortown which makes it a lot like Guy Fieri in that it’s flavorful but not very good at anything in particular. I play a lot of Simic decks and other decks with in them and I wasn’t super jazzed for this card at first. I got on board when someone mentioned casually that they wanted this in their Kruphix, God of Horizons deck and that this Kruphix deck did some pretty nasty things.

The reddit discussion for this card started off pretty normal with people assuming this card is dumb because it’s just more fodder for Atraxa, Praetors' Voice (a deck I doubt is excited for this weird, durdly card). It took a turn for the bizarre when /u/demonicpigg casually mentioned;

Naturally, I was all-in on finding out how and why this was accomplished. Do I think you should blow up everyone’s lands? Of course not, that’s the opposite of what I am about. However, if you’re blowing up everyone’s land in the process of making Doubling Season into a creature, I’m listening. What happens if Doubling Season is a creature and you target it with a kicked Rite of Replication? How do you kill them? Do you kill them? Do they kill you in real life for blowing up all of their lands and all you did was goof around with Doubling Seasons? Luckily for me, /u/demongpigg not only explained a little, he posted a decklist.

I bet you’re eager to see his decklist already. OK, then, let’s see what this lunatic is up to.

The March of the Seasons ? Commander | /u/demonicpigg

• Commander (1)
• 1 Kruphix, God of Horizons

• Creatures (30)
• 1 Acidic Slime
• 1 Ambush Commander
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcum Dagsson
• 1 Argothian Enchantress
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Clone
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Experiment Kraj
• 1 Fathom Mage
• 1 Gilder Bairn
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Karn, Silver Golem
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Master Transmuter
• 1 Memnarch
• 1 Murkfiend Liege
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Precursor Golem
• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1 Progenitor Mimic
• 1 Triskelavus
• 1 Triskelion
• 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1 Yavimaya Elder

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

• Instants (15)
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cackling Counterpart
• 1 Cryptic Command
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Foil
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Hinder
• 1 Last Word
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Plasm Capture
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Simic Charm
• 1 Supplant Form
• 1 Voidslime

• Sorceries (4)
• 1 Growth Spasm
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Spitting Image
• 1 Stolen Identity

• Enchantments (8)
• 1 Animate Artifact
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Ensoul Artifact
• 1 Followed Footsteps
• 1 March of the Machines
• 1 Parallel Lives

• Artifacts (4)
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Darksteel Forge
• 1 Mycosynth Lattice
• 1 Sol Ring

• Lands (36)
• 8 Forest
• 9 Island
• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Hickory Woodlot
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Jungle Basin
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1 Saprazzan Skerry
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Soldevi Excavations
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Yavimaya Coast

Buy This Deck

Is this deck 75%? I think so. It’s not going to very consistently get the dream of Lattice-March-Doubling Season-Rite of Replication at all. It’s tough to assemble a combo like that so you’re more likely going to just be a subpar Kruphix deck (still fine), so we’re hitting our metric about building a deck that’s powerful (blowing up everyone’s lands and attacking them with a quintillion 5/5 copies of Doubling Season) and skewing away from consistency (four card combo). We’re also building with multiple build paths in mind because we will get the combo infrequently and need to find other stuff to do. While this is a decent example of a 75% deck, I think it could still use some tuning with 75% principles in mind to make it relevant to this article series, for one. Besides, OP said he wanted to jam a copy of Bounty of the Luxa in here and I think I know where I want to start cutting to make that happen. How will this deck look when I’m done with it? Will it be very similar? That’s very possible. Let’s see what I come up with.

This Deck Scoops to Chandler Decks ? Commander | Jason Alt

• Commander (1)
• 1 Kruphix, God of Horizons

• Creatures (29)
• 1 Acidic Slime
• 1 Ambush Commander
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcum Dagsson
• 1 Argothian Enchantress
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Experiment Kraj
• 1 Fathom Mage
• 1 Gilder Bairn
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Karn, Silver Golem
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Master Transmuter
• 1 Memnarch
• 1 Murkfiend Liege
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Precursor Golem
• 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1 Progenitor Mimic
• 1 Triskelavus
• 1 Triskelion
• 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1 Yavimaya Elder

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
• 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

• Instants (10)
• 1 Argent Mutation
• 1 Cackling Counterpart
• 1 Cryptic Command
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Plasm Capture
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Simic Charm
• 1 Supplant Form
• 1 Voidslime

• Sorceries (4)
• 1 Growth Spasm
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Spitting Image
• 1 Stolen Identity

• Enchantments (11)
• 1 Animate Artifact
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Bounty of the Luxa
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Ensoul Artifact
• 1 Followed Footsteps
• 1 Helix Pinnacle
• 1 March of the Machines
• 1 Parallel Lives
• 1 Rhystic Study

• Aritifacts (7)
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Darksteel Forge
• 1 Doubling Cube
• 1 Liquimetal Coating
• 1 Mycosynth Lattice
• 1 Ring of Three Wishes
• 1 Sol Ring

• Lands (36)
• 8 Forest
• 9 Island
• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Hickory Woodlot
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Jungle Basin
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1 Saprazzan Skerry
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Soldevi Excavations
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Yavimaya Coast

Buy This Deck

Is this deck going to be the scourge of your playgroup? No. I think the combo is good but not the easiest to assemble and you may struggle to win 1/x games. Is it worth trying? Yes, I think so. /u/demonicpigg says he wins often enough that the deck is worth keeping together and that’s all I needed to hear. It was built in accordance with our principles whether he meant to or not and if it wins, there’s no reason not to endorse this build.

What do we think? Is blowing up every land too aggro if you can’t win right away? Have you always wanted to kill the opponents with a swarm of sentient Parallel Lives? Does this deck need an obvious card that /u/demonicpigg and I both missed or excluded on purpose but didn’t say why? Could I find room for Trading Post in this deck? (No.) Leave me a comment in the section below. This was a lot of fun to write up and I hope Bounty and other new cards keep the deck evolving and keep it exciting. Until next time!