How it wins: the deck builds a wide board of counter-stacked Mutant and Zombie creatures, many of them evasive, then attacks through blockers until opponents are dead, with radiation life loss chipping away at everyone along the way. Key roles: - Rad counter spreading: these cards hand rad counters to every player, so each upkeep forces nonland mills that feed the commander and the other mill payoffs, while also draining opponents' life. (Vexing Radgull, Nightkin Ambusher, Vault 12: The Necropolis) - Mill payoffs: these cards turn each round of nonland mills into card draw, Zombie Mutant tokens, returned recursive bodies or cards cast from among the milled ones, so radiation becomes card advantage as well as growth. (Mirelurk Queen, Screeching Scorchbeast, Raul, Trouble Shooter) - Counter amplification: replacement effects multiply every +1/+1 counter the deck places, turning small triggers from the commander, Clues and other sources into huge creatures. One of them also adds an extra rad counter whenever the player gets rad counters. (Winding Constrictor, Corpsejack Menace, Branching Evolution) - Proliferate engine: repeated proliferate grows +1/+1 counters on the deck's creatures and rad counters on opponents at the same time, pushing both the beatdown and the radiation clock. (Agent Frank Horrigan, Inexorable Tide, Radstorm) - Mutant tribal anthems: these cards reward having a board full of Mutants and Zombies, through a lord that scales with its own counters, cards drawn when altered Mutants die, and mass counters at the end of a saga. (Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor, Jason Bright, Glowing Prophet, Vault 87: Forced Evolution) - Evasive conversion: flyers, menace and unblockable creatures carry the counters into combat, while combat-damage triggers draw cards or add more counters and protection spells keep the grown board alive for the final swing. (Marcus, Mutant Mayor, Mutational Advantage, Inspiring Call)

The Wise Mothman decklist

• Mariposa Military Base
• Viridescent Bog
• Overflowing Basin
• Nesting Grounds
• 5× Island
• Tainted Wood
• 5× Forest
• Terramorphic Expanse
• 5× Swamp
• Drowned Catacomb
• Temple of Mystery
• Woodland Cemetery
• Opulent Palace
• Exotic Orchard
• Tainted Isle
• Temple of Malady
• Hinterland Harbor
• Mortuary Mire
• Command Tower
• Darkwater Catacombs
• Path of Ancestry
• Fetid Pools
• Sunken Hollow
• Cathedral Acolyte
• Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
• Vexing Radgull
• Winding Constrictor
• Tato Farmer
• Rampaging Yao Guai
• Jason Bright, Glowing Prophet
• Infesting Radroach
• Glowing One
• Harold and Bob, First Numens
• Watchful Radstag
• Raul, Trouble Shooter
• Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
• Feral Ghoul
• Tireless Tracker
• Nightkin Ambusher
• Lily Bowen, Raging Grandma
• The Master, Transcendent
• Bloatfly Swarm
• Young Deathclaws
• Corpsejack Menace
• Mirelurk Queen
• Marcus, Mutant Mayor
• Screeching Scorchbeast
• Strong, the Brutish Thespian
• Alpha Deathclaw
• Agent Frank Horrigan
• Lumbering Megasloth
• Sol Ring
• Power Fist
• Arcane Signet
• Talisman of Curiosity
• Talisman of Dominance
• Contagion Clasp
• Strength Bobblehead
• Recon Craft Theta
• Hardened Scales
• Branching Evolution
• Fraying Sanity
• Struggle for Project Purity
• Guardian Project
• Vault 87: Forced Evolution
• Inexorable Tide
• Vault 12: The Necropolis
• Nuclear Fallout
• Rampant Growth
• Farseek
• Cultivate
• Harmonize
• Casualties of War
• Contaminated Drink
• Biomass Mutation
• Mutational Advantage
• Inspiring Call
• Putrefy
• Atomize
• Radstorm
• Toxic Deluge
• Overgrown Tomb
• Morphic Pool
• Dreamroot Cascade
• Kami of Whispered Hopes
• Evolution Sage
• Ruin Crab