Overview:

This deck utilizes Thrasios as an infinite mana outlet and Vial Smasher for incidental damage, focusing on fast mana, reanimation, and infinite combos to win via Walking Ballista or deck cycling. It combines high-efficiency tutors, free interaction, and multiple redundant combo lines to threaten early victories.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
Deploy fast mana (e.g., Mana Vault, Lion's Eye Diamond) to assemble infinite mana via Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake or Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy + artifact mana. Use Thrasios to draw the deck and win with Walking Ballista or Underworld Breach loops. Backup plans include reanimating Gray Merchant of Asphodel or stealing permanents with Agent of Treachery.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 1–2 fast mana sources (e.g., Sol Ring, Mox Diamond).
• Prioritize combo enablers (Buried Alive, Intuition) or protection (Fierce Guardianship).
• Avoid hands lacking mana acceleration or interaction in competitive metas.

Key Tips:

• Tutor for Training Grounds to reduce Thrasios’s activation cost.
• Use Underworld Breach with Wheel of Fortune and LED for graveyard recursion.
• Protect combo turns with free counterspells and Veil of Summer.

Weaknesses:

Critical

• Graveyard reliance: Fold to Rest in Peace/Leyline of the Void.
• Glass cannon combos: Deadeye Navigator/Peregrine Drake are fragile to instant-speed removal.

Moderate

• Blood Moon vulnerability: Limited basic land density.
• Stax resistance: Lacks mass artifact/enchantment removal for Trinisphere/Collector Ouphe.

Minor

• Life total pressure: Fast mana and fetchlands incur self-damage.

Most Important Cards:

• Walking Ballista
• Underworld Breach
• Lion's Eye Diamond
• Demonic Tutor
• Vampiric Tutor
• Peregrine Drake
• Deadeye Navigator
• Yawgmoth's Will
• Wheel of Fortune
• Training Grounds

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 9/10
Theoretical T3 win via infinite mana + Thrasios, with consistent T4–5 goldfish.

Resilience: 8/10
Free counterspells, recursion (Breach/Yawgmoth’s Will), and redundant combo lines mitigate disruption.

Consistency: 9/10
12+ tutors, 4+ wheel effects, and multiple combo paths ensure high redundancy.

Interaction: 8/10
S-tier counters (Fierce Guardianship, Mental Misstep) and targeted removal (Abrupt Decay).

Rating Justification:

This deck operates at cEDH levels with T3–4 deterministic wins, robust interaction, and high consistency, but lacks Tier 0’s absolute speed (e.g., no Ad Nauseam).

Power level: 8.5 - 9.5