Overview:

A +1/+1 counter and rad counter synergy deck leveraging mill triggers and proliferate effects. While it has synergistic elements, it lacks focused win conditions and high-speed combos, relying on incremental value and combat damage.

Primer:

Core Strategy: This deck aims to flood the board with +1/+1 counters via The Wise Mothman's mill triggers and proliferate engines like Inexorable Tide. The plan unfolds in three phases:

1. Early Setup: Ramp with Cultivate/Farseek while deploying counter generators like Winding Constrictor.
2. Value Engine: Use Fraying Sanity and Mirelurk Queen to mill opponents while growing creatures.
3. Closing: Swing with massive mutants like Agent Frank Horrigan or force rad counter proliferation with Radstorm.

Mulligan Priorities:

• 3 lands (prioritize duals like Fetid Pools)
• Early ramp (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet)
• At least 1 counter enabler (Hardened Scales, Corpsejack Menace)

Key Tips

• Time proliferate triggers after combat damage to maximize rad counter pressure
• Use Mutational Advantage to protect key creatures during critical turns
• Prioritize recurring The Master, Transcendent for graveyard recursion

Weaknesses:

Critical

• No infinite combos or deterministic win conditions
• Commander-dependent strategy folds to repeated removal
• Vulnerable to graveyard hate (exiles Young Deathclaws's scavenge)

Moderate

• Slow recovery from board wipes
• Limited counter removal for enemy threats

Minor

• Some high-CMC payoffs like Lumbering Megasloth

Most Important Cards:

• Branching Evolution
• Corpsejack Menace
• Fraying Sanity
• Hardened Scales
• Inexorable Tide
• Mirelurk Queen
• Mutational Advantage
• The Master, Transcendent
• Winding Constrictor
• Young Deathclaws

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 4/10

• Goldfish win ~T9-10 via combat/mill. No fast mana beyond Sol Ring, relies on incremental counter growth.

Resilience: 5/10

• Limited protection (1-2 indestructible grants) but some recursion (Find // Finality). Struggles if commander is removed 3+ times.

Consistency: 5/10

• 4 tutors (land-fetching only), redundant counter doublers, but no way to reliably find Fraying Sanity or key payoffs.

Interaction: 4/10

• 6 targeted removals (Putrefy, Casualties of War), no free counterspells. Mostly sorcery-speed answers.

Rating Justification:

Falls between "Focused Casual" (T9-11 wins) and "Optimized Casual" (T8-10). Lacks the speed/blowout potential of T8 turbo decks but exceeds precon-level synergy. Comparable to upgraded Atraxa, Praetors' Voice proliferate builds without cEDH staples.

Power level: 4.5 - 5.0