Otaria Forever: Archetypes

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White

• Go wide with tokens (Homesteading, Crusade of Grace). Use them to pay blessing costs (Angelic Intervention), or help creature count matters cards (Dawnmane Lion).
• Bant-style solo beats, where prayer creatures ((((Serra Disciple)))) all stack onto one guy who gets a bonus for attacking alone ((((Benalish Skirmisher)))).
• Gain life (Farah's Devoted), then take advantage of life gain matters cards (Favoured Harvest).

Blue

• Cast noncreature spells (Crashing Waves, Spreading Absentia) to tick up your Cephalids (Riptide Apprentice)

Black

• Balance coloured mana requirements against card power with ecocide (Slitherscourge).
• Process your creatures (Famished Crocodile) to get essence counters for the Cephalids ((((Riptide Extractor)))). Sacrifice the leftover Zombies (Corpseyard Lurker) before they sacrifice themselves.
• Get bonuses for putting creatures into your graveyard (Corpsegorger, Cephalid Exhumer).

Red

• Typical aggro approach (Lightning Entity, (((Molten Offensive)))) bolstered by Savage triggers ((((Barbarian Punisher))), (((Pyretic Truths)))).
• Mid-range beats (Khathran Enforcer, Caldera Prowler) with transformation triggers assisted through combat tricks (Volcanic Baloth, (((Will of the Clan)))).
• Mountainfall Shamans (Goblin Rockmage, (((Reckless Apprentice)))) that provide inevitability and board control in control decks.

Green

• Ramp (Krosan Journeyer) into fatties (Lifespring Colossus).
• Spread essence counters around ((((Wandering Ascetic)))). Give them to creatures that can use them ((((Wildheart Trumpeter)))), and trigger Symbiotic (Arbor Blessing).
• Get more Forest ETB triggers (Harrow, Krosan Crossroads) for your DFCs and treefolk (Adansonian Seedsower) and make more Saprolings.

Colourless

• Turn your own lands face down (Deadfield Wisp) to play your creatures faster (Windworn Phantom) and get other bonuses (Null Disciple).
• Nullify (Blank Jolt) your lands to decrease One with nothing costs, or your opponents lands to destabilise their mana base.
• Control your opponents board with various types of removal ((((Desecrated Graves))), Null Exposure, Hollow Gale).

White/Blue - Flyers/Tempo

Blue/Black - Process control

Black/Red - Ecocide aggro

Red/Green - Ramp/Fatties/Basicfall

Green/White - Tokens/Lifegain

White/Black - Clerics/Lifegain

Blue/Red - Noncreature matters

Black/Green - Graveyard

Red/White - Human aggro

Green/Blue - Self-bounce Process/ETB

White/Colourless

Blue/Colourless

Black/Colourless - Ecocide control

Red/Colourless - Ecocide aggro

Green/Colourless