Peace Offering precon.

How it plays.

Core game plan

Spend the early turns on rocks and dorks: Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Mind Stone, Thought Vessel, Coiling Oracle, and Faeburrow Elder, plus Farseek and Cultivate to lock in all three colors. Land Ms. Bumbleflower on turn three or four and start double-spelling: every spell gifts an opponent a card and grows a flier, and the second trigger in a turn draws you two, so two cheap spells a turn is the deck's heartbeat, and instants cast on opponents' turns count. Deploy draw payoffs before your big refill turns so Secret Rendezvous, Intellectual Offering, Sphinx of Enlightenment, and Kwain, Itinerant Meddler also feed Psychosis Crawler, Chasm Skulker, Jolrael, and Hoofprints of the Stag. The gifts themselves get weaponized: Sunscorch Regent, Managorger Hydra, Forgotten Ancient, and Steelburr Champion grow every time the table spends the cards you handed out, and Mangara, the Diplomat draws you more when opponents cast their second spell each turn. Mr. Foxglove punishes the full hands you created, drawing cards equal to the defender's hand size minus yours when he attacks. Stay alive with Baird, Spore Frog, Riot Control, Illusionist's Gambit, and Promise of Loyalty while the engines run, then close with a Kalonian Hydra attack that doubles every counter you have spread, ride Simic Ascendancy to twenty growth counters, or steal a win with Twenty-Toed Toad or Triskaidekaphile off a Reliquary Tower hand.

Key cards

• Ms. Bumbleflower. The engine. Every spell you cast has an opponent draw while a creature of yours gets a +1/+1 counter and flying until end of turn, and the second trigger each turn draws you two cards. Cast two spells a turn and she pays for the whole party.
• Mr. Foxglove. The alternate face commander and the deck's meanest card. Attacking draws you cards equal to the defending player's hand size minus yours, so the cards you gifted all game come back with interest; if you drew nothing, he free-drops a creature from your hand instead.
• Psychosis Crawler. Turns your own card flow into table-wide damage: each opponent loses 1 life whenever you draw. With Bumbleflower's second triggers, Rites of Flourishing, and the draw-three spells, it drains constantly while staying hand-size huge.
• Kalonian Hydra. The counter finisher. It enters with four +1/+1 counters and doubles the counters on every creature you control each time it attacks, converting a board of Bumbleflower drips into lethal stats in one or two swings.
• Simic Ascendancy. The alternate win the deck actually assembles. Every +1/+1 counter placed on your creatures banks that many growth counters, and at twenty you win at upkeep. A single Kalonian Hydra attack can bank a whole board's worth at once.
• Sunscorch Regent. Punishes the table for using your gifts: a +1/+1 counter and 1 life every time an opponent casts a spell. In a four-player game it outgrows everything while your life total climbs.
• Communal Brewing. Front-loads the group hug: opponents draw to charge ingredient counters, then every creature you cast for the rest of the game enters that much bigger, stacking with Simic Ascendancy and the counter theme.
• Rites of Flourishing. The purest hug: everyone draws an extra card and plays an extra land each turn. You break the symmetry with Psychosis Crawler, Jolrael, Hoofprints of the Stag, and the hand-size threats.

Combos and synergies

• No infinite combos in the stock list: Peace Offering is a Bracket 2 precon with no infinite loops as built. It wins through layered draw payoffs and counter growth, not a combo kill.
• Kalonian Hydra plus Simic Ascendancy: Each Hydra attack doubles the +1/+1 counters on your whole board, and every counter it adds banks a growth counter on Simic Ascendancy. One wide counter board and one or two attacks jump you to the twenty-counter win.
• Psychosis Crawler plus group draw: Crawler drains each opponent whenever you draw, so Secret Rendezvous, Intellectual Offering, Rites of Flourishing, and Bumbleflower's second triggers become free table damage while keeping the Crawler big.

Mulligan

Lines and sequencing

• Turns one and two: rock or dork plus a land, aiming Ms. Bumbleflower for turn three.
• Once she sticks, cast two spells a turn when you can; the second trigger draws you two, and instants on opponents' turns count toward it.
• Aim the gifted draws at whoever is safest: the player furthest behind, or the one whose extra spells feed Sunscorch Regent, Managorger Hydra, and Mangara anyway.
• Land the payoff before the refill: Psychosis Crawler or Chasm Skulker first, then Secret Rendezvous or Intellectual Offering, so the burst draws also drain, grow, and bank counters.
• Give Bumbleflower's counters permanent evasive homes: Hoofprints Elementals, Perch Protection Birds, and Sunscorch Regent carry them best.
• Endgame: swing Kalonian Hydra to double the board and bank Simic Ascendancy, drain with Crawler on a big draw turn, or hold the fogs and Perch Protection to survive to a Twenty-Toed Toad, Triskaidekaphile, or Ascendancy win.

Pilot difficulty

Intermediate. The individual cards are simple, but every Bumbleflower trigger is a political decision about who gets a card, the deck defends with fogs and taxes rather than blockers, and you have to know which of the three win routes you are actually on before you start handing out ammunition.