Much like with Modern Dredge, this land acts as an answer to hate cards like Damping Sphere, Narset, Parter of Veils, and Deafening Silence that’s hard to interact with. The mana base for Lotus Field Combo is uneventful outside of the single utility land in Blast Zone. Given that you’re a combo deck trying to maximize your mana usage over the first few turns, all the lands except Temple of Mystery and Lotus Field also come into play untapped during the game’s early turns. This means that every land in the deck that produces mana needs to produce one or both of those colors. While Lotus Field Combo enables a wide variety of playable cards, the base of the deck is entirely Simic ( ). Tidechannel Pathway / Barkchannel Pathway.While many of the spells in the deck help you achieve this goal with more consistency, this powerful interaction is the fundamental purpose for this deck existing in Pioneer. The ideal sequence for lands with this deck is getting a Lotus Field into play on turn 2 or 3, playing a Thespian's Stage and untapping on turn 4 or 5 with two Fields ready to kill your opponent. Once you have a Lotus Field in play, Stage can copy it to become a second one without having to sacrifice any other lands. You can’t wait until turn six or seven to have two untapped Fields, so you’re going to use a different land to help you: Thespian's Stage. Given the need to sacrifice two lands for Lotus Field, there’s the problem of getting two Fields into play naturally. ![]() This idea of having two or more Lotus Fields in play and untapping them to generate massive mana advantages is the hallmark of this deck. What if you can untap two Fields for two mana? Now you’re accelerating well beyond the normal mana timings. What if you can untap Lotus Field for two mana? Then you have net one mana and the Field tapped for four mana that turn. So why are you building a deck around a land that isn’t even tempo positive? In fact, you’d be more mana efficient just playing any untapped land the turn you play Field. This is the same as playing a normal land from a tempo perspective. This land naturally trades two lands for a land that taps for three mana but enters tapped. Let’s start with the namesake of the deck, Lotus Field. ![]() While other decks like Jeskai Ascendancy often sideboard into alternative win conditions ( more about this tactic here), Lotus Field Combo opts to attack the hate cards and remain purely focused on combo-ing. Lotus Field Combo is still one of the purest combo decks in the Pioneer format with little to no backup plan other than various combo kills.
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