Find four mana
Keep two to four lands and one early mana or card engine. Thurid is the hinge; the hand must be able to cast her.
Sol Ring · Pearl Medallion · Land Tax · Archaeomancer’s Map
The whole game plan
Three chapters. One very crowded meadow.
Cast the herd
Every Horse, Pegasus, Unicorn, and changeling creature spell makes a token copy. Favor enter-the-battlefield value before raw size.
Changeling Wayfinder · Summon: Ixion · Irregular Cohort
Protect, then crest
Do not spend protection on a board that is not worth saving. Build quietly, then use a single finisher to make the next combat lethal.
Clever Concealment · Mirror Entity · Akroma’s Will
Rules toy
How many hoofprints?
Thurid supplies one token copy of the creature spell. Replacement effects multiply that token—not the original spell. Turn on the engines already on your battlefield.
2
herd permanents resolve: one original + one token copy
Opening hands
Keep the path, not the dream.
One must produce white. A hand with only utility colorless lands is not a keep.
A mana piece, Land Tax, Esper Sentinel, or a two-to-three-mana card engine makes the first turns useful.
Keep at least one copy target or a way to find an engine. Seven expensive payoffs is still a mulligan.
The crescendo
Seven ways the fairy tale gets teeth.
The deck presents these from a visible board and accumulated mana. It contains no deterministic combo, mass land denial, or chained extra turns.
Card atlas
Meet the entire herd.
Full card images and current Oracle references via Scryfall. Select any card to inspect it.
No card followed that trail.
The complete plan
100 cards. Ready to proxy and test.
This is a planning view, not an ownership or assembly claim. The list is current to the dated public rules snapshot and intentionally stops at the top edge of Bracket 3.