That means its subject to cost-reducers, like Defiler of Faith and Heralds Horn
2024-09-20 A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans
Here's how to make it: Sprigatito (Shining Revelry) x2 Meowscarada (Shining Revelry) x1 Teal Mask Ogerpon x1 Floragato (Paldean Wonders) x1 Meowscarada ex x2 Erika x1 Cyrus x1 Rare Candy x2 Leaf Cape x2 May x1 Copycat x1 Lucky Ice Pop x1 Fragrant Forest x2 Professor's Research x2 Energy: Grass This is a deck build in which your choice of Meowscarada (regular or ex variant) should differ depending on what your opponent is doing
Illustration Rare Fomantis is in a field of flowers
Creatures (12) Dragon's Rage Channeler x4 Monastery Swiftspear x4 Slickshot Show-Off x4 Instants (14) Lava Dart x4 Lightning Bolt x4 Mutagenic Growth x4 Unholy Heat x2 Sorceries (8) Preordain x4 Expressive Iteration x4 Artifacts (8) Mishra's Bauble x4 Cori-Steel Cutter x4 Lands (18) Arid Mesa x3 Bloodstained Mire x2 Fiery Islet Mountain x3 Scalding Tarn x2 Steam Vents x3 Thundering Falls Wooded Foothills x3 Sideboard (15) Consign to Memory x4 Into the Flood Maw x2 Meltdown x2 Soul-Guide Lantern x2 Spell Pierce x2 Unholy Heat Blood Moon x2 This is Izzet Prowess in Modern and the land count is 18, with zero cards that costs more than 3 mana to cast
Finishers/ Surprise /Alternate win conditions Sometimes you reach a point in the game where you need just a finishing move to claim victory, other times you keep a low profile only to set up a big surprise that will devastate your opponents and some rare times you can steal the victory by just doing something out of the ordinary