The Cat God Deck
Green edition: grace with claws

This deck is a fusion engine: Forgotten Realms party iconography, Thundercats silhouette, ministry symbolism, and a Mythic-bear-tank posture. The meta layer is not the pile, it’s the method: Story, Hunt, Apex.

Core claim Mercy is a planned drain you convert Signature 4x Oketra’s Last Mercy Thunderdome singletons as controlled variance

Narrative anchors

Dancing Sword is your Jarlaxle nod: the enhancement that survives the host. Blackblade Reforged is Entreri: land-scaled execution. Loot is scouting doctrine: Drizzt goes first. Pollen-Shield Hare is the holy connector: the Grail bunny bridge.

The deck tells a story, but the story is also a targeting system. Under pressure, narrative reduces cognitive branching and improves play quality.

The opponent sees “cat deck”. You see a repeatable field-strip framework.

Parsed v1 snapshot

MeasureValue
Total cards listed (N)
Oketra’s Last Mercy copies (K)
Role entropy (bits)
Behavior entropy (bits)
Mode entropy (bits)

Entropy quantifies “tight coupling + controlled randomness.”

The Bear clause

Kudo, King Among Bears is the “wipe recovery” signature. It scales with opponents and rebalances the field. When the Bear lands, the table learns the law:

DAER: Challenge Accepted.

Next: Mercy Math turns the freeze into a scheduled resource model.