Huatli allows for some decent life gain as well. This cushions some of the blows we may take while trying to piece together a threatening board state. Life gain has become a sort of side strategy of the deck, as you will see with some of our backup cards.

Our core strategy is to play low mana cost creatures with high toughness and use them in combination with our namesake card. This puts our opponent under powerful early aggression. Without High Alert or Huatli in play, though, our creatures do little more than block for us. So, we will keep both in high numbers to assure that we draw into them.