# Variant recipes for tools/generate.py -- role-budget reallocation hypotheses.
#
# Each recipe is a reallocation: shift N slots from one role to another, then
# let tools/generate.py pick which specific cards to cut and add. Cuts come
# from the weakest cards in the over-served role; adds come from the best
# unused cards in the under-served one.
#
# Deltas for each recipe must sum to zero so the deck stays at 100 cards.
#
#   python3 tools/generate.py --deck decks/reaper-king-no-more --list
#   python3 tools/generate.py --deck decks/reaper-king-no-more
#   python3 tools/generate.py --deck decks/reaper-king-no-more --only aggro-hate

recipes:
  aggro-hate:
    why: >
      15 of 17 losses were life hitting 0 against aggro. Trade combo
      redundancy for sweepers and spot removal.
    deltas:
      removal_mass: 3
      removal_spot: 2
      minus_engine: -3
      sac_outlet: -2

  card-engine:
    why: >
      Only 1 real draw engine in 99 cards. An aristocrats deck that draws
      off its own deaths should never run out of gas.
    deltas:
      draw: 5
      death_trigger: 2
      minus_engine: -4
      ramp: -3

  opponent-facing:
    why: >
      The commander only steals from OPPONENTS' creatures. Maximise cards
      that trigger on their deaths and put counters on their board.
    deltas:
      opp_death: 5
      removal_spot: 2
      sac_outlet: -3
      ramp: -2
      minus_engine: -2

  go-wide:
    why: >
      Token swarms feed sac outlets and the -1/-1 engine simultaneously.
      Tests whether bodies beat individually stronger cards.
    deltas:
      tokens: 5
      sac_payoff: 2
      minus_engine: -3
      removal_spot: -2
      ramp: -2

  proliferate:
    why: >
      Proliferate multiplies -1/-1 counters, turning one trigger into many.
      A different engine for the same theme.
    deltas:
      proliferate: 5
      minus_engine: 1
      ramp: -3
      sac_outlet: -3

  grindy:
    why: >
      Recursion + drain: never combo, just refuse to lose and bleed the
      table out. Tests whether this deck wants to be a value pile.
    deltas:
      reanimate: 3
      drain: 3
      draw: 2
      minus_engine: -4
      sac_outlet: -2
      ramp: -2

# Hand-curated variants for tools/make_variants.py -- explicit cut/add lists
# against the baseline, rather than a role-budget reallocation. Each is a
# specific hypothesis about specific cards (see plan.md section 6b/6c for
# how these were chosen).
#
#   python3 tools/make_variants.py --deck decks/reaper-king-no-more --list
#   python3 tools/make_variants.py --deck decks/reaper-king-no-more
handwritten:
  no-mikaeus:
    why: "Baseline. Aristocrats + -1/-1, every combo needs board state."
    cut: []
    add: []

  mikaeus:
    why: >
      Does the highest-leverage combo card (28 combos) stay legal?
      Expected FAIL: goes infinite with every sac outlet.
    cut: ["Humble Defector"]
    add: ["Mikaeus, the Unhallowed"]

  lean-outlets:
    why: >
      The deck runs 8 sac outlets and probably needs ~5. Cut 3 for
      interaction and card advantage -- does consistency actually drop?
    cut: ["Woe Strider", "Yahenni, Undying Partisan", "Greater Good"]
    add: ["Bloodchief Ascension", "Toshiro Umezawa", "Fiery Cannonade"]

  commander-focus:
    why: >
      The commander only steals from OPPONENTS' creatures, but the deck's
      -1/-1 engine mostly counters our own. Push counters onto their board.
    cut: ["Putrid Goblin", "Cauldron of Souls", "Murderous Redcap", "Woe Strider"]
    add: ["Mari, the Killing Quill", "Sangromancer", "Patron of the Vein",
          "Slaughter Specialist"]

  heavy-removal:
    why: >
      Bracket 3 pods interact. Trade combo redundancy for removal and see
      whether surviving longer beats assembling faster.
    cut: ["Flourishing Defenses", "Nest of Scarabs", "Obelisk Spider",
          "Persistent Constrictor"]
    add: ["Fiery Cannonade", "Vraska, the Silencer", "Meathook Massacre II",
          "Go for the Throat"]

  fast-ramp:
    why: >
      6 of 10 ramp pieces cost 3+, and the deck already has 22 three-drops.
      T3 ramp means NOT deploying an engine piece. Swap the 3-mana fetch
      spells for 1-mana dorks -- which are also creatures, so they feed the
      sac outlets and the -1/-1 engine instead of being do-nothing sorceries.
    cut: ["Cultivate", "Kodama's Reach", "Springbloom Druid", "Wood Elves",
          "Binding the Old Gods"]
    add: ["Llanowar Elves", "Elvish Mystic", "Fyndhorn Elves",
          "Ignoble Hierarch", "Delighted Halfling"]

  low-curve:
    why: >
      Avg MV is 3.02 and the engine lands ~T6. Cut the top of the curve
      entirely -- does the deck come online sooner and win more?
    cut: ["Massacre Wurm", "Overseer of the Damned", "Archfiend of Ifnir",
          "Grim Poppet", "Cauldron of Souls"]
    add: ["Malakir Cullblade", "Slaughter Specialist", "Bloodchief Ascension",
          "Nurgle's Rot", "Chevill, Bane of Monsters"]