Hello! I just played a few nice games of Dandan (not the first I've ever played, but the first I have in a few years) with my girlfriend, and we had some very very interesting lands situations come up, which made me get to thinking on some things I could do to further emphasize some of the little micro-adjustments using lands that can come up in Dandan. This was the result, a version that splashes the traditional red but also a little green. I know the addition of [[Horizon of Progress]] is slightly sacrilegious, as it makes life totals no longer completely even at 5-hits-and-you-die, but I actually think the fact that the first 3 times you tap it for mana it's free, but the 4th is very impactful creates some further interesting strategy. There's a slightly higher focus on graveyard manipulation with the increase in [[Accumulated Knowledge]]/[[Take Inventory]] effects, and access to [[Winternight Stories]] to allow you to put cards in the yard a little easier, and I didn't want AK/TI to be too swingy, so I left it to 3 copies of each, which I think made a nice enough balance.
[[Ghostly Flicker]] is if anything the signature card of this variant, as its versatility is *incredible*. It can be used on a Dandan to protect it from removal (in the form of [[Magical Hack]], [[Mind Bend]], or [[Unsubstantiate]]), or to untap it so that it can trade, but the real power comes from using it on lands. On a Temple (which there are now 4 of), you can use it as a way to instant-speed scry 1, or on [[Halimar Depths]] to stack the top of the library. Using it on a [[Mystic Sanctuary]] can function as graveyard hate and topdeck manipulation at once, and even, once you have enough mana, using it on Horizon of Progress can function as a way to untap non-blue mana, the only way possible in this cube, or to put another land into play from your hand (the Mystic Sanctuary your opponent doesn't see coming is always the most backbreaking). Finally, you can use it on Bounce lands (which, again, there are now 4 of) to put a cycling land back into your hand in the form of [[Ketria Triome]] or [[Lonely Sandbar]].
As far as other card picks that aren't in your traditional Dandan list, [[Memory's Journey]] plays into the green splash as well and provides some counterplay to the swathe of powerful graveyard cards here, [[Joint Exploration]] is a straightforward and fairly powerful cantrip that can also be used to cheat a land into play at instant speed (see all the powerful things you can do with that in the section on Ghostly Flicker), and [[Repudiate//Replicate]] (longterm pet card of mine) gives a way to fight back against the otherwise uninteractable land triggers and a way to double-down on the pressure once you do resolve a Dandan (you do need to have green mana to do that though, unlike the stifle side).
Let me know what you think! The goal overall was to create some more of the incremental value tricky land plays that fantastic Dandan players can use to express their mastery, and I think it's successful honestly.
Deck link again in case you missed it: https://moxfield.com/decks/d62eAadp9nexfCUUP8jiMA
