While I am only giving this deck one star, as a general it would be interesting. The reason is simple: there are no creatures (though there are 8 Zendikons that could be used on my land or my opponent's). Every spell enchants a land, destroys a land, returns cards, or causes trouble for tapping permanents. While this makes for anamusing thought experiment, it does not make for a likely winner. Still, despite a pair of cards with X in the casting cost this manages to keep a quite respectable 2.15 average casting cost on a 6/26/4/4 curve. It might be worth throwing in some time when there are other decks that I expect to be overwhelming as a whole, or perhaps taken to Norwescon in hopes of finding another five players for a generals game. The name comes from Scipio Æmilianus Africanus, who, according to legend anyway, ordered salt sown in Carthage after the Third Punic War.