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Overview:
A lifegain-focused deck built around Amalia Benavides Aguirre, utilizing small creatures that generate life triggers to power up the commander while maintaining a strong board presence through recursion and protection effects.
Primer:
The deck's primary strategy revolves around accumulating life gain triggers through numerous small creatures and artifacts to trigger Amalia Benavides Aguirre's explore ability. The deck aims to gradually build up Amalia's power through explore triggers while generating value through card advantage and life gain payoffs. The secondary strategy involves using various sacrifice outlets and recursion spells to maintain board presence while triggering life gain effects.
The deck can win through either commander damage after building up Amalia's power, or through draining opponents via effects like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat. The mass destruction ability of Amalia when reaching exactly 20 power serves as a potential board wipe that can dramatically shift the game state in your favor.
Weaknesses:
The deck suffers from a relatively low land count which could impact consistency and ability to recover from board wipes. The strategy is heavily dependent on having the commander in play, making it vulnerable to repeated removal. The deck also lacks efficient tutors to find key pieces and could struggle against faster, more aggressive strategies or heavy control decks that can prevent the commander from staying on the battlefield.
Top 10 Most Impactful Cards:
- Amalia Benavides Aguirre
- Blood Artist
- Soul Warden
- Viscera Seer
- Mother of Runes
- Living Death
- Skullclamp
- Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
- Command the Dreadhorde
- Animate Dead
Attribute Ratings:
- Speed: 4/10
- Resilience: 5/10
- Consistency: 4/10
- Interaction: 5/10
Rating Justification:
This deck operates at a casual power level, with a clear strategy but lacking the fast mana and efficient tutors needed to compete at higher power levels. While it includes some strong interaction pieces and recursion elements, its reliance on small creatures and life gain triggers makes it slower than more optimized strategies. The deck would struggle against power level 6 decks due to their faster win conditions and more efficient interaction, but could hold its own against other casual decks in the 4-5 range through its ability to generate value over time and maintain board presence.
Final power level rating: 4.5 - 5.0
Amalia Benavides Aguirre
