Overview:
A Food-focused sacrifice deck helmed by Ygra, Eater of All that turns all creatures into Food tokens, enabling a powerful sacrifice strategy that combines life gain, commander buffing, and aristocrats-style effects.
Primer:
The deck aims to establish a sacrifice engine using Ygra, Eater of All's ability to turn all creatures into Food tokens. Early game focuses on ramping with mana dorks and establishing protection for Ygra. Mid-game involves setting up sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar alongside payoffs like Marionette Master and Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. The deck can win through commander damage with a buffed Ygra, drain effects from aristocrats pieces, or overwhelming board presence through token generation and +1/+1 counters.
Weaknesses:
The deck is heavily reliant on its commander being in play to enable its primary strategy, making it vulnerable to repeated removal. Graveyard hate can significantly impact the deck's recursion plans. The mana base could be more optimized, which may lead to consistency issues in the early game.
Top 10 Most Impactful Cards:
- Ashnod's Altar
- Phyrexian Altar
- Marionette Master
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General
- Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Grave Pact
- Dictate of Erebos
- Black Market Connections
- Gyome, Master Chef
Attribute Ratings:
- Speed: 5/10
- Resilience: 6/10
- Consistency: 5/10
- Interaction: 7/10
Rating Justification:
This deck sits firmly in the optimized casual range, with its ability to generate value through sacrifice effects and Food synergies while maintaining decent interaction through removal and protection spells. While it can create powerful board states, it typically needs several turns to set up its engine and doesn't typically threaten wins before turn 8-9. It's stronger than a typical precon due to its focused strategy and inclusion of powerful sacrifice outlets, but lacks the explosive speed and consistency of higher-powered decks.
Final power level rating: 5.0 - 5.5
Ygra, Eater of All