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Akal Pakal, First Among Equals
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
At the beginning of each player's end step, if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
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“Artifact enter-the-battlefield triggers fuel card selection and graveyard setup.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combo, Combat damage
Artifacts, Blink, Ramp
Strategy
Akal Pakal turns your artifact entries into a consistent card advantage engine, letting you sculpt your hand and graveyard each turn cycle. You want to play cheap artifacts—especially ones that enter repeatedly through bounce, blink, or token generation—so Akal triggers multiple times per rotation. This creates a steady stream of selection that fuels your gameplan while filling your graveyard for potential reanimation or threshold strategies.
The deck thrives on artifact synergies: creatures that create artifact tokens, effects that bounce and replay artifacts, and cards that reward you for entering-the-battlefield effects. You're not racing anyone—you're grinding out incremental value until your carefully selected hand gives you the resources to pivot into a combo finish or simply overwhelm with a constructed gameplan. Think of Akal as a patient selection tool that makes your draws progressively better.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey mana rocks and creature tutors; lean on common artifact tokens (Servo, Construct tokens from budget spells) and bounce effects like Ephemerate or Soulherder to trigger Akal repeatedly.
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