Banon, the Returners' Leader

Banon is a graveyard-fueled aggro deck that lets you cast creatures directly from your graveyard each turn via its Pray ability—perfect for spells you've discarded, milled, or tutored away. The deck aims to fill your graveyard early with cheap creatures and card draw, then reanimate them repeatedly while attacking to generate value. Your second ability turns every combat into a card-advantage engine: pay {1} and discard to draw, which fuels your graveyard while cycling through your deck.

The core gameplan is aggressive but grindy. You're not looking for one-shot kills; instead, you're outpacing opponents by generating repeated threats from your graveyard while staying ahead on cards. Cheap red and white creatures, discard outlets, mill effects, and card draw form the backbone. You want early attacks to trigger the draw ability, then leverage cheap reanimation and sacrifice synergies to turn your graveyard into a second hand.

Wins happen through sustained combat damage powered by recurring threats, often alongside sacrifice outlets that convert your reanimated creatures into value or direct damage. This is an attrition-based strategy that rewards tight sequencing and knowing when to reload your graveyard.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.