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Charix, the Raging Isle
Legendary Creature — Leviathan Crab
Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.
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“Island-hoarding blue control that taxes opponents and becomes a giant attacker.”
Control
Intermediate
Combat damage, Control
Control, Ramp, Voltron
Strategy
Charix, the Raging Isle is a defensive powerhouse that punishes opponents for trying to interact with it. Your core gameplan is to control the board by making yourself and your spell-slinger threats hard to remove—opponents pay a premium to target anything you do. With a massive toughness stat and built-in tax effects, Charix naturally slots into a tempo and control shell where you're happy to spend turns developing Islands and digging for answers.
The second mode transforms Charix into a win condition once you've assembled enough Islands. By converting toughness into power, you turn your defensive fortress into an offensive threat that can close out games through evasion or direct combat damage. The deck wins by controlling the early game with cheap countermagic and removal, protecting Charix's investment with that spell-tax effect, then deploying relevant threats while your opponents are mana-starved from paying the premium. You're playing a layered defense: the tax itself, Charix's high toughness, and your stack interaction all synergize to create a suffocating wall your opponents can't crack.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey dual lands and use basic Islands plus Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse to ramp; replace Force of Will and Counterspell with Mana Leak and Spell Pierce.
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Inclusion = % of Charix, the Raging Isle decks running this card. +lift = percentage-point boost over the format average.
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