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Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
When Dack Fayden enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards, where X is the number of opponents you have. Put those creature cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle. They're goaded for the rest of the game. For each of those permanents, choose a different opponent. Each opponent gains control of the permanent for which they were chosen.
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“Gift creatures to opponents then goad them into fighting each other.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Commander damage
Tokens, Sacrifice
Strategy
Dack Fayden, Helping Hand is a political chaos engine wrapped in a generous package. When he enters, you're *giving away* a bunch of powerful creatures to your opponents, all of them goaded—meaning they're forced to attack, creating immediate pressure and table drama. Your real gameplan is turning this apparent gift into a win: you're not actually being nice. Those goaded creatures force your opponents to attack each other, soften their life totals, and leave them vulnerable. Meanwhile, you're sitting back with a 4/6 body, ramping into bigger plays and watching the chaos unfold.
The deck wants to maximize the value of mass creature tutoring and abuse the goad mechanic. You'll run creature-dense themes with Tokens and Sacrifice—generate your own creatures to give away, then capitalize on the combat forced by goading. White's got excellent tutors and recursion to rebuild after the chaos. You win by attrition: opponents bash each other while you stabilize and eventually take over with superior resources or a commander damage clock.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors like Enlightened Tutor; use budget alternatives like Starfield Mystic or Ranger-Captain of Eos. Tokens and basic creature tutors like Imperial Recruiter (or Flicker Wisp for redundancy) keep costs down.
Signature Cards
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