Daniels, Temporal Agent

Daniels, Temporal Agent is a compact graveyard-reanimation engine that wants to die early and often, fueling a sacrifice-focused game plan. When Daniels enters the battlefield, you recur a creature from your graveyard to your hand—typically something with a strong enter-the-battlefield trigger or that feeds your sacrifice outlet. The second ability lets you recycle Daniels itself from the graveyard back to the library bottom while gaining life, making it a repeatable source of graveyard value that doesn't clog your hand.

Build around filling your graveyard quickly with creatures that have impactful ETB effects or self-mill. Pair Daniels with sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar to turn creature death into advantage. Each time a creature dies, you're triggering aristocrat payoffs (Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist) and recurrence, building a incremental grinding engine. The lifegain from Daniels's second ability shores up your fragile 1 toughness while fueling cards that reward life gain.

Your win condition typically combines aristocrat damage-per-sacrifice with token production and card advantage. The deck is midrange-y but plays grindily, churning through your deck and opponents' resources until you've generated enough drain triggers and assembled enough tokens or +1/+1 counters to close out a game.

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