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Dr. Pulaski, Cynical Clinician
Legendary Creature — Human Doctor
Seek out — Whenever you draw your second card each turn, you gain 4 life.
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“Draw twice a turn, gain 4 life repeatedly—white's card-draw engine.”
Midrange
Beginner
Lifegain, Tokens swarm, Combat damage
Lifegain, Tokens
Strategy
Dr. Pulaski is a sneaky lifegain engine that rewards you for drawing extra cards each turn. Her seek-out ability triggers whenever you draw your second card in a turn, giving you 4 life—which might sound modest, but it stacks quickly if you're drawing multiple times per turn cycle. The core gameplan is to build a deck that naturally draws lots of cards (through cantrips, card-draw spells, and repeatable effects) while filling it with white's classic tools: small efficient creatures, removal, and lifegain payoffs. This creates a grindy midrange deck that stabilizes via life total while generating incremental value. You'll win by eventually outpacing opponents through card advantage and life gain, often finishing with a creature swarm or commander damage once you've stabilized.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey card-draw like Rhystic Study; use budget draw spells like Coastal Piracy, Welcoming Vampire, and Mask of Memory alongside cheap cantrips (Opt, Sleight of Hand).
Signature Cards
- 1Set Phasers to . . .
- 2U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class
- 3Evasive Maneuvers
- 4Command Decision
- 5Operations Officer
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