Duchess, Wayward Tavernkeep

Duchess, Wayward Tavernkeep turns combat damage into a resource engine. Every creature that connects with a player gets a quest counter, which you can cash in to create Junk tokens—artifacts that let you exile and play cards from the top of your library. This creates a snowball effect: attack with creatures, build quest counters, turn them into card advantage, and fuel your turns with extra plays. The deck rewards going wide with evasive or efficient attackers and balancing combat pressure with converting those counters into gas.

Your gameplan is straightforward aggro-midrange: deploy cheap creatures, swing early and often, and let Duchess convert your combat hits into incremental advantage. You're not trying to go infinite or storm off—you're grinding out value while threatening lethal damage. As the game goes longer, you'll have accumulated so many Junk tokens that you're essentially drawing extra cards every turn, turning a midrange strategy into a card advantage engine. Red's natural impulse-draw effects pair perfectly with this theme.

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