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Effie, Fast Learner
Legendary Creature — Human Survivor
Enlist Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if Effie is tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on each tapped creature you control. Then seek a Survivor card with mana value less than or equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.
3 / 3
“Tap creatures for value, tutor Survivors, and grow your army bigger each turn.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Counters, Ramp
Strategy
Effie, Fast Learner is all about tapping creatures to generate value and ramp into bigger threats. The enlist ability lets you tap other creatures during combat without sacrificing their combat usefulness, and her survival trigger rewards you twice over: you get +1/+1 counters on your tapped team, and you tutor out cheaper Survivors to keep the chain going. The deck wants to build a growing board of efficient creatures, tap them down intentionally to trigger Effie, then use those counters and tutored creatures to either swing for lethal or create an insurmountable advantage.
Your core game plan is curving out with Survivors and utility creatures, using enlist to pump your attackers while tapping smaller guys, then converting those taps into tutors and counters. Over several turns, your board becomes exponentially larger. You're not trying to combo off—you're grinding value and overwhelming opponents with a growing army. Cards that reward tapping (like Cryptolith Rite, Wirewood Symbiote, or other utility creatures) pair perfectly with Effie's engine.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive planeswalkers and focus on cheap Survivor creatures like Saffi Eriksdotter and Tocatli Honor Guard; use Cultivate and Kodama's Reach instead of Doubling Season.
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