Gallia, Tragic Host

Gallia, Tragic Host is a graveyard-focused recursion engine that wants to die and come back repeatedly. She's a evasive 2/1 with menace that fuels herself by exiling creatures from your graveyard, returning stronger each time with a +1/+1 counter. The deck builds around filling your graveyard with creatures—both through self-mill effects and combat deaths—then using Gallia to reanimate them at will. You're essentially playing a black Aristocrats-meets-Reanimator hybrid, sacrificing creatures for value while Gallia provides a repeatable threat that grows over time and can't be blocked efficiently.

Your win condition is inevitably commander damage or a critical mass of creatures. Because Gallia costs only {1}{B} to return from the graveyard and adds a counter each time, she'll eventually become a 5/4, 7/5, or larger menace creature that closes games fast. You pair her with creatures that generate value when they enter (like Enlightened Confidant, Proctor of Potential, or Simulacrum Shaper from the new set) or when they die (like Bloodline Recollector, which even triggers its prepared mechanic for extra value). Support this with sacrifice outlets, self-mill, and cards that reward dying creatures—Aristocrats staples—and you have a resilient, grindy midrange deck that wins through attrition and commander damage.

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