Gau, Feral Youth

Gau, Feral Youth is a scrappy little aggressor that rewards you for turning cards in your graveyard into resources. Every time Gau attacks, it grows a +1/+1 counter, and whenever a card leaves your graveyard during a turn, Gau deals damage equal to its power to each opponent at end step. This means you're looking to mill yourself, reanimate creatures, cast spells from your graveyard, or use cards that naturally fuel the bin—all while swinging in for chip damage that scales with Gau's growing power.

The deck plays like a mid-range aggressor with graveyard synergies baked in. You'll run self-mill effects like Stitcher's Supplier and Satyr Wayfinder to stock your graveyard, then leverage that pile with reanimation spells, flashback creatures, and effects that let you cast from your graveyard (like Living Death or Fury). Every trigger that moves a card from your graveyard becomes a source of repeatable damage once Gau swings in. By mid-game, Gau becomes a legitimate clock while your graveyard recursion engine keeps generating value.

You win primarily through commander damage and table burns—swing with an ever-growing Gau while pinging opponents for its power whenever your graveyard empties. Secondary wins come from explosive turns where multiple graveyard interactions happen, turning Gau into a late-game damage outlet that also demands blocks.

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