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Glava, Five-Advents Mage
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Whenever you cast a permanent spell with {X} in its mana cost or activate an ability with {X} in its activation cost that isn't a mana ability, you may have the value of X become 5. Do this only once each turn.
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“Lock X at 5 to turn mana sinks into repeatable value engines.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Tokens swarm, Commander damage, Alt-win
Ramp, Tokens, Sacrifice
Strategy
Glava, Five-Advents Mage is all about cheating the value of X spells and activated abilities. Your gameplan is to play cards that care about X—whether that's big mana sinks, permanent spells with variable costs, or creatures with X in their activation costs—and have Glava essentially lock that X value at 5 once per turn. This turns expensive late-game threats into efficient, repeatable sources of value.
The deck builds around cards like Hydra Broodmaster, Omanth Expanse, and similar X-payoffs that scale with mana investment. Since Glava sets X to 5 automatically, you're often getting way more bang for your buck, turning a modest investment into a powerful effect. You'll ramp aggressively to enable both Glava and your X spells, then use the synergy to generate tokens, draw cards, pump creatures, or create board pressure. Win by swinging in with a massive team of tokens or through commander damage with an oversized Glava herself.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey tutors like Mystical Tutor; lean on green ramp (Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Llanowar Elves) and affordable X-payoffs like Hydra Broodmaster and Tyrranax Rex instead.
Signature Cards
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