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Gyrus, Waker of Corpses
Legendary Creature — Hydra
Gyrus enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it. Whenever Gyrus attacks, you may exile target creature card with lesser power from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card and that's tapped and attacking. Exile the token at end of combat.
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“Mana sink hydra that ghosts creatures from your graveyard each combat.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Graveyard, Sacrifice, Aristocrats, Ramp
Strategy
Gyrus is a mana-sink commander that grows larger as you pump mana into casting it, then turns your graveyard into a toolbox of attacking creatures. Every turn you attack, you're resurrecting a weaker creature from your graveyard as a temporary copy to swing in for extra damage or trigger death/sacrifice triggers. The deck wants to fill your graveyard with useful creatures while ramping into big Gyrus casts, then generate explosive turns by copying creatures with ETB effects, sacrifice outlets, or evasion.
Your gameplan revolves around self-mill and discard outlets to stock the graveyard early, then pivoting into casting Gyrus for X=5+ mana to make it a real threat. Each attack becomes a value engine—you're not just swinging with Gyrus, you're also ghosting in a Mulldrifter, Fiend Artisan, or Siege Rhino from your graveyard. Sacrifice synergies multiply your payoffs: sac the token before end of combat to drain opponents or trigger aristocrat effects, then repeat next turn.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey tutors like Demonic Tutor; use Entomb, Faithless Looting, and Grisly Salvage as budget self-mill, and replace fetch lands with basics and Evolving Wilds.
Signature Cards
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