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Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Whenever Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life. At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn. Warp {W} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
“White ETB engine that draws cards by gaining life with creatures.”
Haliya turns life gain into card draw, creating a virtuous cycle where each creature or artifact you play both progresses toward her draw trigger and grows your board. You're not just gaining life passively—every enter effect counts, so you'll be flooding the board with tokens, blinking creatures, or deploying cheap artifacts to trigger Haliya multiple times per turn. Once you hit 3 life gain in a turn (easy with just a couple of plays), you draw a card, which fuels more plays and more triggers.
The deck wants to be an efficient, tempo-focused midrange strategy that rewards playing creatures and artifacts at instant speed or in bulk. Your game plan is to generate value through repetitive ETB effects while pressuring opponents with a growing board. The warp ability lets you recast Haliya from exile, turning her into a repeatable engine that dodges board wipes and keeps the draw-go engine spinning. You win by accumulating card advantage and board presence until combat damage finishes the job, or occasionally by reaching a critical mass of tokens.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Skip expensive tutors and planeswalkers; use draft chaff like Young Rider and Intrepid Adversary alongside bulk ETB creatures (Thraben Doomsayer, Pegasus Refuge). Blink effects like Ephemerate cost pennies.
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