Heartless Hidetsugu

Heartless Hidetsugu is a one-card mass damage engine that punishes opponents for having a high life total. Your gameplan is straightforward: ramp into Hidetsugu, tap him repeatedly to halve everyone's life totals, and close out the game with a final tap when opponents are low enough. Since the ability scales with life total, you'll often deal the most damage to yourself early on, so you need to include ways to either protect your life total or embrace the symmetrical damage and win through it.

The deck wants to generate lots of mana and tap-untap effects to repeatedly activate Hidetsugu's ability each turn. Cards like Rings of Brighthearth, Illusionist's Bracers, and untap effects (Thousand-Year Elixir, Turnabout) let you tap multiple times per turn cycle, snowballing the damage quickly. You can also include damage payoffs and life drain effects so the symmetrical damage works in your favor—cards that reward you for dealing damage or that drain opponents when they lose life.

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