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Hela, Mistress of Darkness // Dark Tutor
Legendary Creature — God Sorcerer Villain // Sorcery — Vengeance
Whenever a player loses life during your turn, you may create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Do this only once each turn.
6 / 6
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“Villain tutor that rewards discard, graveyard play, and recursive sacrifice loops.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm, Combo
Villains, Sacrifice, Graveyard
Strategy
Hela, Mistress of Darkness is a double-faced villain that rewards you for playing into black's core themes of discard, graveyard recursion, and creature sacrifice. The front half is a 6/6 body for six mana that synergizes with discard outlets and connive effects—typical villain payoffs—while the Dark Tutor back half is a powerful tutoring sorcery you can cast for just three mana, letting you search your deck for any card when conditions are right. Your gameplan centers on filling your graveyard with fuel, repeatedly casting Hela to dig for answers or threats, and leveraging villain synergies to gain incremental advantage. The deck wants to discard and reanimate, generate value through connive, and use artifact token generators to build a swarm of Doombots and similar threats.
Wins come through a combination of commander damage (Hela as a flying threat with evasion equipment), token swarms powered by sacrifice outlets, and tutoring into game-winning pieces. You're not trying to kill in one turn; instead, you're grinding value, thinning your deck with Dark Tutor, and eventually overrunning opponents with a sea of villainous tokens and recursion loops. This is a midrange deck that turns the graveyard into a resource and turns discard into advantage.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors like Demonic Tutor; use Dark Tutor as your primary search, and lean on budget recursion like Reassembling Skeleton and Gravecrawler instead of pricey reanimation spells.
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