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Karador, Ghost Chieftain
Legendary Creature — Centaur Spirit
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard.
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“Reanimate creatures every turn by filling your graveyard and casting from the bin.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm, Aristocrats value
Reanimator, Sacrifice, Tokens, Aristocrats
Strategy
Karador is all about filling your graveyard with creatures and then casting them repeatedly from the bin. You're essentially getting a second hand of creatures every turn while reducing Karador's casting cost along the way. The gameplan is to mill yourself early—through cards like Stitcher's Supplier or just natural draws—then leverage Karador's ability to reanimate creatures over and over, turning your graveyard into a resource. This generates value through sacrifice outlets, ETB effects, or just raw creature count.
Your win condition typically comes from either a massive token army (if you're running sacrifice synergies) or from chipping away with evasive creatures cast from the graveyard turn after turn. Many Karador decks lean into aristocrats—creatures that want to die and generate value when they do—or landfall triggers if you're also running creatures with that mechanic. The deck shines in grinding out inevitability: you'll have more creatures available than opponents can deal with, and Karador itself is a resilient, free reanimation engine.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey fetches and dual lands; use basic lands and Zendikar Resurgent instead of Doubling Season. Swap Saffi Eriksdotter for Satyr Wayfinder and skip Griselbrand for chunky reanimate targets like Siege Rhino.
Signature Cards
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