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Kethek, Crucible Goliath
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Beast
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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“Sacrifice outlet that tutors creatures from your deck every turn.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Sacrifice, Tokens, Aristocrats, Reanimator
Strategy
Kethek, Crucible Goliath is a self-contained creature factory that turns your sacrifices into fresh meat from the top of your deck. Every end step, you feed him a creature token or utility piece, and he hunts through your library for a cheaper creature to reanimate onto the battlefield. This creates a looping engine where you're constantly replacing creatures, building board presence, and thinning your deck.
The deck wants to generate expendable creatures—tokens from sacrifice outlets, token generators, or small utility creatures you're happy to trade away. Pair Kethek with aristocrat themes: blood tokens, elemental tokens, even empty sacrifices with payoff cards like Zulaport Cutthroat or Viscera Seer. The goal is to keep your hand full of gas while generating a growing army, eventually winning through combat damage or triggering sacrifice payoffs for incremental value. Late game, you're flipping through a trimmed library and hitting big creatures every cycle.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors and planeswalkers; use token generators like Bitterblossom, Dragon Fodder, and Bloodghast as budget alternatives to premium sac fodder.
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