Lagrella, the Magpie

Lagrella is a political theft engine wrapped in a blink-friendly package. When she enters, you exile creatures from your opponents and get to keep them while she's on the battlefield—essentially giving you temporary control of their best threats. The real magic happens when those stolen creatures enter under your control: they get two +1/+1 counters, making them even more dangerous. Your gameplan is to abuse Lagrella's enter trigger repeatedly through blink effects (Soulherder, Ephemerate, Teleportation Circle), turning her into a repeatable theft machine that also pumps creatures with counters. You're playing a midrange tempo game where you steal answers, ramp with stolen mana rocks, and attack with beefed-up creatures that should've been stopped.

The beauty of Lagrella is she scales with the table—the more powerful creatures your opponents control, the better your stolen threats become. You're also playing a softer politics game: taking the scariest threats off the board temporarily while looking like the fair player. The deck wants to blink her as many times as possible before the game ends, turning a one-time effect into repeated value. Winning usually comes from combat damage with your stolen and pumped creatures, though you can also just grind out value until opponents run out of resources.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.