Licia, Sanguine Tribune

Licia is a vampire that rewards you for gaining life by reducing her casting cost—get to 5+ life gain in a turn and she's basically free. Once she's out, she's a recursive threat with first strike and lifelink that can grow into a huge flier via her activated ability. Your gameplan is to build a lifegain-focused deck where you're constantly padding your life total while advancing your board. Cards that trigger on lifegain or reward you for it (like Soul Warden, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose) turn your survival into card advantage or damage.

The deck wins by turning Licia into an evasive, hard-to-block threat while accruing value from your lifegain triggers. Pump her with her own ability or equipment, and she'll clock opponents fast, especially combined with drain effects. You're not trying to combo off or go infinite—instead you're playing a midrange game where you durdle out lifegain payoffs, grow Licia into a 10/10+ flier, and bash faces. The beauty is that life gain itself does double duty: it discounts Licia and fuels your finishers.

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