Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder

Mila, Crafty Companion is a flexible two-sided card that lets you build around either the creature side or flip to Lukka for planeswalker synergies. Mila herself wants a deck full of Auras and Equipment—she grows every time you cast them and can give your creatures evasion with flying. This naturally leads to a Voltron strategy where you suit up one creature and bash in hard. The flip side, Lukka, Wayward Bonder, is an amazing value engine that tutors creatures into play whenever you flicker or bounce permanents, rewarding you for playing Ephemerate effects and blink strategies.

Your core gameplan is to build a Jeskai-like deck (even though you're in Boros) that does double duty: load Mila with Auras and Equipment for evasive commander damage, while also running enough blink effects to abuse Lukka's tutoring when you flip. Cards like Soulherder, Ephemerate, and Flickering Ward generate free value while pushing your gameplan forward. You win through commander damage off a suited-up Mila, or by flickering creatures repeatedly to assemble an army of tutored threats via Lukka.

The deck sits in the midrange space—you're not trying to win turn four, but you're pressuring opponents consistently while building value. It's forgiving for newer players because both sides of the card are powerful on their own, so you can lean into whichever direction feels natural in your meta.

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