Mortarion, Daemon Primarch

Mortarion is a self-harm payoff commander that rewards you for losing life strategically. His ability turns damage taken into an army of tokens at end of step—the more life you've lost that turn, the bigger your token swarm. This means you want effects that ping you or force you to take damage in controlled ways: cards like Dark Ritual variants, Bolas's Citadel, Necropotence, or even fetch lands and shocks do double duty by fueling his token generation while advancing your game plan.

The core gameplan is to stack life loss triggers while protecting Mortarion, then convert that pain into a wide board of menacing tokens that deal commander damage or swarm through for lethal. You're essentially playing aristocrats-lite: sacrifice outlets that drain opponents while synergizing with token generation, card draw from life payment (like Yawgmoth's Bargain effects), and recursive threats that don't mind a graveyard. The deck leans midrange-to-aggro, grinding out incremental value until your token army closes the game.

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