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Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth
Legendary Creature — Mole Beast
When Nyla enters, exile up to one target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, you lose X life and create X Clue tokens, where X is that card's mana value. (A Clue token is an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") At the beginning of your end step, if you control no Clues, return target card exiled with Nyla to its owner's hand.
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“Graveyard creature advantage engine that turns dead threats into Clue draw engines.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Card advantage
Graveyard, Sacrifice, Aristocrats
Strategy
Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth is a graveyard-fueled card advantage engine that turns your dead creatures into Clue tokens. When she enters, you exile a creature from your graveyard, pay life equal to its mana value, and get that many Clues in return. Each Clue is a repeatable card draw outlet, so you're converting high-impact creatures into sustained value. The real elegance is the end-step recursion: if you've cracked all your Clues to draw cards, Nyla returns the exiled creature to your hand, letting you replay it or use it as a blocker.
Your deck wants cheap creatures with strong enters-the-battlefield effects or relevant keywords to fill your graveyard early. Self-mill, tutors, and creature-heavy interaction help stock the yard while you're digging for answers. The life loss is real but manageable if you're deliberate about which creatures you exile—prioritize efficient creatures and those with high impact-to-mana ratios. You win by grinding out card advantage with Clues while your creatures keep coming back, eventually overwhelming opponents through superior board presence and hand size.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Swap premium self-mill like Stitcher's Supplier for Satyr Wayfinder or Mulch; use efficient creatures like Viscera Seer and Cartel Aristocrat instead of expensive hatebears.
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