O'aka, Traveling Merchant

O'aka is all about turning your existing resources into card advantage. The core idea is to load up cheap nonland permanents with counters—think +1/+1 counters, charge counters, or loyalty counters—then tap O'aka to milk them for extra cards. This turns your board into a pseudo-card-draw engine that doesn't cost mana once O'aka is online.

Your deck wants efficient creatures and artifacts that come with counters built in, or ways to add counters to everything. Cards like Clockwork creatures, planeswalkers, charge counter producers, and proliferate effects all feed into this. You're playing a midrange game where you're grinding out card advantage while building a reasonable board presence. The deck wins through a combination of incremental growth and card advantage—either you outvalue opponents, swing with a reasonable threat or two, or sometimes surprise them with a combo turn if you draw into something explosive.

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