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Plagon, Lord of the Beach
Legendary Creature — Starfish Wizard
When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power. {W/U}: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.
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“Walls and defenders swinging for toughness with hidden combat tricks.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Tokens, Voltron, Blink
Strategy
Plagon is a creature-focused draw engine that rewards you for building a deck full of defensive or unusual creatures—think walls, defenders, and high-toughness utility creatures. Every creature with toughness greater than power triggers Plagon's entry ability, so cards like Wall of Omens, Assault Formation, and Doran the Siege Tower become card-draw engines. The activated ability is your secret weapon in combat, letting you flip any of your creatures into an offensive threat by using toughness as damage instead of power.
Your gameplan revolves around amassing creatures that normally wouldn't be aggressive, drawing cards when Plagon arrives (and again when you blink or reanimator him), and then turning the tables in combat when opponents least expect it. Stack up defensive creatures, generate value, and when you're ready to win, pump toughness via cards like Indomitable Ancients or All That Glitters, then start assigning massive toughness as damage.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey cards like Doubling Season; use Wayfaring Temple or Teysa Karlov as cheaper token doublers, and replace fetches with basics—the deck's real power comes from creature synergy, not mana.
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