Preston, the Vanisher

Preston, the Vanisher is all about creating a token army while simultaneously generating a removal engine. Your main gameplan is to cheat creatures onto the battlefield—through reanimation, blink effects, or other enter-the-battlefield cheating—and each time a nontoken creature enters this way, you make a 0/1 white Illusion token copy. This floods your board with blockers and sacrifice fodder while building toward your secondary game plan: accumulating five Illusions to exile a problematic permanent, effectively giving white a repeatable removal tool it usually lacks.

You'll want a healthy mix of reanimation spells (like Ephemerate, Soulherder, or Astral Drift) to keep triggering Preston's ability, along with creatures that benefit from entering or leaving the battlefield. Cards that create additional tokens or tokens with evasion round out your army. Win by swinging with your growing token force or simply grinding out the table by exiling their best permanents piece by piece. The deck can also lean into sacrifice synergies if you include aristocrats-style payoffs.

This is a grindy, fair strategy that doesn't threaten a fast kill but generates value each turn and becomes very difficult to interact with once it assembles its pieces.

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