Tellah, Great Sage

Tellah rewards you for casting big, expensive spells by generating tokens and drawing cards—and can even go nuclear by sacrificing itself to deal massive damage. Your gameplan centers on playing high-mana-value noncreature spells (instants, sorceries, and planeswalkers) to trigger Tellah repeatedly. Early game you'll ramp hard and build a token army, then transition into casting expensive payoff spells that both advance your board and enable Tellah's damage outlet. The deck aims to either swing for lethal with a growing token squad, or set up a turn where you cast one or two huge spells that push Tellah's sacrifice damage into kill range.

You'll want cards that scale with mana spent—think big X spells, expensive draw effects, and mana acceleration so you can reliably hit that 8-mana threshold. Planeswalkers fit beautifully here since they're noncreature spells that generate value independently. The beauty is flexibility: some games you're a token-swarm deck, others you're turning Tellah into a direct damage machine. Just avoid low-cost spells that don't leverage Tellah's full potential.

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