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Thendar, the Overminer
Legendary Creature — Kavu Pirate
Menace Whenever a nonbasic land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its controller conjures a card named Wastes onto the battlefield tapped. At the beginning of your end step, if you control two or more tapped creatures, destroy up to one target nonbasic land.
4 / 4
“Tap creatures to destroy nonbasic lands and generate Wastes tokens.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Land destruction
Sacrifice, Tokens, Stax
Strategy
Thendar, the Overminer is a land-destruction engine with a twist—instead of just blowing up nonbasic lands, you're generating value in the form of Wastes tokens while punishing your opponents for playing fancy mana. The core gameplan is to tap your creatures (either naturally or through effects) to trigger Thendar's end-step ability, destroying nonbasic lands while you build a growing army of Wastes. This creates a soft mana-denial strategy that ramps you into bigger threats while keeping opponents off their greedy mana bases.
You win by combining land destruction with aggressive pressure. Thendar itself is a 4/4 with menace, so it's a reasonable clock, but the real power comes from generating Wastes tokens that can be tapped down with cards like Thornbite Staff or tap-effects to enable repeat land destruction. The deck thrives on redundancy—cards that tap creatures, sacrifice outlets that benefit from Wastes, and creatures with natural tapping abilities all feed into your engine. By mid-game, you'll have locked down opponents' mana while building toward a wide board of tokens that swing in for lethal, or you overwhelm through sheer board presence.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive lands and lean into budget red ramp like Fellwar Stone and Solemn Simulacrum; use Cult Raid over pricey tutors.
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