Truss, Chief Engineer

Truss, Chief Engineer is a unique value engine that turns creature death into resource accumulation. Every time a creature enters or dies, you slap a hack counter on Truss, turning your graveyard activity into a growing resource pool. The real magic happens when you spend those counters to temporarily modify numbers on spells and permanents—turning a small creature into a big threat, reducing an opponent's life total, or breaking combo pieces. This makes Truss shine in sacrifice-heavy decks where creatures dying is part of your game plan anyway.

Your core strategy involves pairing Truss with sacrifice outlets, token generators, and enter-the-battlefield creatures so the hack counters pile up naturally. Once you've got a stockpile, you become a chaos engine—adjusting power/toughness to push through lethal, reducing shield counters, tweaking mana costs, or even modifying damage prevention. The deck wins primarily through combat damage (often with a pumped creature) or by grinding opponents out with incremental value, turning death into answers and threats in one tidy package.

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