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Veko, Death's Doorkeeper
Legendary Creature — Spirit Cleric
Extort {T}, Sacrifice a non-Spirit creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. It perpetually becomes a Spirit, has base power and toughness 1/1, and gains "You may pay {W/B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost." Activate only as a sorcery.
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“Recursion cleric that recycles creatures as cheap Spirits with extort triggers.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Commander damage
Aristocrats, Tokens, Sacrifice, Reanimator
Strategy
Veko, Death's Doorkeeper is a graveyard-focused recursion engine that turns your creatures into repeatable resources. Every time you sacrifice a non-Spirit creature, you get to reanimate something from the graveyard—but with a twist: it becomes a Spirit and costs less to cast later. This creates a value loop where your graveyard becomes a hand extension, and you'll naturally fill it with creatures you're willing to sacrifice. The extort ability adds incremental damage and life drain to close out games over time.
Your deck wants to fill the graveyard early with creatures, then use Veko's activation to recur them strategically while generating value. Pair sacrifice outlets and token generators to fuel Veko's ability repeatedly. Cards that create cheap tokens or die to AoE spells become fuel for recursion, and creatures with strong enter-the-battlefield or death triggers get extra mileage. You're essentially playing a midrange grind where every activation advances your board while taxing opponents' life totals via extort.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Use budget token makers like Bitterblossom, Drana's Chosen, and free sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer instead of expensive ones like Zulaport Cutthroat or Sadistic Hypnotist.
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