Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Xiahou Dun is a recursive value engine that turns your graveyard into a second hand. His horsemanship makes him a reliable attacker that's hard to block, while his sacrifice ability lets you recur key black spells—tutors, removal, card draw, whatever you need most. The deck wants to fill the graveyard early with impactful cards, then use Xiahou as a repeatable tutor to rebuild your hand and recast threats.

You'll build around efficient black creatures, discard outlets, and cards that benefit from visiting the graveyard. Xiahou works perfectly with looting effects like Dark Deal or Faithless Looting to stock the bin, and he synergizes with aristocrat themes where sacrificing creatures fuels both his ability and other payoffs. The goal is to grind out value every turn cycle, generating card advantage while attacking in the air for evasion damage until opponents can't keep up.

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