Use endure and renew to place counters on effective attackers, then turn those counters into extra size and combat card draw. White or blue expands the clan options.
Use endure and renew to place counters on effective attackers, then turn those counters into extra size and combat card draw. White or blue expands the clan options.
Commit when repeated useful cards and enough support make a complete deck in these colors.
Four checks while you draft
Can I affect the board before the payoff?
Four power and trample can trade up, then renew transfers a counter and trample to another creature. Exiling it for renew is a cost, not something opponents can interrupt with graveyard removal.
Do my actual cards enable this plan?
After Crocodile trades, renew it onto a creature with Successor present. If it is that creature’s first counter event of the turn, Successor adds another counter.
Can I stop their strongest play and finish a stalled game?
Use endure and renew to place counters on effective attackers, then turn those counters into extra size and combat card draw. White or blue expands the clan options.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
The key card is present but its support is thin.
Prioritize useful support such as Champion of Dusan or Adorned Crocodile.
After Crocodile trades, renew it onto a creature with Successor present. If it is that creature’s first counter event of the turn, Successor adds another counter.
Your deck already enables the plan but is losing the early turns.
Take a castable early creature or efficient answer before a second expensive payoff.
Successor checks the first counter event for each creature each turn. Repeated counter additions to the same creature do not repeatedly double the reward.
The support is missing
Favor independently useful creatures and interaction if the narrow support does not arrive.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Successor checks the first counter event for each creature each turn. Repeated counter additions to the same creature do not repeatedly double the reward.
Remove the target of renew or the counter engine before the ability resolves. Graveyard removal must act before renew is activated, since exile is part of its cost.
Synchronized Charge63.3% GIH · 762 instances
Opulent Palace63.1% GIH · 103 instances
Knockout Maneuver62.9% GIH · 533 instances
Gurmag Rakshasa61.9% GIH · 252 instances
Traveling Botanist61.7% GIH · 460 instances
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Adorned CrocodileTrading leaves a Zombie Druid and enables cheap renew later. Its single black renew mana can support a counter plan without spending your whole next turn.
Dusk Sight
Champion of DusanFour power and trample can trade up, then renew transfers a counter and trample to another creature. Exiling it for renew is a cost, not something opponents can interrupt with graveyard removal.
Yathan TombguardCounter-bearing creatures that connect draw cards and cost life. Give counters to evasive attackers, but keep the life payment in mind in a close race.
Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
| One-pick | Sealed |
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| With one pick, fill the missing early play, answer or support card before adding another narrow payoff. The plan must work without drawing its key card. | Compare complete builds from the cards you opened. Keep the castable curve and interaction even if the draft theme is only partly supported. |
After Crocodile trades, renew it onto a creature with Successor present. If it is that creature’s first counter event of the turn, Successor adds another counter.
