Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Gameplan

Eloise turns your creatures dying and your tokens being sacrificed into a relentless engine of card advantage and graveyard stocking. You grind value with Clue tokens, aristocrats sacrifice loops, and surveil to fuel reanimation, eventually overwhelming opponents through inevitability or a sacrifice-based combo. Turn to turn you sacrifice fodder, draw cards off Clues, and bury value into the yard to reuse.

Key Cards

• Ashnod's Altar — Free sacrifice outlet that turns creatures and tokens into mana while triggering both of Eloise's abilities.
• Bitterblossom — Generates a steady stream of token fodder to feed sacrifice and dies triggers every turn.
• Pitiless Plunderer — Each creature death makes a Treasure token, which you can sacrifice to surveil while ramping into payoffs.
• Grave Pact — Turns your own creature deaths into edicts, leveraging the same sacrifices that fuel Eloise.
• Gravecrawler — Recurring sacrifice fodder that loops with an altar to draw and surveil repeatedly.
• Mayhem Devil — Punishes opponents with damage every time you sacrifice tokens or creatures die.

Upgrade Path

Add free sacrifice outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Viscera Seer) and recursive fodder (Gravecrawler, Reassembling Skeleton) to make the engine loop cheaply. Include Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance as drain payoffs so your sacrifices become a wincon, plus reanimation like Reanimate and Animate Dead to exploit your surveil-stocked yard. Tighten the mana base and add tutors (Diabolic Intent, Demonic Tutor) to assemble the combo faster.