Garna, Bloodfist of Keld

Gameplan

Garna turns your dying creatures into a steady stream of value—cards when attackers die, damage when blockers or sacrificed creatures die. Play a sacrifice-and-aggro hybrid: develop a wide board, attack relentlessly so deaths draw cards, and use aristocrats engines to drain opponents while replacing your losses. You grind incremental advantage until alpha strikes or sacrifice loops close the game.

Key Cards

• Mayhem Devil — Pings opponents on every sacrifice, stacking with Garna's drain to convert board attrition into reach.
• Goblin Bombardment — Free sac outlet that turns attacking-then-blocked creatures into damage and Garna draws.
• Pitiless Plunderer — Generates Treasure on every death, ramping you to recast Garna and refill the board.
• Bastion of Remembrance — Adds an Edward-style drain on each creature death, multiplying Garna's payoff.
• Dictate of Erebos — Forces opponents to sacrifice whenever your creatures die, snowballing board control.
• Skullclamp — Equip a token, attack or sacrifice it, and draw two while Garna may draw a third.

Upgrade Path

Add more death payoffs (Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant) and free sacrifice outlets (Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder) to make every creature death matter. Tighten the mana with fast rocks and Treasure producers like Pitiless Plunderer and Mahadi, then add a recursion package (Phyrexian Reclamation, Reassembling Skeleton) so the engine survives board wipes. For a true combo finish, build toward loops like Mayhem Devil plus Reassembling Skeleton and a Treasure outlet for infinite damage.