Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend

Gameplan

Lluwen is a token engine: cast the Pest Friend copy whenever she's prepared to make a lifegain-on-attack Pest, then re-prepare her each turn by exiling creature cards from your graveyard. You flood the board with disposable bodies, fuel an aristocrats or go-wide engine off them, and grind value while gaining incremental life. Fill the yard early, then turn it into a steady stream of fodder that converts into damage, drain, or card advantage.

Key Cards

• Pitiless Plunderer — Turns every sacrificed Pest into Treasure, generating explosive mana to re-prepare and recast repeatedly.
• Blood Artist — Converts your stream of expendable Pests into incremental drain that wins multiplayer games.
• Parallel Lives — Doubles each Pest Friend cast, instantly making the token engine twice as efficient.
• Ashnod's Altar — Free sacrifice outlet that ramps you and loops bodies, the backbone of an aristocrats build.
• Grave Pact — Punishes opponents every time you sac a Pest, turning your fodder into mass removal.
• Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest — Grows your whole board off sacrifices, making the Pest swarm a genuine kill threat.

Upgrade Path

Add token doublers (Parallel Lives, Anointed Procession, Mondrak) and free sacrifice outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder) to accelerate the loop. Layer in self-mill (Stitcher's Supplier, Grisly Salvage) so the graveyard never runs dry, and finish with aristocrats payoffs (Bastion of Remembrance, Bloodthrone Vampire) plus Skullclamp for card draw off dying Pests. For higher power, lean into a Pitiless Plunderer + sacrifice + recursion mana loop to chain multiple Pest casts per turn.