Long Feng, Grand Secretariat

Gameplan

Long Feng turns your own dying creatures and lands into a steady stream of +1/+1 counters, so you want to sacrifice, fetch, and recur permanents constantly while a chosen creature snowballs into a threat. Mid-game you set up a sac engine plus fodder, ping a few counters onto an evasive beater, and convert all that incremental value into a lethal swing or counter-payoff. You play a grindy attrition game in BG, profiting whenever pieces fall off the battlefield.

Key Cards

• Ashnod's Altar — Free, repeatable sac outlet that turns every creature into mana and a Long Feng trigger.
• Phyrexian Altar — Sacrifices creatures for mana and counters, enabling loops with recursion.
• Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest — Doubles down on Long Feng's exact trigger range, counting both creatures and lands dying for boardwide counters.
• Wayward Swordtooth / fetchlands — Lands hitting the graveyard each generate counters, rewarding extra land sacrifice and fetching.
• Skullclamp — Equip on a small creature, draw two and trigger Long Feng every time it dies.
• Bramble Sovereign — Token copies and counter payoffs amplify the engine, but any counter-doubler like Branching Evolution accelerates the clock.

Upgrade Path

Add free sac outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder) and recursion (Reassembling Skeleton, Gravecrawler) to make the trigger loop reliable, then layer counter doublers (Branching Evolution, Doubling Season) and proliferate. Bolster the kill with evasion/protection for your counter-target and an aristocrats drain package so the same deaths that pump Long Feng also close the game.